Texsox

The bigger the name, the bigger the accomplishments, the bigger the denials, the bigger the hubris, the bigger the target.

QUOTE (thedoctor @ May 14, 2008 -> 09:44 AM) i'm sick of talking about the white sox. oh, wait... We even have that covered. There is almost no subject we have not talked about in one of the forums or another.

Paranoia? I started the thread for the exact reason you see in post #1. There are a bunch of topics everyone is sick of, but we keep going back to them. Maybe if we all agree, we can simmer the stove, and move on to something else. And yes, there is also a big picture. Some damn good posters VOLUNTARILY have stopped posting and when we ask why, we here it is all the negativity and beat to death topics. So as Mods, we will continue to try and build a site that works for the majority of people. As a personal note, we have unlimited space so it seems there should be room for everyone. But sometimes it would be nice to tell people to go to their rooms and quit pissing off their brother.

Oh, and I should have added

A lot of posters have written to us with the opinion that our regular game thread is often times too negative. Too filled with the tired old complaints and clichés. So if you want to hang out in an alternate game thread, have fun, and just enjoy the game while chatting with fellow Soxtalk posters, this is the place. If you are a half empty, complaining, enjoying having your negative predictions come through, kind of guy, there is the other one. Look over the tired, beat down topics, those will be off limits here. Maybe we won't have anything to talk about except the quality of the beer we are drinking, but that may be more fun.

QUOTE (farmteam @ May 13, 2008 -> 05:15 PM) Yeah, I see where that can get confusing. I guess for people outside the culture, it's hard to understand. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but I guess I can understand where he's coming from, and that's why I'm on the minority in this one. I happened to be thinking about this as I was walking tonight, and it is surprising you posted. While I think you missed the mark, you actually were close to a very good point, or perhaps this is more what you were thinking. He didn't hack in to see what info he could steal and use for financial gain, he had a specific bit of information he was looking for, and he probably was not going to gain financially from it. But just like the thief who breaks a window and enters a business. It just doesn't matter if he broke in to polish the silver or to steal it, the first crime is breaking and entering.

That is great news. I think the team really screwed him over. I hate he's wearing a Sox of the wrong color cap in the HoF

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2008 -> 03:58 PM) In all seriousness, if you want to control repetitive stuff, why not just open up official threads for certain players/issues? Feel free. That's the beauty of this site, anyone can start a thread.

Agreed.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 13, 2008 -> 03:44 PM) Responding to a critique of a manager with "if you are so much better than Ozzie, then why aren't you managing in the majors?" That would be the double beat down topic. We should just number that one and save time. When Oz does something stupid Reply Saves us all time.

QUOTE (Mplssoxfan @ May 13, 2008 -> 01:13 PM) I was having issues for a few days, but it's working for me now. It was strange, I could see my preview in my iGoogle homepage, but could not retrieve the mail.

QUOTE (Felix @ May 11, 2008 -> 10:54 PM) As I told my daughter, guys abilities to lie, increase as the amount of clothes he is wearing decreases.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 13, 2008 -> 12:26 PM) well, Tex,a much better comparison here would be chernobyl probably. I'm trying to think of a disaster where the relief effort could not have been any better. It can always be better. No two are exactly alike and we learn more and more from each one.

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ May 13, 2008 -> 10:35 AM) You keep giving the junta more stuff, they keep getting richer. What a plan... Are you also suggesting to keep giving them more stuff? They are an independent nation and overthrowing the government would be interesting. Sorry you do not like the Katrina reference. Two nations react to a natural disaster, seems like a fair comparison. Aid equipment was staged too far away or not at all. Aid was refused. The Red Cross does not accept donations of clothing and supplies, only cash, and then misused the money collected. We responded waaaaay better then this government, but again, we could have done better. And we will. We almost always learn from our mistakes and improve round two.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2008 -> 11:47 AM) That reminds me of a couple more Smallball/Ozzieball Scotty Pods Darin Erstad Speed in the leadoff spot Bunting Stats or "my eyes" Harold Baines sleeping Hawkisms Umpire hurting the Sox OMG yes, umpiring or any conspiracy against the Sox

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ May 13, 2008 -> 10:39 AM) "Just like we could have done better in Katrina." No, no, no, no, no. It's a ridiculous comparison. It's like saying, Sure, Pol Pot could have done better, just like Pres Bush could have made better decisions once in a while. You seem to think that if we just send enough, they'll see the light and start an aggressive campaign to save the dying instead of just selling it and lining their own pockets while being lazy s***s. That, somehow, rewarding them for what amounts to murder will make them conscientious. All I'll say is that that is a very, very strange idea, but you're welcome to it. Perhaps I am not explaining myself properly. My theory, I've had enough to eat, pass it on. Your theory. f*** 'em stop the aid so everyone starves. And stopping aid helps how?

KW: Estaban Loiza coming and going - bought low, sold high Ozzie: bringin in Jenks with the "big boy gesture" AJ: - Dropped third strike run Crede: - Walk off Konerko: Game ball to JR

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 13, 2008 -> 11:01 AM) Damn it, I can't believe I forgot about Greg Walker I also forgot to add . . . Coop can fix 'em . . .

QUOTE (jackie hayes @ May 13, 2008 -> 09:35 AM) Just, no. First of all, the US actually has the technology to accomplish rescue missions, while Myanmar has only a handful of helicopters, many of which are too small and unsuitable to make a significant impact. Second, the US did accept foreign help after disasters. Just because we didn't take everyone who volunteered does not make us like a country that's approved visas for something like 2 workers (and refuses all foreigners access to the delta). Finally, it's not like they're feeding starving soldiers who are working competently to aid the refugees. They're receiving the aid and warehousing it while passing off small quantities of rotten food to a couple villages, and there are suggestions that they may be selling the good stuff on the black market. Anyone in the US military who acted similarly or approved similar actions would have the hell court martialed out of him. His life would be ruined. It's vile behavior because whether or not they are "competent humans", they are not even trying to "get the job done". They just don't give a f*** how many people die, as long as people in other areas see them -- and only them -- looking good on tv. I fail to see how prayer is going to change the situation. It's not bad luck killing people, it's human corruption. You keep giving the junta more stuff, they keep getting richer. What a plan... I agree, the government's response could be better. Just like we could have done better in Katrina. And we do have more resources. We also have the resources to get in and then take over a country. Our country has a long standing tradition of better access to everything for the wealthy and connected. Including government services in time of need. I fail to see how stopping prayer will help. I fail to see how stopping the aid will help. In your words, what a plan . . . Fighting the government may help, but with people dying, we just have to pile enough aid to help the privileged and the needy.

Just for SS, the Ultimate Soxtalk Post I am getting most of this from the Cubune and Moronitti's column, this falls on that idiot KW and the terrible farm system we have, but if JR wasn't so cheap, Oz knew how to use him, and Bora$$ wasn't such an indiot, we'd have signed Crede in 2005 and traded Fields for a decent starting pitcher, since we all knew that Buerhle (he's NOT an ace) was going to suck and Jenks losing velocity was going to happen. Thankfully we have Broadway in the wings who we should bring up right away, before we trade him away for another version of Alomar. Plus we always go cheap in the draft, then turn over decent hitters to Walker to f*** with. Look at the rankings, The Indians and Tigers are going to be fighting for this division, while we watch the Cubs pop champagne corks. Meanwhile we'll be treated to Ozzie saying embrassing s***, Uribe's suckiness, and watch Brian Anderson sit on the end of the bench because he was born to the wrong parents and Oz hates him. Then Thome gets slammed but guys who played in 2005 get a pass. The real comparison should be 2008 to 2007, but instead it's 2005. Shall we start with all the great prospects we let slip through our fingers? Perhaps Chris f***ing Young? We really should dump Crede and Thome and try to get him back? But maybe we could cut some salaries and put some McCain style economics in place here instead of the spend, spend, spend, crap of Clinton or Obama.

anyone else having problems with Firefox and gmail? gmail is working just fine in IE and Opera, but stalls in Firefox.

Perhaps we could agree on a few topics that have been beat into the ground and where we are just left with "I told you so" posts. Then maybe lay off them for a while?

QUOTE (bmags @ May 12, 2008 -> 11:24 AM) Well texsox, myanmar has been in the news a lot after the monks started protesting their military regime last september or so and the gov't cracked down hard. With that bit said, I was surprised about how un-cynical you were about the whole thing. From today's times: I'm not certain if it was being un-cynical, or hyper-cynical. I'll bet there isn't a government in the world that wouldn't feed themselves, and their military first. Glory hogging is also almost universal. Blocking aid workers, again almost universal. After 9-11 we blocked some rescue teams from Canada and after Katrina we blocked Mexican workers who wanted to go to N.O. to help. Now we can spin that work into making our government look bad and blocking help, or we could spin it to make the government look good and protecting our borders. Every country feels they are competent humans, capable of getting the job done, no better then someone living in the US. A few may even be correct. What their military is doing is clearly wrong, but we ain't going to change it without bombs. So keep flooding the area with supplies and pray.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 13, 2008 -> 08:44 AM) I watch a bit of WTTW as well when they have chicago shows and its neat to find some of those hidden gems. For example, in one of the hotter areas of the city to live, the south loop, there is an entire row of buildings that are stamped with auto manufacturers names, it used to be the chicago "motor row" but people just eat and live in them without knowing. Same with some of the really old buildings in the gold coast, there is even a pre-fire piece of street that is made of wooden bricks like they used to make our streets out of. I have started to attend some historical reenactments and visited some of the historical sites down here. Centuries old stuff. Very cool.

To a graduating Senior, class rank is huge. My daughter is trying to get into Northwestern. She is attending an International Baccalaureate program, and basically if your class rank is not in the top 2% it gets much harder to be accepted at Northwestern. So in a graduating class of 400, she needs to be 1-8. And of course have the necessary extracurricular resume. Texas - Austin automatically accepts any Texas student in the top 5% of their class. Again, lots of kids calculating that. What hurts are the kids dropping out that shrink that percentage number. I watched as my son passed 25 student between his Sophomore and Junior year and fell out of the top 10% because of all the drops. And you are correct, in four years it will not matter. But that Northwestern degree will matter. I think she is crazy, but she treats academics with the same competitiveness I treated athletics.