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Fat Sandwich for the f***ing win.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 02:56 PM) Do you have a La Bamba? They were open late in Normal. Not great food but my taste buds weren't great either when I went there at 3 am. Closed sometime in the past year. Fittingly, a liquor store moved into the building.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 02:22 PM) I was talking about the Urbana/Champaign area. Only Burrito King is open late around the area. JJ is decent drunk food, it gets the job done, but Zyggyz Indian or pizza hits the spot better on campus. Of course, Mexican takes the cake in the US, but in Europe it's all about the kebab.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 09:45 AM) No confidence in himself because Soxtalk always picks on him It was a bad play, if you can't see that then Im sorry. At the same time, Santos then proceeded to walk the next batter, and Olivo just crushed that pitch to score them both. We did a poor job recovering from the mistake.

Could I send Scotty's wife to myself to distract me from these woes?

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 03:52 PM) yeah IMO it's one of the biggest problems facing this country. I agree that children of parents who divorce can be just as dysfunctional. It's more about a fatherless home than anything. Only data I can find is this from 2009, "41% of children born in the USA were born to unmarried mothers (up from 5% a half-century ago). That includes 73% of non-Hispanic black children, 53% of Hispanic children and 29% of non-Hispanic white children." So take that 41% and add in the children of divorce and it's probably more than half of US homes without fathers. Here's some statistics on children from fatherless homes...some are old, but I doubt things are improving. http://fatherhood.about.com/od/fathersrigh...ss_children.htm So for me it all comes back to that. Just because you aren't married doesn't mean you don't have a father. And just because you have a father doesn't mean you are growing up in a functional family atmosphere.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 01:49 PM) Gordons is "I'm 20 years old, I can't legally drink, I have no money, and some dude is making a liquor store run" terrible. Aka Skol, I will stay far away then!! QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 01:53 PM) Vodka is a necessary evil in the cocktail world, but not one you need to spend a fortune on. For the money, award-winning Sobieski is a winner. I haven't shelled out for Stoli since I discovered Sobieski. Yea, as a college student for parties vodka is pretty popular, and I would much rather do shots of vodka than rum, so finding one like Sobieski where its $2 more per handle than Smirnoff is fine with me.

So Im looking at the cheap vodkas on sale at Binny's and was wondering if there was truly any difference between these brands: Gordons Smirnoff Karkov Sobieski Svedka I prefer Sobieski out of that group, with Svedka and Smirnoff following, but I have never had Gordons or Karkov. They are like $5 cheaper and as long as they aren't as bad as Skol (worst vodka ever) then I would buy it since its all going to be mixed anyways. (and I know this isn't really the finer things in life )

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 01:23 PM) White Sox 41st rounder: James (Chandler) Shepherd, RHP, Lawrence County HS (KY). 6-3, 185. Kentucky commit. Tough sign. Weird. Today all high school kids, yesterday all college kids. Not surprised after yesterday's decision to go all college, they obviously wanted to infuse talent in the system with more ready prospects, and now they most likely drafted everybody that they liked out of college and are looking past the "blah" prospects and towards the high school tough signs to see if they can steal one or two.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) 32 innings as a reliever? That's a lot of innings for this time of the year. I may have gotten carried away by calling it insane, but his numbers are great and that is very true, it is a lot of innings for this early. I am surprised the Indians converted him from starter to reliever considering he had good numbers at AA last year while starting, but they may seem him as a dominant reliever and need help there, not sure.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) 32 innings as a reliever? That's a lot of innings for this time of the year. I may have gotten carried away by calling it insane, but his numbers are great and that is very true, it is a lot of innings for this early. I am surprised the Indians converted him from starter to reliever considering he had good numbers at AA last year while starting, but they may seem him as a dominant reliever and need help there, not sure.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 11:02 AM) There isn't a teacher in my school that doesn't tutor after school. Care to guess how many kids we get to stay for tutoring? We even offer a tutoring bus ride to the front door of their home. We have kids failing, whose parents will sign a statement that they are refusing tutoring and if their child fails he will be retained. Then, of course when the kid fails, they blame th school for not teaching the kid. We pull kids out of their electives on our planning periods and conference times for tutoring and the parents (not all) come and complain that we took their child out of PE or music or whatever. There may be some schools where that is the problem, but not any in my experience. Teachers want to teach. Is that in their contract already? Im sure teachers want to teach, and I hope/appreciate that they do want to, but many teacher unions would fight (understandably) if their employees had to teach longer than signed upon. From what you've told me at your school, there isn't much else that can be done besides forcing the student to stay after hours, which doesn't sound viable to me.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 10:44 AM) Well I am not going to dispute that...but there have been pilot programs where kids who had formerly struggled in school went for longer hours and had more structure, more content, more expected from them actually thrived in that experience. It's certainly not the proof that this will work for everyone, but it's something. And maybe afterschool programs like that for struggling kids may be beneficial, but to make every student go through that seems expensive and actually hurtful. Having programs that force some of these kids to get off the streets and back in the classroom or onto the court/field/etc would be a good idea, imo. The problem is finding the funding to do such a thing, but still, that would be a heck of a lot easier than fighting with teacher unions to increase the number of hours a teacher has to work each week.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:59 AM) I think I mentioned "my generation included" in my initial post. Honestly, read what I typed and think about it for a second instead of immediately just lashing out about how ignorant it is. Our kids are in school for quite a bit of time? Public high school kids get out at like noon a lot of the time now, because they have fulfilled their credits or whatever. What is that about? Many inner city children rarely even attend school these days. This seems to be symptomatic of the way children are raised and allowed to behave at home, and then much of this culture has been brought into the public schools and the structure has actually been changed because of it. What needs to happen is children need to be in school more. Longer days. More days a year. More content. Harder content. More focus. Im going to disagree on this, kids need to still ahve the ability to learn outside of the classroom. In an era where communication is key to getting things done, learning, etc kids need to have the experience of interacting outside of the classroom.

At my high school, which was in Ann Arbor which is really diverse but for the most part pretty well off, I saw the same problem no matter the economic status of the family. Many rich white kids knew that they could live off of daddy's connections or money, or didn't realize the effort behind their parent's wealth and their parents never showed them. Many poor minorities were more concerned about social behavior and status than school. Everyone at this school had a chance to do something great with their lives, it is one of the best public schools in Michigan, yet too many kids didn't take advantage of being there. We had about 180 students attend UMich from my class (about 20%), but we had even more students f*** up their opportunity and not go to school or ended up going to the local community college (many times not for financial reasons).

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 8, 2011 -> 09:36 AM) I'll tell you what.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 10:51 PM) Probably not wearing helmets. Yeah, it can get enough speed, but it's mostly going to be city driving anyway. And I'll gear up like a mofo either way. Oh yea, I would to, just curious if it's a legit option if I move to the city in a year or so. Would save on gas and parking, which is insane downtown (can't even imagine paying over $250 a month to park).

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 10:17 PM) Yahoo Sports on Walker The Pick: Keenyn Walker, OF. The Buzz: If there was a more ho-hum day for any prospect, it was Walker, who has been drafted each of the last three years now. His stock has improved each time from the mid-30s, to mid-teens, and now into the sandwich picks. The Sox like his potential to be a top of the order hitter, but he has been slow to develop his batter's eye. The ceiling is fairly low for this pick and does not excite very much. Actually it went from mid-teens to 30's and now to supplemental.

I guarantee that Ozzie was that dad yelling at the coach if his son was ever not in the game, even if up by 15.

Would these be safe going from the city to the suburbs on the highway? Obviously there is an inherent risk when it comes to bikes, but can these bikes handle that speed?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:11 PM) Just saw an ad, Free Xbox 360 with a Windows 7 PC purchase. Been out for a few weeks, I believe it's with any Win7 laptop over $700.

I am now going to go cry for not being there right now.

Jack, Johnnie, Jameson, which one do you think won? (of course, Im sure it was just Red Label )

Limerick and Cork, Ireland: Munster Rugby (of course while enjoying a Carlsberg which is quite good out there) Jameson Factory (not the original, that was in Dublin, but this was the main factory until 1975. THe original was in Dubline for only a shortwhile)

Cheers!!