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Absolutely not shocked by the struggles of Raburn this year.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 02:16 PM) MuckFinnesota, in my personal experience, Long distance relationships never worked.. And im talking like.. Me living in the North Side of Chicago and her living on the Southside. It doesnt seem like much but it takes a toll after a while and if you have friends that have girls that live locally you see that they spend time with each other at a much greater rate as opposed to me who always had to travel from California and Diversey ALL the way to 131st street just to hang out for a couple hours then head all the way back. I personally would never do the long distance thing ever again. Especially at such a young age where mistrust is everywhere, and each person is wondering what the other is doing in between all that distance. Yup, never do long distance unless you're for certain she's the one, even then a break may be good to make sure those feelings are mutual on both ends. Even in a relationship where you trust one another completely, there's so much other crap that comes up, like work, friends, money, time, which all comes back to "when are we seeing each other again?" Jealousy of hanging with friends or focusing on work over hanging with the girl come up wayyyy to much.

The interns this summer are just flat out amazing, so much better than last years. I honestly can't pay attention in our intern meetings, especially with this one girl who is just really down to earth and intelligent, Im thinking she could be trouble.

My ex will be paying about 10% on her first college year of loans which were around 18K, glad I got away from that especially since she wanted to go to about 7 more years of school before she could start working.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 3, 2011 -> 11:13 AM) Student Loan debt is 850B and growing. It actually exceeds credit card debt in this country. And from 10 years ago, the average student loan debt in this country has increased by ~54%. Pretty insane given how much more we are actually spending as a country. It is actually quite mindboggling to me that debt has increased that much and tuition costs have increased as much as they have as well (and that isn't a coincidence, imo), all in a short 10 year span. Makes you wonder what the f*** we spend our money on, given gov spending has done nothing but go through the roof. I know a ton of middle class people with 10ish yr old kids freaking out about paying for their children's education. They are worried it's going to cost upwards of $50k a year just for instate tuition, which could easily be half or more of their salary. They want to provide more opportunities than they had and that just won't be the case if tuition keeps going up so much.

Working the whole summer, right up until my move in date for going back to school. Mr. Manager decided that it would be good to get the intern 14 weeks of work instead of 12.

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 11:22 AM) I loved the year Canseco was on the team. I had the best seats I ever had to a game that year and holy mother of god that man was enormous. Wow same, 3 rows rihgt behind the Sox on deck circle.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 02:01 PM) I think at that age it is more of a weeping willow anyways... Imagery that I just did not need to have.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 02:02 PM) When the Royals talent pans out, I might place them ahead of Tampa. Tampa has proven their system works. Well the tip of the iceberg is already in full view.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 01:42 PM) Can you explain what PR stands for? I hate when people use acronyms I don't understand Public Relationist, most likely to field the answers to his awesome or terrible race time, either way he would be set.

Happy birthday to a fellow Illini!!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2011 -> 07:42 AM) I went back and watched it finally. It was all right. I expected something a little more Historyish from it, but I got what I feel like would be the Hollywood version of Gettysburg, complete with the dramatic bullet entries, crazy bloodsplatters, and extra-disgusting limb destruction. Eh. My memory and attention span were offended when they would play about 10 mins of it, go to commercials, and repeat the last 5 minutes before they moved on.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 04:06 PM) 38 38 40 40 40 40 46 There was no predicting Dunn would s*** the bed like this, and I still expect him to get out of this funk. hate hate hate hate

Im not going to fault a player for taking a walk, if that's what is given to him then go ahead and take it. Sure a home run or big hit would be great, but I won't fault a hitter for not chasing pitches. It's a team sport still, other guys will have to pick up the RBI's after him.

I still think Lilli will be nothing more than a bench player, but he's on a hotstreak right now and needs to be played over Rios.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 01:45 PM) Obviously it's all speculation but I think the decision would be much easier. Huddy would be the one to the pen. Danks is not moving to the bullpen. I would almost guarantee he would complain about it and we would have zero chance of ever re-signing him. Not to mention how it would kill his trade value, for multiple reasons. MB isn't going to be moved, Peavy isn't going to be moved so it'd be between Floyd/Humber/Hudson. Floyd has proven to be a solid 3-4 and would not go anywhere. Humber still would be the best pitcher to date and would likely stay. So actually, if Hudson were here over Jackson the short term decision of who would move to the pen would actually be a much easier one for management to make. Actually it would be even more likely to keep the 6 man rotation, imo.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 12:56 PM) Not really because then you'd be in the same position as having no insurance policy if Peavy (or anyone else) went down. Fine, but I really doubt that if Hudson had pitched the same here as he has in Arizona that they would move him to the bullpen, the heat would be on Danks much more (but Humber would probably have been moved is my guess). Anyways, it's all speculation and not our situation anyways.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 12:53 PM) I know why you're saying this, but if Hudson was still here he'd also be the one going to the pen in this situation. Not necessarily true, you would have more flexibility to trade a starter for help on offense, etc if you had Hudson.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 12:46 PM) well you guys must be thrilled about this http://screenrant.com/the-hangover-3-sandy-117953/ If they take the idea to do it in Amsterdam, well watch out, because that city is freaking nuts.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 1, 2011 -> 11:34 AM) is humidity a friend or foe to the knuckler? Cuz it's humid today in beantown. Friend, gives more resistance to the laces I believe. Dry air is smoother for the ball to go through.

Im actually going to bow out, my dad decided to treat me to the Saturday game and golf beforehand, next time fellas.

QUOTE (iamshack @ May 31, 2011 -> 12:59 AM) Aww s***, I forgot about it... Just watched Takers, entirely because I dig Idris Elba. Pretty slick movie, and Paul Walker even managed to not be a total douche. Fairly disappointed in Gettysburg.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 30, 2011 -> 11:05 PM) You guys that hate the bunt kind of slay me. You can't reinvent the game of baseball as much as you may want to. The bunt is called for in many many instances, it's just that the Sox can't bunt and never have been able to bunt since the 60s. So why keep calling for it?

Awesome weekend at Champaign, when it rained Saturday and killed our chances of playing golf that day we decided to start drinking at 5pm, I havent played that much beer pong in a weekend ever.

Anybody else really excited for "Gettysburg" on the history channel tonight?