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Must be the calm before the storm, Soxtalk seems dead today.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 05:08 PM) I can't say Winter's Bone is an "enjoyable" movie but it's excellently directed and performed....especially by the girl who was nominated for an Academy Award and the actor who plays her uncle suffering from the meth problem and dealing with the conflict between helping and his immediate family and retribution from the police and the other part of the family who want the problems to disappear. It definitely stays with you....unlike most movies these days. Wasn't part of "Up In The Air" also filmed in Michigan? Or "The Company Men"? According to this Up in the Air was made in Michigan, my guess would be the wedding scenes in "Wisconsin" would be filmed there, and probably at the Detroit Metro Airport too, the Northwest Airlines terminal is beautiful, the rest of the airport sucks big time though, but I do believe it was scheduled to be remodeled.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 26, 2011 -> 12:28 AM) And this is one of the things that I actually like about Ozzie. For as brazen as he can be he would never allow that kind of disrespectful tomfoolery in his clubhouse. When I was reading Jonny Gomes' (alleged) celebratory sing and dance number after Wainwrights injury I thought to myself: Ozzie would never allow this kind of bulls*** from his players. And yes, that is an excellent quality in a manager. Agreed. I want the Sox to demolish the Twins, but do so in the scoreboard. I have no problem with each team not being friends with each other during the season, or smack talk, but that type of crap that Gomes said is just wrong. I would much rather win with class.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 26, 2011 -> 12:20 AM) If you can't throw up and in without hitting the batter, you have no business pitching in the MLB. I'm not advocating hitting him, just to put a little idea in his mind so he's distracted. Oh come on, putting a player in danger like that who has had the injury history that he has is just a bad idea all around. There are plenty of pitchers who could deliver the right pitch, but there are plenty of factors that could go wrong and it's a risk you just don't take in this situation.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Feb 26, 2011 -> 04:04 AM) yesss!!!!!!!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 03:21 PM) Unknown... 2 1/2 stars, not nearly as good as TAKEN, preposterous plot, January Jones looks like she's on Dawson's Creek and Diane Kruger, for some reason, is playing a Bosnian refugee taxi driver even though most of the action/movie takes place in her native Germany Cedar Rapids....3 1/2 stars, very funny movie, you just have to see it, it's a bit quirky but the lead actor (from Hangover) and Anne Heche and John C. Reilly were all cracking me up throughout this movie, plus I'm from Iowa (fyi, the majority of the movie was actually filmed in Michigan) Hall Pass....DVD/rental, not worth the admission price but probably worth a rental for diehard Owen Wilson or SNL fans Just Go With It....same category as Hall Pass, Jennifer Aniston actually was pretty decent in this one YOu'll be seeing many more films from the Ann Arbor area and Michigan in general with the tax cuts given to filmmakers in the state now. I know there's one film with George Clooney in it being filmed in Ann Arbor now or recently.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 10:24 PM) Thanks. For anyone who has made it to a 2nd round interview for an internship, do they tend to ask a lot of technical questions then? Or is that saved for job interviews? I've had a ton of 1st round interviews where no technical problems are asked and 1 other second round interview where they didn't ask basically anything. Depends on the job you're going after, in the IT world yes they will ask you some, I would say about 25% would be technical (and that of course varies, same with the amount of weight they put on those answers). Investment banking is another field that would most likely ask a bit of technical questions. But for the most part I would only expect behavioral questions, be ready with the STARS format and have plenty of examples of past experiences to pull from.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 03:08 PM) I'm down with Kenny on this. If spent wisely than yes, but $30 million doesn't go very far in FA anymore. Hunter at 18 mill, Crawford at 20.5, etc. With the Sox payroll at 125 mill I would be happy to have Pujols at $30 mill, it's just the years I would be concerned about.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 02:18 PM) Did I miss the part where somebody suggested intentionally beaning him? You throw high and in and you know there is more than a decent chance of that ball hitting the player, and a good chance of it hitting him in the head. Not only do you run the risk of severely injuring a human over a baseball game, but it would be media hysteria and a major distraction for the players.

Happy birthday!!

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QUOTE (The Critic @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 09:09 AM) "If (Jerry Reinsdorf) gave me $30 million dollars right now, I’m not going to spend it on one guy. Sorry White Sox fans,” Williams said. “But I tell you what, I’m going to take that $30 million and I’m going to distribute it around. My team is going to be better as a whole than it is with one player who might get hurt. Then you’re done. Sorry, that’s just me." I love this. I would gladly take Pujols/replacement level players over Rios/Konerko/Teahen.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 25, 2011 -> 10:55 AM) I don't think you take the concussions into account. If any player says this, you have to brush him away. You can't start making exceptions because of a guy's injury history. I certainly do, not just for the health of the player but also for the image of the team, I really don't want to be the team that severely hurt a player on purpose. It's one thing to hate another team and be rivals with them, it's another thing to intentionally hit somebody in an area that is known to be damaged heavily and could have severe affects.

QUOTE (Cali @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 02:30 PM) Check the floor, cause I'm about to drop some names... So Donald Glover (Troy from Community) tweeted last night that he was at a Bar in LA with Danny Pudi (Abed) and it was an open bar for an hour for any of their fans to come out. It was only about a 15 minute drive from our place so my girlfriend and I decided why not. So it took us 15 minutes to get there, then an additional 15 minutes to find parking (hip part of town) We go in and Donald GLover is at the door, greeting us and thanking us for coming out to see them and get free drinks haha. Suddenly I hear someone scream "YES!" and point at my Sox jacket I happened to be wearing. It was Danny Pudi reacting to it since as I mentioned he's a HUGE Sox fan. Chatted with him about the Sox for a while and he's a real fan, super knowledgable, talking about the health of Peavy being a key to the season and his hatred of the Twins haha Both guys were super nice, personable dudes. And I got a few free Newcastles so I can't complain... Extremely jealous, extremely.

If you're ever near a bank when they took the reading you can always claim the reading was inaccurate because of interference from the bank's security system, at least that is what I was told by a cop. He said he would never pull someone over for speeding by a bank since it would never stick in court if argued.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 01:03 PM) I've seen enough of the nonsense that goes on on college campuses to know that the fewer guns present, the better. Yup, you're just asking for drunken accidents or something else incredibly stupid.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) Well, I like Wite as much as the next guy, but we have no idea who has done what in their relationship. There is no need for names or fault...just that Wite needs to move on and do that without her being a part of the picture. The two of you will bump into one another again down the road though, Wite... Get your s*** together for your own sake now though. That's more of what I meant to say.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) Worst.Idea.Ever. Move on. She clearly dangled you around as long as she could when she knew she wasn't going to stay with you. She wanted you to "better" yourself in her eyes just to meet her standard, and then she still moved 1,000 miles away and joined a dating network. Trying to show her that you can still be whatever it is that she wants would be desperate and kind of pathetic, not to mention futile. It's obvious, and I'm sorry to be so blunt, that she was just keeping wite around as a safety net. And for the love of God, wite, do not move to Washington unless that is really what you want for yourself. There are tons of women out there and once you find one that legitimately likes you (and you obviously like), you'll get over this current one quicker than you'd believe. I can see your point, I dont necessarily agree with it but I can definitely see someone doing that, it really depends on the situation and what standards she wanted from wite. If she was looking for something more mature, or whatever, and he didn't deliver, I don't see a problem with her wanting to break up but still having feelings. The second part I totally agree with, moving to a place with that much commitment just for a girl is a terrible choice, because if it doesn't work out what do you have left. If it's a place you really want to be at, and not just a place you think you want to be at, then by all means go for it.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 02:47 AM) So I'm officially single. Long story short, girlfriend moved out to Seattle at the beginning of the semester, kind of soured on me throughout the semester (it was my fault...I was nodding off in class and not showing the work ethic I needed to), came to visit in December and said she wanted to be single for a while. Upon graduation, we talked some more and we were still fine...just seemed like we needed some space. She registered on okcupid.com (because she wanted to meet more people in the Seattle area...right, OK) and eventually met up with someone on there. About a week after that, she called me and basically professed how she did have an undying love for me and that she would have married me and had kids with me had I showed her a little more - which I have since changed quite a bit, as the real world has delivered me a swift kick in the groin thus far - and she obviously continued hanging out with this guy. Well hanging out turned into "seeing each other" and contact between us grew a little more infrequent, but there still seemed to be signs that she was still interested (a random "I love you," continuing with pet names...she even told me she called the other guy my name when they were kissing for the first time). Just got off the phone with her, and she said that they were together, and this comes just after we exchanged Christmas gifts, in which I got her a book (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), a photo book of the Bismarck area (with fitting captions), and a very nice necklace. She actually said that they've been together for a little while now, so she got it while she was dating him. I've actually been expecting it for a while, but the waiting was by far the hardest part and there is actually some relief knowing that it's finally official. I'm obviously not over it yet, but I think that will happen in time and a lot of the healing took place when I found out. I do still want to be with her, and I still do actually want to move out to the Seattle area, hopefully to attend graduate school at U of Washington, but in the meantime, I have to start living life assuming it won't be with her. It sucks, but so does life. Really sucks it turned out that way, she really seemed to be messing with you with all the going out with the guy but still saying she loves you, etc. But at the same time it seems like you know that you didn't put enough effort into what she wanted to see out of yourself. If she really did call out your name when she kissed the guy for the first time, to me that shows she's really into you still (by the way, how is that guy still with her, I would have left right after that). You probably know more than anyone what she expected out of you and you can show her that you can do whatever that is still.

Who would you rather have? Peavy and one of Rios/Konerko vs. Pujols Konerko, Rios, Teahen vs Pujols Obviously the number of years you would be giving Pujols is the crazy part, but that $30 million could be better spent than what Kenny has done with it considering injury risk and production. Hell, if the Sox really wanted Pujols they could get him if they traded Rios, Konerko, and Teahen for cheap filler pieces after this season, without upping the payroll from the 125 mill too much (not saying it would be the best move for the club at all, unless you can sign him for 7-8 years). Could you imagine Pujols/Dunn back to back, scary thoughts.

QUOTE (juddling @ Feb 24, 2011 -> 01:28 AM) Ok...I've been searching Netflix streaming trying to find a show to take up my time. I watched the first two episodes of Dead Like Me. (i think it was on Showtime....dead girl becomes a Reaper). Anyways....after two shows....i'm kind of on the fence if it's worth continuing. Any opinions???? Not the greatest show but it kept my interest throughout when hulu had every episode for free online a year or two ago.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:58 PM) They lost to f***ing UIC, if that isn't a wake up call nothing is. That team is unbelievably bad. Weber has done a poor job this year and the seniors are losers. End of story. Meant from the coaches, it was obvious the past few years that bad losses didn[t shake up the team, the coaches needed to for them. I think that's a big reason why so many fans are calling for the back ups, they may not be as good but maybe they bring some energy or at least tell the older players that they wont see the court again until they shape up.

It's what I was concerned about going into this year and has been the downfall of the team. Im glad Weber is saying it but we couldve used a good wake up call before Big Ten play.

Well I guess he's starting at the bottom.

I just cant blame Pujols at all for asking for 30 mill a year when Hunter and Crawford make 18 and 20 respectively.