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Well guys, I'll cya when the regular season is over.

Wait, what happened?

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 09:59 PM) Rays fans must be PISSED They have fans?

I can't tell who's who anymore with all these Rally Crede avatars.

The inability of this team to hit with RISP isn't just on the players. It has to be on the coaching staff as well. All of this is mental and approach-based. It has little to do with luck now. They've been far too awful for this to be bad luck. Whenever this team gets runners on, our hitters just don't know what the f*** to do.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:43 PM) Fister's finishing this one up No he's not. 4-2 now.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 12:43 PM) I prefer Pulse's custom pages and better news deliverability. Flipboard's widget also sucks. So does Pulse's. Taptu's the only RSS app that has a nice looking scrolling widget that doesn't crash every 10 minutes (stupid Minimal Reader...). I spent at least 10 bucks looking for a viable RSS reader with a good widget.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 02:08 AM) I am not required to buy an Apple. We have Apple and non-apple people at my company. I purchased a Mac purely based on its UNIX base. Before Steve Jobs was tricking people with the pretty he was at this company called NeXT. That became the basis for OSX. As a person who had administrated UNIX systems and prefers that over Windows I could go 2 routes. I could save a few hundred bucks and place Linux or BSD on my laptop and jack around trying to get little things to work ( drivers/3rd party hardware) or I could buy a Mac. OSX is an excellent operating system and it was the selling point more than the pretty. The turning point for me was when I spent 2 hours extracting firmware from my HPs built in 3G modem then compiling another program, the debugging and cleaning up the messed up code I found to flash the 3G card only to have my work destroyed a month later when I updated my kernel. That's when I ditched Linux for OSX. There are enough people who pick the os for reasons besides how it looks as an accessory. My roommate bought a Mac thinking he could do kernel-related programming on it (i.e. modules, he's not implementing new system calls here). Nope. He always complained how "this is not Linux". Different people with different needs in different situations. Linux is a complete b**** to work with at times, I will say. But the freedom is glorious.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:25 AM) I spent $1500 extra dollars for GarageBand and Final Cut Pro X in all honesty. In your case, where you were required to buy one, I'd totally understand. But for the average person looking for a laptop (AKA glorified typewriter for porn and viral videos), I don't know why you'd bother to spend the money on a Macbook unless you care a lot about aesthetics or the brand name. Asus and Samsung make equally good and equally good looking laptops (even thinner than the Macbook Air) and they usually sell them for less (since retailers actually put these Laptops on sale, unlike Macbooks). Any extra money you're paying is for Mac OS (and whatever bundled software you might need) and the Apple brand name.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:24 AM) How exactly is it a waste of a few hundred bucks. Is that the case for everyone who buys one. You said it yourself. Laptops are glorified typewriters. So why spend at least $1000 on one when you can buy one that is equally good in terms of specs, if not better, for $700 or less?

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 01:02 AM) The anti-apple crowd is funny. Nothing offends your sensibilities like a person with a Macbook. Considering the average person uses a computer as a glorified typewriter with access to porn and Gangum Style does it really matter what they buy. Probably not. If they want to waste a few extra hundred bucks, it's not really my problem. Do I tell my friends to buy Macbooks when they come to me for tech advice? No. Do I give them s*** if they buy one? Yeah, usually, if they're real close friends. That's usually because I don't want them to spend the extra money when there are equally good alternatives.

You forgot a big f*** the Royals. f*** Jeremy Guthrie f*** Bruce Chen f*** Billy Butler f*** Alcides Escobar f*** Alex Gordon f*** Irving f***ing Falu f*** Johnny Giavotella f*** Lorenzo Cain f*** Jeff Francouer and whoever thought it's smart to intentionally walk him 4 times f*** Luis Mendoza f*** Kelvin Herrera f*** Greg Holland f*** the really fast guy that gave Konerko a concussion and whose name I can't think of right now f*** Ned Yost f*** Jonathan Sanchez for sucking so much that he had to get traded for Jeremy Guthrie f*** Melky Cabrera, his roids, and his fluke 2011 season that resulted in him getting traded for Sanchez, who then got traded for Guthrie. f*** that roid-head Salvador Perez, I can't wait until he gets suspended 50 games for PEDs. Most importantly, f*** DAYTON MOORE. Okay, I'm done.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Sep 27, 2012 -> 12:03 AM) One of my roommates has an iPhone and she was showing off how she can take a panoramic picture and stuff with the new update, and then she said, "Plus, they added this really cool new mapping thing. Apple Maps. I really like it, it looks awesome." This was after having the new update for about 9 minutes. I hate her. There's your typical Apple user these days. I was in a gen-ed class the other day. I sat in the back and in front of me...I saw a sea of Macbooks. At least 50% of the class had laptops open and at least 75% were Macs. I think the "it just works" motto is more like "it looks really really nice and it's expensive".

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 10:57 PM) It ended up not mattering, but why in the hell did they have Hudson run for Dunn? That run doesn't matter, and if anything, you hope to keep Dunn in the game in case you tie it. Just icing on the cake of another managerial masterpiece. Why the hell did Alexei hit 7th? After what he did last night, the last thing he deserved was to move a spot up in the lineup. Alexei's inability to get PK home in the first was a big deal.

It's gonna take quite the miracle.

It sure is nice to know that I wasted most of my summer following this team, only to see them choke the last two weeks. f***ity f***.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 06:55 PM) Perez has killed the Sox simply due to feasting on LHP. Tigers don't really have any, and that's why he hasn't done much. Perez didn't do anything against us last series either. I have him in fantasy. He was awful the last two weeks of the season.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 06:53 PM) Tigers radio crew laughing at the Sox' prospects against the rays They won't be wrong unless our offense turns the corner soon. And Salvador Perez is starting to hit like s***. Maybe advanced scouting finally caught up.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) The boogieman known as the 2012 KC Royals is a fantasy made up by the Hawk and members of the 2012 Chicago Whitesox. If we approached the Royals like they were any other team we would beat them most of the time. We for some reason elevated them as something that they are not. This started with the mouthpiece doing the same crap he did with the Twins over the years. We are our own worst enemy. This would be on the verge of being clinched today if we decided to play baseball against the Royals instead of turning their crappy pitching into the Atlanta Braves and if our pitchers would stop throwing fastballs to Billy Butler and Cain. Yup. If we lose the division, you just have to go look at how badly we played against KC.

The Royals are so f***ing useless. At least Minnesota beat the Tigers twice.

This game is KC's best chance to grab a win.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 04:15 PM) John Paczkowski of All Things Digital, citing multiple sources had this to say about the Maps hoopla: "Requiring iPhone users to look directly at handsets for directions and manually move through each step — while Android users enjoyed native voice-guided instructions — put Apple at a clear disadvantage in the mobile space," Paczkowski wrote. "And having chosen Google as its original mapping partner, the iPhone maker was now in a position where an archrival was calling the shots on functionality important to the iOS maps feature set." Sources reportedly said that Apple "pushed Google hard" to bring turn-by-turn navigations to iOS. However, Google viewed the capability as a "key feature" of its own Android platform, and decided to keep the functionality exclusive to Android handsets. While Apple wanted voice-guided navigation in its iOS Maps application, Google wanted in-app branding and the addition of its Google Latitude service to the built-in iOS mapping service. Apple reportedly refused to concede either of those to the search company. ----- While I love some of their products, Google can go f*** themselves. For once, Google plays Apple's anti-competitive game. Where were you when Apple decided to cripple third party browsers of core iOS features on purpose so that Safari would have superior performance? You sure didn't tell Apple to go f*** themselves.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 26, 2012 -> 03:04 AM) Not 'everyone' here hates him, Blaze. I think he's great. Those writers are smelling blood and going in for the Ozzie kill. It's ridiculous. Loria is nuts. If Ozzie gets canned I hope Chicago media grabs him for a talk show or pairs him with Hawk n Stoney. Or maybe DJ will decide he's retiring and Ozzie goes on with Farmer. I love how Miami needs a scapegoat for this lousy season and as of today it appears it's going to be Ozzie. What a joke. They spent all that money on bad bad baseball players but they need the scapegoat. I can't believe a guy with Loria's ego would hire a loudmouth like Ozzie in the first place. For some reason I didn't know anything about Loria before Oz went there. He's another Steinbrenner type. Now we know why Ozzie got a four-year deal. s***, he'll be laughing in Loria's face when he fires him. We know how Oz loves money. he's gonna get 3 years' pay for no work. Oz will LOVE that. Ozzie on the radio? OMFG that'd be awful.

Here's an interesting question. If you had to do something costly/embarrassing/life threatening in order for the Sox to make the playoffs (doing one of these things guarantees it). Would you?

I'm predicting a loss. Only because I want to be proven wrong and bashed for my negativity. I'll do anything for a win. Like Dave Chappelle once said, "I'LL SUCK YA DICK!". JK, not really.