MiddleCoastBias

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 21, 2012 -> 10:28 PM) Been watching a lot of movies lately: Shawshank Redemption (rewatch)- Still one of the greatest movies of all-time. Fight Club (rewatch)- I think I finally got bored of this movie. The Social Network (rewatch)- The more I see this, the more I realize how amazing this movie is. The Wrestler (rewatched) -Still one of my favorites Ides of March- One of the best movies of 2011. Not that says much at all. Safe House- Pretty much by the books, and a bit of a sloppy plot. Could have been a lot better. Drive- Meh, expected a lot better of this movie. Still probably better than anything I've seen nominated for Best Picture (other than Moneyball). Mystic River- Loved this movie. Definitely deserves its acclaim. I agree with Fight Club, I probably wore that one out as well. Watched it again a couple months ago and realized I need to put that back on the shelf for a long while. I've heard Ides was pretty flat. Granted, I've worked on political campaigns for a couple years so when I hear from my campaign friends that it wasn't at all realistic I know I can't expect too much out of it. In that same vein, I'm sure NASA scientists spit all over Apollo 13 but it doesn't make it a bad movie. Ides is still at the top of my queue, I'll just make a judgment for myself. Mystic River has been sitting on the top of my DVD player for the longest time, just haven't been in the mood for it as it gets passed over for countless movies. Now that you bring it up, I'm going to make a conscious effort to find the time to finally get around to it.

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All of this discussion got me wondering what knots people use. For a spread collar I stick to the full windsor or the Persian, four-in-hand for casual days, and the Simple Double for narrow ties. Related, just wore a bow tie to work the other day for the hell of it. Took me a few minutes to remember how to tie it but I got a few entertaining discussions in an otherwise boring office environment. What knots do you guys use most?

I finally got around to watching "Gone Baby Gone" (2007) yesterday. Absolutely loved it. Casey Affleck was great and Ed Harris did his thing. Very interesting how the story was kind of split up into three different segments, though I feel the ending was a bit drawn out. I've seen The Town probably 5 times so it was interesting to see how Ben Affleck built off of his directorial debut of Gone Baby Gone (and I'm pretty sure they're both books).

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Feb 12, 2012 -> 08:39 PM) What, no votes for the Minneapolis airport bathrooms? Nope, but we should count the entirety of the Metrodome.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 12, 2012 -> 10:33 AM) Significantly. And it helps the Sox for both. Obviously the bidding isn't over yet but the offer for Cespedes sounds encouraging. I was hoping he would end up somewhere in the 40s (even $49.5M) just to show that the price came down from the original $50+M. If the rumor of the much lower Marlins offer is true, I would imagine that increases the chances that the Sox can play ball in a Soler bidding war.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 12, 2012 -> 09:46 AM) It's truly projectile-vomit and explosive-diarrhea inducing that he's no longer a Cardinal. Sounds like we're about to have a new entry... http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84409

If this is true, how much do you think affects what Soler will get?

Refinance.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Jan 24, 2012 -> 09:21 PM) Gordon Beckham is tweeting about the State of the Union Address or whatever political thing is on TV right now if anyone cares. Whatever your politics, I think this Rongey quote is fitting for ALL athletes:

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Jan 24, 2012 -> 10:16 PM) Agreed, no way, let's stop teasing ourselves. Seriously..........hope for Soler. Soler has been my hope from the get-go. Get it done.

A couple buddies and I are looking to make a Trade Kenny t-shirt using the Trader Joe's logo. Looking to replace the food/bottle with something else. My suggestions were the Chicago skyline or something like a white flag in the center where the bottle is. Anyone else have any other thoughts what we could use on there?

I'm hoping this thread sticks around. I started up a pseudo book club with a couple buddies a few months ago (shared Google doc of books to be read, etc) and I looked around to see if there was a thread on here that would have some suggestions. I enjoy legal/spy thrillers like those written by David Baldacci and Michael Connolly. Any other suggestions for authors or titles?

Saw The Descendents with the family as our Christmas movie. I was wholly unimpressed. The script was so flat; even the "emotional" scenes were stale. I don't know why Clooney received a nomination for this one, not nearly his best work. Actually, I was more impressed with the eldest daughter than Clooney's performance. Walked out of the theater very disappointed. Anyone else feel the same?

I have an affinity for drunk eBay and I feel the need to let everyone know that I just bought a signed Brent Morel bat for $40. WORTH IT. Related drunk Sox purchases: Mike MacDougal jersey for $9, 3 Sox hats ('52, '83, and moder-era with the shamrock). There was an "authentic" knockoff Adam Dunn black jersey for $25 but even drunk-me knew that was a garbage purchase. Yep, coming from the guy that bought a Mike MacDougal jersey, I couldn't bring myself to buy a joke Dunn jersey.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 18, 2011 -> 05:36 PM) The Tribune's Michael Phillips came out with his best and worst movies of the year. For some reason Sucker Punch was his pick for worst. I thought Sucker Punch was pretty good. Visually appealing with a different style. Not sure how anyone could think it was that bad. I opined on Sucker Puynch in this thread a few months back, thought it was very entertaining. I watched it again a couple weeks ago and it had definitely lost its appeal for me. It was fun the first time around but watching it again definitely exposed its flaws; I now see why many people thought it was bad.

Balls, totally forgot about this. Thanks guys.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 07:29 PM) f*** that. I thought the same thing when I graduated a few years ago and now I'm about one hour away from completing the last paper of my first semester (admittedly I would be done a lot sooner if I stopped reading Soxtalk but where's the fun in that).

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 07:06 PM) Officially done with college. Just took my last final exam. Time to celebrate. Congrats! See you in grad school in a couple years...

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Dec 14, 2011 -> 12:36 PM) I actually find myself paying with my debit card even when I have enough cash, just to avoid getting pennies. ===== Eliminating pennies and dollar bills is a good start, but I'd go further. Eliminate dimes, half-dollars, ten dollar bills, and fifty dollar bills. All the currency you need are nickels, quarters, dollar coins, fives, twenties, and hundreds. Though unnecessary, I would keep the $2 bill around to appease the people who hate coins so much. Also may want to consider putting the $500 bill back into circulation due to inflation. But think of the strippers!

146 home runs out of the starting nine seems pretty low, doesn't it? I feel like the estimates for Morel, Beckham, and De Aza are a bit conservative. Also note they have Lillibridge with more HR/AB than anyone else on the team again.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 7, 2011 -> 04:20 PM) Chicago has yet to have measurable snowfall this season. This makes it, already, among the 10 latest years for first real snow. The latest ever is December 16th. There is currently no significant snowfall in the 10 day forecast. We might set a record. It snowed in Boston on Halloween and hasn't gotten close since. It has been in the 60s all week. Hell, Arkansas has had snow twice already.

QUOTE (scenario @ Dec 6, 2011 -> 07:34 PM) http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles...0,2691910.story https://twitter.com/#!/nickcafardo/stat...201147677278208 Is anyone else concerned with the Sun article when they talked about Santos? They mentioned that the Os would have been in on him as well but didn't know he was available. Um, if we're going to flip him, shouldn't we let it be known he was available to get the best possible offer?

QUOTE (flavum @ Dec 6, 2011 -> 02:34 PM) If this Thornton to braves thing happens, I hope Quentin is in a package deal to actually get something good back. That was my first thought when seeing the Cowley tweet as well. If memory serves, Q was mentioned for guys like Brandon Beachy, correct? I would assume (hope) a package of Thornton and Quentin would be able to get a solid return and tap into that pool of strong SPs Atlanta has been apparently garnering.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Dec 4, 2011 -> 03:45 PM) I'm not saying that Thunderbolt is doing this, but defending a guy's good character is the last possible way to defend a crappy player in any argument. See: Mark Teahen.