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I played fast-pitch softball until I was 16. When I was around 14 or 15 a local news station had something called "Hey Andy, sub for me!" where the sports guy (named Andy) would come to a sporting event and act as a substitute player. Well he ended up doing this for the opposing team and I had to pitch to him. The guy stood over 6 feet tall but I still ended up walking him and he even manged to come around to score. We ended up winning the game though. Anway it was on the local news that night. That was about 1 minute of my 15 minutes of fame. I still have 14 more minutes to go...

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 03:54 PM) Wrigley is not as bad as most of us Sox fans make it out to be....the problem more lies within the team that plays there and that drunkard Ronnie Woo Woo. I'll take Wrigely any day over the House that Ruth built or Fenway. I hate the fact that unless you memorize player #'s or can actually see the name on the back of the jersey, you can never tell who is on the field. Their scoreboard is useless in that regard.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Feb 23, 2007 -> 09:42 AM) I thought rat was in the taco meat? Makes sense to me. No, it was KFC that breaded and deep fried a rat. They also changed to KFC because they don't use real chicken meat.

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Feb 22, 2007 -> 09:19 PM) Just to let everyone know, they completely re-worked and ruined the game of Life sometime in the mid 90's. The game now is "see who gets the highest salary." That's basically all there is to it now. That's really all it's ever been. The only thing that really evens it out is the ability to play the stock market and the fact that they give you money for each kid at the end. Still a fun game though. Off the top of my head, the games we have at our house are: a few of the Scene It games, Uno, Uno Attack, Scategories, Sorry, Sorry Revenge, Monopoly, Life and a really old game called The Winning Ticket. This game is great fun when you have 4 people. Tripoley is good for 6-8 people.

I'm almost afraid to know how you managed to find that site...

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Feb 22, 2007 -> 10:05 AM) My thoughts: It's not that hard to clean with a normal vacuum every once in a while. We are extremely lazy. I bet if somebody were to invent a full-size vacuum with a remote control they'd make millions. Give it technology so you can control it from anywhere in the world using your computer it'd be even better...

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 21, 2007 -> 11:38 AM) Oldman is a bit of a chameleon. He changes his looks for every role. You've never seen Batman Begins? He's Cheif (not yet Chief) Gordon. He also was Dracula in Coppola's Dracula. Bonham Carter you might know as the female lead in Fight Club. She's also Mrs. Tim Burton now. Rickman was the main terrorist in Die Hard. I don't really remember Die Hard and I've never seen the other movies. I could fill a book of popular movies I've never seen.

QUOTE(soxsr08 @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 10:18 PM) That's funny! You should search their names on IMDb. I'm almost positive that you have at least seen Gary Oldman, Maggie Smith, and Helena Bonham Carter in a film. Probably Alan Rickman aswell, unless you don't really see too many films. I didn't recognize a single name either. After looking them up though... Gary Oldman - I've seen one or two movies he's been in but I don't remeber the character. I notice he did some voicework for a few video games I've played. Maggie Smith - I recognize from Sister Act 2 and Hook. Helena Bonham Carter - Nothing Alan Rickman - Remember him from Dogma and Galaxy Quest but didn't know his name. Michael Gambon - Nothing

QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 02:24 PM) 22? 1+4+0+8

Normally I can stop my hiccups by taking a really deep breath and holding it for about 30 seconds. If that doesn't work, I'll drink some water while holding my breath.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 11:28 AM) Oh yeah, and 1408 looks friggin' amazing! Advanced word on that one is also VERY high. I forgot that they were making that into a movie. It's based on a short story written by Stephen King. The story appears in the audiobook "Blood and Smoke" and also in the collection of short stories called "Everything's Eventual". Get the audiobook. It's great fun listening to King read the story. Two interesting notes mentioned in the story are that the room is on the 14th floor, which in reality is the 13th floor. Also, add up the numbers 1408.

QUOTE(soxsr08 @ Feb 19, 2007 -> 06:17 PM) May 18th: Shrek The Third - Starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, John Cleese, and Justin Timberlake June 22nd: Evan Almighty - Starring Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, John Goodman, and Wanda Sykes These look like they might be interesting but I'm afraid they won't be quite as good as the originals. The Number 23 looks interesting. Quite a different role for Jim Carey.

QUOTE(shoota @ Feb 18, 2007 -> 11:37 PM) This actor always reminds me of Foulke. http://imdb.com/name/nm0001608/ Same here. In fact, that's exactly who I was thinking of even before I clicked on the link.

The human head weighs 8 pounds.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 01:31 PM) You can buy full season on the website. They don't guarantee tickets to every postseason game however. Just 1 a round I believe. All ALDS games, 1 ALCS game, 1 World Series game.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 13, 2007 -> 01:23 PM) I was commenting about retention. As of last Friday, there are no 81 game plans avaliable. There were when I checked on the Sox website yesterday. They weren't very good seats (sect 109 row 30) but they were there.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 11:59 AM) I would take the heat over the cold anyday. At least when its super hot out, when the sun goes down you can still go out and enjoy the evening outside. When its -10 below and you go outside at night you need therapy. When it's 10 below and you go outside at all (unless absolutely necessary) you need therapy. That's what really sucks about winter. My vehicle isn't running quite right and it could be something as simple as changing the spark plugs or the distributor cap but I can't do it because it's too freaking cold!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 09:09 AM) If you've lived in Chicago, the answer is yes. If you've lived almost anywhere in the mid-west, the answer is yes. Anyway, I'll take the heat and humidity any day. You don't have to shovel sunshine. It's also why pools where invented.

QUOTE(Steff @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 04:14 PM) Flips aren't happening in Rockford Jas.. I know... There's a reason we were voted as the city with the "most affordable housing". That's why I'd like to just do enough to make it sellable and get out of here. For what we are paying for this thing, I'm sure we can get something a bit bigger and in better shape. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 04:25 PM) On a sidenote is that the Rockford where the Rockford Peaches are from (A league of there own??) Yes it is. As a matter of fact, my wife used to work with one of the original Peaches. Sadly, the field they used to play on is no more. As far as I know, the didn't even film any of the movie here either. They might have had the field still been around.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 31, 2007 -> 10:53 AM) In the past (when i was working for my dad who does real estate) I went into a couple projects like that where we would pick up a house, make repairs and sell it for more. However, that was in Socal and in a different market setting. We knew unless there was some sort of disaster that these houses were selling for a bunch more, plus since we are agents we were able to get 3% off the house when we bought it and typically we can find a client on our own to sell to (so we don't have to pay any selling comissions to an agent) which clears things up. But in this case you obviously own the house so the only comissions you'd potentially have to pay would be related to when you sell the house. However, we had a contractors license that we could use to purchase materials cheap and from the years of doing business we also had contacts of people that do good work for a very affordable price (hence we are able to do things for less than what a normal home buyer would be able to, which again gives you a little more leeway). The other key is we didn't have to do any structural repairs because honestly those are repairs 99% of home sellers are going to have to make prior to selling the house (even to people like us who were planning on flipping it). So basically put if these repairs are things such as new flooring/paint maybe just cleaning up and refinishing the cabinets than ya it could be worth while (again depending on the market where you live and if you see houses in this sort of shape going for quite a bit more than your home than put in that factor but don't forget stuff will cost money, take time, and obviously you'll have a selling comission to factor as well). But if you have to repair piping and all that other junk than I don't think your going to make money doing that, you'll probably lose money and I'd imagine when the home buyer gets the house inspected they are going to ask you to make those repairs (regardless of the price they are paying, unless they are getting a total bargain of a price) because the normal buyer isn't going to want to deal with that. Obviously you own the house which m If we could find somebody that would be willing to buy the house, fix it and sell it for his or her own profit, I'd be fine with that too. I just don't see that happening. Mostly what needs to be done is stuff like new siding, carpeting, kitchen cabinets and flooring, and maybe some paint and landscaping. We got into this mess to begin with because the guy who inspected the house before we bought it was totally incompetent (and from what we heard, fired shortly after) and we were too young and dumb to know better. To be totally honest, it might just be better to tear the whole thing down and start over. Where’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition when you need them? It’s obvious that one of the prior owners did some work on the house themselves and did it very poorly. We have at least two walls in the house that are not at a 90 degree angle with the adjoining wall. It’s more like 95 or 96 degrees. There is one room that has a wall that is a good 5 or 6 inches longer than the opposite wall. Anyway, it just an idea that I’ve tossed around but have never really gotten serious about. For now it looks like we’ll just continue to do what we’ve been doing since we bought it. Replace and fix things little by little every year. One year it was new windows. Then we re-did the bathroom. This year it’s a new central air unit. Maybe we’ll eventually get it all done. By that time the kids will be grown and gone and we won’t need a bigger house…

QUOTE(hi8is @ Jan 30, 2007 -> 05:42 PM) cardinal man laws... no men at any white sox game will put their nuts under their seat... I can honestly say I've never had that problem. It sounds painful though.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 30, 2007 -> 04:55 PM) Or if some disaster happens and you get nothing. Its just a scary situation because you are risking a lot (and many people are in this type of bind; especially people getting into interest only loans around this time period that don't have the money or resources to go through an ugly real estate market for a few years because if those people end up having to sell they will take a beating if they bought recently in Cali). I mean I have no idea what the money is for, but if it is to raise money for some sort of luxury item (ie non necessity) I would flat out stay away from it because you could really find yourself in a hole after the fact. Now if it is for something very important (medicine or college or food or whatever it may be) than s*** screw it that is more important. Just my 2 cents as an uptight accountant that is pretty stingy with most things (aside from pissing money away on sports and my nice tv set up). Well, the truth is that our house is getting too small and not in the greatest shape. In a perfect world, I could get a loan to make the repairs on the house, have the repairs up the value of the house enough so that I could sell it and make enough to pay off the mortgage and the loan and then basically start over with another bigger house. The problem is that I'm not sure the value that would be added to the house would actually be greater than the cost of the repairs.

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Jan 30, 2007 -> 08:48 AM) I know plenty of people that wanted to go but couldnt get tickets and thats who I was speaking for ...... I know a lot of people where it wasn't so much a matter of getting tickets, it was a matter of paying twice the amount of what was paid last year. I don't know who sets the prices the Sox or the hotel but it seems to me that if they wouldn't have cut the attendance in half, they wouldn't have needed to double the prices. I might have be able to do a 10 or 20 percent increase. Maybe even 50, but not 100...

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 29, 2007 -> 04:26 PM) Ya. Typically what people do is a cash out REFI where they basically get a new loan on the home. Say when you purchased a home in 2000 and had a 300K loan. Now the home is worth 600K. You basically take out a new loan and pay off the remaining loan. There are limits but in the end lets say you refi with 300K remaining and take out a new 400K loan which means you have 100K in your pocket right than and there and one payment. Now thats say you own a home and instead of getting a new loan, you know your house is worth 500K and you only owe 200K which means you have 300K worth of equity. What you do is take out a equity line of credit for say 100K and now in essence you have 300K in loans but you don't get this 100K you essentially have a line and can borrow it when you want. You may just want the 100K line set up for a rainy day (and in that case you don't have any interest charges since at this point you have not borrowed against it). It is almost like the difference between a loan and a line of credit. And 2nd mortgages are typically done when you initially buy a house. You take a 2nd because often times by going with a 2nd you can avoid certain fees that you would have to pay if you took like a 100% loan all on the first. OK, what if you don't have any equity (or very little)? Are there any options?

From what I'm reading, a second mortgage is literally another loan against a house. Does that mean two different payments as well?