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Are they replaying this on CSN tonight?

If they win today they'll be popping champagne in the clubhouse after the game.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 11:36 AM) They must have changed it in recent years. So basically if the Sox win their next 2 and Cleveland loses 1 more against TB, its over. Yep

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ Sep 28, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) If there is a tie, a tie breaker would be played in Cleveland Monday. They won the coin flip. Head to head doesn't matter. The thing that would really suck would be if the Sox and Cleveland finished with the same record as the 2nd place team in the East, although I'm not sure that's possible. The Sox and Cleveland would be playing for their playoff lives, because a loss is considered a regular season game and they would be a half game out of the wild card. If the Sox and Tribe end up tied AND have a better record than the second place team in the ALE THEN H2H records matter. The Sox will automatically be named division champs. If the Sox, Tribe and second place team in the ALE all end up tied, there will be a playoff between the 3 teams. Sox and Tribe would play each other and the loser would play Bos/NY for the WC.

This one is as old as the hills but still one of my favorites... Usually everyone who has a dog calls him Rover or something. I call mine "Sex". Sex is a very embarrassing name, but I never knew HOW embarrassing. One day, I took Sex for a walk and he ran away from me. I spent hours looking for him. A police officer came along and asked me what I was doing in the alley at 4 o'clock in the morning. I said I was looking for Sex. My court case comes up next Thursday. One day I went to City Hall to get a license for Sex. The clerk asked me what I wanted, I told him I wanted a license for Sex. He said "I would like to have one too!" When I said "But this is a dog" he said he didn't care what she looked like. Then I said "You don't understand. I've had Sex since I was two years old." He replied "You must have been a strong boy." When I decided to get married, I told the minister that I wanted to have Sex at the wedding. He told me to wait until after the wedding. I said "But Sex has played a big part in my life and my whole lifestyle revolves around Sex." He said he did not want to hear about my personal life and would not marry us in a church. I told him everyone coming to the wedding would enjoy having Sex there. The next day we were married by the Justice of the Peace. My family is barred from the church. My wife and I took the dog along with us on the honeymoon. When I checked into the motel I told the clerk that I wanted a room for my wife and myself and a special room for Sex. The clerk said that every room in the Motel is for Sex. Then I said "You don't understand. Sex keeps me awake at night", And the clerk said "Yes, I get that too." One day I told my friend that I had Sex on TV. He said "Show off!" I told him it was a contest. He told me I should have sold tickets. When my wife and I separated we went to court to fight for custody of the dog. I said "Your Honor, I had Sex before I was married" and the Judge said "Me too." Then I told him that after I was married Sex had left me, he said "Me too." Well now I've been thrown in jail, been married, divorced and had more trouble with that dog than I ever gambled for. Why just the other day when I went for my first visit with the psychiatrist and she asked me "What seems to be the trouble" I replied, "Well, Sex has died and left my life. It's like losing a best friend and it's so lonely." The doctor said "Look Mister, you and I both know that sex isn't man's best friend. Why not get yourself a dog?"

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Sep 26, 2005 -> 11:51 AM) That is what I read as well. BOTH need to be guaranteed a spot in the playoffs in order to throw out the tiebreaker. If both Cleveland and the Sox win 98 games, they will be guranteed a spot. If either NY or Boston wins 98, that means the other one can only win 95. So in other words, the magic # to clinch the division is 4.

At the beginning of the year I looked at the monthly 2004 attendance. I added a little to each number to come up with a guess as to what this years attendance would be. I came up with 2,329,000. I thought it would be too high. I was only off by 14,833 which is pretty amazing.

Three couples, an elderly couple, a middle aged couple and a young newlywed couple wanted to join a church. The pastor says, "We have special requirments for new parishioners. You must abstain from having sex for two weeks." The couples agreed and came back at the end of two weeks. The pastor goes to the elderly couple and asks, "Were you able to abstain from sex for the two weeks?" The old man replies, "No problem at all, Pastor." "Congratulations! Welcome to the church!" said the pastor. The pastor goes to the middle aged couple and asks, "Well were you able to abstain from sex for two weeks?" The man replied, "The first week was not too bad. The second week I had to sleep on the couch for a couple of nights, but yes we made it." "Congratulations! Welcome to the church," said the pastor. The pastor then goes to the newlywed couple and asks, "Well, were you able to abstain from sex for two weeks?" "Well Pastor, we were not able to go without sex for the two weeks." the young man replied. "What Happened?" inquired the pastor. "My wife was reaching for a can of corn on the top shelf and dropped it. When she bent over to pick it up, I was overcome with lust and took advantage of her right there." "You understand of course, this means you will not be welcome in our church." stated the pastor. "That's OK," said the young man, "We're not welcome at Jewel anymore either."

Wedding: Been married for 6 years now so that's not really an issue. My best friend just got married (again) last week. He was the first in our group of friends to get married and now he's the last... Baby: My youngest turns 4 next week so I get to feel older. She did manage to get DCFS called because she was on the other side of the house next door walking on the sidewalk. Literally 50 feet from her own yard... Home: My house is still a POS that is falling down around my ears and I don't have the money to fix it. 29 more years and it's all mine. :headshake Add in that I have to go to court because somebody let my dog out and it was picked up by animal control (I'm pleading 'not guilty' because I have evidence that the kennel he was in was damaged by someone or something thus leading to him getting out), that I just found out (4 weeks into the sememster) that I'm not eligible for a student loan because I don't have enough credit hours and the Sox going through the biggest collapse in MLB history... I'm doing just dandy.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 22, 2005 -> 09:41 AM) I've never seen a carpeted area in a Wal-Mart. What is a code white, since I will never do any of these. The clothing departments are usually carpeted. I've often seen a 'wet floor' sign on the rugs at the entrances in the winter. Those things get soaked... IIRC... white = customer/employee injury. black = bomb threat? red = fire blue = tornado? There were a few others but I never memorized them. I hated that job...

"If you ever, ever tank a play like the one you did today, I'm gonna rip your nuts off and shove em down your f***ing throat!"

QUOTE(hi8is @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) 4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in housewares.... and see what happens. Actually, they use colors. Walk up to somebody and say "Code White" instead... QUOTE(hi8is @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:14 PM) 5. Go the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M's on lay away. They made a new rule that anything put on layaway has to cost more than $5 (I don't remember the exact dollar amount but it's something like that).

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 12:15 PM) Well then they're poorly placed in the bottom middle of the controller. I know people like the ps controller, but I'm not one of them. Like I said, it's a matter of opinion and personal preference. It would've been fun to make fun of the boomerang if not for the remote control. I've always thought the N64 joystick was akward being in the center of the controller. The GC controller basically copied the left-side of the PS controller but switched the d-pad and joystick...

I had turned the game off when the Tribe took the 6-4 lead. My wife wanted to watch a movie and I didn't want to watch the Sox blow another game. So I was in a grumpy mood and the movie was horrible. After the movie I switched the game back on fully expecting to see the post-game show and was quite suprised to see that the score was tied. It helped my mood a little bit but I was still grumpy. I watched the last out of the top of the 10th and heard that Crede, Uribe and Pods would lead off the bottom of the 10th. My wife (who is a complete jinx to Crede because I don't think he has never gotten a hit while she's watching the game) said "well there's an easy out". Then Crede hit the bomb and I said "Joe just won the game!" It was weird to go from being upset that they were losing 6-4 when I turned it off to seeing a walk-off homerun but I managed to crack a smile.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Matter of opinion... I prefer the N64 controller A LOT more than having push an individual button for up, down, left, and right on the s***ty d-pad for the playstations. There's not many games that use the d-pad anymore. Some games allow you to use either/or.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 02:41 PM) Yep. Now imagine fully controlled 3D movements and tilt sensors. This is the Revolution controller. Nintendo has basically made you the character in the game. I already have fully controlled 3D movements on the PS2. What exactly is a tilt sensor? Did they remake the Power Glove???

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 01:16 PM) Whether it was a good controller or not is irrevlevant. What Nintendo did was successfully master the 3D control scheme with the Joy Stick, something other companies had failed to do up until that point. Would you of liked to be playing 3d games with a D-Pad? Imagine that for second. Then Sony went one better by putting 2 joysticks on the controller. It works beatifully with 1st person shooter games as it allows you to move forward and backwards and rotate around at the same time...

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:29 PM) Did you play Mario 64 or Zelda: Ocarina of Time on it by any chance? I played Mario 64 a couple of times on my friends system but realized that I had outgrew Mario, Donkey Kong, StarFox and all the other cartoon characters that Nintendo insists on putting in half their games when I turned 13. I was almost ill when I saw the new Mario Baseball... :headshake

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Sep 16, 2005 -> 02:26 PM) How so? They changed the way games were played forever with the N64 and I don't think I have ever met someone who though the PS1 was better than that. Making the switch to PS1 from SNES was soo much easier than switching to the POS that is N64. I've always hated it's controller and still do. Give me the diamond shaped button pattern with the shoulder buttons on the top and the d-pad on the right side and I'm perfectly happy. I couldn't manuver my thumbs around enouch to get to half the buttons on the N64 controller. The joystick is also quite annoying. I also love the fact that I can still play all my PS1 games on my PS2. How many N64 games can you play on your Gamecube?

Nintendo screwed up when the made the N64. They've just been getting worse ever since...

QUOTE(POTUSChris @ Sep 14, 2005 -> 07:30 PM) Yeah the room is supposedly for two people, but they give you tickets for four people. It's stupid. They charged us for an extra person last year, so this year will just sneak in the extra person. That's what I planned on doing. There's so many people running around that they'll never notice. I'm just going to have the extra people wait for me on the main floor and after I go up, check in and get to the room I'll come back down for them.

I just hope they don't try to charge me more money if I get the 2-night package and have a group of 4 like they did last year. Supposedly the price is based on 2 people in the room even though they give you 4 passes...

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:14 AM) Next year we are going to make sure to get a softball game together during the summer too. We had a lot of people interested, but most were away at school. The other option is to see if WSI wants to play against us, that way we only need half the people. Does that mean I'll have to pick one side or the other?

Is it really that difficult to understand? The Sox attendance is low because the season ticket base is low. We are talking about a team that hasn't won jack s*** in years. A couple of division titles is the best they could do in the past 20+ years. That's not going to build up the season ticket base. Meanwhile the Cubs "sell out every game" because their season ticket base is over 30,000. The Sox have to rely on 15,000+ in walkups just to match those numbers. Combine school starting, playing the worst team in baseball and the Tribe continuing to spread the rumor of how bad the neighborhood is around the park and it's just not enough to consistantly draw that many walk-ups. From the Trib: If the Sox can manage to win a playoff round or two for 2-3 years in a row and still have a problem drawing crowds, then we need to start worrying.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) Pfftt.... you too...??? Somehow a former Sox pitcher wearing a bad shirt that night has a few copies also... "I love you man!" QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:18 PM) Oh, also, I'll triple Krush's offer for you NOT to send them to him.. Sweet.