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When I was a kid my parents would allow me to open one present on Christmas Eve. This particular Christmas we were spending at my Grandma's house. I had brought my NES with me and of course, had a bunch of NES games on my list. So when I picked the present I wanted to open on Christmas Eve my parents asked me "Are you sure you want to open that one?" Of course being a kid I didn't listen to them and said "Yes, I'm sure." I opened it and it was a metal White Sox garbage can. It was cool and all (I'm pretty sure I still have it somewhere) but not exactly what I was hoping for at that moment. I'm pretty sure they made an exception and let me open another, "better" present.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 19, 2016 -> 07:49 AM) The most surreal thing for me is watching a movie and realizing that everyone in it is dead. I was watching Bad Santa a few years ago and it got to one of the scenes with John Ritter and Bernie Mac. Then I realized that both of them were dead.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 16, 2016 -> 09:37 AM) it hasnt been on in a few weeks. Is it back? Which one? AFAIK, Last Man just had their fall finale this past Sunday and Falling Water just aired an episode yesterday.

Anyone else watching Last Man on Earth? I thought the show started out ok with an interesting premise. Adding and killing off certain characters and "guest stars" was fun too. But at this point it seems like the writers aren't really sure where to go with the story and they are just spinning their wheels. The last 2 or 3 episodes barely moved the story along at all. I'm completely confused on what they are doing with the whole "Melissa has gone insane" storyline as well. I also watched the first episode of Falling Water last night. I have the show set to record on my DVR but just never got around to it. I though the previews looked interesting but have heard absolutely nobody talking about it.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 9, 2016 -> 12:04 PM) Ok, after the first third of a season here, I have a very mixed bag going on. I bowl in 2 places, Town & Country in Joliet and Orland Bowl. last year I ended in the mid 180's both leagues, maybe 3 pins higher in Orland. This year, my average at orland is up to 195, but my Joliet one is down to 170!!! For the first 2 months it was in the 160's. I have no idea of the difference, I just seem to be getting less favorable pin action on my pocket shots in Joliet. Most of the league is down a few pins, but mine is somewhat drastic. I did have a 590 and 606 series the last 2 weeks, so perhaps there is light at the end of that tunnel. I know there are times when my feet, knees and arthritis hands play against me, but it hasn't been any more than normal, so far. Sucks getting old, but beats the alternative. There was just a HS tournament at Town & Country last weekend. We only sent our varsity team but looking at their scores, they did not bowl like they normally do. They ended up in 2nd place overall but it looks like the scores were down for a lot of the girls. Most of them normally average 190+ and I saw a lot of scores in the 160s and 170s. I don't know what it is about that house since I've never actually bowled there myself, but it sounds like it's pretty difficult shot.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Dec 8, 2016 -> 09:20 AM) I was playing this at the same time I was playing Sleeping Dogs and the "which side of the street to drive on" thing kept f***ing with me. Just as I get used to Hong Kong I pick GTA up again and I'm driving on the left side crashing into everything. I just always drive down the middle. Problem solved.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:22 AM) Best record of the combatants. They play entirely different schedules. While true, baseball is unique in that even if they made a balanced schedule and every team played every other team the same amount of times there is no guarantee they'll face the same starting pitcher each game. In all the other sports if you take out factors like injuries and trades, you know that you'll be facing more or less the same team every time you play them. Anyways, teams within the same division don't even play the same schedule, yet hardly anyone ever says a word about that. Was it fair that the Sox had to play the Cubs for 4 games but the Indians got to play the Reds instead?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 29, 2016 -> 01:13 AM) The Sox deserve all the mocking. If they don't acquire the right young players, this rebuild may be mocked as well. I can't believe the Sox don't a.) hire the best proven manager possible and b.) go the free agent route to fill holes with GOOD players. If we had an excellent manager and just a few more good players, we'd be a perennial playoff team. Now we have to have this manager 3-4 years during the rebuild. My hope is someday we hire a difference maker manager like Maddon or Francona. Holy crap, that's the key? Just get GOOD players? Why the hell haven't we been doing this all along? It's almost like that theory about scoring more runs than the other team. We should test that one out next season as well. Get GOOD players. Score more runs than other teams. Win. It's so simple!

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 22, 2016 -> 01:45 PM) Anyone have a Surface Pro? My wife has been hinting that she wants one and i've been looking at possibly getting one during Black Friday. I'm just not sold that it's worth it. I don't think she would use it for anything more than streaming shows/movies, checking email, surfing the web and looking at photos of our kids. She's not going to be drawing portraits like a sketch artist or whatever. Is there a need for this over a tablet? Is it going to last longer? Any reviews? I tested one at work a few months ago. Wasn't really anything special in my mind. The pen/stylus that came with it was interesting but not all that useful for what I do. IIRC our salespeople requested them mostly because they wanted a replacement for their laptops so they could use them on planes.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 10:18 AM) I had shoulder surgery in February, followed by 4 months of physical therapy. Got one of the bills and they charged $40 for ice. $40! It was covered, so I didn't bother fighting it, but I asked my therapist why they charge just to ice my shoulder. What she explained was, the insurance companies refuse to pay or "negotiate" down the price so much that places have to find ways to charge to make the money they should be making. So, as someone said before, health insurance shouldn't have been for profit to begin with. Don't blame the lab for trying to get their employees paid. Blame the insurance companies for colluding to only charge what they think it's worth. I've always heard that hospitals charge so much to make up for the people that come in to the ER off the street, get treated for whatever and then disappear and never pay their bill.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) I paid $99 for a used PS2. I paid like $60 for one about a year ago at a Half-Price Books. I have a couple of the slim ones but they don't work. So I got the one that can play the PS1 games as well.

So has anyone here bought (or attempted to buy) the NES classic yet? It looks like that is the big rage for Christmas this year and pretty much all the stores are sold out of it. I still have a couple of actual working NES systems from the 80's/90's and all of my old games so I'm not all that interested in it. I already have half the games that come pre-installed on it and the few I don't have never interested me that much anyway. The only thing that really intrigues me is the ability to save any game at any point. That would've been nice 25 years ago.

Happy. Because then maybe we won't have 40 different Chris Sale threads in the main forum.

Humblebrag time. My daughter made her HS bowling team. Likely only JV but good to be on the team. Now I'll basically be living at a bowling alley pretty much every day for the next few months.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 01:21 PM) Where I am, 600K would get you a place across the street from the Lake. I could buy like 10 houses in my neighborhood for 600K.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 01:11 PM) Yes it means to continue to fight for liberty thru political discourse. To not just sit idly by while the liberals destroy this nation. Protest is fine. Violence and ignorance is not. I think there was quite a bit of violence the last time a group of people used muskets to settle a dispute.

I just read this on another board. Dude is a Yankees fan:

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 01:00 PM) To most people, turns out it actually is. Based on the responses you're getting here, I'd disagree.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) SO was this. 166 years without a championship between them. This will be turned into a movie. Book it. Come on now... 2001 was the literal storybook ending. Game 7, bottom of the 9th, bases-loaded, game tied, 1 out facing the best closer in the game. This game 7 would've only been comparable had one of the Indians batters walked off Chapman in the 9th. The story-line of two teams that have been bad for a really long time just isn't as compelling.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) A team of superstars making over 3 times more money than a team full of no-namers, squeaks by even though they were huge favorites. Plus most of the games were not competitive. So memorable. I read an article the other day that said the Cubs are basically the Yankees minus competence. A team with a top 10 payroll beat a team with a bottom 10 payroll. What a shocker.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:02 PM) I'd say the 2001 D-Backs/Yankees was much better. You had a team winning it's first title in franchise history against the Yankees when they were THE team to beat in MLB. They won it on a walk-off hit in game 7 against arguably the greatest closer in history. Forgot to also add that the Yankees were the 3-time defending champions. That series was a literal storybook ending.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 11:53 AM) I could definitely be swayed on that if someone can find a better one given the context of this one, but I'll stand my ground on Game 7. I'd say the 2001 D-Backs/Yankees was much better. You had a team winning it's first title in franchise history against the Yankees when they were THE team to beat in MLB. They won it on a walk-off hit in game 7 against arguably the greatest closer in history.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) I'm not expecting anything. I'm simply suggesting to step back and look at the bigger picture, and to let go a little of your pride and your egos and see this for what it really was - a great moment for the game of baseball. Stepping back and looking at the big picture, what exactly does this mean for the game of baseball? Sure it was a big moment for the Cubs and their fans but outside of them and maybe Sox and Indains fans, does anyone from the other 27 teams really care? I think for a lot of them it was just another WS they probably didn't pay much attention to. When we look back at the record books in 10, 20, 30 years will there be anything special about this other than it broke the Cubs losing streak (which was bound to happen eventually)? To me, the big moments for baseball are when the "big" records are broken. Barry Bonds breaking the single-season and later career HR records. Somebody breaking Joe DiMaggio's hit streak. Somebody breaking Cal Ripken's streak. Somebody breaking Pete Roses' hit total. Someone breaking Ty Cobb's career batting average. Some team wins the WS every single year. But most of those records are unlikey to fall within our lifetimes. Maybe not ever.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 08:36 PM) If you're still pissy after watching that, you're no true baseball fan. The end. You're actually right. I'm not a baseball fan. I'm a White Sox fan. Unless the Sox are playing, I couldn't care less about the game. I know there are people out there that can watch and enjoy a game between two random teams that they have no emotional investment in. I just find that supremely boring.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 12:47 PM) One thing I thought about is, we've seen our crosstown rival win one World Series in our lifetimes. How do you think New York Mets fans feel? A Met fan in their 20s or 30s has seen the Yankees win five championships, including one over the Mets. Oakland A's fans have seen the Giants win three out of the past five World Series while they have to hear talk about their team possibly relocating. At least Mets fans and A's fans understood why they were second fiddle to their rivals. They were/are actually good. As Sox fans, we've been second best for years to a team that didn't do anything in over a century. There has basically no reason for the Cubs to be as popular as they have been over the past 20 years. If any other team in any other sport had the record they had they'd be the laughing stock of the league and rightfully so. Yet Cubs fans can't understand why we have been so bitter over the years. Being continually forgotten because of a team that gets more recognition for losing than winning is not fun.