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QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 10, 2013 -> 06:58 PM) Pressure...and time. It's not often you see a quote from The Shawshank Redemption in a White Sox trade talk thread...

The events in the book only lasted a few weeks. With the show they are trying to stretch it out to months or possibly years and as a result it's going really really slow. I think that is what's hurting the show the most.

I've gotten all my dogs micro-chipped through the humane society. IIRC, it was about $30 and I never even thought about them after that. I've never heard of having to renew them.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 3, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) Seven groomsman and two ushers? Lot of relatives or did you have a lot of frat friends to go with a couple childhood friends? I'm not sure how we ended up with that many. Honestly I probably could've gotten away with just 3, but I think my wife added more and I had to come up with guys to pair them with. They were all either family or people we'd been friends with for a long time. On my side I had my best man/friend, brother-in-law, uncle, foster brother, good friend, cousin, and a little boy that my wife had known since he was born. His mom and sister were bridesmaids. He was about 6 or 7 at the time and we paired him with our daughter who had just turned 3.

The tuxes were rent 5 get the sixth one free. Between myself, the groomsmen(7), the dads(2), and the ushers(2) I actually had enough to get 2 free tuxes.

QUOTE (bbilek1 @ Jun 30, 2013 -> 10:49 AM) With WSI as the other option, this place will always be fine by me. At least the mods here are knowledgeable and post about baseball instead of parading around policing like they're the gestapo. J4L would get the boot for life if this were WSI. Something to consider... I know of 3 or 4 other Sox boards. None of them really have a lot of baseball talk happening right now either. ST and WSI are just the 2 biggest.

So I finally watched Silver Linings Playbook and I didn't really like it. It wasn't really what I expected based on what I saw in the trailers. I won't say it was a bad movie, but it just wasn't my type of movie if that makes sense.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 28, 2013 -> 03:57 PM) He was wandering around as if lost or looking for something. Not suspicious at ALL for someone who lived there. I don't think he did live there. He was staying with someone.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 28, 2013 -> 10:18 AM) Holy s***! We went and met with our first photographer yesterday. I chose this guy. His work is amazing. He wants like $5-6k, and that doesn't even include the digital rights for the photos, which are an additional $1200 or $50 per shot. The photos are the ONE thing I really, really would splurge for, but yeezus, $5-6k? That seems high to me. I think we paid under $1000 but that was 14 years ago and digital cameras hadn't really gotten popular yet. We ended up with a few hundred photos that we had to narrow down and they put them all into a really nice album for us.

I had a ton of things go wrong at my wedding. The ceremony went well but after that things started to fall apart. My wife's grandma left before we could get any pictures with her so she isn't in our wedding photo album. At the reception, my best man fell and twisted his knee when he went outside and stepped wrong off the curb. He spent a few hours at the hospital and made it back for the last hour or so but I had to have another one of my groomsmen step in for the toast. My brother-in-law was supposed to be running a camcorder but he ended up getting sick and spent most of the night lying in the backseat of his car. One of the bridesmaids spent half the night out in the parking lot arguing with her boyfriend. It was far from perfect but we didn't stress about any of it and had a good time. It's all stuff we look back on and laugh about now.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jun 16, 2013 -> 05:10 PM) Someone can kiss my ass if Jennie Finch couldn't have been a HS baseball player This is completely anecdotal and I know I can't really compare my athletic ability to Jennie Finch's but take it FWIW. I grew up playing fast-pitch softball. From age 5 to 16 I played every summer. I wasn't the best player but I was one of the better ones in the league and I was a pitcher as well. One year a coach decided to put a team together to go to national tournament in South Dakota and I was one of the guys he chose. When I got to HS I tried out for the baseball team. Didn't make it freshman or sophomore year. Finally made JV during my junior year. I'm pretty sure I only got one hit all year long and was used mostly as a pinch-runner. I didn't even bother senior year. It was really tough to transition from hitting a softball thrown from 40 feet that tends to move at an upward angle from the pitchers hand to hitting a hardball from 60 feet that tends to move at a downward angle from the pitchers hand. Unless you're saying that Finch could have made a HS team had she been trained in baseball rather than softball from a young age, I have some serious doubts that she could do it.

I don't even think I knew that wedding planners existed when I got married. We did everything as inexpensively as we could (only spent a couple thousand total) and still had a really nice wedding with a wedding party of 14 people. Our biggest expense was the pictures and it was definitely money well spent. Those are what will stay long after the ceremony is over and the dancing, food and drinking is done. Plus our photographer pretty much planned out our entire day for us. We did separate pictures at the church before the wedding and then with everyone together after the ceremony. Then during the reception they planned out when everything would be done so they could get pictures. First dance, father/daughter dance, mother/son dance, cutting of the cake, throwing of the bouquet, etc... It all went really smoothly and after all the "formalities" at the reception were done, we were free to do whatever we wanted the rest of the night. My friend tried to save money by hiring one guy to do the pictures and be the DJ at the reception and they really regretted it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 26, 2013 -> 12:21 PM) I hate cars. I started to change my oil on Monday night and ended up breaking the oil drain plug. Half of the bolt was stuck in the pan. Had to take the day off work yesterday to take it to the dealer. $100 bucks later, it's fixed and my oil got changed. I guess I should be thankful the dealer didn't screw me by saying I needed a whole new oil pan, but it still sucks. There went all the savings for changing the oil myself the last few times. I'm with you on that first sentence. My car needs an oil change, brakes and tires. I could do the first two things myself but I just don't have the time between working, camping and my kids baseball games. On the other hand I really don't want to take it somewhere and spend 3 times the amount. I have another car that I'm planning on giving to my daughter whenever she gets her license that just won't stay running. I have no idea what's wrong with it and I would have to call a tow truck to even get it someplace to have it looked at. I'm debating on whether it's worth dumping more money into it or just selling it for whatever I can get and worry about getting her another car after she actually gets her license and maybe a job to help pay for it. This all on top of getting my renewal for my insurance and seeing my premium has increased. The insurance company says it's because repair/medical costs have increased.

Countdown to hostess cakes returning. Should be July 15.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jun 23, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Sepinwall liked the pilot for "Under the Dome". I'll DVR and give it a shot. It premiers tonight and I'm really looking forward to it. I loved the book minus the last 10 pages or so. It's like King wrote himself into a corner with that ending. Apparently they made quite a few changes for the show so it's not a direct adaption. Should be interesting to see how they can keep it going assuming that the first season is successful.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 21, 2013 -> 12:54 PM) You never had to be connected 100% of the time. Well technically you just had to connect to "check in" every 24 hours. But if you left for vacation for any extended period of time then you had to just leave it connected the whole time and hope you power never went out.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 10:48 AM) See, I agree. Why not have the physical media version of a game, regular price. Also, a digital download version of the game, a bit cheaper, but requires the connectivity of the console, etc. Why can't that system be implemented? Clearly, they have the capabilities. I'd love to not have to keep up with physical media anymore. This. Instead of going all the way with one or the other, do both. They already do this with a lot of blu-ray moves. Disney especially.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 11:03 AM) Seriously? Having 2 drives is becoming the norm. You run applications from the SSD and use the SATA for storage. Any disc based storage system is quickly becoming dated. The point still remains that you don't have to remove the optical drive in order to fit a 2nd drive. QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 11:03 AM) Of those people that don't have the Internet...how many can't tether to connect once a day? Of those people, how many can even afford a $500 console. It's a demographic that doesn't exist. Mercedes doesn't make a s***ty version of their cars for people that can't afford them either. If they don't have internet access... tether to what?

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 10:54 AM) Its funny, because I'm sure there was a time, not too long ago, when people were saying, "Why would I ever buy a PC without a 3.5" drive in it?" or "I'll just keep this cassette deck in my car, it is way cheaper to buy music that way." Do the old methods still work? Sure, absolutely. Are they the most efficient way? Nope, not anymore. And neither is depending on physical media to be actually present, to play a game. But, that can be chalked up to opinions, and why we're discussing it on a message board, and not in a Sony/Microsoft boardroom. That comparison doesn't work because they were still physical copies being replaced by better physical copies. Plus, the option to still buy actual DVDs or CDs exists. MS was trying to take that option away completely.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 10:50 AM) In August of last year it was 119 million Americans without broadband internet. That's a lot of potential customers. Sony and MS would be really dumb to close off those people from potentially buying a system and the games that go with it. I didn't even think about that. How many people are still forced to use dial-up?

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 10:42 AM) How many of those consoles are still in use? There's no way of knowing. That's taking into account every machine that's collecting dust, or broken. The last I read about 20% of people don't have home internet access. I just don't know how much that includes people that own gaming systems. That also doesn't include the people that bring their systems with them to places that don't have access. That could include college dorms, campgrounds, etc... I guess my only point is that the number of people that don't have/want internet access are way higher than what they thought.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 10:01 AM) I definitely call BS on that. There's absolutely no way that that's true. Even if it were, how many of those people don't have the capability to connect to the internet? 5%, at the very most. 75 million Xbox 360s 46 million XBL users

About 40% of the Xboxes in the world are not connected to an XBL account. That's a pretty big chunk of their customer base to alienate.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 20, 2013 -> 08:53 AM) The ps3 update did not brick anything to be fair. It was mostly people with an after-market HDD that had problems. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/201...artner=yahootix

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 19, 2013 -> 12:08 AM) #5 felt like I've seen this called wrong, or maybe the runners tagged up anyway and were always safe, so it never mattered. QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 19, 2013 -> 09:28 AM) I knew #5, but I swear I've seen situations where it should have been called but wasn't. I immediately though of Uribe's catch in the 05 WS. There was a runner on second and he wasn't allowed to advance.