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QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 12:51 AM) Anyone currently or previously live in Rockford? I'm moving out there for a new job next week. Wondering if someone in their early 20's is going to go crazy out there. I've gone fishing in and around Rockford hundreds of times, but I'd also like to have a good time out on occasion. Stir crazy maybe. Not a whole lot to do in Rockford. Unless you like bowling.

QUOTE (Cali @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) I dont understand this. The numbers I have in front of me may not be correct but don't 1000% of all email addresses use one of those domain names? Not everyone goes to school or works at a place that offers an email address. So they want like no new members ever? The point is that anyone can have any number of the free email addresses. It's a little more difficult to make a fake address with a work or school email. But yes, they are very, very paranoid over there.

Just have him mention something about attendance, politics or quote a sentence from a Tribune article.

The catch-alls are usually the first thread I read in each sub-forum. In fact, I probably keep up with them more than the individual threads.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 01:32 PM) Yeah, I don't get it. Do they only allow school or work e-mail addresses?? Not everybody has one of those or uses it. I have one from my ISP. I just very rarely use it. I know some people don't have an ISP.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 05:06 PM) Very true. I am scared to death to start a new thread ever. And believe me, I'd be starting a ton of threads if this board was new-thread-friendly. I don't think it's the thread-starting. I think it's the fact that you have opinions that 99% of the people here don't understand or agree with.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 09:46 PM) In a Tribune article today, a Cubs employee mentioned that 40% of the fans at Wrigley are from out of state on any given day. That's what happens when you are on a nationally televised TV station and also have a major newspaper as your marketing department for 20+ years. You can advertise the "experience" of coming and seeing a "beautiful" and "historic" ballpark without ever mentioning how good/bad the team is that plays there. Then suddenly it becomes a tourist destination for people that care nothing about the sport. The other 29 MLB teams actually have to win to get people to show up. Sometimes that's not even enough.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 01:45 PM) I might be crazy but wasn't there a different Soxtalk board before the one we know now started up those 10 years ago. I seem to remember having to resign up once this board became official. Also, I must own the ratio for longest time here, least amount of regular posting haha. (that's not including people who disappear for years haha) You're at 1.79 posts per day. I'm at .6. I win.

I never realized that I joined this site 3 weeks after it started.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-mlb.html"" target="_blank">I'd never heard of this guy until now. Guy was on the Cubs in 2005 and got beaned in his first MLB plate appearance on the very first pitch. Concussion happens and he never makes it back to the bigs. Now there's an online petition for him to have just one more MLB plate appearance. I guess the idea is that since 1) the Cubs are horrible this year, and 2) they have exactly 1 open spot on their 40-man roster, he should get that shot against the even more horrible Houston Astros in the final game of the season.

It's hard to draw the line between being mad at your kid for getting it trouble because they hit another student at school and being proud of them for standing up for themselves. I know from my own childhood experiences that telling an adult usually doesn't help the problem and can sometimes make it worse. There are definitely kids out there that don't know what the words "leave me alone" mean and knocking them to the ground is sometimes the only way to get the message through.

I got You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone. My oldest daughter got Macarena. Middle one got Candle in the Wind 1997 and youngest got Fallin by Alicia Keys.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 27, 2012 -> 05:45 PM) Sox went 8-1 vs. Seattle while Detroit went 1-5. They are also 5-7 against the Indians this year.

I can't watch a game with my friends without a few of these quotes coming up: This guy here is dead! Cross him off then. Lemme think it over, will ya, Charlie? I got a guy on the other line about some white walls. I'll talk to ya later. Forget about he curveball Ricky, give em the heater. Strike this mother f***er out! I say f*** you Jobu, I do it myself! But if you ever, ever tank another play like you did today, I'm gonna cut your nuts off and stuff em down your f***in' throat! And for the Indians, that's one run on, let's see...one hit? That's all we got?, one goddamn hit? [Monty: You can't say "goddamn" on the air!] Don't worry; nobody's listening anyway. Juuust a bit outside.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Aug 24, 2012 -> 09:52 AM) Damn. That makes me feel pretty lucky. The mini fridge I used was the same one my sister used in college - and she's 8 years older than me! And it still works. It's now 14 years old. We have a mini-fridge that we bought when we got our first pop-up camper back in 2002. We didn't use it everyday but it still works. Now it sits in a shed behind our 32-foot camper and keeps our pop and bottles of water cold.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Aug 23, 2012 -> 06:30 PM) Ball hit the dirt, ump called it incorrectly. He called it a strike?

He must be an Angels fan. It hit the dirt.

Kinda seems like he's throwing the whole team under the bus here. Sounds like he's saying the guy has no protection because the rest of the team sucks.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:47 PM) No, Jerry should be embarrassed for not giving the hometown media the good stuff. He probably would never have said that to Chicago writers. You can't blame them for not wanting to play up something he said to the New York media. Who cares who he said it to. The NYT isn't a small paper. You can't tell me the Chicago media didn't know he said. They just ignored it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 02:44 PM) So what you are saying is there's a chance. So what you are saying is there's a chance. I've said over and over IF ROBIN WANTS TO, he'll be our manager the next couple decades. I concede he may not want to. Yes, there is a small chance, but it's not entirely up to Robin either. It's mostly up to the ownership. Whoever that may be in the next couple decades. I'm sure back in 2005 a lot of people didn't envision Ozzie leaving the way he did either. Things change.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 12:04 PM) Has anyone ever taken a paycut for a better shift? I pretty much have until 12:30 to answer. The paycut is about $55 on paycheck every two weeks, it's not a lot but it's not like a make bank... Scenario: My current shift involves working 12 hour NIGHT shifts, 3 times a week but sometimes 6 times out of 7 nights. I would be moving on to four 10 hour days starting Sunday, ending Wednesday. At night I work mostly by myself, no one to talk to, the shifts are easy (but extremely boring at the same time) because not much happens at night but I have to be there just in case, I kind of set up the work for the following day. The new shift, I would be working with others, have a lot more work (I feel the days would go by faster and I would be doing more important things). Bottom line a position opened up and its the only way I can escape working nights however it comes with a bit of a pay cut. I can only speak from second-hand experience but I would think the change from working nights to working days would make up for it. My wife has worked nights for years and absolutely hates it.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 15, 2012 -> 12:09 PM) Is it just me, or do those two statements seem to be contradictory? Oops. Leyland has been around for 21 years. Fixed it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 10:40 PM) Tell me why Robin won't be manager the next 25 years. There have been 674 managers in MLB history. At the end of this year Dusty Baker will become the 23rd manager to have managed 20 or more years. Only 10 have managed 25 or more. Only 5 have manged the same team for 20 or more. Only 3 have managed the same team for 25 or more. Of the currently active managers the one with the most years as a manager is Jim Leyland with 21. Of the currently active managers the one with the most years with the same team is Mike Scioscia with 12. Simply put, history is not on your side.

One thing you can count on with Greg. He never lets facts get in the way of his strong opinion. However odd it may be.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 08:40 AM) White Sox have never won on my birthday either. For a long time I just hoped for them to play on my birthday. Just because it would've meant they had gone deep into the post-season.