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And with that, you have taken hypocrisy to a new level on this board, a truly impressive feat.

I took the Green Line to games for 5 years. There were several weeknights when I was the only white person on the train west of Ashland. Never felt threatened though.

Yes.

It's ok to admit you're a sore loser, right? No one will think less of you. Were you on here saying ND got robbed in the Bush Push game in 2005 or are you just a hypocrite?

The excuse is that they are trained referees and you aren't.

Not being able to get half a yard in three plays is a joke, and pointing things out about the refs is for losers.

On field referees are from the visiting team's conference, replay official is from home team's conference.

Yeah, those look like the stats of an 85-win team.

Refs in the ND-Stanford game were PAC-12 officials. Whining about the refs is for losers.

Here's one more thing: Get CSN on cable satellite systems in the "fringe" areas of the Sox' territory. I'm thinking of Indianapolis in particular but I'm sure there are other areas that are within the blackout territory but don't get CSN. The impact is more long-term than immediate, but you can start to build fan bases in those areas. People there are too far to go to a lot of games per year, but maybe the Sox start building a following and they decide to make their 1-2 games per year a Sox game rather than a Cardinals, Reds, or Brewers game. A lot of kids from these areas end up working in the Chicago area after college, and if you've made fans out of them at a young age, you'll get them to more games as adults. I'm trying to find a job in either Indianapolis or South Bend, and one of the reasons I'm favoring South Bend is the availability of CSN.

I originally posted this in the "Nobody cares . . ." thread (1) Special online promotions: On <DATE>, anybody who buys at least 4 tickets to a Sox game for the next homestand will receive a $5 discount on a prepaid parking pass. On <DATE>, anybody who buys at least 4 tickets to a Sox game for the next homestand will receive two Buy-One-Get-One Free coupons good for any food item at a concession stand. (2) Mobile Ticket Van: On <DATE> the new Sox Mobile Ticket Van (and two lovely Chevy Pride Crew Girls) will be at <LOCATION> and anybody who buys at least 4 tickets to a Sox game for the next homestand will receive 10% off the face value ticket price (plus no Ticketmaster charges!) (3) Radio Affiliate Head-to-Head Battles: On <DATE 1>, Sox radio affiliates in <CITY 1> and <CITY 2> will be selling tickets to the Sox home game on <DATE 2> at special discounted group rates. As an added bonus, ticket buyers from the city that sells the most tickets will receive a free hot dog at the game. Another thing that will help is to be able to have more night games on Saturday. If JR has any pull at all in negotiating the next FOX contract, he needs to push for fewer night games for FOX, because night games on FOX force the Sox to play day games. I haven't looked, but I'd guess that attendance for Saturday day games lags well behind Saturday night games.

Excellent post, and right on the nose. SLG and OBP are both more important in a #3 hitter than contact. Sox fans got spoiled having Frank Thomas in the #3 slot for so many years, having that once-in-a-lifetime guy who was a high contact/high average guy to go along with the great power.

To rank the 6 remaining teams in order of rooting interest: 1 Washington 2 Baltimore 3 San Francisco 4 Saint Louis 5 Yankees 6 Detroit

There are probably a few who will only attend playoff games, but I think the larger factor is the scarcity of playoff tickets. The last month of the season has an average of about 15 home games, with about 600,000 tickets available for those games. A round of playoff has two guaranteed home games, with only about 80,000 tickets available. You have the a slightly larger number of fans vying for a much smaller number of tickets.

Yes, because being against killing innocent human beings is purely a religious thing. Atheists and agnostics are all about killing any random people they want.

Isn't that true about pretty much every debate?

So the EU won the Nobel Peace Prize, worth about $1.2 million. Only 10,000 more of those and they'll be able to bail out Greece.

Beano Cook, 81, longtime college football analyst for ESPN.

Has there ever been a day when all four Division Series ended on the same day? It could happen today.

Cutler was very good in the first game and very bad in the second game, but since then the defense has just destroyed everybody so the 4th quarter has been garbage time.

If you don't think Jake Peavy is worth more than 2 years at $11M per year, then you should be prepared to have a team with a really s***ty pitching staff.

Coco Crisp is taking quite a risk having a name that sounds like food and playing in the same park as Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera.

Is it within the realm of possibility that letting AJ leave would increase the chances that Jake stays?

Alex Karras, 77, Detroit Lion and actor. There will never be another Mongo:

Anything above 30 years is life for Sandusky, but I do worry that this sentence has set a precedent for future cases, when the perpetrator may be younger and the length of sentence would make a difference.