pettie4sox

Chicago at the local level is so brutal. Rahm is a turd.

Sometimes his blow ups at the umps have merit. "NO.... NO.... NO....!" "AND ANOTHER BLOWN CALL BY ANGEL HERNANDEZ!" "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING WAGNER!"

So in Illinois, does any Republican have a chance in November?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 18, 2014 -> 09:36 AM) And this is what's wrong about the political system in the US. You are not wrong, but it's sad that Republicans want the leader of the country to fail so they can have some sort of quasi-celebration saying "We told you so, we're right, you're wrong!" so that a Republican official can be elected President only to have the Democrats go through the same charade. Politics are a giant circle jerk. The older I get the more I realize it's a giant ruse by both sides. They just try to sabotage each other without any regard for the people who elected them.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 14, 2014 -> 06:53 PM) Just had someone yell the N-word out the window of their car at me while I was biking home tonight. Stay classy Knoxville. Juvenile delinquents. Are you even black?

I'm curious but what the hell do Republicans expect Obama to do with Ukraine? Bomb someone? Escalate violence? I see all these Republicans felating Putin as a real leader but Obama as a limp wristed turd. I really don't get what the Republicans want Obama to do here.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Mar 17, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) I have no rebuttal and therefore admit I just got owned. Glad we can see eye to eye for once.

TUC this all can be solved if you fork over $15 million dollars to the White Sox. Until you're willing to do bankroll the DFA Dunn fan club, no one will take you seriously. Your posts are beyond brutal at this point.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Mar 14, 2014 -> 04:21 PM) I dont want Dunn or Garcia hitting behind Abreu. Who would you suggest then?

TUC is definitely on some jacked up chronic.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 04:15 PM) Spring. Training. +1 Sale isn't very good either. HE GAVE UP f***ING 6 RUNS TO THE PADRES IN SPRING TRAINING.

Doesn't Steve Smith have an ego? Would he really want to be surrounded by elite receivers as Marshall and Jefferies and play third whistle essentially?

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 12:03 AM) I'm thinking about going back to school and making a career change. Has anybody else gone through that? I'm very good at what I do, but I don't necessarily love it. It scares me to become a poor college student again after making good money, but at the same time, I think I'll always wonder "what if" if I don't do it. Am I crazy? Most of my friends I've talked to about it have told me it's a dumb idea. A few have been supportive. I'm about to turn 26 and I'm feeling the pressure. I pretty much need to make some life-altering decisions in the next 6-9 months. If I don't do it by then, I think I'm stuck where I'm at. Which isn't bad. But I feel I could do more. I'm thinking about going to med school, btw. I'm short about 3 semesters of credit, so I'd have to do that first before applying. The fact of the matter is that I've wanted to be a Doctor for as long as I can remember, and I've always regretted giving up on that. As a 20 year old kid, I felt way overburdened and didn't want to put in the time/effort. I wanted to be social and have fun. With all the extracurriculars I was part of, plus having a job, I felt I couldn't continue the pre-med path. For a while I was happy, but my last semester of college I started regretting it. And it's been that way since. Now the feeling has grown pretty strong the last 2-3 months and I think I want to go for it. But damn, it's a big life change. 26 is still young. Hell I'm going back to school to get my Ph.D next year and I'm 29. Just make sure you're doing what you want to do. You only live once.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Mar 13, 2014 -> 08:55 AM) So Rick Hahn is going to go to the media and say "We have no shot this year, just like we had no shot in 2008 and 2010 and 2012." You're absolutely crazy if you think they aren't going to try and compete. The Sox have been an increasingly inconsistent team over the last 8 years. The Tigers look like the favorites, but they lost some pretty substantial pieces in the offseason, have gotten a year older, and have a rookie starting at 3B for them. They are eminently beatable. I would only put the chances of the Sox winning the division at about 5%, but there's a lot of talent in both the bullpen and the rotation and the offense has upside that it didn't have last year. I'm always curious how people come up with their percentages.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 04:14 PM) It works in Chicago... Chicagoans are brainwashed, not intimidated.

This story gets wackier by the minute. Is it possible the plane was just hijacked or are people assuming the worse at this point?

So Ukraine...

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 03:38 PM) I see your point, but it's still a shade of grey. She was just recently on the Daily Show about her Iraq War documentary (because what hasn't been said about that the last ten years?) and she was getting pretty animated about it. She's got an agenda for that. I remember she had a long interview with Jon Stewart on her own show and they debated cable news generally and she was convinced that MSNBC was the "truth" but Fox News was the devil and Stewart kept telling her, no, they're the same. MSNBC copied Fox News. And she wasn't buying it. She found a niche with the hardcore left. Just like O'Reilly or Hannity have found theirs. Heh wow. I am sure she has some clause saying she can't say anything negative or something about her employer. Atleast Stewart had the right idea. Do you have a link?

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 03:39 PM) More like I won't subject you and your family and future family to prison camps if you vote for me. Yeah either way, there was some intimidation. I don't understand the faux elections in this dictatorship countries. Do they really believe people in outside countries are gullible to believe these people have a choice?

It's Spring Training. I rather those guys suck now and turn up the mojo in the regular season.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 01:26 PM) Kim Jung Un re-elected with 100% of the vote, and a 100% voter turnout. http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-in.../249302441.html I will actually feed you if you vote for me.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 03:05 PM) Right, it's not like journalism schools lean liberal or anything. Yeah I won't deny that. I don't really know if Jake has political allegiances or not but he seems to be a solid poster from what I've seen.

Blood is not thicker than water it seems.

Jake is studying some form of journalism in school on a graduate level if I'm not mistaken. I wouldn't be so dismissive of him like that but to each his own.