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I'm very disappointed Witesoxfan.

I think the water under the boat's even funnier.

How would u know Mr. Yellow Submarine?

Here's da link, we had the 12th best in 99, 6th best in 00, 1st in 01, 9th in 02, and 15th last year. Now we're 20th. Downhill slide goin. Baseball America Rankings

WITH her walking cane and her oxygen cart, 75-year-old Betty Gooch easily won the confidence of car dealers when she went shopping for new cars, minivans, and sport utility vehicles (SUV). The grandmother would hand over a check, and then ask the dealer to hold off cashing it, until she could get her broker to move funds into that account, or retrieve the money from a retirement account, according to authorities. But in at least two recent cases those checks bounced, according to police who believe Gooch may have scammed a dozen car dealers in the suburban Chicago area in a similiar fashion over the past four years, the Chicago Tribune has reported. The grandmother has been charged with five felony counts of theft by deception and passing bad cheques in those two cases, the Tribune said. She is due in court March 31 in McHenry County, Illinois, on charges she bounced a check to pay for a $US22,000 Mazda SUV, and is set to appear in Cook County April 8 in connection with a $US56,000 shopping spree in November last year when she bought a Toyota Sienna minivan and a Toyota Matrix car. Police apparently decided not to press charges in another alleged incident, because the Chrysler Group dealership managed to repossess its minivan, albeit with 3000 miles on the clock. Tonny Kotlartz, an investigator for McHenry County state's attorney's office, told the Tribune he suspected that other dealerships had decided against legal action. "A lot of these businesses are embarrassed. They get their vehicle back and take the loss and choose not to file a criminal complaint or sue her civilly."

A SINGLE mutation in one jaw muscle gene is the first key genetic difference to be found between between humans and apes. What's more, the mutation - estimated to have occurred 2.4 million years ago - may have been the critical change that sent ancestral humans down a different evolutionary path than their primitive primate cousins, claim researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. "This is the first genetic distinction between humans and chimpanzees that can be linked to the fossil record," the team's leader, Hansell Stedman, said yesterday. In Sydney, geneticist and developmental biologist Pete Currie agreed that the nature and timing of the mutation "linked exquisitely" with the timing of evolutionary changes identified by paleontologists. "This is the first window for looking into and seeing what it is about our genes that makes us human," said Professor Currie, of The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and University of NSW. Generally, fossil experts conclude that hominids and chimps diverged about 2.4 million years ago. Hominids like Australopithecus afarensis and, later, Homo erectus appeared, leading to modern humans. Writing today in the journal Nature, Professor Stedman and his colleagues claim that a tiny change to the so-called myosin heavy chain (MYH16) gene was enough to weaken our ancestral jaw muscles. As a consequence, the hominid skull had room to shift shape, enabling it to accommodate an ever-enlarging brain. In contrast, chimpanzees were stuck with big, powerful jaws and, by necessity, much smaller brains. According to Professor Currie, a "simple change" to muscle anatomy could indeed affect the skull. "Altering the size of different muscles can produce dramatic alterations in the bones to which they attach," he said.

Or his finger.

Cruz will thrive on a team that actually gives him a chance in the rotation.

Good luck to ya PA. We all hope it works out for da best.

Isn't there an infielder still with us who's been with the AAA Yankees the last year?

Adkins should get it based on his play, but he won't. It'll be Jackson.

I thought u were talkin bout a Congo line at 1st.

So.... What's it like drivin on the right hand side of da road?

Sort Of, They like stomping on Ppl's heads in Rucks. Of course the only otha person who would know what a ruck is is Soxy, cos I think we're the only ppl who hav a vague understandin of da game

AUTHORITIES in India locked 168 high school students and 24 parents in a detention centre after accusing them of cheating in exams, officials said today. More than 500,000 students took the 10th-grade final exams yesterday in eastern Bihar state under the watchful gaze of 5000 police and 1000 civil officials at 850 testing centres. Each detainee will have to pay a fine of 2000 rupees ($60) and none of the students will have a chance to retake the exam, said Hasan Waris, secretary of the Bihar School Examination Board. He gave no details of how the students cheated. School authorities said they found a number of students were also keeping photographs of movie and cricket stars for good luck in their pockets in violation of school rules. Boys' favourite pictures were of Bollywood starlets such as Madhuri Dixit and Kareena Kapoor or cricketers Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, while girls had pictures of film heartthrob Shah Rukh Khan. Last month in Bihar, police fired on high school students who torched vehicles to protest administrative action against cheating, leaving two people dead, officials said.

A CHERRY picker has been used to remove an obese man trapped in his third-floor inner Sydney apartment and take him to hospital. Ambulance officers were called to the Waterloo apartment this evening to assist the critically ill man, an ambulance spokeswoman said. In a joint effort, officers from three emergency services worked for several hours to free the man, who reportedly weighed more than 300kg. Radio reports said a cherry picker was used to lift the man out of the apartment and into a truck-style ambulance. "Multi ambulance resources were dispatched to a unit block in Waterloo this evening to a seriously ill man," an ambulance spokeswoman said. "It was a long and difficult extrication which included the resources of ambulance, police and fire brigade to get him out." The man, believed to be 30 years old, was taken to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in a critical condition. It was not immediately known what he was suffering from.

Jackson's proved he can pitch at this level, Adkins hasn't. Remember it's only Spring Training, Adkins mite still get in da pen and stink it up big time, although it's definitely promising to see put sum good performances on da board. Looks like we are gettin sumthin out of that Durham trade, which most experts predicted was a horrible one from our point of view.

At least Krapov will hav sumthin in common with Alexei Yashin. They'll be best buddies bf ya know it.

I'm more a Mountain Dew man. Although u can't pass it up for a good crab juice. "Eeeewwwwww......... I'll take a crab juice."

Gees ur makin me thirsty, I gotta get sumthin to drink.

Doesn't the guy on da left from Seton Hall look like he's havin fun.

An 89 Honda Prelude. Automatic, White, done 108,000 kms. Put me back $7000.

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The chances of it happening are remote, but White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen did not dismiss the possibility that relief pitcher Shingo Takatsu would begin the season at Triple-A Charlotte. "I have to give Shingo the biggest opportunity he can have," Guillen said. "Right now, Shingo is going to be in the bullpen. But I don't know from right now until April 4 what we will see." Takatsu has been roughed up in his six spring appearances. He has an ERA of 10.13 and has given up 12 hits in 5 1/3 innings. Despite the numbers, Guillen has a feeling that once the regular season begins, the veteran of Japanese baseball will be fine. "I have a gut feeling this kid is going to be OK," Guillen said. … The Sox snapped a two-game losing streak by pounding Arizona 13-5 with 17 hits. Six players had at least two hits with second baseman Willie Harris getting a double and a triple. "I'm not feeling for the ball anymore," Harris said. "The first couple of weeks I was just trying to work pitchers, work pitchers. Now I'm trying to hit line drives and get me some hits." … Scott Schoeneweis went five innings, giving up four runs on eight hits. "I did a lot of good things," Schoeneweis said. "My pitch count is up. The innings aren't there, but the pitch count is there." In four starts and 16 innings of work, Schoeneweis has an ERA of 7.88. … Add relief pitcher Jon Adkins to Guillen's list of favorite players. "I love that kid," Guillen said. "I think he threw the ball real well, I don't want to say better than anyone in spring training, but every time he comes out he throws a nice fastball and throws strikes and commands the ball real well." Adkins threw a shutout inning Tuesday to run his spring streak to seven innings. … Outfielder Joe Borchard, who has been nursing a sore left quadriceps, is still among the 34 players on the roster and has begun taking batting practice again.

Taylor ran like a 4.63 in the 40 yard dash, so his stock is slippin. I don't think he'll go past Detroit at 6, but if he does, Atlanta or Cleveland will snap him up. A lot will depend on his 2nd workout. If Fitzgerald is available at 3, Green will take him, no matta what. I think Oakland will pick Gallery, because he'll provide an instant impact, which is what Al Davis wants. If Stephan Jackson fits into Detroit's style of a runnin back, they could take him at #6 too. Washington will take Winslow if all likelihood now since they missed out on Kleinsasser.

Xenia Onatopp? "She always did enjoy a good squeeze."