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QUOTE (scenario @ Sep 9, 2008 -> 08:53 PM) Start? LOL. There have been people on here panicking for months. Every game we lose there are people bungee-jumping off of ledges. I'm sure the usual suspects will be lining up. These are almost all talking points of the baseball retarded. Yeah, people have been panicking for months.....except, they haven't. Go back on the loser threads within this forum and copy/paste as many bungee jumpers as you can. It isn't nearly as rampant as even 2005. There's quite a bit of difference between a series sweep from the Cubs (which many were upset with), and the loss of two offensive players -- in September -- coming off a night where 1 1/2 games are lost and our lead is down to one game.

I'm definitely panicking. I would have been wetting myself even without the loss of Konerko (earlier Quentin) AND losing 1 1/2 games in one night. I guarantee Konerko is gone for the season. He's slow perfectly healthy. How is he supposed to assist our offense with an injury which may limit his mobility....even more? I just believe it's this simple -- if we reach the offseason, it'll be because of the pitching. And with that, you can't have Richard wetting himself every five days.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Sep 9, 2008 -> 08:33 PM) I knew there was a reason I stopped following our minor leagues. When you look at our most recent 1st round draft choices (Fields,Broadway,McCulloch, Poreda), Beckham even becomes a .250 career hitter he'll easily rise above the others. I've really soured on Poreda, too. There comes a time when you can no longer anticipate him developing secondary pitches. There's just something wrong when you throw a 96+mph fastball and average below a strikeout per inning in A/AA. If we can sell him high on potential I wouldn't be too upset.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 9, 2008 -> 09:29 PM) i swear i ve heard the hawk say"meanwhile we get a couple of guys on with no outs and can t do anything with it" a dozen times over the last week,the return of corpseball... What's with these random pictures you're posting?

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 9, 2008 -> 09:26 PM) It's sad to see Griffey have absolutely no power. It was like when Jordan couldn't even dunk at the end of his career. Griffey has the body of a 50year old man. Fat gut and an even fatter ass. HAHA at Broadway. He's f***ing terrible.

They're choking. You don't lose two games at home in a double header like we have. I don't care if it's the "red hot" Blue Jays.

UH OH http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/090...k_on_a_pig.html Obviously, I don't actually believe he meant it in the way it'll be portrayed. "Pig" more than likely refers to current Bush policies. It's just not an intelligent choice of words. I read, albeit through the comments on a conservative blog (so I don't know if it's true), that Biden claims Palin as VP would be a "step back for women." Not good.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 03:15 PM) The fish thing was hilarious. It was a pretty great episode. Especially the part inside the car where Ari was like, "Is that all you guys do?...Wait?" and Turtle turns on the tv inside the car. I believe it was one of the best episodes in atleast two seasons. Great way to start off. Like the Republican National Convention, this episode reenergized the fanbase and took the nation by storm.

I'm interested in playing electric guitar, and my buddy's brother who has countless guitars sitting around offered to basically give it to me (along with an amplifier) indefinitely. What I want to know is, how expensive would a delay accessory such as the one provided within the link be?

QUOTE (Sonik22 @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 07:45 PM) When i say we were best friends i literally mean we are inseparable. Whenever she was with her other friends or i was with my friends we'd always be talking. Whenever either of us had an open night or we both ended being up open we would hang out. Since moving here, ive talked to her every day on the phone when i get back from class, and we still talk just as much. I've met her parents and they think i'm great. I tell her i love her every day, and she says it back. But now the pressure of me telling her i want to wait is becoming too much for her because it's all she thinks about, because she feels that she needs to date other guys to realize I'm right. But that would hurt me so much to see her with another guy, so idk how I can live with that. It's not like she's a slutty girl at all, I'm the first guy she has ever done stuff with. She just feels that right now, shes not ready to be with me, because she doesnt want to screw up a possibly even better relationship with me later in our lives. But, this all just drives me nuts and confuses me. This is the type of additional material I had in mind with my post. If I were to give advice from your original post without the above perspective I'd say she wasn't interested in you, but now, it's obvious she cares. Is this a reference to marriage? Sorry if it isn't, but it comes off that way to me. If it is, perhaps she feels the need to experience the college life a bit before settling down. I'm 23 years old and a girl I dated for a short while who was 21 dumped me the day after New Years. Without warning. With no legitimate explanation aside from her feeling she couldn't be in a relationship. Now, I REALLY liked this girl, felt we were great together, and never saw it coming. There's a lot more to it than this obviously, but this is your thread and I won't hijack it. What I came to realize, as the dumpee, is everything is entirely in her court. I can't make her change her mind, and I wouldn't want to play mind games to trick her into feeling any particular way towards me. If she still feels you're the one for her, it's entirely in her court to proceed beyond a friendship level. It was the minute she brought about seeing other guys. With my story, it has been 9 months and she hasn't come running back to me. Yet, she still keeps in contact and often flirts. Do I think anything of it? Sometimes, but whether she comes back to me or not is her decision. I can't tell you to move on because, in my circumstance, I haven't moved on. I still think about her. I've seen other women, and if I met the right woman I'd date her, but for now I'm enjoying the single life. It would probably hurt her to see you with other women, whether or not she'd admit it. I'm not suggesting you try anything to make her jealous (a move that could really backfire), but you can't just wait around because you don't know how long this phase of her life will last.

I really hope you only take our advice to supplement your own. What I've learned from "advice" is the best anyone can provide is your own. No one here aside from you knows this girl, or your situation, in its entirety. Even though you described what has happened in general terms, there were still 9 months of history that you neglected to post. How often did you talk/hang out/etc? Do you share mutual friends? Have you met her parents? Have you told her you loved her, or are just assuming so? There are literally hundreds of small questions which may combine to influence my advice and ultimately effect your relationship. I just mention this because several years ago I was attempting to date this one girl and sought the advice of a dating forum. After posting my story, I was offered advice on "playing hard to get," "avoiding her (no contact)," etc. All these actions are intriguing, but when applied to the girl I sought, completely backfired. She ultimately thought I wasn't interested with all the games I played. I learned my lesson, and have better off ever since. I love coming across advice columns in Maxim, or other magazines such as Men's Health; where men are seeking the advice of supposed professionals on relationships that are complex, yet, manage to fit within two paragraphs. I'm sure it applies to women even more, especially since Cosmopolitan is considered must read material. No wonder people are miserable, haha.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 10:15 AM) What movie would you like to see made; whether it be a book, comic, graphic novel, sequel to a movie, television show, or cartoon, and why would you like to see it made? Dont worry about time or money constraints in your response. I would like to see Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" series made into set of movies. Mind you, this would be a really hard set of movies to make given the material, but if made right it could be epic. The books were amazing, the time travel, conflict of different parallel universes, the tie-in to all of King's books and his life could really be a great set of movies Great idea. I'm glad I thought of it first. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=61059 It's also interesting how I brought up the idea of another horror related series on HBO and, as of this month, that's exactly what they've done with True Blood. I'm on top of everything!

QUOTE (tommy @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 04:01 PM) Metallica's new album? MetalliWho?

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:58 PM) in other news, death magnetic leaked also, joe nathan has a 1.07 era, sick. lol What the hell is that?

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:53 PM) I really don't think this team is doing anything without Quentin. I guess they can luck out by backing into the playoffs if Minnesota plays as poorly as they have. They are outclassed against the other top AL teams. Let's not act like we were a consistent offensive team even with Quentin. Anyways, aside from the latter innings yesterday, the offense the first two games against Anaheim did pretty damn well. It's only one player in a lineup full of eight others. If even two of have stellar months and the rest don't regress too much it can be overcome.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:51 PM) Bad loss....no more of these joke lineups. Fields is just terrible at baseball now, I don't think his heart is actually in it. He couldn't have done a better job of convincing people to throw him off the team than yesterday's debacle of not lifting the bat off his back in two ABs.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:48 PM) K-rod with as good of a change up today as ive seen him have...throw that in there with the slider and fastball he has...filthy My ass. I would hit his changeup 450ft to LF, or any fastball he tried to sneak by me I'd hit it to RF about 430ft. It's not difficult.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:43 PM) And now a K, saw that coming a mile away. Dye sure made up for the run he decided we could overcome in te 8th inning

It has been ridiculous the last two innings with the discrepancy in strike zones for the two teams with right handers.

A walk is fine with me, though.

Dye better hit a HR, since he obviously showed confidence in his offense by catching the ball in foul ground.

QUOTE (MurcieOne @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) I would say it was the "sound" baseball move, its like taking points off the board in football... but our team isn't exactly consistent and this Angels bullpen is pretty solid. Its a damned if you do, damned if you don't move... I didn't think we were going to strike against this bullpen twice in two days, so I would have taken my chances. I'm not angry with the decision Jermaine made If we're ahead, then catch it. If it's the 4th inning, then catch it. If you're in a tie game, against a good Angels team, with knowledge of Minnesota losing, in the f***ing 8th inning, you let it drop. Probability suggests he'll record an out, and I'm sure the numbers are still in the favor that with 1 out the runner doesn't score. Otherwise, if you're Dye, you better have all the confidence you're going to make up for it next time up. It may not even matter with the way Linebrick is throwing 90mph meat up at the plate.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 03:25 PM) I'm watching the game on Angels broadcast and they think JD made the right play because if he let's that ball drop and the batter then comes back to hit a single and score 2 runs instead,they think it shows that it means you believe in your offense with all that power...Angel announcers keep harping on the belief that the sox can score runs in a hurry with the long ball,they are impressed with our power up and down our lineup. Well, he's up first next inning and he better make up for it by reaching base or hitting a HR.

I can't believe Dye bothered to catch it. It irritated me so much I had to long onto here and make sure I wasn't the only one. I hate this idea of "oh, what if he lets it drop and Anderson hits a HR." Well, that's a chance -- but you know, without question, if you catch it a run is going to score. There's also the probability he'll record an out which doesn't advance runners. At this point in the game, with 2 strikes and knowledge Minnesota is losing, I would have let it drop. Dye better hit a HR for the run he decided, in the 8th inning, we could overcome.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 07:58 PM) BTW, how was the Obama interview on O'Reilly? I didn't hear anything about it, which is good for the Democrats. Problem for O'Reilly is Obama knows all the stories about him out there and has had answers in the bag well before the interview. It'd be different if there was something new on Obama, but it was probably more of the same. He probably figured going on an overwhelmingly conservative talk show that cators to a overwhelmingly conservative audience, there wasn't much to lose. Any slip up or stuttering would only be replayed on Fox News.