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he may be just a pessimistic Sox fan and not a troll

this girl is very intelligent she is for Kerry and she is doing Letterman -- if she had worn a Sox cap, she'd be perfect (and thanks Kap, I saw you posted that for me before FSJ took away my special thread from you ) FSJ:

damn.

I don't believe that I ahve said welcome to soxtalk yet, 71!

Queen.Prawn.Best.Poster.Ever. looks good with the periods, huh?

history: between 1983-2002, 20 seasons, the Sox won 4 division titles. the other 20 year span we won 4 of anything: 1901-1920. They went from 1920-1958 without winning anything. This is the one of the best eras in Sox history. Yes, these are among the best years ever. When we want to think about how miserable we are, when the game sucks, thank God we go to games with our friends and still have that joyful experience! I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic. It will be what it will be. Frank and Mags are out. We are in 2nd, 2.5 back, in July 28. What happens next will unfold and regardless of how it turns out, we will still have the Sox and each other.

one of the best ever game thread titles!

It actually shows some signs of a functioning brain and a hint of wit. I will grant that one actually, it is pretty clever now I will be humming it all day thanks to you!

1967: Boston wins the pennent, Yaz hits 301 and wins the AL batting title. 1968: Four way race:

84 season I was not in the clubhouse of course but from what I heard from people who were, and given some folks' later histories I don't doubt it, cocaine was the drug of choice for a number of our players. Where have you gone Dewey Lamar... 84 was a good year for white yuppie coke use. They were just part of the demographic coming off a division title. not that the Sox were alone. not wholesome reading

I pray that there will never be a time when eloquence from a public leader does not inspire me as a citizen and as an American. I richly doubt that Kerry is the richest US Senator. He may be in the upper percentiles, but rhetoric without fact is empty. I far more trust the Democratric party with representing the values and hopes and dreams and aspirations of the working class far, far, far more than I do the Republican party even tough both G W Bush and Dick Cheney were born in poverty and worked long hours in the mills every day to puy food for their widowed grandmothers. If anyone here is so partisanly blind that they think that they can convince us that the grandson of a US Senator and son of a US President, a person who grew up in money and privilege in the ruling class, is anything other than what he is, then they have convinced themselves and no one else. Apu, the name of the game in November is pick yur US Supreme Coourt judges, 3 next year very probably. including a chief justice, I would recommend you consider which party will choose what type of justice candidate. I am unconvinced that anyone of your general beliefs who abstains from voting for Kerry really cares about what direction this country is going. Idoelogical purity is fine but the next president determines the direction of the US Supmeme Counrt for the next generation. One can stand by the side of the river and watch the torrent and never get one's feet wet and say, "oh, how dry am I" but it is the people who venture out into the flood who get caught up in the mud and the mire and muck that are the ones that save a few lives. You know Apu how strenuously I opposed this ill conceived and wrong war against Iraq. There is no way that right now we can just pull the troops out and go home, leaving behind the chaos we have created. I far more trust Kerry to extricate our troops in a way that does good and not harm. In fact, only Kerry of the two candidates offers the possibility of a responsible US withdrawal, responsible to the change political reality that exists with Iraq now that the invasion and occupation are factual, responsible in a way that allows the US to regain respect and collegiality in the world community as opposed to the current regime's stance of Imperial Rome which makes us only more vulnerable in the future.

corerection noted and appreciated

no its not far from it, we take pride in our adversity and don't faint out when times get rough more Jean Shepherd quotes: the exatc Jean Shepard quote I was paraphrasing above: then there is the great Bart Giamatti quote: and Jean Shepherd narrated

are all those fears of chemical spills in New Jersey causing genetic mutatons really real? or is these insects and mammals the beginning of what Orson Welles told us would come out of New Jersey - the Martian aliens landing and the war of the worlds?

A lot of folks are proclaiming themselves just so overwhelmed because gasp we have a three game losing streak happening! oh the horror, the pain. In the 50s we finished first once, second about 9 times, and lost in the world series. Surviving that is what makes a generation of Sox fans. In the 60s we finished second once by 1 game and once lost a four way pennant race on the last weekend. We never finished first, Surviving that is what makes a generation of Sox fans. In the 70s we began with going 56-106. Not many here would have survived that. We never finished first. In our best seasaon, the 77 Hit Men, we finished third. Surviving that is what makes a generation of Sox fans. In the 1980s we finished first once and had some dreadful teams as well and lost one team to drugs that should have been a contender. Surviving that is what makes a generation of Sox fans. In the 1990s we finished first twice and got a new ballpark and saw an awesome hitting season from Albert Belle, two MVP seasons from Frank, a Cy Young winner, manager of the year winner, and some fans cried when our owner suggested we were out of it when we were 3.5 games back on July 31. What is wrong with our owner, people asked. In the 2000s we finished first once, had a manager of the year winner, never finished lower than second, are 2.5 games back on July 27, and people can't bear the pain. This is where we separate the Sox fans, and make another generation of Sox fans, and separate the Sox fans from the ... hmm, wimps is too strong, maybe the image is of Blanche DuBois in Streetcar Named Desire who would just faint whenever she had to deal with something. So we are separating the real Sox fans from the Blanche DuBois, those who take out their sachets frm the sleeves and wipe ther brows and say, "oh, I just can't take this, this is too much" and faint away. Baseball is life. Sometimes it ain't pretty. If a three game losing streak in a division title race is too much to bear, by all means, faint, or go the ledge and jump because you don't have it in you to be a Sox fan. Hell, the Sox are a team that threw a world series. What about being a Sox fan is supposed to be easy? Jean Shepherd said if he had to choose five people to charge up a hill in a suicidal mission to take the enemy position he would choose five Sox fans because they have faced death every day and lived. Either line up with Jean Shepherd to charge up that hill into the face of the enemy or faint away with Blanche DuBois. The choice is one for each of us to make, the answer is within.

check out the same stunt used in the 1988 campaign, to make Dukakis look stupid. Naviete, my friends, please.

Sad? Sad? If the Trib wants to build a new stadium and raise a lot of money, they should auction off the "blow up Wrigley" rights, I'd certainly get some action in that. as our most prolific poster says: Blow it up!

If I were the Tribune Company, I'd let the crowds in and let the concrete fall. Hell, none of those places were built to last 1,000,000 years. Yankee Stadium was falling apart before it was shut down for total renovations. Comiskey was beginning to crumble. Tiger Stadium is crumbling. And Wrigley, Comiskey, and Tiger (Briggs/Navin Field) were all built at about the same time, Comiskey being the oldest. But if I were Trib Co., I'd be looking at an antiquated stadium I could not expand that is undersized and also a historic landmark protected by law and a shrine to a bunch of drunks. One either has to keep operating it... or.... let it fall apart so the city moves in and Daley does shut it down and then the Tribs says, what can we do? We have to build a new park... and the blame is not on the Trib anymore, it was circumstances beyond their control They are probably clapping at every board meeting every time a piece of concrete falls and delighted with every story in which the city speaks of it being unsafe.

depending on your state's laws... in most states probably not guilty of 1st deree murder which usually requires an element of pre-meditation in most states you are looking at anything from 2nd degree murder to manslaughter to negligent homicide if a jury decides to reckless endangerment or someting if plea bargained the laws in each state will vary the moral question that Texsox poses is compelling and in that arena one certainly has to consider the callous and selfish disregard for the lives of others to watch a dvd and drive and the moral question of guilt becomes very compelling but let us not miss the bigger picture here - who is the real force behind reckless disregard for human life, the driver, or the corporation that put a dvd player in the driver's line of vision? Not since the Titanic sailed without enough life boats... I am sure the civil suit naming the driver, the manufacturer, the automobile dealer, and everyone who had a hand in the design and production of that vehicle is filed and awaiting the criminal verdict before the civil proceedings continue. If that was a custom job and not a manufactured job, that custom auto place can shut down now because it will never survivie the civil liabilities. because manufactured or custom, when you palce a dvd player in the drivers lione of vision, there is no excuse; just what the hell was one thinking? Might as well give loaded handguns to infants and place toddlers in vipers dens. The proabability of innocent death is very high with such callous disregard for common sense on behalf of whoever designed and placed that there. The manufacturer, stock or custom, as well as the driver, must be held responsibe and if stock, then much more so because they have put a lot of missilies of death out there. The grounds that are being claimed in that criminal action - those are such great grounds for the civil action to follow: Lawyers will be lining up to handle that case and well they should be, that is law at its best protecting us from corporate putting gadgets and bobbles in cars to increase their profit while endangering lives. Might as well put the fuel tank under the front seat in an open container. The results are the same.

you? never!

I did wonder about that, as in, wtf is up with that? is there a good reason anywhere for that?

and passing them took lots of skills

Rocky Horror Picture Show and every movie they mention in the opening song.

and I hope it is a happy one!