The Beast

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jul 22, 2011 -> 01:47 PM) Be careful about taking projects from work without their consent, there could be legal issues behind that. Keep networking as much as possible, if there are no positions available now then you want to be on the short list for when opportunities do open. And take advantage of any connection your boss may have. If they want to hire you but know they can't then the least they could/should want to do is find you an opportunity elsewhere. My boss said I could take any work I produce with them since it is my research and my ideas. I'll continue networking - thanks for the advice. My boss's brother may be my entry into the MLB, even if it is another internship with the S O X.

Questions I would ask at the end of the interview would be: "How'd I do? Do you think I could do this job?" Read up on a challenge they are facing and ask about how to fix their problem. You are likely making an entry level salary so it would be valuable for someone to come in, try and fail or try and succeed on an organizational problem - sort of a low risk, high reward kind of initiative on your part only to benefit the company. I have a little over three weeks left at my internship with the Rams. There are projects that I have done saved to a flash drive to add to my writing related work to see if that interests employers. I have made a decent amount of contacts while I have been here, mostly in PR/Community Outreach/Marketing but really not that many in sales. I don't know why that is, considering I am able to bond more with people who are more more outgoing than I am, but most of what I hear with sales people is small talk and the people that I really enjoy talking to seem to have more depth to our conversations. Although I have that small time frame left in my internship, I was wondering if going into work an hour early each morning and getting more work done then or staying late after work to accomplish more would impress my employer. I feel as though my work has made a favorable impression on who I am to the organization but there are some instances where I just haven't adjusted to the culture of the organization. Then again it might just be that some people are easier to talk to than others. Long story short, I'd love to stay longer with the Rams but the marketing department is so small that I am not sure they have much of a budget to keep a non-sales employee on as a paid intern, let alone an entry-level employee. Any tips on how to be more of a star intern to make an impact in these final weeks (which include training camp and finishing the women's and health/wellness marketing platforms) would be appreciated. Lastly, my boss' brother works with the Sox, should I try to get in contact with him and see if he knows someone in PR that would allow for an internship there? Should I look into people who have contacts with the Bears for any sort of position (even gameday staff)? I realize that I'd need a part-time job if I move back to Chicago or if I stay in St. Louis. Any advice is appreciated. If I can't get something when I get home I am just going to do a part-time gig and get into grad school for PR so I could do something writing based for Groupon or work in marketing/PR somewhere.

Is there any reason to believe that Dunn would improve next year? I am not a hitting guru by any means but a lot of you guys say that certain hitters swings (like Beckham's) is too long - is that the case for Adam Dunn? Year to year stats indicate he has never had something this bad happen to him ever, but at least there was some consistency with his strikeouts to give KW an idea of what he was getting himself into.

Everyone in the Rams organization is optimistic that they will play sooner than later, but I am not buying it. They are conducting business as usual but I sit there and just read the news thinking, there's no way that everything will start on time. Supposedly July 15th is the deadline for the CBA to be accepted by both sides so that the season can start on time. Free agency is going to have to be faster than lightning...I don't see how they are going to do it.

I would like to give it a go, since she lives 30 minutes away from me when she's home and her school is 2 1/2 hours away. My fall is likely going to be spent finding a full-time gig in my area of interest (which is hard to do since it is is PR) or a part-time job and another part-time internship so I'll probably be able to see her when I can on the weekends. She just is worried that the distance will be too much since she had a rough time with it before. In my experience it hasn't worked but at least I know what I did wrong last time (in being a jealous guy - jealous of my ex's life since my life sucked then) so I won't repeat the same mistakes but I acknowledge it will be tougher with distance than if we were together all of the time.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 05:39 PM) Have you had any physical contact with her yet? It seems she really likes you to invite you to sis' wedding. We need more info to determine whether or not she likes you as a bf candidate. Yes, plenty of it. I have gotten lucky. What else do you need to know?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2011 -> 05:29 PM) Castro has a broken right hand. Officially. Seriously? Time to see if that Flowers kid is any good at AAA or if he's just another fringe farm hand (a recurring theme for the White Sox farm system).

Joe - you are a patient man. She would have been ejected from my house far before she got into that pool. I'll try to be as clear as possible here. I met a girl through a friend at school in April and began talking to her online since she goes to a Big Ten school out of state. We talked enough to meet each other, met each other and eventually hung out a few times. She insisted I met her family so I did that and they appear to really like me. And she liked me enough to invite me to be her date at her sister's wedding. It was a fun time and I think her family liked me since I was "the ideal date for her" with regards to the impression I made on everyone and my hilariously bad white boy dance moves. She and I have texted/skyped/talked plenty, but it is extremely tough to talk to her when all we have done each day is work (which isn't too exciting). I am hoping that I can find a way to get her to open up more since I am awful at talking on the phone and do better on skype with her. My main concern is that I will get home from my internship a few days before she goes back for her senior year, have a great time in the few days we are together before she goes and then eventually we just lose the spark. Would you, if you were in my position, continue with someone long distance when she's not too keen on distance relationships (but is warming up to it) or should I let her go and just try online websites again (since bars suck for finding women)? I am willing to continue with her because I want to but my love blinders might be hiding an underlying issue from me that I am just not seeing.

My internship is going as well as it can go. It is real tough with the lockout to be busy all of the time, but it seems that I have too much downtime. The work I am doing is okay, I am researching and putting together new platforms for health & wellness and social media, but I am not sure if the skills (researching, making a PowerPoint and pitching ideas) are skills that employers want. All I am hoping is that an employer will look at this internship and ask me to open up about my internship experience with a pro football team (and not ask, why aren't you working in sports?). I have found myself wanting to know more about PR and writing content since I do that extremely well as opposed to what I am doing so I set up an interview with a media coordinator. She said 1,000 people apply to their department each year and they only hire three interns, one of which is paid. People who have full-time jobs, such as being a sports information director at a university, have wanted to work for the team along with leaving their current jobs. So it seems like the PR side of sports is rough to get into and keep a job in, considering they work abnormal hours (90 hours a week is what I was told during the majority of the year) and get paid barely enough to live with or support a family. I got to thinking, if sports is so tough to keep a job in, could I possibly do well in an organization that needs product reviews written, corporate PR done or products written up (like Groupon)? My concern is that I wrote a bit in college with the skills I acquired from journalism class in high school but my courses taught me more about statistics/accounting that I'll never even think about again so I feel I'll lose my best skill of writing if I don't practice it. Would it honestly be unwise to enter a PR program at DePaul so soon after graduation to learn about that of stuff and about social media so I can be marketable to employers? Much of the concern stems from what I have discovered about myself at my current job. Either I have a major social disorder or I struggle thinking on my feet in every day conversation to keep it flowing with some of the more extroverted personalities in the organization. I would really like to fix this but I don't know what else to do but keep asking questions and get people to open up a bit about themselves. And lastly, where do people go look for jobs related to their interests (like communications) instead of just seeing the generic crap (sales/customer service/etc.) posted on careerbuilder.com or Monster?

Like Homer Simpson's bird in his disability episode, I sat voting for Konerko today on some down time at work. Good to see that he won it.

The girl I posted about in early June is on my mind to post something about again. We continued texting/talking/skyping each other over this time and it has been interesting. Some parts have been tough in keeping communication flowing but there have been times where it has gone smoothly and has been fun. I went home last weekend and took her out to dinner for her birthday, had drinks with her since it was her 21st and the next day, went to her sister's wedding as her date. It was a real nice time, so nice I ended up staying at her place. The problem that I am having is that I don't know how interested she is, that she tells me she misses me/wants to work with what we have and do the distance. She's had bad relationships before and a distance relationship that failed. I suggested taking it slow and just keep it kind of loose when she's at school, but she hasn't responded to that yet since we have been writing letters (old school and gay I know) so we'll see what she says about that. And really the other issue is that I haven't been able to have her be open with me about what she thinks since she's quiet or we're with her family (though when we were together alone, she opened up at dinner last Saturday). So I would hope the issue is that there isn't enough time with just her and I (although her mother adores me) and not that we have nothing in common (which we do). I'll edit this later to fill in missing blanks...I'm on my lunch hour.

Is it just me or is anyone else getting real sick of Hawk in today's broadcast...and is anyone else noticing a fan saying "strike" every single time the ball crosses the plate against the Nationals? Just wondering.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 25, 2011 -> 03:27 PM) Annual complaint emails to Fox TV and MLB about their Saturday blackout rules sent What are the blackout rules? I was wondering why the Cleveland game was being carried in St. Louis and not the White Sox game.

Juan Pierre insult in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:21 PM) How is Dunn = Belle? Sorry, would you prefer someone else like Canseco or the Big Hurt (Skirt) in a bad year? Dunn is awful and I need someone equally as bad to make fun of him with. He's my target, Pierre is right behind him.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 20, 2011 -> 09:20 PM) I'd take a 50 HR season from Dunn, when will he do that? Never. We wasted an investment on a shmuck when we could have had someone who doesn't need a tennis racket to hit the damn ball.

Two notes: Adam Dunn = Albert Belle The only way the Sox win tonight is if Marmol lays a goose egg. Let's see it happen. f***! I hate losing to the Cubs.

Day 1 also went well. Lifted boxes, bonded with some guys from the office, had lunch with my boss and the other intern, took a tour and began working on qualitative research for our marketing presentation on the 22nd. I feel like I'm learning something which is good.

I also begin my first day of work at my internship in less than 45 minutes. I'm nervous but I am excited and ready to hit the ground running.

Hopefully it is okay that I resurrect this thread. I met a girl through a friend who goes to school with me...she goes to another school and is entering her senior year. I am now a graduate and am going to intern in St. Louis this summer. She and I began talking in early April and then met in May. We met in a variety of settings, with friends, alone and she came to stay with me for a few days for my 3 week summer session. She even went to a Sox game and wore our colors even if she's a Cubs fan at heart. When she came up to visit it was a lot of fun and lately it has been fun, just a bit slow to get to know her because she's slightly less outgoing than I am. The problem lies in that I haven't hung with her extensively, she's still a bit shy around me and I am leaving for St. Louis in a week so I won't see her for the whole summer. During the time I'm away I'm sure she and I will skype and continue texting/facebook chatting. And I might go down to visit her in the fall since I'll probably just be at home working at a part-time gig to make money while I find something full-time. I'd like to see where this goes and maybe make something of this. Someone said I should just keep it fun and not get serious. What would you do, keeping in mind that her college is about 2 1/2 hours away and she has a high interest level? Should I be prioritizing elsewhere and not focus on a relationship given the fact that I'm a recent college graduate looking to work on a career or at the very minimum, put some money in my bank account?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 20, 2011 -> 12:13 PM) I can't remember his real name right now, but he was a character to say the least. Now that was a dude that kept the mods and admins around here busy. I thought it was Doug but that's not right. That picture he posted of himself made me laugh my ass off though.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 20, 2011 -> 12:03 PM) IIRC it involved the evils thrills of drinking and the thrills evils of gaming. It escalated pretty quickly. Fixed. Nothing a good jager bomb can't fix!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 20, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) The thread you started when you were in your first semester at college I'll always remember and laugh about What did I post then? Something about drinking and my ex-girlfriend? Sheesh. Ha, that changed. No, I was referring to a fart thread and something to do with swimming in gym class.

I am sure there were some 'classy' memories of the poster Wsc425 and BeastlyOrdonez30. Certainly I was a snot nosed HS freshman posting here at the age of 14/15 and had some pretty memorable threads. If I could go back in time and slap myself for what I did, I would. Do any of you remember the Old Roman around here? I think that was his name. His picture was a staple pic around here for awhile.

MuckFinnesota (BeastlyOrdonez30, The Beast, Wsc425). But the people that ignore have sound reasons...I can deliver an argument but I can't argue on their level for White Sox baseball. And clearly sometimes I get anxious in life and post random crap on the board that comes off as complaining. So for this, I apologize. Still, I enjoy reading what others have to say even if they would rather me shut my trap permanently.