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QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 01:32 PM) Hector "Tio" Salamanca on Twitter Brilliant....simply

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 06:45 PM) Well ya, Halloween gives the excuse for those though. I like to make people laugh with my costumes but me personally dressing up is no where near one of the top reasons that I love Halloween. agreed... still fun to dress up and get away with something you wouldn't normally wear any other day. unless you are an actor....then you do it everyday.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 11:54 PM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBQai1Hbar0 I love that show. I believe that was his 3rd (bleeped)F-bomb in the episode. I loved the scene where Blake "fired" Adam. And just like the first 2 or so seasons of It's Always Sunny, the main characters are the ones writing the episodes.....which is awesome.

QUOTE (juddling @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 05:50 PM) So the reports have it that Lindsey Lohan posed for Playboy over the weekend for sum somewhere between $750,000 and $1 million bucks. You know this would have been good news about 6 or 7 years ago but considering she's aged about 30 years in the last 5, not so much. I am curious if it's going to be one of those celebrity layouts where the most you see it a bit of sideboob. Considering how desperate she has to be for cash, I can't imagine Playboy that much for sideboob. well I wonder how young photoshop can make her look.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 07:30 PM) When did that happen? When Daryl took out his brother's stash? ya....I noticed that as well...my bro was completely oblivious to why I pointed it out.

me and the twin brother are going as The Boondock Saints

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 03:16 PM) Uncharted 3 got a 10/10? Holy s***. I never got in to that series, but maybe I will have to rent this one.... there will probably be some things in the 3rd game that would require you to play the first 2 to get. Think I'll replay both before I get this one....doesn't take but 8-10 hours each.

Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception Review IGN anticipation.....

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 01:42 AM) That's exactly what I meant by "not real". I think he WAS a real person, as the pictures that the police department has of him proves (preview of next week), but I think he is dead and now Colin Hanks just imagines him there. Dexter sees Harry, has conversations with him, and uses him as guidance. I think it's the same effect on Colin Hanks. Just like Dexter said, the only thing he "believed in" was his dad, and I think Colin believes in EJO, as you guys refer to him. I agree completely....It was when they were in the coffee shop when I thought of it. I told my bro last night about this theory and he's all into it now.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 20, 2011 -> 02:08 PM) As if the branch breaking and Juice being alive were in question (I know we're all in agreement that he's a-ok aside from still being royally f***ed)... I snapped this from the scenes for next week when the clubhouse is getting shot up. Just a head's up. Unless we've got a "Weekend at Bernie's" situation going on, I reckon he's fine. Nice grab

happy bday

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Oct 19, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) I can only imagine this crazy clubhouse where spies are needed. Rios doing lines off a strippers boobs. AJ and MB playing beer pong. Sale and Beckham pulling 6 ft bongs. Ramirez and Viciedo sacrificing a goat next to their Santeria shrine. JFP riding around naked on a painted pony with a bottle of Wild Turkey in an Indian headdress. And Sergio carrying a little cooler screaming "tamale! tamale!." Oh, the insanity.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 19, 2011 -> 01:12 PM) Its hard to call Dunn "poor" in any sense of the word...

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 19, 2011 -> 12:22 PM) My opinion is that Ventura has been learning to massage egos and dealing with crises his entire major league career. We've heard multiple people speak to the fact that Robin is very good in the clubhouse and not afraid to manage personalities. Any time you've got a team, there are people who enjoy staying out of the limelight, there are those who are outstanding at their jobs, but would never get in anyone else's business, and then there are those that make it a priority for themselves to be leaders. One doesn't necessarily have to have the title of leader, or even necessarily be the best at what they do, they just have to have the ability to the courage to stand up and change the course of the team when such a change is necessary. We're seeing this with this entire Red Sox debacle. Players like Lester and Beckett are saying they needed veteran leadership like Doug Mirabelli and Mike Timlin to keep everyone on their toes. Seems that Ventura has been getting on OTJ for this sort of leadership for his entire career. As for a hitting coach, that seems to me much more technical. He's going to have to learn to look at other's swings and learn how to diagnose the flaws. Then he's going to have to learn how to fix them. He's been working on his own swing for his entire life. Now he has to learn how to work with all kinds of swings, and how to fix the problems. And not only how to fix the problems, but how to get other players to fix the problems. I dunno, it just seems like a manager spends much of his entire career learning to be a manager, whereas a hitting coach has to learn how to do that sort of technical analysis after his career is over. I wonder if Cal Ripken Jr. would be a good hitting coach. He had a couple dozen different batting stances in his career....I think he faired pretty well

the fact that there were no previews of Juice for next weeks episode tell you that the limb had to break....FX doesn't want to spoil next week by showing the audience that he's still alive. That's my opinion though.

QUOTE (Real @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 08:32 PM) coworker of mine is close to Jim and his family (I live about 4 miles from Bartonville, Il), he told me about 2 months ago that Jim is retiring and he felt after #600 he had nothing left to prove I live in West Peoria, about 8 miles or so away. Did you go to Limestone High School?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 02:31 PM) Very similar to Thome's general style too...with you know the "massive increase in muscle mass" exception. Lotta home runs, lotta strikeouts, very unique hitting style, big uppercut swing, lotta walks, weak on batting average. I probably didn't think Mac was a very good choice as hitting coach for them, but hey, they were the #6 offense in the NL Last year and the #1 offense in the NL this year. Yeah, they added Berkman, they had issues with Rasmus, but thems the results. I agree, McGwire has done an excellent job, but before he had the gig, I was in "WTF!" mode with the move. It has paid of really well for the cards. Go Cards!!!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 02:17 PM) For a more needle-filled comparison, Mark McGwire hasn't yet been treated as the enemy in St. Louis as a hitting coach, and he not only never coached anything else, he took 5 years away from the game to hide in a hole surrounded by steroid investigators. Yeah, I mentioned McGwire in another thread....No experience and he was dropped in to coach hitting? He doesn't come across as a guy you would expect to coach anything let alone hitting.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Oct 18, 2011 -> 06:14 AM) And who put that team together??? Ummm....Ozzie of course

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 05:43 AM) Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides. All from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969 Thomes Jefferson "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ." "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 08:07 AM) Since about 75% of the posts here are now about Breaking Bad...why not create a separate thread like there was for Lost? Just kinda annoying to sift through them for those that don't watch. Not a huge deal, just a thought Imagine how I feel.....I'm almost done with season 2. Too many spoilers have sifted through my brain already

QUOTE (farmteam @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 12:04 PM) Yeah, second episode was really really good. Also, concerning Gretchen Mol: she's damn fine. Plenty of gorgeous women on that show. The s*** Nucky pulled in the restaurant? Fantastic. I was kinda pissed Margaret went back to being a jerk to the waitstaff, though (even if I get why it happened). I'm wondering how long(season-wise) they can keep this story going

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 11:13 AM) Me too. I love when I get to participate after finally being able to watch BB. I'm going to have to go dark this Sunday due to Bears vs Vikings with all these great shows being on (Walking Dead supplanting BB, obviously). I still have to watch the 2nd episode of Homeland, finally, and that series debut has be PUMPED. 2nd episode was better BTW.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 11, 2011 -> 09:48 PM) Who gives a f*** if he is a good interview? Seriously, that is just a horrible thing to worry about for a manager. I really don't know one single person that gives a s*** how good an interviewer a manager is. And it's really only Sox fans that get to see interviews from Ventura anyway.....I can't say I've seen too many interviews of other teams managers.... or ever had an opinion on how they gave an interview.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 11, 2011 -> 11:29 AM) Very good to know. The firing of Darabont worried me. i had that same feeling.