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QUOTE(rangercal @ May 18, 2007 -> 10:35 AM) it's such a tossup between min/det/cle The sox have no real rivalry. It's no surprise the # 1 rivalry is voted the cubs. Only 37% voted cubs compared to 51% for the ALC trio. So that's not as bad as you think. One thing to note: I am almost 100% sure we are the # 1 rivalry for the Indians,Twins,Tigers and Royals. I'm sure the sox are most hated by all those respective fan bases. We are. The White Sox are everyone in the ALC's biggest rival, and for us it's split amongst them all equally.

QUOTE(Dick Allen @ May 18, 2007 -> 10:33 AM) Maybe he is, but he's the main guy on the White Sox flagship, and does have a good relationship with JR. Sometimes its just better to keep your mouth shut, or if you have a problem with him, call him when he's not on the air. Its not surprising Ozzie is a big fan of the Jerry Springer Show. I like having a manager that speaks his mind, even if it's not politically correct. We have a enough politically correct fake people running around out there, having Ozzie is refreshing.

QUOTE(Damen @ May 18, 2007 -> 10:22 AM) If you go to chisox.com there is a poll asking who our biggest rival is. The leader, with 37%, is the friggin Cubs. Anyone who thinks the Cubs, an NL team we play 6 times a year, are our biggest rival deserves to be sucker punched by Michael Barret, then body slammed by AJ. Agreed.

QUOTE(daa84 @ May 18, 2007 -> 09:42 AM) Anyone just hear ozzie call in to the mike North Show? They just got into a screaming match for about a minute over ozzies decision to play Toby hall...ozzie swore like 3 times and mike north asked him to keep it clean, and they screamed at each other for a good minute. I dont know another manager that would do it. Im sure everyone is gonna say hes classless, but i found it funny especially cuz it was on North part of me almost thinks the whole thing was staged, but i doubt it North has a stupid arguement, it's not like Hall can possibly be worse than our other catcher not named AJ. Besides, Hall playing in the majors or minors makes no difference to his injury...if it's going to flare back up, it will be in AAA as easly as in ML...besides, he's been hitting, more than I can say for our other backup...

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ May 18, 2007 -> 09:15 AM) haha...I have no idea what this post means? You don't like that the guy had to ask you for directions? Judging by your pictures, aren't you a tad young to be posting here?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:11 AM) If you are ever going to get those fans over to our park, the time is now. The Sox are winning, and the Cubs fans are horribly bitter. Like it or not, we could use that money in our ballpark. Its nice to be all clean and pure and live in an idealistic world, but it doesn't work like that. Baseball teams are expensive, especially winning ones. Well if that's what you want, do a commercial people will actually find funny, on both sides. Here is my idea of a spoof type commercial that is awesome. (Spin off of Apple/PC Commercial) Scene : Two guys standing before a blank white background, one wearing a Sox Jersey/Cap (Slightly bigger guy, muscled), one wearing a Cubs Jersey/Cap (Kind of geeky northsider looking guy with sandles). Sox fan : Hi, I'm a White Sox. Cubs Fan : And I'm a Cubs. How you doin' Sox?! Sox fan : Great...how about yourself? Cubs Fan : Well, not so good, I seem to have a problem "closing" the deal...but at least I have a hot girlfriend to keep me company in the stands... (Hot girl wearing a Cubs jersey enters scene, snuggles with Cubs fan. Sox fan look over, checks her out and smiles.) Sox fan : Nice. Can't say I have one of those, but at least I have this awesome trophy to keep me company... (Sox fan exits scene, re-enters scene carrying world series trophy, look of awe comes over the Cubs fan face.) Cubs fans girlfriend : Wow...nice trophy. (Hot girl leaves Cubs fan side and walks to Sox fan to "touch" the trophy. Sox fan moves trophy to other side.) Hot girl : I honestly don't know much about baseball , but I'd love to learn about an actual Major League team... (New couple begins to walk off, girls removes and drops Cubs jersey on ground, however she is covered by the larger Sox fans body...nudity implied. Cubs fans left in the scene alone, White Sox baseball graphic comes up.) How lame am I? hehehhe

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:07 AM) There IS a reason. You like that $100 million payroll right? That means we have to get fans in the stands. Not sure that those commercials added ANY fans at all. We've been selling out since WINNING, not since making penis-envy commercials that jab at the Cubs or their Fans.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 08:02 AM) But there is the kicker, it doesn't get the jab in at the Cubs, it gets the jab in at their fans. Its a statement to all of the people who still say stupid s*** like "OMG why would you go to a game in that gang infested ghetto? You could get killed!!1@#" If you are getting a reference to the Cubs, you are missing the point. Referencing the Cubs fans is just as bad to me...again, it reeks of "little brother" syndrome. Why do we care if they have ignorant non-baseball minded fans?! Why bother spending actual money to poke fun at that?! This is the exact kind of thing that makes them laugh at us...we have a World Series trophy in our case and we have to poke fun at their fans now?! That's called penis envy...and for NO reason.

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:54 AM) Again, it appears we protect those that we believe need protection and allow the others to fend for themselves. So "breeder" gets a pass and "that's so gay" doesn't. Americans usually pull for the underdog, we don't beat puppies, and don't drown kittens. We creat an elaborate system to produce hamburgers from one animal and an elaborate system to save other stray animals. Middle class white males with all the advantages are ok to satire and poor retarded children are protected. Not certain it fits anyones definition of fair, but that is our society. Work to change it. Some would say we work to change it by allowing anyone to insult anyone, others would want equal attention when they are referred to as breeders. Two totally different solutions. I don't care either way. I just think people are over sensetized these days, and a lot of them need to grow thicker skin. It's either that, or they had such an easy upbringing and their lives are so perfect that they have actual time to worry about stupid crap like getting annoyed when they hear someone they don't even know say something is, "so gay", when it probably IS that gay.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2007 -> 07:15 AM) I really like it. Unstead of the typical "come see baseball because it is the greatest thing ever" type campaign, this gets a subtle jab in at all of the stereotypes about the Sox, plus getting to promote our product. I think it's incredibly cheesy. Not to mention, I'm against any advertising campaign that pokes or jabs at the Cubs at all. This is why Cubs fans commonly say Sox fans have penis envy, because a lot of them do. Like defeating the Twins in the bottom of the 9th, and then chanting Cubs Suck down the rampway...WTF is that. Fans who care about the Cubs that much are jackasses, IMO, and they annoy me. Stop thinking or worrying about the Cubs until we play them -- like over the next three days. Commercials like this breed this line of thought. Sox fans worrying about the Cubs when they need to be worrying about the Tigers, Indians and Twins is a tad on the obsessive side, and reeks of "little brother" syndrome.

This conversation reminds me of a day years ago when me and some of my friends were invited to some girls birthday party at some Internet Cafe. This had to be in the mid-late 90's. It was on the northside of Chicago, so ... anyway, we get there, and there are about 8 gay guys there, and a few of them were of the really wierd variety. Apparantly this girl had a lot of gay friends. Anyway, me and my friends were having an internet related conversation and some of the guys at the party got involved...one of them said, "I use the internet all the time. I use AOL." Without thinking, being total true-Internet guys at the time who work the industry, I said, "AOL isn't the Internet...AOL's gay..." There was a dramatic pause here...and all the gay guys all at the same time were like, "Excuse me?!" It was a tad late to backtrack at that point, so I said, "Yea, gay...as in stupid." Needless to say, it was rude, but they had it coming. It seems that in this country that it's only racist or bad to say if you're saying it to the minority, like gays, blacks, etc. All night, they were calling me "breeder", and that was supposed to be ok...not that I really cared, but still...in the end, them calling me a breeder is the same as me calling AOL Gay. Boo-hoo to them. The street runs both ways. I'm not saying either side was right, nor am I saying either side was nice in what was said that day. What I am saying is that's reality...and if something that tiny in this huge universe bothers you THAT much, then you have bigger problems.

F YEA!

Unintentional intentional.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ May 17, 2007 -> 02:26 PM) If only Cleveland could start losing too. Even with all their winning as of late, we aren't far behind them...all things considered. Hopefully our offense is waking up, if they weren't asleep all season like they have been we'd easily be leading this division.

JD has looked like he's getting his swing back over the past few games... It's about time.

Boo hoo, someone said some not so politically correct words. This modern day thin-skinned socity makes me sick. This thread is so gay...

Our pitching looks solid today...we just need to scratch across a few more runs here... :/

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 15, 2007 -> 08:12 AM) How do you mention that on your resume? That was copied off of my resume.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 14, 2007 -> 01:45 PM) Im also somewhat finsihed. I got my char up almost to 50, and I lost interest in the quests and I know nothing about the dungeons. I was really far into the original game. I was half way through Naxx, I had completed Zul Gurub, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, AQ20 and AQ40. I was decked in tier2 or better and wiped the floor with most people I encountered 1 on 1...it was like working toward a goal and being rewarded by becoming one of the strongest in the land -- I also decimated battlegrounds so much that the person below me had half the kills and damage dealt in the battle. Then Burning Crap came out and everyone with their non-epic greens and blues were just as strong -- if not stronger than me -- and did absolutly nothing to earn it. Meh. I'm level 70 -- still have a character that can hang, but I just got bored after all that time.

I agree, this was one of the best episodes in YEARS. Seasons 1 and 2 are by far the best of the show, as this season has been hit or miss like the past few seasons, but the episodes that focus on the major characters (Pauly Episode/Christopher Episode) have been top-notch. I find it as no suprise that the best episode in years was co-written by the shows creator, either. Hopefully they end it with a bang, but not a predictable bang. I think killing Tony is such a cop out of storytelling, especially when it comes to mob movies, since if that's what they end up doing, I've already seen it done in just about every other mob movie out there. Hopefully they're more creative than that.

I've retired from playing WoW. BC destroyed the game.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ May 13, 2007 -> 10:55 AM) So, thanks to jason i snagged a pair of his tickets to the Jim Beam club last night. From my experience this was about as good as it gets at a Sox Game. My friend and I were the first ones in the area, and were treated with great hospitality from the get go. Terrence the bartender was a delight and always kept a frosty brew in my hand. The club itself is amazing, great set up and a brilliant idea. The buffet is nothing short of top notch. I had prime rib, lamb, and 4 cheese mashed potatoes. I also sampled the food in the seats as well, and its the same menu as the scout seats. I found that the Jim Beam club was a little bit better than the scout seats for a couple of reasons. I liked that the bar/food area was only about 5 feet from our seats. The view from the seats is probably one of the best in the ballpark as the angle and the distance from the field is close to ideal. The club area itself is extremely nice, clean and very very useful. Several people stopped down in the club before the game as well, Hawk, Minnie, DJ. I also sat next to and got a picture of Alex Brown from the bears. He was up there watching the game with his wife and son. The overall game experience could not have been better, topped off with the bartender holding a couple of free rounds for us in the bar after the free booze had been cut off. The workers up there were all extremely nice and courteous and the managers made it a point to come by and have conversations with us throughout the game. Overall I am excited to hopefully get back up there as it was worth every penny to me. I fully recommened the experience, and I hope to get back there soon. How does one go about aquiring tickets to this Jim Beam club? I'd like to buy some for an upcoming game to check it out...

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ May 11, 2007 -> 12:14 PM) Liability wise, I find that extremely odd. A lot of companies do it.

For it. Adults making adult decisions. Because one person had to be an idiot, doesn't mean everyone else should have to pay for it. I hate these types of knee-jerk reactions.

Jesse "Black"son is a race baiting POS. Period. He does more harm to their plight than help, because he "forces" the issue, rather than letting people accept it at their own will. This does nothing but cause additional hate and resentment. Kind of how I feel about affirmitive action, perhaps at one time this was necessary, but not today. There are black doctors, lawyers, and scientists because eduation is just as available to them as to someone like myself, who is white, but doesn't have rich parents, either. This favoritism in modern socieity makes me sick. It's ok for them to call people hillbillys, honk-eys, and white-bread...but not the other way around? I have no sympathy for this. "PUSH", appropriately named, because they IMPOSE and PUSH their will upon others because everyone is afraid to call them out on it during this modern day politically correct BS society. And for the record, I don't care what color your skin is, if you're a POS you're a POS.