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QUOTE(2nd_city_saint787 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 04:25 PM) Hey whats goin on white sox fan just like to introduce myself. The names Aaron im from Hammond and I've been a sox fan for 18 years...I was wondering if anyone was an ESPN insider, under rumor central they showed a picture of Contreras and it said arms deal i was wondering if an insider could tell me what thats all about. Also if there is any other rumor swirling around about the sox I'd love to hear it. Welcome to soxtalk. I dont have Insider but I am sure that whatever rumor is in the insider its been hashed and rehashed in Tejada Talk(I mean tradewinds)

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 11:47 AM) If Stalin was on display, people would come. Of course the Democrats would love to see one of their socialist idealists in person.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 10:56 AM) Just a fun topic of discussion in the politcal arena. Who are some of your favorite politicians that ran for president, but failed to get out of the primaries with their party's endorsement? They can be from either major party, or even an independent. Explanations of what you liked are great. Bonus points for obscurity. I'll start with a few that I liked over the years for various different reasons... Paul Tsongas John McCain Dennis Kucinich I liked all three, for different reasons, though they all shared some things in common (believe it or not). One thing: they all seemed more real to me than other candidates. You got the impression that the level of B.S. coming from them was lower than the rest. Dennis Kucinich is just Ross Perot with a better toupe and a few cans of red bull.

People watch the 700 club still?

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 02:20 PM) I never understand how people get so f***ing fat. Are they really that lazy? This poll really makes me annoyed, this is one thing I wish we didn't beat houston in. Is it that hard to 1) Put the fork down? 2) get to the gym? I understand that there are rare cases where people have medical problems thyrod being one of them, but with that said..This is something I am embrassed to say I live here. Its funny, at every single gym probably in the chicagoland area. The week after new years eve you have a hard time getting on a machine at some gyms. Everyone working out. Give it a month. The New Years resolutioners have given up and are back on the couch watching TV and eating the bon bons. At least that is how it is at most ballys' and at lifetime fitness. I will be back up in the front row of the treadmills in 3 weeks again like I was the week before Christmas. .

Good news. We squeak by with a win in game 2. What a f***ing joke this simulation is. White Sox win 5-4 Something tells me the Japanese factor is overdramatized in this simulation. Gooch hits a grand slam in the 9th to walk off for the win.. We were down 4-1 going into the bottom of the ninth. Buerhle then Hermanson? Hermanson wouldnt be our first option in a 3-1 game in the 9th. It would be Cliffy or Cotts. Aso 2 steals with Buerhle pitching.

Lets break this down. Translates to: I called into WGN radio and tossed out my Tejada to the sox idea like every other goofy fan that calls into the radio. Now Kaplan said the sox arent interested. My source is andytheclown of 11 posts on soxtalk. He said his dad is one of the owners so it must be legit. Maybe his dad was mad at him or something and gave him bad info. Kaplan thinks that his Cubs crappy propsect is gold because of course he works for WGN. Baltimore wants all crappy cubs prospects. And outfield of Pie and Patterson will bring respectiblility to the Orioles. LOL I will comb more webboards, maybe Andytheclown1 is going to post a response. I need to get my details quick. I went on NSBB and there was a slew of great material for trades. That Felix Pie is the next Barry Bonds. BTW on MLBtraderumors.com they have a post a rumor. I want to make up a rumor to send him, my source is my fathers barbers sisters boyfriend who worked as a security guard at the cell, who once tackled a drunk who knew Willie Harris(you know a great source) that the Sox are trading Borchard and Broadway, and Uribe for Tejada.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 10:45 AM) This is the new update. I guess his source was wrong, go figure. WILL THE REAL ANDY THE CLOWN PLEASE STAND UP! The entire cubs tejada deal is hinging on a crappy cubs prospect. Thats a laugher.

QUOTE(rowand's rowdies @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 01:30 AM) will someone write them and tell them how rediculous this is? this is a huge smack in the face to the MLB and the WHite Sox. If they can honestly claim the Cafe Raisians have a better offense than like said the Red Sawks or Angels, they are retarded and should not consider being rehired for a baseball writers position. Not only do they say the Sox lose, at home, but they lose 10-1, with the marines best hitter, a washed up utility player, goes 0-4. the whole MLB basically couldn't hit Contreras, but the 2nd to 9th best hitters on this japanese team can? f***in wow. I bet if they put the same numbers together and ran the simulation against the red sox and the angels. We get swept by the red sox by scores of 27-1, 18-2, 14-4. We never see the angels. The redsox beat the crap out of them, and oh glory the RED SAWX are CHAMPS AGAIN. Thank you Bill James and the tards who wrote that crappy software.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Jan 6, 2006 -> 12:29 AM) This doesn't shock me at all. Listen, I have a ton of respect for female athletes, they could whoop me at their chosen sport, however, when playing males with skills in those sports they will get beat. If there was checking allowed it would have been a much bigger span than 2-1. I have gotten into major arguments with people about what would happen if the UConn woman's B-Ball team would play a boys high school team with any decent level of talent. The guys would simply wipe the floor with them. As great as female basketball players are, all the men would have to do is turn it into a track meet and be physical on the boards. The Jenny Finch thing with her pitching to MLB players on the weekly show is misleading IMO as well. If the MLB players warmed up for a few minutes they would hit her well. To back this up, when Finch was on Kimmel's show they had her pitch to Jimmy and Cousin Sal, now they obviously struggled, as I would, but the guest that night was Warren Sapp, who, while not a baseball player is a professional athlete. He fouled her off immediately, and not tippers, he was fouling them straight back. He was also doing this in dress shoes. On a side note, this obviously flustered Finch and she attempted to throw him a change-up on about the 6th pitch to fool Sapp, but it didn't work. Have a high school kid throw a baseball at the 40 feet distance and they can repeat the amazing Jenny Finch strikeout stats. And 85 mph fastball coming in that distance would look like Bobby Jenks on crack.

High School boys team defeats Womens Olympic team 2-1 Score in Exhibition

QUOTE(G&T @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 04:18 PM) uh oh Things looked bad in this one. More baseball prospectus bulls***. All of a sudden our best pitcher of the 2nd half. A guy who shut down juggernaut Boston offenses gets rocked by this team. And Benny Agbayani goes 3 for 5. GMAFB. Whatever crappy logic they are using to simulate this outside of Bill James Xbox, they need to return it or recode it.

The official Patch is out If you have automatic updates it should come down. But go to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and update your system manually is the best bet. If you want to get the patches directly hit the microsoft site below. Microsoft releases the patch At least Mr. Bill finally figured out when you are trumping your new OS Vista at CES its probably not a good idea to have a huge hole in your existing OS and then try to trump the next version as oober secure. Just as they did with the last few versions of their OS>

QUOTE(innersanctum @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 02:24 PM) Is the person or people that run mlbtraderumors.com from Chicago or are they a national site? I ask because most of the stuff I read on there pertains to Chicago baseball and the latest thing on there has Baltimore offering Tejada for Contreras, Uribe, Sweeny and Woodson. BTW this is all public record crap with web registration. The registrar of mlbtraderumors.com is Tim Dierkes in Lombard This is probably why this is so sox/cubs based. But something that is interesting is . Tim Dierkes is quoted in foxsports rotoauthority.com has the Same address, same registrar So while his sources seem to some web boards. He does operate a few websites and has written some articles for foxsports in their fantasy sports area. He also seems to be a contributor to rotoworld. So if in fact he is one and the same, maybe its not all conjecture and bulls***. I still find using message boards as a printed source a bit dicey at best. It wil be interesting to keep an eye out on how many of his predictions comes true, versus reporting after the fact.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 01:53 PM) Agreed that the Church's rules about contraception are silly in some ways, but most of the Catholics I know use them anyway. And, as I said, it's not like the Catholic Church has their own secret police who survey that goings-on in bedrooms in Africa. Africa's problem isn't one of birth control. It's one of behavior. If women were treated like human beings over there, rather than possessions and sexual objects, the HIV epidemic would be much less severe. Well its it the fault of the catholic church that the 13 year old girl gets raped in Africa because the older man thinks that he can get rid of his aids by having sex with a virgin. You know if that guy had raped her with a condom on he would be ok. But he couldnt wear the rubber as it is a sin. Damn you catholic church. Sex with a virgin can cure HIV' Under myths/

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 01:42 PM) Yeah Flaxx and I spun the Truth that the anti-contraceptive campaign has been partially responsible for the spread of the global AIDS pandemic, increased overpopulation etc., that the Church apparatus knowingly abetted child rapists for 40+ years and moved them into new communities where their crimes were unknown, shielding these evil bastards from civil authorities. If you want to talk about idiotic messages, at least I'm not acting as an apologist for an institution that has been part of mass exterminations and coddled men who molested and raped small children. (And no MrEye, this isn't about you and other Catholics...this is purely about those who are apologists for the Church apparatus, failing to see that it has a helluva lot of blood on its hands) Again here is a bit of hypocracy that the church shouldnt be responsible for the myth that the Catholic church is responsible for the spread of global aids. If a person is so oober religious that they must listen to the edict about anti-contraceptive. How are they getting aids. Yes their husband/wife could be a hemophiliac or got it through a blood transfusion. But for it to be about the contraceptives it must be through poking everything around. So they are so moral that "I cant wear a rubber because its against the church" and then 10 minutes later, "Well Kelly its time to get it on, I know we are not married and that is against the teachings of the catholic church, but at least I am not wearing a rubber so I am good to go. 2 sins gets me to hell, but 1 doesnt."

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 01:26 PM) I just want to add to what Southsider said here. We are working on figuring out just what exactly the lines are on this forum. Obviously we created this forum and you all were going to have more rope. We don't monitor this forum much and there will obviously be times where you see something you totally hate and disagree with and eventually you'll have to walk away from it and ignore it and move on to another discussion. Thats just a fact of life in the filabuster. Where we stand on this forum, what are the limits, we don't exactly know. However, there are two ways we can go with this: 1. We can get more strict and tone things down which could essentially take away from the point of this forum (which was to encourage all out debate and at times people may go totally off the deep end; and while that comment may be totally wrong in most of our opinions or overly harsh it could in fact stirr up quite a bit of other side debate and intelligent debate). 2.We could keep things very loose and essentially keep this a free-reign forum. The obvious pro is that pretty much all discussion is allowed (aside from porn) or anything that would get this site or an indvidual in trouble but at the same time you will have the occasional comment or topic that totally goes against what you stand for (whether religious beliefs, politcial beliefs, or on what you feel is the proper sexual orienatation). Whether you guys like to admit it or not, there isn't a middle ground on this issue/forum because once we start going in and modding it turns back into a cesspool and it will basically further prove the original point I had when I essentially dumped political topics (the fact that people can't ignore their own personal agenda's for 2 seconds instead of listen, respond and end it at that; All too many times people take it too far and obviously that happens but in this new forum you all can do what you all, which is basically what you wanted in the first place. I like this forum how it works and vote for option 2. I can think that LCR is dead wrong on an issue, but respect his right to post it. I like this forum because I like to argue/debate and with all of the pinko leftist liberals(maybe that shouldnt be green) I get my chance to debate/argue. This forum is not for children, the weak of heart, or for those who are afraid to express their opinions. Its SLaP on steroids. LCR is enttitled to his opinion, however wrong it may be . I know when I read his posts that I am probably not going to agree with it. We are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to thoughts about religion, politics and all. I am not for censoring his opinion. My only hope is that this forum keeps the fair tide when all types of discussions begin. Something that I may post might and probably will offend those on the left. When they read my posts I am sure they have a clue what they are getting and my stylings as a poster in this forum. The mod team in this forum are mainly from the left, which I know doesnt encompass the majority of the admin team. As long as they are not quick to close threads they dont agree with, then I am cool with it. Like I have a say in it anyways . The only threads that should be offtopic are those that are personal attacks in nature, or those that involve the posting of porn(But if you have some porn please send it to me

QUOTE(Random @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 12:48 PM) I have faith in my Norton Anti-Virus. If i blocks a virus, the damn thing goes crazy for hours until i finally install the live updates, because it cannot do it itself due to the virus. So, no virus is getting in my computer. that video is stupid, why would you go to a site knowing it will give you spyware :rolly Your assesment of "I have anti-virus therefore no harm can happen to me" is short sighted and a good way your machine becomes a b**** of the botnets on the internet. Your anti-virus engine scans memory and your systems for "known" pieces of malware. However someone crafting something that isnt "known" can get into your system. The WFM vulnerability is known, however techniques to exploit that in a code base are not known. As they are comming out the antivirus industry is doing a great job of "reacting" to this, however Anti-virus does not equal "protection" for your computer. And that video is not stupid. Actually its a great video because it shows what a possible infection can look like. It shows you a person getting exploited on a website. With ad rotation, and misdirected URLs, are you absolutely positive that you are not going to get a piece of adware/malware dropped down on your system. You can surf and hit a very respectible website who sells add space on their website that drops cookies down on your system. These cookies can assist logic on the webpage or partner ad site, to redirect your "popups" and ads. DonkeyKongerko: I have installed the patch on a test system and took a look at what it does to the system, registry and files. It looks relatively safe. I still wont install it at my work, because the idea of deploying this via 5000 pcs without WSUS is not worth the risk. So far so good with the mitigation.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 12:30 PM) http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/05/t...reut/index.html If you dont like it, change the channel. Dont deprive others of watching something because you dont agree with it. aaahhhhh censorship Just like Southpark. I fully expect that the religious factions would protest these items, just like other groups protest tv shows because it offends their cause. But I dont expect TV entities to pull it off the air. If someone doesnt like it, turn the channel. They need to be a bit stronger than this. I suspect that Anti-Ninja activist were the reason that my favorite show "The Master" was killed in 1984. What happened to Max Keller, did he become a ninja, did he pick up girls in his pimped out A team rip off van. Why didnt his hamster escape considering it was running loose in the van. I was robbed of my answers. Damn anti-Ninja facists. For all those who are too young to remember the Ninja show movement of the early 80's

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 10:52 PM) I wish I could've seen it. The episode was funny, search on the net you can find it.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 09:02 PM) As I said before there are some Catholics that I respect. I just find it hilarious that Sleepy et al. seem to be defenders of an organization that coddled rapists and those complicit in mass exterminations. I find it ironic that you can argue for drugs, socialism, anti-americanism, all things left because you feel that you are so open and understanding....but the minute a catholic crosses your path thats when you just have to draw the line, all catholics except for a few are evil people that are responsible for the worlds evils. Its the socialist doubletalk twostep. I am sure that we can find evil actions by all societies throughout history. But please cherry pick the evil catholics and their plight to destroy the earth. No catholic unless they are delusional supports priests raping children. I think those priests should be excommunicated and tried for their crimes. However who the hell are you to judge all catholics and lump them in because of your biggoted anti-religion view. The church isnt preaching for the spread of aids. What a myopic view you have of this issue. GMAFB, If these poor african people are truly such good little catholics that they have to sit by doctrine law and dont use birth control, then what the hell are they doing having sex outside of the confines of marriage. So there goes the misconception that aids in africa is the problem of the church and their stance on birth control, because if they decide to go poking around outside of marriage then they can put on a rubber. Maybe you can build a time machine and enjoy the roman empire and how they treated the catholics.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 05:58 PM) We scored plenty of runs in 02, 03 and 04. We know how each of those season's ended. I don't care who we add, the strength of this team is the pitching staff. If they fall off, it doesn't matter how many runs we score. How many division titles would we have one if we had the current pitching staff with that offense. I am sorry but when you are marching out a crappy 5th starter that is basically an automatic loss ever couple of games you arent going to win a division with that. We had a bad offense for most of the year last year. We had a great pitching staff, great defense and a bad o. In the playoffs our O got hot at the right time. But to just say, well lets not get an upgrade to the O because we won last year is a bit short sited. Planning on Crede who hits at a .240 to .250 clip and Uribe who was so inconsistant they had to work with him over and over to get him to stop spinning like a tasmanian devil at the plate. If we get Tejada and mix it in our lineup it becomes even better. We get something we didnt have at all last year, a proven .300 plus hitter who has power. He makes contact also, which means that when Pods and Gooch are on, Tejada will get the line moving. It also makes Konerko and Thome better. How many times did we mess around with the 3 hole last year. It was a big problem spot. We can fix that and make our lineup more dangerous. We can also do this without hurting our pitching or our defense. Its a great move if we can pull it off.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 02:40 PM) I think that Israel cannot and would not decimate Tehran or any large population centers in Iran. If you think about the consequences of that, there is no good end for Israel. What I think is very likely to happen, though, is that Israel will probably destroy any and all sites of possible production of said weapons, and they'll do it very soon, before they are completed. Because once they are out there, there would be no way to reliably destroy them. Any attack to do so, once there are a few complete weapons roaming around the Iranian desert, is a crapshoot. You miss, and they'll fire. And it would only take 3 or 4 nukes to turn all of Israel into a big glass parking lot. Israel will strike the production facilities and vehicle (aka LR missle) facilities, once they have the intel to do so as completely as possible. If they can't make that happen before the weapons are completed, they won't attack at all. If they fail to pre-empt, they will re-assert their own nuclear presence in public and make sure Iran knows any missle attack would result in Tehran being destroyed. So in short, I'd say the only three possible outcomes of this are: 1. Isreal destroys Iran's programs the mid-east boils over even further conventionally, 2. Iran backs down, or 3. Iran gets the weapons before Israel can get to them, and the mid-east becomes a cold nuclear war. I suppose an argument could be made for one other scenario - Iran moves further to the political right, thinks they can get the nukes onto Israeli soil without detectable methods like missles or planes, and literally tries to wipe them off the map in one stroke. If that happens... I don't even want to think about it. What will most likely happen will be some sort of air strike against suspected iranian nuclear facilities. The only nukes that will be used in this will be bunker busters with low yield weapons. The only way this becomes Tehran glowing in the dark is if a response happens from Iran where a WMD hits Israel(chemical, biological, or nuclear). At that point all bets are off. Now as for iran taking out israel. Sure that could happen. But with the large assortment of tactical and large scale nuclear weapons that the israelies have. They could literally take out the entire middle east and then some. MAD will not work in this scenario. The Russians didnt openly talk about the destruction of Washington. They didnt say they wanted Idaho wiped off the face of the earth. I am convinced that the minute Iran gets a workable weapon it detonates in some manner over some part of Israel.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 02:03 PM) If there is actual evidence, the IAEA has not seen it. The best evidence seemed to come a few years ago when the IAEA found 1 trace of highly enriched uranium on a centrifuge, but upon detailed examination they determined that the trace came from Pakistan, where the centrifuges were made. The IAEA has expressed concern about Iran's activities, but at least as of basically last year, all of the facilities the IAEA knew about and inspected showed no signs of uranium enriched to weaponized levels. North Korea, for example, is a different story...when you reprocess fuel rods to extract plutonium, there are distinct signals - radiogenic gases which are released (I believe the key one was Xenon, but I could be mistaken). Those signals were clearly detected in samples taken along the DMZ right after th ey removed the IAEA cameras a few years ago. They clearly reprocessed the stuff, and are in possession of enriched plutonium. The reality with Iran is this...they've taken some of the actions they would have taken had they been trying to develop a bomb - i.e. building nuclear facilities, getting agreements to produce others. But they've also done some things you wouldn't do - i.e. allowing IAEA inspections of uranium enriching sites, and placing multi-monthlong holds on uranium enrichment to allow for time for negotiations. The U.S. continues to insist that Iran's fossil fuel resources mean that Iran has no need of a nuclear power program, since nuclear power would cost them more than their fossil fuels. But aside from that, the U.S. has never presented any concrete evidence of a uranium bomb program, nor has the IAEA ever found any. Without that, I think the only logical choice is to maintain a rational amount of skepticism of the claims of both sides until one of them comes forward with some firm evidence. Sure Iran is just trying to make sure that Tehran has enough light. Dont worry, when they attempt to weaponize the uranium and the Israelies get wind of it. Tehran glows in the dark forever. The END, forget brinksmanship, forget MAD, the minute Iran gets even on the path to building a nuclear weapon Israel makes them cease to exist.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) This is why I own a generator. I hook up the fridge and the TV. Its one thing to lose some food in a fridge or to go without electricity for a few days missing out on tv or the computer. But its another thing when your sump pump goes all the time year round, and if you lose power for a while your basement will flood. Forget the destruction to property, you have to deal with mold mitigation and other health issues. I lost power over the summer for a few days and had a backup sump pump going. Of course when you lose power, it starts to rain and rain hard. The backup power was out of juice after 12 hours. So I went up and got my generator. Making sure the generator was running so the pump would go, waking up in the middle of the night scared because you hear the silence knowning your sump pump wasnt going, running down to refuel it and start it up. When the lights finally went on I was thrilled.