Chi Town Sox

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 09:28 PM) Watching the Cubs right now. Other than the immortal Clayton Kershaw, is their pitcher in the NL 25 and under better than Gallardo? You can't hit this dude when he's not walking guys. Jurjjens, Tommy Hanson, Jhoulys Chacin, Bumgarner, Latos. Proabably not better but damn there is some sick young pitching

My buddy is getting married soon and I am Mr Know it All of downtown dining, bars and clubs but am trying to find the best spot for around 40 guys to go out one night. This is a pretty large group and we want to find a good spot to have a party. Anyone have any good experiences going downtown with a group this large? Can't say I ever have other than a baseball game or something but obviously this is different. Thanks!

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Jun 14, 2011 -> 10:24 PM) It looks like a flower. Hope you saw the pricetag on that flower!

How about a nice Chopard? http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/chopard201watch.html

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 9, 2011 -> 10:38 AM) He probably met a woman... I actually know an ex-Sox Pride Girl that was seeing him for a while LOL

Dispatch was pretty sweet last night, hot as hell outside last night!

So I was given an offer from a company to oversee their operations in a certain business outlet of which nobody at the company has a clue how to deal with (so right away I am in the drivers seat) and I can make a substantial amount of money doing. The issue is.... I was offered a base salary and generous bonus' and commissions on quotas to meet which I like. However, If I don't make a quota (which in this line of business, can be very difficult as the customer can get the product in numerous different ways other than in the configuration of how he would like me to sell it) he had proposed taking deduction out of my BASE SALARY for any quotas not met. I had let him know that I will not accept this He had then proposed that any quota not met will then be deducted out of a future commission check had the quota been met for that respective month, saying that he wants to make sure that they are not wasting their $ on my base salary, training, etc. (even though he knows that my current job has a HIGHER base salary than what I would make there, I am obviously not content with that if I am deciding to leave.) Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? Deducting a commission based quota out of a base salary or even a future commission check? WTF? I was always under the assumption that you get paid for what you sell but I do not know if this is something new that I have never heard of.

I am in a keeper league and was just offered his Josh Hamilton (7th round) for my Jon Lester (4th round). I needed a pitcher bad so I kept Lester in this rotisserie league, I am in first by about 10 points right now, pitching is a huge strength with 10's in every category except for WHIP which is 7. Hitting can definitely be upgraded but Josh Hamilton plays with reckless abandon as we all know. C. Miguel Montero 1B. Billy Butler 2B. Brandon Phillips 3B. Alex Rodgriguez SS. Hanley Ramirez and Yunel Escobar OF. Jay Bruce OF. Drew Stubbs OF. Alex Gordon UTIL. Neil Walker DL. Ryan Zimmerman SP's. Lester Hamels Shields Gio Brett Anderson Morrow Chacin Lilly RP's Hanrahan Madson Melancon Salas League I know this is a great deal for me with my pitching depth but the big question is about Hamilton's health...what does everyone think? I would have keepers galore that I could move at the end of the year to fix a weakness for the stretch run. (Hanley 1, Zimmerman 13, Bruce 6, Stubbs 22, Hamilton 7, Gordon 22, Walker 22) unfortunately we can only keep 4. I have also run by trade talk for Neil Walker for Billingsley or Bumgarner just to have a pitcher back. Thanks

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 18, 2011 -> 10:17 AM) There is no way for you test out of any of that? That's crappy. Yeah I would think that you could test out of something that you speak on a regular basis. I have been in school way to long to have this happen to me so I am not a happy camper right now. Although it would be pretty sweet if I was allowed to skip it

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ May 9, 2011 -> 09:56 PM) I'm headed to Denver for 8 days next week for lacrosse and we'll have a lot of down time between games. Any suggestions on things to do or see in the city? I'm thinking about going to a Rockies game on Monday night. Sorry I never saw this, yeah Coors Field is sick. Pretty cool area around there too after the games

So summer is my last semester and I had a one last required Marketing class to take, I discover it is not available for the second straight semester. I am able to take another marketing class in its place per my advisor, I am all signed up a couple months back and take a look today, and the class is now cancelled (I have taken all of the other marketing classes). WTF, anyone else ever have an issue like this? I hope desperately that this does not affect me being done in 2 months!

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ May 17, 2011 -> 01:13 AM) lmao. He said Fizer. I forgot that bum existed. Dalibor Bagaric anyone?

QUOTE (zenryan @ May 15, 2011 -> 05:55 PM) It has nothing to do with him being a non Sox player. He went from a guy hitting 16 home runs in 120-140 games to hitting 54 in a season and now 16 in 32 games. But yeah, now that there is steroid testing it must mean every player is clean... I'm not saying he does or does not but the man never had proper mechanics until early last year, he has always had power potential but if you have no proper mechanics and refuse to change them, what good is your power potential? Noone knows except for him though

So I guess Cowherd announced before his break that Hendry has been fired, then after the break came back and said he was sorry for speaking on speculation and not facts. More where that came from?

Is Adam Lind really back? I am thinking about dropping Neil Walker for him because I already have A-Rod, Zimmerman and Alex Gordon

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 07:31 PM) You will love it I promise. Their drink list is amazing as is the food of course. I LOVE Owen & Engine.. Nothing like fish n' chips along with a glass of some Sierra Nevada Big Foot.. Or a bottle of Duvel Tripel Hop if im feeling frugal I have dreams about those fish n chips, we had that bacon and egg sandwich as well as the roasted bone marrow. Everything was awesome

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Apr 19, 2011 -> 12:41 PM) Last night for dinner before heading to the bulls game I went to longman and eagle and thoroughly enjoyed a glass of La Chouffe and Westmalle Triple and topped it off with a delicious pork belly confit... i felt like i was in heaven I gotta check that place out, I've been to Owen & Engine and that was delicious

Wild Hare closing...forever http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-04...-gong-exedus-ii So sad

Just got tix for Saturdays game in Indy for $28 and a $66 4 star hotel! Hopefully they sweep them and end it while I am there

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 02:02 PM) 1st item is checking to see if you can create/write and read/understand requirements and documents and make them work for software development. Similar question sometimes asked is, "explain to a cave man how to build a car". Second item is ripped off from an annual contest among writers, I forget who runs it, but its the same thing. Some of my fave words I've heard from thatt: The Dopeler Effect - the idea that stupid ideas are somehow smarter when spoken very quickly Deifinestration - throwing all talk of God out the window Doltergeist - a spirit that decides to haunt some place stupid, like your toilet DIOS - the one true operating system Or something like that. Yeah that was from the Washington Post, i like Giraffiti - vandalism written very very high* LMAO

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Apr 15, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) That's the beer garden located within a 5 minute walk from my hostel, we are going there tomorrow. I'll definitely take some pics and post them. I went on a brewery tour in Bruges, I'll have to see the pics and if they are good I'll post them too. I've had a few local beers, nothing special so far since they have been pretty cheap, but looking forward to going out and trying more tonight and tomorrow. So far we've only hit up the historical/cultural part, going to the museums and taking a 4 hour walking tour. Also pretty cool that the NATO meetings on Libya are taking place here right now, and the amount of police out right now is astounding. I don't know about you man but after drinking all those beers I'd be hitting up those famous Berlin clubs! Berghain, Watergate, Robert Johnson or Weekend

Had a mini "online interview" a few days back for a software company where they asked me two question. One of them to speak as a turtle in the 1st person and talk about the turtle's biggest accomplishment As well as take any word in the dictionary and add, subtract or change up to two letters of the word and create a new definition. Good stuff

Just read on Sarah Spain's fb that if this season happens, Bears vs. TB in LONDON

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Apr 11, 2011 -> 10:07 AM) I was just bored and flipping through channels on Friday- have the Foo Fighters really gotten that big that they warrant selling out Wembley? Is Monkey Wrench such a fantastic song that it justifies a drawn out 6 minute finale? They seem like such a "meh" band to me. I'll admit I haven't given them an extended listen, but thats only because what I've heard is so vanilla. I have seen MANY huge bands in concert and they are definitely in my top 3 of live performances I have seen

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont...4?urn=nba-wp975 What a scumbag, Grant should be forced to and allowed to spit back at him openly