SleepyWhiteSox

QUOTE(Steff @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 12:14 PM) So... you began to notice and keep track of the media bias against the Sox.. even though you were a Cub fan till 2003...? :rolly Dun dun dun! Feels like a soap opera revelation.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 12:09 PM) If anything, the tide has been turned now against male Caucasians. Oh, please...

QUOTE(Pods22 @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 11:51 AM) bang away...you are like the preacher guy in front of old navy on state street. talk and talk and talk and only a few people stop to listen! That guy has been out there for years...

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 06:46 PM) Oh, I'm not denying that it hasn't happened. I'm sure it has. However, penalizing people like me (who had nothing to do with it) is completely asinine. Like Nuke said, two wrongs don't make a right... especially when you're penalizing people for something that other people 30, 50, or 100 years ago did. What's next? Slave reparations? :headshake You keep talking in the past tense and mentioning "30, 50, or 100 years ago" as if it's something that would not or does not happen today... I agree with the general principle of affirmative action although I'll also agree that I, too, don't like to see it misused and/or taken advantage of.

Is that link still for the same article?

QUOTE(minors @ Jun 14, 2006 -> 01:03 AM) Yes right again. Adoption is such a good option why kill a child when there is such a good alternative that works out well for the mother as well as the child. I just don't see how this could be a choice only if the mothers life is in danger or maybe in the case rape or incest. The only other reasons to get an abortion is to serve selfish purposes and will judged accordingly when the time comes. I'm no adoption expert but I get the feeling that their are way more unadopted children in the system then there are families adopting...I think that the situation would only get way, way, way, way worse...

QUOTE(Jenks Heat @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 04:40 PM) The food at the stand alone brat & kosher dog stands seem undercooked and the onions are not really grilled but placed on the grill. They used to be oily. Maybe I need to look around a little more. Still like the beer though. The buns have seemed weeks-old the last couple of times for me...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 05:40 PM) Apples and oranges. These two have nothing to do with each other. Never said they did. I clearly stated that I just considered them to be equal in nature.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 13, 2006 -> 04:16 PM) Couldn't have said it better myself. I've seen numerous instances of female and/or minoritiy candidates (who are underrepresented in my field) receive job offers, while more-qualified white males who interviewed for the same positions received "Thank you for your interest" letters. None of these under-represented people were significantly "disadvantaged" in comparison to their white male counterparts. Affirmative actions creats feelings of inferiority in those who benefit from it and feelings of hostility in everyone else. Not to mention that it fails to accomplish the most important thing: selecting the best person for the position. I think it's naive to think that qualified minorities have never and are never denied employment or completely overlooked based on race, religion, or sex, which is why such laws have had to be implemented in the first place. I also question your whole "feeling inferior" idea...I'm sure plenty of people are just happy to get a good job no matter how they had to get it...Incapable and underqualified people aren't being hired; there are general standards for every job. Personally, I would kinda equate affirmative action when being used to hire someone less qualified than another candidate as equal to all those underqualified people who get jobs because of who they know (most city jobs, for example) and not what they're capable of. Just a thought.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 04:20 PM) Isnt the world championship of paper rock scissors on tonight? Sadly, I think they did show some of that during the world series of poker...

Anybody know or hear what that red shirt Ozzie wears under his jersey is about?

I like when the people in front of and around me leave early or don't show up. It's nice to stretch out towards the end of a game. And I definitely left early at the opener with absolutely no regrets...there was no way I was gonna be at the ballpark past midnight on a Sunday with an early morning the next day...

Combining a lack of effort with an mls quality of play sure made for a bad game...Maybe they shoulda watched the end of the Australia-Japan game for some inspiration... Great World Cup so far...I'm luvin' it...

QUOTE(MSHAWKS @ Jun 12, 2006 -> 02:21 PM) Even if the player is a starter with a batting average south of .200 who can't seem to turn a double play anymore? I think what's trying to be cut out is stupid and ignorant personal comments/attacks like saying all he's good for lately is impregnating his wife...

Yep, they sell them in some ice cream trucks and carts.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Jun 10, 2006 -> 08:53 PM) How isn't this Sox related? Are you calling Jonathon Brandmeier a communist!?!? More of a marxist/leninist/stalinist...

What a f***in' pussy for making those comments...all he had to do was continue to try to work things out and keep quiet to keep my support and the support of many other fans, I'm sure, but instead he comes up with these prima donna rich athlete comments...I HATE that type of attitude... Unless he's gonna return his paychecks, I have absolutely NO sympathy.

QUOTE(SnB @ Jun 10, 2006 -> 07:42 PM) OH MY GOD i have been singing that all day, my coworkers thought i was nuts. http://media.wlup.com/AV/video/tv_spot/jb_tv_5-06.mov All that would have fit better here... Horrible commercial. The construction worker did look like a fat brian anderson though...

QUOTE(MSHAWKS @ Jun 10, 2006 -> 08:13 PM) The only thing he has been good at lately is impregnating his wife. :headshake

I'm gonna go 20% Brian's catch - 80% Dye's hitting for this win...

Wouldn't even be much of an issue if he was hitting at least slightly above .200...but we have noone anywhere remotely close to his slick glove in center so we have to endure the automatic out and enjoy the piece of mind that he'll get it done with his glove out there...

QUOTE(Cknolls @ May 31, 2006 -> 01:39 PM) GENO'S SAYS: SPEAK ENGLISH By Michelle Malkin · May 31, 2006 12:01 AM If you know Philadelphia, you know Geno's. Best cheesesteaks in the world. Reader Willie S. sends word via the Philly Inquirer that Joey Vento, the grandson of Italian-born immigrants who owns Geno's, is taking a stand for assimilation and against illegal immigration. The Inquirer does its best to knock down Vento, but his blunt Philly style overrides the paper's wishy-washy open-borders slant: How do you say cheesesteak with in Spanish? Joseph Vento, the owner of Geno's Steaks, doesn't know. And he doesn't care. Just read the laminated signs, festooned with American eagles, at his South Philadelphia cheesesteak emporium: This is America. When Ordering, Speak English. Vento's political statement - from a man whose Italian-born grandparents spoke only broken English - captures the anger and discontent felt by many Americans about illegal immigrants... ...The Ventos rarely left their South Philadelphia neighborhood. Now, in a way, the neighborhood has left the couple's descendants. Geno's sits at Ninth and Passyunk, the hub of Little Italy turned home to thousands of Mexicans. Some try to order a cheesesteak. And it bugs Vento if they can't ask for American cheese, provolone or the classic - Cheez Whiz - without pointing. "If you can't tell me what you want, I can't serve you," he said. "It's up to you. If you can't read, if you can't say the word cheese, how can I communicate with you - and why should I have to bend? "I got a business to run." Vento, who lives in Shamong, put up the signs when the immigration debate seized national headlines six months ago. With Geno's Steaks tattooed on his arm, Vento is used to publicizing things, especially what's on his mind. Speak English signs also poster his Hummer. He has driven through South Philadelphia blaring through the SUV's P.A. system denunciations of neighborhood business owners who hire illegal immigrants. "I say what everybody's thinking but is afraid to say," Vento said. Amen!!!!! He should follow his own sign and not butcher the English language with a horrible south philly accent and speech...

2-0 Ecuador. Lots of sad faces in the stands. Both games were fun to watch.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 12:08 PM) Jon pitched well last night... right up the point where he gave up that second two-run dinger. In other words, he pitched bad?

That was a jennifer grey-ish move... Looks like she filled in/shaved down the Popeye chin too?