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In order: Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont and Minnesota. Thank goodness my family moved when we did, or I might have become (Jah forfend) a Carmines fan.

QUOTE(palehose23 @ May 7, 2007 -> 01:44 AM) You want a 'real' CF how about looking on the Northside at Jacque Jones- He is exactly what the Sox need- Lefty pop, decent glove, and hatred for Cubs fans Yuk.

QUOTE(Felix @ May 5, 2007 -> 01:05 AM) I'll be at all the Minnesota games Work (and a trip to DC for my sis's 50th B-day) gets in the way for me during the first series. Will definitely be at some of the second series.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ May 4, 2007 -> 04:14 PM) Just to raise 'em up a crop of. . . Dental Floss [/waits for LCR or Felix. . . ] Gonna be a Dental Toss Flycoon!

Drinking in Strip Joints can be expensive, but being friends with the bar manager and her husband can lessen your tab greatly. As long as you avoid lap dances, that is.

IIRC, Cane Sugar is the most efficient crop for making ethanol and because of political strength of sugar growers in Florida, we can't get cheap sugar to make ethanol. Furthermore, because of the political strength of ADM, we are using corn to make ethanol, and the price of everything food-related is rising as a result. Corn is more expensive? That's why chicken and beef prices are going through the roof. It's a mess, frankly, and to clean it up, a lot of farmers are going to feel the pinch. Since, politically, that's probably not going to happen, we're stuck.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Mar 31, 2007 -> 10:09 AM) Oh and West Ham are going to win 2 in a row, and might just have a chance of avoiding relegation. Looks like I could be wrong about this. 2 to play, and the Hammers are even with Wigan and moving in the right direction. Spurs look to have a shot at the top six as well after handling Boro yesterday -- even with Pompey with a game in hand.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Apr 27, 2007 -> 11:05 PM) College Gamenight needs a new fatman. I'm available.

A Cubs fan of my acquaintance was in my establishment last night and made a comment along the lines of, "Well, now Prior's finally going to get his shoulder fixed and be ready to go next year." I started laughing so hard that one of my co-workers asked me if anything was wrong.

A little added detail from the Minneapolis fishwrap: I think he'll be fined, but the Twins will cover the fine anyway. Obviously, the reason this rule exists is to stop teams in contention from inducing non-contending teams to not play all-out against them. Like SoxBadger said, it'd be different if the Twins swept KC and then rewarded them. Also, in some pre-Black Sox gambling cases, players such as Hal Chase would allegedly bet against their teams and give his starting pitcher gifts if they lost. It's a good rule and needs to be enforced, but the language should be clarified a bit.

From a piece in the New Yorker Magazine.

The Hoops in stripes? Color me confused. Congrats, though.

A panel Sparky never would have drawn, but very funny nonetheless.

Boro takes a point off of Man U. A race to the finish! And, BTW, Spurs equalize in the waning moments against Arsenal. Yes!

Good thread, this. Other Countries I've been to: Spain Costa Rica (Pura Vida!) Canada Other Countries I wish to visit: China Australia Indonesia Thailand Singapore most of Europe most of South America South Africa Cuba most of the Caribbean States I haven't visited: Rhode Island Alabama Mississippi Texas Louisiana Oklahoma Kansas Wyoming Montana Idaho Utah Washington Alaska Hawai'i I'd like to visit all those, too, except for the fact that visiting one of them would ruin a perfectly good joke I've been fond of for a long time. "You know, I'm getting married right after I get back from Texas" "Really? When are you going to Texas?" "I'm never going to Texas!"

No Goose Gossage? I call shenanigans!

QUOTE(shoota @ Apr 14, 2007 -> 06:29 PM) Tom Kelly. GMAB.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 13, 2007 -> 12:24 PM) When you think of baseball in Chicago you think of the White Sox. When you think of tourist detiniations in Chicago you think of Wrigley Field. Alas, this is true. When my friends talk about going to Chicago during the summer, they want to plan their trip around a Cubs game. Been there, done that. No thanks.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Apr 13, 2007 -> 11:49 AM) When you base your life's work on insulting people (which is what he does) eventually that will bite you in the ass. That's exactly the conclusion I reached. If the basis for your paycheck is busting other people's chops, don't be surprised if your chops get busted.

One of my faves as well. He's actually still alive on Trafalmadore in a display with Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack, and he always will be.

Nice job, Kap! Pop yourself a little bubbly, or at least a can of Pearl!

QUOTE(FLsouthsider @ Apr 9, 2007 -> 04:39 PM) Baseball and the media work symbiotically, for better or worse. Do you not think that the organization gets anything in return for these "free seats?" Are there writers that show up just to go? Probably, but the beat writers have a job to do, day-in, day-out (and that includes, obviously, visiting media. what a great way to represent the city). I think reducing things to "free seats" is a terrible argument. Writers are there to write. They don't charge me $15 to walk in the door at my job, I don't see why baseball would, either. And if they made some changes at my office that made it more difficult to do my job (and against what every other business in that industry was doing), I'd probably complain, too. Let's see, the media still gets the media guides, the notes for each day's game, full access to the players before and after each game, an enclosed, heated area to work from (with full internet access), etc., etc. The one thing that's changed? Instead of having a fabulous view of the game, they now have a very good view. If the collective media starts downgrading the Sox because their vantage point in the ballpark is changed, then those men and women have some serious growing up to do.

It makes me laugh whenever I hear a sportswriter grouse about how hard it is to do his or her job. I think war correspondents have it a little rougher. As I once heard someone admonish a sportswriter, "Hey, Ernie Pyle got stories out of Anzio, don't tell me how rough you have it." If writers find it too difficult to get their stories done in the new press box, maybe they should find another job.

QUOTE(bmags @ Apr 8, 2007 -> 10:16 PM) unfortunately. the obsession with pbr has always confused me. Next hipster beer: Hamm's. Book it.

Any recognizable archetypes here?