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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 29, 2005 -> 12:07 PM) Listed in a Reuters news report as posted on Yahoo: "It's blustery." Really?

My dad wouldn't do it, but I'd do it in a heartbeat. And there'd be lots of those, I imagine.

I hate quoting myself, but I posted this in another thread... IIRC, there are two guns, one which is 3-4 MPH faster than the other. I think I remember someone saying that Seattle has the fast gun. Either way 102 is fast. I would have liked to see Sexon retired, too, but you know what, all you glass-half-empty guys? The Sox won the ballgame.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Aug 28, 2005 -> 12:04 AM) 102 Hell yes! I had just finished work (slow night) when Bobby came in. I said to some friends, "Watch this guy, he can really bring it." 100, 102. Friend: "Holy s***, 102?!?" Mplssoxfan: " I told you he could bring it!"

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 25, 2005 -> 01:54 AM) f***ING RIP EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen to that. Saliva doesn't walk anyone, so let's hit the ball!

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Aug 24, 2005 -> 03:44 PM) And I'm with you -- if the Sox don't turn it around then screw it. They've hurt me before, they'll hurt me again. Story of my life. And most of the rest of us.

It'll be my first game in attendance in 2005, so I figured it'd be a good time for my first-ever game thread. I'll be the large human with the 1917 retro hat two rows behind the Sox dugout. C'mon Jon! Get it done!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 23, 2005 -> 01:15 PM) Oh, and this just in, we are all 100% going to die. Some statisitcs can't be manipulated. No one, and I mean no one gets out alive. Having said that, I have heard that some people refer to smoking, obesity, boozing, etc. as "chronic suicide." I'm not sure I buy the logic, though. Anyone who would refer to a smoker's death as a suicide is pretty damn self-righteous, IMO.

Damn you all! Now I'm hungry, and I can't get anything like Carm's here.

QUOTE(Soxfest @ Aug 22, 2005 -> 05:49 PM) :finger No suprise to me ESPN has always acted like Sox do not exist When I tell people I'm a White Sox fan, they usually look at me like I have a third eye. If you're in another city and you tell a baseball fan you're from Chicago, that person, much more often than not, will say "How about those Cubbies?" That's the way it is.

Here's another great site: http://sudoku.com.au/ There's an easy, medium and hard sudoku daily. And, yes, I'm addicted.

I love this. We all want our favorite (and not-so-favorite) athletes to be honest with the media, don't we? "Enough with the cliches, say what you really mean!" But, whenever an athlete is truthfully honest, we roast him over the coals. So f*****g what if Randy smokes weed in the offseason. Doesn't make him a bad guy. I'm a Bears fan, but I sided with him after the thing with the traffic cop, and I side with him now.

No offense intended to any of you die-hard puckheads, but OLN? You guys will watch hockey wherever and whenever it is on, but (a) most households do not get OLN, (B) many of those that do do not know what channel it's on, and, most importantly, © no one but you die-hards care about the NHL. It's going to be a long, hard road for the NHL to climb back into the minds of the casual sports fan in the US. I played hockey from the age of five until the age of thirteen, but, since the Wild has been here, I have been to two games. One in a suite and one in the Club Level. Parking passes both times, and I spent about $20 on beer the time in the Club. These guys are not going to have dime one of my money for at least five years. I may go to a game, but only if I'm given a spot in a suite. I work in a bar and that is the only reason I'll watch hockey next season.

QUOTE(ChiSox_Sonix @ Aug 18, 2005 -> 09:40 PM) Well, Adu IS in the pool (granted, there are over 100). And, if they have two meaningless games that they will just play as friendlys, you know players such as Reyna, Keller, O'Brien, Oneywu, Gibbs, McBride, Beasley and other players in Europe will prolly not play being that the games wouldnt matter and their seasons would be going. I heard someone float that idea back when the U.S. played Guatemala. Now i wouldnt bet on it happening, but I wouldnt be overly shocked either Of course, the main difference between qualifiers and friendlies is subsititutions. Qualifiers -- 3 subs. Friendlies -- 11 subs. Freddy won't play in this round because Bruce thinks he's too young. And Bruce isn't alone.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 04:41 PM) I don't know, it might be edited. The shot is from the nude beach scene from eurotrip, and from what I remember she did have a bikini top on in the movie. Anyway the pic is supposed to emphasize her amazingly sexy ribs. Actually, those are "chibs".

QUOTE(zach23 @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 03:09 PM) Sarah Silverman I just saw a trailer for her new film. Man, is she funny.

I didn't wade through the whole thread, but here goes: I'm a wee bit more aged than most of you, though.

QUOTE(UofIChiSox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 05:17 PM) call me crazy, but maybe a White Sox message board is NOT the best place for medical advice!! Why the green?

This is the true nature of the issue. Let's face it, from Baghdad to Biloxi, "If it bleeds, it leads."

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Aug 14, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) Is that supposed to be you on the right? Or did you find a statue that looks just like you. A little of both, actually. A statue which looked a little like me which a freind of mine who owns a bar and grill in Minneapolis painted to look even more like me. It has since been repainted and resides in a coffee shop in a small town in Northern Minnesota.

That's me on the left.

QUOTE(winodj @ Aug 12, 2005 -> 02:19 PM) Correct, you are not fluent in German, because there is no "e" in scheissekopf. I always though it was scheisskopf. I'm not fluent either, but I do play one on tv. Hell, most of the time I'm barely fluent in English.

A bit of a tangent, but Humphrey Bogart's credo was "Never rat on a Rat." He was, after all the Papa Rat of the Rat Pack.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Aug 8, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) I am a proud (sometimes) graduate of St. Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota. I would recommend it for someone looking for a good, but academically intense, school with lots of social and service opportunities. I have no regrets about going there and I think I'm very well rounded academically--I definitely would recommend a liberal arts education. Now I'm a graduate student at Binghamton University. I like it (as much as anyone can *enjoy* graduate school), but I would not recommend it for undergrads--it has a good reputation, but I don't feel the students get the education they pay for here. You'll know the right college for you--don't pick one because your friends are going there (you will grow into different people and probably won't stay close) or because of a significant other or because your family says to go there. It's 4 years of your life so choose where YOU want to go because you're the one that has to live with that decision. Please please please don't take this the wrong way, CSG, but after reading your posts, if you had told me you went to school in Northfield, I would have incorrectly guessed your alma mater.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Aug 10, 2005 -> 09:53 PM) People are probably going to beat me up over this and I really hope Im proven wrong but even with Carl back in the lineup I think its just too easy to shut this team down. They all ( with the exception of Pods and Gooch ) have a tendency to swing for a 3 run homer with nobody on base. If they persist like that in the playoffs its gonna be lights out for this team before we even finish printing the playoff tickets. Nuke, I promise I'm not picking on you; rather I'm using this post as an example of the principle that "familiarity breeds contempt." We are so invested in this ballclub that a great many of ourselves, myself included, are much more ready to jump on the Sox's flaws than their strong points. We have been knocking on the door and have been teased so many times since the early '90's that we connot believe our eyes. Can this ballclub be beat? Do they have flaws? Check and check. The same is true of Boston, Oakland, Anaheim and New York. My mood is guarded optimism. Which I think is better than the guarded skepticism I usually project.