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That's the fastest I've ever heard anyone say the words "Jack Bauer".

QUOTE(Reddy @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:35 PM) control issues... Well, that's why we employ the witch doctor...

Ok Aardsma, show us something useful.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:29 PM) He's not related to the Trio of Major League Molinas I know. But hey, hitting a home run against the Cubs has to be a part of the admission price, right?

Ken williams looks sexy in them shorts.

QUOTE(quade36 @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:27 PM) I don't understand a comment just made. "Will Ohman looking good against some tough right-handed hitters." ??? What right-handed stud hitters are still playing for the Sox? Gustavo Molina?

Welcome to the family, Mr. Molina!

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:15 PM) So, botched jokes about military intelligence = ok Botched jokes about a candidate being gay = bad Got it. And before you get yourself all worked up, I think both are bad, just trying to figure out how you can excuse one, but not the other. You're calling Coulter's remark a "botched" joke? Seriously?

Does the radar gun feel slow to anyone else?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 02:09 PM) The cubs cannot stop overhyping some of the worst players ever. How can you sit there and say Cliff Floyd is a great player, when the guy hasnt touched the field for you yet. And calling the cubs a good team already is starting to make me sick. Newsflash: your team blows. Hell, at some point, I'm even one who's willing to suspend disbelief...that's the job of these guys! It's a spring training game...the job of these guys right now is to generate some hype for the team, whether or not it's justified. That's why you get interviews with both Pinella and Trammel, that's why you get repeated mentions of all the new guys, etc. Yeah, sometimes it's gonna get annoying, but we're better off just putting up with it and ignoring it. If you let the fact that the Cubs announcers are trying to be positive in spring training get to you...then you're gonna wind up with some anger management issues pretty darn soon.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 12:13 PM) Do you think he will face any death threats as Hank did? Every stadium across the country needs to start playing Waylon Jennings "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" when Bonds gets to bat. Of course Bonds will face death threats, because almost every public figure does. But here's the thing...I guarantee you, the absolute worst of them, Mr. Bonds will make sure that the media somehow hears about them. Because for a nation of people who don't pay attention, when you've made 95% of the nation despise you, what better way to make your fans even more die-hard than to use the actions of a few idiots to smear everyone else who doesn't like you.

Good guys enjoying that left field wall. Good work 32. Keep that up.

Spivey to the wall

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 03:01 PM) Mitt Romney's latest supporter. Ann Coulter Link. Glad we cleared that up.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 01:39 PM) And that makes her different from the average politician, how? She hasn't been elected for anything by anyone except the major media groups that support her.

Jerusalem Post.

QUOTE(hitlesswonder @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 11:06 AM) As for poverty in America, I don't believe it's that rates are worse than they used to be. From Wikipedia: "From 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22.2 percent to 12.6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century". That 12 percent is about where we're at today. Similarly homelessness and poverty among the elderly is much lower now than before social security. No luck finding the actual data on Google yet, and I'm only on a modem today so I'm lazy, but I believe one of, if not the biggest group, which moved from being consistently stuck in poverty to actually being able to move out of poverty in the 1960's was Senior Citizens...because suddenly there was a program dealing with their catastrophic health costs.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 4, 2007 -> 07:21 AM) In the state of New Jersey, you can not be denied service if you walk into an ER. Seeing a non-walk in clinic doctor can be quite difficult without insurance, IMO, here otherwise. The rules are the same here in California. The uninsured have basically no place to go other than to the ER. Of course, anyone who had half a brain and was designing a system would consider this a terrible idea; ER visits are ungodly expensive, they're designed for emergencies, not to be the sole provider of care for people. But because of the lack of insurance for so many people, we wind up having people with no choice but to go to the ER when they decide they need care for something, which of course helps drive prices through the roof and keeps those people in debt. And on top of that, the huge cost of going to the ER when you have no other insurance is a huge impediment to getting actual care, such as, for example, being able to go to a dentist when you have a cavity before they turn into 6 cavities or a disease that kills you. Preventative medicine would be so much cheaper if it were just employed in an intelligent way, but no, we just toss people to the ER.

It may not happen this year...but it's gonna eventually be really fun watching Charlie in the big leagues.

I'll make this as simple as I can; If Ozzie Guillen keeps his team together and keeps them winning ballgames this year, gets them to the playoffs, and so on; I couldn't care less which players he rips into. If that works, I'll take it. If Ozzie Guillen becomes a distraction that starts costing the White Sox chances at the playoffs, in repeated seasons, then there will be no more reason to tolerate these rants.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 04:42 PM) I'm not one to use that language, and believe it discounts someone's opinion greatly, I would agree. However, here is the question to ask yourself; what does a Conservative political figure like Ann Coulter have to say or do that would actually motivate some major media outlet to remove them from their channel? You've got O'Reilly saying terrorists should hit San Fransisco, you've got Glenn Beck who asks a Congressman to prove he's not working with our enemies because he's a Muslim who gets his own show on Headline News and becomes a Good Morning America Contributor, you've got Ann Coulter who threatens the NY Times and who has called Al Gore a "total f**" in the past, and all of them keep getting more and more time on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. And then, on days like today, I have to deal with posts complaining about the appearance of naughty language on liberal blogs, while no one seems to bat an eyebrow when one of the biggest conservative blogs (run by a tenured professor) says we've been at war with Iran since 1979 and should begin a campaign of assassinations of Iranian scientists, or says a word when Ann Coulter stays on TV, and so on and so on and so on. Sorry, just venting a lil', been a long week, and I've got another f***ing illness. Edit: and then to top it off, I read this kind of idiocy at the end of the day. ARGH!

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 03:01 PM) Mitt Romney's latest supporter. Ann Coulter I think this clearly shows how vulgar these liberal blogs have become and why they should be excluded from all relevant discourse.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 03:11 PM) you mean ARod over Crede? Because Crede would have had to have been involved, and ARod's (likely) not nearly good enough defensively anymore to play a good SS. Supposedly ARod has lost a bunch of the weight he put on the last year or two, so he could actually be in good enough shape to play SS again if someone wanted to put him there.

QUOTE(Beltin @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 02:51 PM) And still worshipped by too many fans. Eventually, Mark Buehrle and Jon Garland will leave in Anger, Ozzie Guillen will be fired, Paul Konerko will leave or retire, Juan Uribe will eh, who knows, Bobby Jenks's arm will fall off...and I'll still have a deep gratitude for that 05 team. That doesn't mean that firing Ozzie won't be the right decision at some point. Ozzie's job is to keep a fire set under this team's ass. In 05, it worked. In 04, eh, so-so. In 06, it failed miserably. We'll see how it works in 07.

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Mar 2, 2007 -> 02:46 PM) Mind showing me the cf on our roster who didn't "hit horrible last year"? Luis Terrero. Put up a 927 OPS in AAA last year. (You didn't specify what league they were playing in).