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QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:56 PM) Yes and good for big MO, I hope he keeps it up, I wish him nothing but the best. As for Reed, he's been bad offensively this year but it's his first year so I definitely wouldn't give up on him yet. That being said, that deal was an absolute steal. I only agree with you because KW immediately went and signed Garcia to an extension. Without that...the deal would be a wash at best.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:56 PM) I think he's already shown it's not absolutly necessary to add another pitch. Not absolutely necessary...but could it really hurt? Just to have 1 more pitch in his back pocket that he throws like 2 or 3 times per game just to throw people completely off? A slider or a cutter? I think that'd just be the icing on the cake.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:05 PM) wtf...i updated my avatar with a Randy Moss pic (big raider fan). I see it on my PC. Guess it didn't go through?? All I see is a "Gary the no trash cougar" extended by about 50% in the horizontal direction. "Give a larbage...throw out your garbage" *edit - Moss just popped up.

QUOTE(CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:02 PM) Glad I'm not the only one who caught that. It is pretty funny. I just laugh at the idea of Paulie getting a triple myself...I still can't believe he had 4 of them in 99.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 03:01 PM) When do you think that will be? I need to travel that week for a couple days and want to schedule it around game 1. I'm guessing 10/04. I know we haven't clinched anything yet but I'm very optimistic. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO GARY THE NO TRASH COUGAR?!?! It's like they put him in a taffy pulling machine... (I'm not the only one seeing this am i?)

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:44 PM) The national winner of the Roberto Clemente Award will be announced at a press conference prior to Game Three of the 2005 World Series and will receive a $25,000 donation from John Hancock to the charity of his choice. John Hancock also will make a $30,000 contribution to Roberto Clemente Sports City in Puerto Rico in the name of the national winner. With any luck...Aaron will be there anyway, so the MLB won't have to spend any extra to fly the guy in for game 3.

Good to hear.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) www.kli.org/tlh/phrases.html nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'. Only at SOXTALK would a thread of this nature digress to Kli-speak. :rolly At least 1 of the phrases on that page is either wrong or out of date...they said the Klingon for "Today is a good day to die" in Episode 1 of Star Trek DS9: Season 4, and that's not the phrase they have on the page. How scary am I right now?

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:23 PM) nuqDaq 'oH puchpa''e'. Only at SOXTALK would a thread of this nature digress to Kli-speak. :rolly My work here is done.

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) Konerko will shock us all today and steal third right before he comes home on a passed ball by the sinker baller. By the way...that commercial with the guy in the laundry room yelling "It's the cycle" when Konerko's up to bat...have other people seen this one...I'm wondering how many people realize the inherent problem with that one.

QUOTE(SpringfieldFan @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Sure, try Brandon as a reliever, but... Just promise me that if he is dominent in the pen that he won't be considered "too valuable" a reliever to be used as a starter again (i.e. the "Cotts" theorem). SFF That is 1 promise I can give to you 110%. I want this kid throwing 7 innings every 5th game starting next year. The last 2 games have at least sold me on that...especially if he works on adding in another pitch in the offseason. I still don't think Cotts has the pitches to be a dominant starter, but he has the pitches to be a dominant reliever. And on top of that...he's a lefty...and lefty relievers that can get people out are a hell of a prize in this game today.

So is anyone else worried that A.J. won't be getting any sleep when the playoffs roll around?

AFC East 1. Bills 2. Jets 3. Patriots 4. Dolphins AFC North 1. Steelers 2. Ravens 3. Bengals 4. Browns AFC South 1. Colts 2. Jaguars 3. Texans 4. Titans AFC West 1. Chargers 2. Chiefs 3. Broncos 4. Raiders NFC East 1. Eagles 2. Cowboys 3. Giants 4. Redskins NFC North 1. Vikings 2. Lions 3. Packers 4. Bears NFC South 1. Falcons 2. Panthers 3. Saints 4. Bucs NFC West 1. Arizona 2. Rams 3. Seattle 4. 49ers Playoffs Conference Colts over Chargers, Vikings over Eagles Super Bowl Colts over Vikings Awards MVP: Peyton Manning (is he ever not?) Coach of the Year: Mike Mularkey

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 02:08 PM) No, they aren't bannable offenses. Presumably, the logical thing for an admin to say is that it's fine to criticize players ability, decision making, or even the fact they're getting playing time... But it's not tolerable to insinuate that players are getting playing time in exchange for sexual favors from the manager.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) I say "that's incorrect", followed by the correct information. That seems to work. It also helps not to resemble a condescending donkey. A condescending elephant however, I'm sure is fine. Blast this place and it's secret right-wing innuendoes!!!

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:37 PM) http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0907051fema1.html I think Bush's "What didn't go right" last week still tops that one.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:51 PM) Can we use negative context in foreign languages? Just asking. If I swear at someone...but I do so in Klingon...do I get banned for nerdiness?

Wow...opening at home again...2 years in a row...I was starting to think I'd never see the first time. Anyone else wondering whether sometime between June 20 to 25, we'll be seeing a world series rematch?

Damn...if people get on base...that is one incredibly fast lineup (outside of PK, AJ, and Jurassic of course)

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 12:01 PM) The first few years he could've done a better job with, but he was probably learning to be a manager. But when you basically give the division rival Cubs your best players at the time and give up Giles and have Kendell leave, there's not a lot you can do. Not to mention the gigantic contract that they gave to Kendall...I mean come on, the guy's getting paid $10 million this year...hasn't hit a single home run, and is batting .255.

So...is anyone else quite happy we got this guy out of our organization right now?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:27 PM) And if I understand it correctly, it is the very levee system that is the biggest source of the problem as it did not allow for the natural deposit of silt in the low lying areas down there, which has contributed to them being further below sea level than they would have been. Ironic. Actually I believe the big problem with the levee system is that it has heavily damaged the coastline of the delta itself, rather than lowering the city...the levees take the sediment carried by the river and pipe it directly into the gulf, when normally it would be dispersed across the delta. When that sediment is out in the gulf, it doesn't come back, but when it is carried out in a normal fashion, it implants itself throughout the delta, giving rise to barrier islands and other more secure channels when it is reworked. The city is subsiding because of groundwater pumping from all that I've heard...the sediment supply is an issue of the coastline and how it functions (barrier islands are a wonderful protection against storm surge when they do exist)

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:24 PM) Bienville founded New Orleans where it was because of its accessibility, located right between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. So from that standpoint it made sense. The growth of a settlement to a metropolis on the same site, that was not so well thought out. Truth is, though, there has been a lot of land subsidence since then. The site is worse now then it was ehen it was founded. You should also note WHY the land subsidence happens...the key cause of land subsidence is actually human action...when you pump water from a ground water reservoir, you reduce the pore pressure in that reservoir and thereby cause compaction of the surrounding sediments to get the pressure back up to a point that can support the weight of the overlying strata.

QUOTE(tonyho7476 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) This is why I will stay in Chicagoland....I know, we have tornadoes...but I'll take that over this s***. It almost sounds to me like a city shouldn't even exist there. Actually...you're well within the range that could suffer damage in the event of another large quake in the New Madrid fault zone...the zone which produced the largest earthquakes in U.S. history in the early 1800's. It wouldn't hit the city itself, but the city is close enough that it would feel a fair amount of shaking, and since the buildings in that area haven't been designed AT ALL to sustain earthquake vibrations...well you get the idea.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 7, 2005 -> 01:06 PM) Who knows what formula they use. If you stop and think about it, right now there are literally thousands of things that people are making studies of, and reporting that if this isn't fixed, some fatal flaw could lead to people dying, and all that it would take it a bunch more funding to fix it. The problem is deciding which projects are truely the most important with whatever cost/risk analysis they are doing right now. I'll tell you one thing, if I am somewhere like LA on the west coast, I am screaming my head off right now for more funding to prevent the samekind of disasterous response after an earthquake. It will be interesting to see if we see a shift into more funding of preventative maintence towards natural disasters, or if we see the same see-no-evil philosophy that has been prevelent in our government for decades. I think that the fact of the matter is actually quite simple...we had a gigantic budget surplus a few years ago and a known set of needs for infrastructure upgrades and maintenance in this country...we chose tax cuts. There are a huge number of things not getting fixed all around the country because of them. The Levees in New Orleans were just 1 item on the list.