southsider2k5

When I went up there in 2001, we went across the border to Windsor instead of going anywhere in Detroit.

ooh 5000 posts, nice job!

I have flown a ton of times and never had anything like this happen before. I have flown United, American, America West, Southwest and some others off of the top of my head.

It probably was Northwest, they have a ton of gates up there, as that is one of their hubs. I know I will never fly with them again, and I am going to make sure no one I know will ever fly with them again.

The only thing about Comerika that I really liked was the way the stadium was set low and the skyline became a part of the view in CF. Other than that, it is either all borrowed ideas, or way to circus like for my tastes.

I still have some anger at my trip...Plus I never liked Detroit to begin with, so GO SOX, for my sake!

A couple of comments on other things. Pena deserves to be manager of year for sure. Mike MacDougal as RP? whatever. And I HATE players who have played professionally overseas considered as "rookies" That is BS.

The thing that surprises me about this is that none of the bottom feeder Chicago columnists, (I am looking in your direction Kotex-Boy) have picked up on this. It has been a golden opportunity to tear the White Sox up, instead the papers have pretty much been basking in our glory lately. I just have this feeling like Wild E Coyote as he looks up and sees the safe falling at his head.

You go JR. All though it kind of scares me because you KNOW if Reed stays hot, the odds are they let Maggs walk away...

We have always played that you get one pick. It is to easily jumbled if people are doing if/then picks. Besides where do you draw the line for that type of stuff. One pick is the easiest way to go.

Neurosurgeons separated 29-year-old Iranian twins joined at the head Tuesday after two days of delicate surgery, but both sisters died shortly after their parting. THE HOSPITAL announced Ladan Bijani’s death, then, a few hours later, a nurse involved in the surgery said her sister Lelah had died. “Everyone upstairs is crying,” said the nurse, who was directly involved in the operation. She was speaking on condition of anonymity. “The second one has died,” she said. “We treated them like family because they had been here for seven months.” Hospital officials had yet to officially announced the second death. Earlier, they announced the death of Ladan Bijani, saying she had lost a lot of blood as the two-day surgery was coming to a close. Surgeons began a marathon operation to separate the twins on Sunday afternoon — warning that the operation could kill one or both. It was the first time surgeons had attempted to separate adult craniopagus twins — siblings born joined at the head — since the operation was first performed on infants in 1952. UNSTABLE PRESSURE LEVELS “As the separation was coming to a close, a lot of blood was lost. The twins were subsequently in a critical state,” said hospital spokesman Dr. Prem Kumar. The team of doctors had to contend with unstable pressure levels inside the twins’ brains just before they worked to uncouple the sisters’ brains and cut through the last bit of skull joining them, Kumar said. On Monday, the team of doctors completed one of the most dangerous steps in the surgery by rerouting a shared vein and stitched in a new one. The shared vein, thick as a finger, drained blood from the twins’ brains to their hearts. The sisters’ brains had “to be teased apart very slowly,” Kumar said. “Cut. Teased apart. Cut. Teased apart. In the process, you encounter a lot of blood vessels and other tissues.” He said surgeon worked “millimeter by millimeter.” The operation was complicated further when the team discovered that the pressure in the twins’ brains and circulatory system was fluctuating. FACING THE DANGER Monday’s rerouting the shared vein was considered one of the biggest obstacles in the surgery. German doctors told the twins in 1996 that the surgery was too dangerous, but the Singapore team benefited from technological advances, Kumar said. It was known that the operation could kill one or both of the sisters, but after a lifetime of compromising on everything from when to wake up to what career to pursue, the sisters said they would rather face those dangers than continue living joined. “If God wants us to live the rest of our lives as two separate, independent individuals, we will,” Ladan said before the operation. An international team of 28 doctors and about 100 medical assistants were enlisted for the surgery. The Iranian government said Monday it would pay the nearly $300,000 cost of the operation and care for the twins. This is the first time surgeons have tried to separate adult craniopagus twins - siblings born joined at the head. The surgery has been performed successfully since 1952 on infants, whose brains can more easily recover. Participating neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore, has separated three sets of craniopagus twins. Because this operation is a medical first, surgeons have encountered unexpected obstacles not seen in infants. It took longer to cut through portions of their skulls because their older bones were denser than previously believed, Kumar said. As the procedure dragged on, surgeons tried to get adequate rest, slipping out of the operating room for breaks when their expertise was not needed, Kumar said. Classical music played softly as surgeons worked simultaneously in tight spaces in front of and behind the twins, who sat in a custom-built brace connected to an array of lines feeding them intravenously and monitoring their vital signs, Kumar said. The sisters were born into a poor family of 11 children in Firouzabad, southern Iran, but grew up in Tehran under doctors’ care. As girls they used to cheat on tests by whispering answers to each other, they told reporters last month.

At least I didn't finish last this time

The Twins were asking the Pirates about him, but Giles said he would invoke his no trade clause. My question is can Giles play CF? http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?n...id=478568&rfi=6

And the sad thing I was just reading the Trib and they said one of the teams that could be looking at Rios is the Cubs

Wasn't there a year or two where we had an affiliate in Hawaii?

Yet another reason I am glad that I work the day shift

He was first by a large margin. 318-264 over Halliday.

90210

The thing is they could do the same segment with our Sox

creepy movie. I wonder how the kid survived?

OK I am back now. Thanks for watching the PTC contest Ugly! BTW is the site updated also, or do I need to do that?

LMAO! It is so funny to see this thread after reading Roman ream wsc425 for going off of the deepend.

The site is really running slow now, a lot of people must be voting.

1. Sox 2. Yes 3. 2 4. Thomas 5. 5 6. 2.20 7. 1 save 8. Yes 9. No 10. Yes TB- 25 LOB