southsider2k5

evidently strikes Ryan, meet Corwin Malone...

If he doesn't deserve the credit in 2000, then he doesn't deserve the blame now...

Interesting that he puts all of his personal info out there.

A winning streak cures all!

If KW doesn't end up getting fired, 1-5 or 0-6. If Kenny goes, 4-2.

Ah, hatred of the Yankees, is there nothing that is so pure?

I hope we be patient with Joe. I would hate to rush him. To me he looks like he wasn't ready yet as of this spring...

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030506...06-32981825.htm

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printed...printnews%2Dhed Halina Haloul was happy when her 15-year-old son rolled home one of the shiny blue barrels from Tuweitha nuclear plant. Young Faisal had run in, nabbed it from among hundreds of barrels filled with mysterious yellow dust and cleaned it up so well that the family planned to store drinking water in it. Then American soldiers knocked on her door. Suddenly, Haloul and all her neighbors in this raw, dusty village were told they had rolled little toxic waste sites straight into their homes. "We didn't know," Haloul said as she breast-fed a 20-day-old daughter in her two-room home, a dirt-floor hovel where a couple of chickens roosted with the rest of her family. "We got the barrel right before the baby was born." Almost a month ago, looters who descended on Tuweitha compound, the main site of Iraq's nuclear program and one of the most suspect weapons sites examined by UN inspectors before the war, made off with potentially deadly booty. Dozens of metal and plastic barrels of toxic waste appear to be missing from the 3-acre site. On Monday, officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN-affiliated group that guarded the plant during years of inspection, appealed for teams to be allowed to enter Iraq to figure out just what dangers now lurk in area surrounding Tuweitha. Tons of radioactive waste and low-level enriched uranium were on the premises and kept sealed from the outside world before the war, one official said. Now no one has any idea how much of the potentially harmful substances are missing, he added. IAEA `absolutely concerned' "We are absolutely concerned," said Mark Gwozdecky, spokesman for the atomic energy agency. Gwozdecky said the agency was alerted on April 9 that the compound, about 30 miles from downtown Baghdad, had been broken into during the days of chaos following the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein. The agency contacted U.S. representatives twice--on April 11 and April 30--after reports emerged of looting at the plant, home to four reactors. The U.S. military has yet to respond about how it secured Tuweitha, if it did, in the first days of war. Over the years of inspection, the nuclear agency documented that the plant had tons of radioactive waste and a substance known as yellow cake, a uranium derivative that must be substantially refined to be used in a nuclear weapon but still is regarded as a hazardous material. In the wake of the looting, Gwozdecky said, the agency had serious concerns that people near the plant, as well as the environment, might be harmed. In addition, looters broke into a laboratory where thousands of screw worms, a parasite that infests farm animals, were being bred for use in a vaccination project. All those worms were set free by looters, and the the agency could not estimate the effect that would have on the environment, Gwozdecky said. Employees from the nuclear plant said they quickly alerted U.S. soldiers to the problem, but villagers appeared to have been warned about the barrels only when news reports of the toxicity surfaced. "They were nice, clean, bright containers," said one plant scientist who declined to give his name. "They were well-built, without any possibility for corrosion. That's why people wanted them. There were at least 200 barrels there. I think they've only been able to get 20 percent of them back." Army guards at the front of the plant would not discuss the potential hazards. About 2 miles away, near an isolated building littered with large, dusty barrels, soldiers said they had been warning people, for fear of contamination, not to walk past the front gate. A week ago, Army hazardous materials teams tested the one building near where five soldiers slept under the open sky. "The scientists came in and their Geiger counters were just screaming," said Sgt. Brian Keller, one of the guards. `Everyone took one' Some villagers, for at least a week if not longer, used the barrels for storing water, fuel or even milk. Many said they threw out the barrels as soon as they heard about a health risk. Some said that when they snatched the barrels from Tuweitha, they dumped the yellow dust near the plant. A few villagers in the hardscrabble land apparently cannot quite bear giving up the nice-looking barrels. "Everybody took one," said Mutar Ayel, a 55-year-old father of 12 who lives on the edge of Al Wadiyah and has kept one of the barrels on his roof. His barrel is marked No. 119. Ayel said he has heard there is a problem with the barrels. "They say they can make you sick," he said. But he is not convinced there isn't some good use for the plastic container. Only a few people he knew complained that they didn't feel well after handling the barrels, he said. "I'm not going to throw it away," he said. "Somebody, sometime, might want it. Do you want to buy a barrel?"

Mario any chance you can give a hint at who in the organization is confirming something like this???

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...ome%2Dheadlines It just goes to show you what you can do with numbers. You can also put together reems of teams that got off to fast starts and ended up tanking ala Cleveland last year. It is very narrow to only go off of this years numbers too. This is Jerry's 6th season, not his first.

Me too. But, IMHO, the Sox marketing sucks. All you have to do is go to a game at USCF when Ichiro comes to town or, in September, when Matsui comes to town and you will see that the Asian market is there and incredibly willing to fork over ticket money if there is a "hometown" player they want to see. But this team needs more Kids Days and Seniors Run the Bases Days Maybe if Koch goes on the DL they would give this kid a shot, but if not who would he replace on the roster?

Heck some of the weather we have had lately, we have almost had zero attendance night, without even trying!

So has anyone got any update on the KW death watch?

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who lent his name to the infamous search for Communists 50 years ago, used closed-door hearings to select witnesses who would make him appear powerful and commanding in public, according to newly released transcripts of the secret sessions. Those most likely to grovel or bend to his intimidating tactics were called back. Those who defied McCarthy were rejected, the transcripts released Monday reveal. "McCarthy was only interested in the people he could browbeat publicly," said Donald Ritchie, the associate Senate historian who spent more than two years editing the record for public consumption. The Senate's Government Affairs Committee--its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was headed by McCarthy--released the documents because a 50-year secrecy provision has expired. Not surprisingly, McCarthy is revealed to be a bully who frequently twisted the words of witnesses and often threatened them with charges of perjury. The transcripts cover 160 sessions with 500 witnesses. They show McCarthy interrogating everyone from low-level government bureaucrats to Army officers and cultural and scientific figures such as composer Aaron Copland, chemist Eslanda Goode Robeson, author Dashiell Hammett, artist Rockwell Kent and poet Langston Hughes to find out if they were members of the Communist Party, USA. McCarthy lectured Copland. "Those who underestimate the work the staff has done in the past end up occasionally before a grand jury for perjury," McCarthy said. "So I suggest when counsel questions you about these matters that you tell the truth or take advantage of the 5th Amendment." Copland denied being a Communist and said he had never attended any Communist meetings. The composer stood his ground and complained about the short notice to appear before the committee, and he was among those who was never called to testify publicly. Ritchie said the documents will provide new fodder for historians seeking to better understand an era that was so entwined with McCarthy's search for Communists and Communist sympathizers that any attempt to unfairly smear an individual's reputation became known as McCarthyism. The closed-door sessions also gave McCarthy the ability to control coverage of his activities, as he selectively provided information to reporters about questions and answers they had not witnessed firsthand. "There was always a lot of suspicion that he was grossly exaggerating what went on in those sessions, and now we have the proof that he was grossly exaggerating," Ritchie said. "He gave everything this sinister twist to it." The transcripts reveal that McCarthy and his associates targeted what they termed "Communist books" and "Communist authors," focusing on the willingness of the Departments of State and Defense to stock their overseas libraries with such works. Among those subpoenaed to testify to the communist nature of their books was famed detective story writer Dashiell Hammett, author of "The Thin Man" and "The Maltese Falcon." Hammett, an ardent anti-fascist who served as an enlisted man in World War I and World War II, was asked repeatedly if he was a Communist. He had belonged to the Communist Party in his youth and was a supporter of the communist-leaning Republican side in the 1936-1938 Spanish Civil War. He replied, "I decline to answer on the ground that the answer would tend to incriminate me, pleading my rights under the 5th Amendment." Hammett gave the same reply when asked if any of his book income went to the Communist Party. Artist Rockwell Kent, a lifelong left-wing activist and leading figure in the publication of the radical periodical The Masses, was called before the subcommittee for similar reasons and invoked the 5th Amendment when asked if he was a Communist. He also was asked if he had donated royalty money to the Communist Party. "I gave it as a matter of being so damned mad at something that happened that I thought, `Where can I give that money that the people the money came from hated most?'" Kent explained. "I looked it up in the New York telephone directory and gave it to the Communist Party." Although Democrats boycotted McCarthy's hearings and some Republicans sought to distance themselves from McCarthy's tactics, Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) questioned Langston Hughes, the African-American writer and poet, about his yearlong trip to the Soviet Union and his membership in the League of American Writers. Counsel Roy Cohn questioned Hughes about the meaning of his poetry, including one that read, "Rise, workers, and fight, audience, fight, fight, fight, fight, the curtain is a great red flag rising to the strains of Internationale." When asked if he believed the message of what he wrote, Hughes said he did not. "That is a poem. One cannot state one believes every word of a poem," Hughes said, repeatedly adding that there is not a simple yes or no answer to questions of literary meaning. Subcommittee members were flustered in their attempts to question Eslanda Goode Robeson, a chemist, actress and wife of black actor, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. She pleaded not only the 5th Amendment, which governs possible self-incriminating testimony, but also the 15th, which deals with black voting rights. When pressed to say whether she was a Communist, Robeson declared, "I have been brought up to seek protection under the 15th Amendment as a Negro." "The 15th Amendment has nothing to do with it," said McCarthy. "That provides the right to vote." She replied: "I understand it has something to do with my being a Negro and I have always sought protection under it." McCarthy countered, "Negro or white, Protestant or Jews, we are all American citizens here, and you will answer the question as such. The question is: Are you a Communist today?" Robeson repeatedly told McCarthy she was confused, but when McCarthy threatened to have her cited for contempt, she replied, "Well, my answer is, `Yes,'" and went on to say she considered herself a "good American." Robeson and Hughes later were called to testify at the committee's public hearings. But the open hearings with carefully selected participants ultimately backfired on McCarthy. The senator's undoing came in 1954 with the nationally televised hearings in which McCarthy probed for Communists in the Army's ranks, alienating much of the public. He was censured by the Senate and booed off the political stage, and his crusade came to an end. He died an alcoholic three years later. In 1957, the Supreme Court ruled that witnesses before congressional committees are entitled to their full constitutional rights, and now his crusade is widely viewed as a witch hunt that destroyed lives, mostly through blacklisting. Monday's unsealing of the transcripts is the largest release of McCarthy-related documents to date. Senate rules say records related to personal privacy, national security or investigative materials can be sealed 50 years. "By providing broad public access to the transcripts from this era, we hope that the excesses of McCarthyism will serve as a cautionary tale for future generations," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chairwoman of the Government Affairs Committee, which authorized the transcripts' release. "Basically what it shows is what we already know. He never caught a living, breathing Communist," said David Oshinsky, a history professor at the University of Texas and the author of a McCarthy biography, "A Conspiracy So Immense." "There's just nothing there that would lead you in any way to say, `Wow, McCarthy really had something here,"' Oshinsky said. "Witnesses may talk more, but what they are saying is no value to the notion of a communist conspiracy."

In all reality the Sox don't do TOO bad in the promo department. Things like Dog Day, Picnic in the Park, and the Sleepover were huge hits with the fans. They all sell out very quickly.

Dr J won one ring I believe, with the Sixers. They swept the Lakers during the mid 80's.

This was on ESPN's page 2 today.

And with an almost $1 million golden parachute Excuse me while I shed a tear for him

Does anyone know if the Sox have any kind of a scouting department in the far east anywhere? I can't think of ANY Asian players that we have signed or had in our system. Yofu seems to be an accident.

And if it happened anywhere else but Detroit, I might feel sorry for them. And in all seriousness, Detroit is in trouble for a while. They have huge contracts that run through 2005 that are going to be an albatross around the neck of the Tigers. Plus they have no farm system to speak of either, because they are all at the majors now.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ife_marriage_dc

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sports/cst-...-spt-sox06.html

Mike Lum is an ex-catcher, isn't he? In general, I think ex-catchers make the best coach/managerial candidates. The always were involved in every aspect of the game, and had the game right in front of them the whole time they played. I think Joe Girardi would make a great manager some day. I get the feeling that Sandy would make a great coach/ manager also.

Ah, now I see. That makes much more sense then. You should be able to get him much cheaper in a week, with games against Oakland and Seattle coming up.