southsider2k5

Yeah and I want my $20! OR double or nothing on who it is...

Who cares, let him go.

Did I miss something? Do the laws not apply as long as you regret doing something stupid or if you have 5 different drugs in your system when you do it? I hate the fact that the crime is 100% indisputable, yet my tax dollars are putting this guy through a trial :fyou Dybas

http://espn.go.com/ncaa/news/2003/0513/1553257.html

I'll remember you when I bring my change in on that Saturday. "May I help you?" "No, I am waiting for Alex" :finger

Probably cuz you always pick the Manhole and he is sick of it!

Let me handle this Ugly. F you PA. :fyou

I hope they throw the book at this guy. Hard.

It is called married and that is what the wife wants to watch. If I am ever going to see another ball game again, she gets to watch Idol. Are you off today? Or did you pirate the net again?

Yeah I couldn't believe he forgot the words to "Vincent" last night. I think it is a crock if he doesn't get voted off.

I know me personally, no matter what I think personally of a player, I will rip on them for making dumb mistakes. For whatever reason, D'Angelo seems to have taken the torch from Carlos this year.

The difference is this guy has never been close to this good. Everyone has taked about his fast starts, but here are his #'s for his first 8 starts from 01-03 2001- 4-3 4.71 era 2002- 3-4 4.44 era 2003- 7-1 2.05 era I think that something has been fixed.

Yeah, since I can't figure out who to bribe, I might as well take in an eclipse

Remember you can only pick the same player twice in one week (Monday-Sunday) Are you sure that is who you want to pick?

Accusations flew across state lines as Texas House members remained holed up in an Oklahoma motel Wednesday, trading barbs with Republicans at home over their rebel effort to stymie GOP redistricting plans. The 51 Democrats were in a Holiday Inn at Ardmore, Okla., safely out of the legal reach of Texas state troopers and effectively denying the House the quorum required for it to conduct business. "Democrats should end their childish game of hide-and-seek and get to work for the people who hired them," said Susan Weddington, chairwoman of the state Republican Party. But Democratic Rep. Garnet Coleman countered: "The issue is: Is democracy going to win over excessive political greed? The only way that we can make sure that it does is to stand up." Democrats blame the standoff on the GOP's attempt to redraw the state's U.S. congressional districts, a process dictated every 10 years to reflect population shifts found in the U.S. Census. Texas already has a court-drawn redistricting map, but Republicans say it doesn't reflect state voting trends and want to redo it. Their plan could add five to seven GOP House seats to the 15 the Republicans already have. From their Oklahoma hotel, the Democrats blamed U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay for the shutdown of the Texas House of Representatives. "We have a message for Tom DeLay: Don't mess with Texas," said House Democratic Legislative Caucus leader Jim Dunnam. "We did not choose the path that led us to Ardmore, Okla. Tom DeLay chose that path." In Washington, DeLay mocked the Democratic legislators. "I have never turned tail and run," DeLay said. "Even when I'm losing, I stand and fight for what I believe." Three Democrats returned to the Capitol on Tuesday but Republicans were still denied a quorum without at least 100 of the 150 members present. Four other Democrats remained unaccounted for. When 58 of the 62 Democrats didn't show up Monday in Austin, House Speaker Tom Craddick ordered Texas troopers to arrest the missing lawmakers and bring them back. House rules allow for the arrest of members who intentionally thwart a quorum. Texas troopers located the missing legislators but have no authority to make arrests outside Texas. Oklahoma law enforcement authorities, on the other hand, greeted the Democrats with big smiles and warm handshakes Tuesday. "We're here to let them know we support them," said Harvey Burkhart, sheriff of Carter County, Okla. "Nothing's going to happen to them here. I can tell you we're certainly not going to put them in jail." Back in the Lone Star State, where legislative business was brought to a halt for a second day because of the rebels, House Republicans and a few Democrats spent most of the day milling about the Capitol. The House was to reconvene later Wednesday. Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Tom Craddick — all Republicans — appeared before reporters Wednesday after a weekly breakfast meeting and pleaded with the Democrats to return to Austin. "We want our colleagues back," Dewhurst said. The lieutenant governor, who presides over the Senate, said lawmakers are only days away from completing "a historically successful session" that will balance the state's budget without a tax bill, despite a $9.9 billion shortfall. Despite the work stoppage, Perry said, Republicans remain focused on legislative business. "Texans need to know that this partisan disruption will not stand in the way of the greater good," Perry said. He added that he hasn't been pondering calling a special legislative session after the regular 140-day session ends June 2. According to House rules, the deadline to preliminarily vote on House bills is Thursday. After that, it would take a favorable vote by two-thirds of the House to get legislation to the floor for a vote. Missing the deadline would delay several major bills, including a budget-balancing government reorganization proposal. Republican Gov. Rick Perry also was among the state GOP leaders who lambasted the Democrats for fleeing to Ardmore, about 30 miles north of the Texas state line and about 270 miles due north of Austin. "By taking refuge in Oklahoma, they are silencing debate on important issues, undermining our system of democracy and running out on millions of everyday Texans who are depending on their representation," Perry said in a statement Tuesday. But Rep. Pete Gallego, a Democrat, said his party had shown a remarkable degree of unity, a sign that the redistricting issue was important to Democratic lawmakers. "The reality is we hope the legislative leadership will take note of our position and will work with us in resolving what brought us to today," Gallego said from Ardmore. "It is not an easy thing to get over 50 members of the Legislature to agree on lunch, much less to agree on a trip to our neighboring state of Oklahoma."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ml&e=6&ncid=996

Today is another good one http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...o_uc/bo20030514

Who is getting voted off tonight?

I think we need a Jimenez mention in this thread today, for his excellence in baserunning!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/908837.asp?0cv=CB10

I picked him up as soon as I saw he was closing. There have been some good catches with relievers, such as Rocky, MacDougal, and Lance Carter.

And lets not forget Bobby Brown "It's my prerogative"

Falls under the total base part. HBP and BB count for a point. Ah-ha! Sorry! No biggie. It is the first day and all, plus that stuff isn't always clear.

When he wasn't disputing characterizations that his sub-.500 team is lifeless or downplaying the apparent way his manager had called out White Sox fans and hitters at the end of a 2-4 road trip, general manager Ken Williams left the perception Tuesday that the negative spotlight on two of his sons might prompt him to consider quitting. Dedrick Quinn Williams, 21, and Kenny Royal Williams, 16, who were in Durham for sister Temeka's graduation from Duke University, were arrested at 3:02 a.m. Saturday in North Carolina on two counts each of breaking and entering a motor vehicle and larceny, and one count of possessing stolen goods. "I guess the chink in my armor is my family," Williams said during a lengthy media interrogation in the home dugout at U.S. Cellular Field before a 1-0 victory over Baltimore. "I really have to at this point in time weigh the positives of the job versus the negatives of it and whether or not I want to continue to subject them to it. "I still have two younger ones—in addition to the 16-year-old, I have a 14-year-old and a 12-year-old at home—and I'd hate to think that my job and the scrutiny of it and the microscope that is obviously on them takes away from their innocence and their childhood. So there are some conversations that need to be held in the Williams household." When asked if he was considering stepping down, Williams said: "I didn't say that. I didn't say that. My wife and I have to do some talking at home. "My kids are embarrassed. We are suffering a little bit, to be honest with you. "It's compounded by the fact that they wanted to come out and communicate themselves that they didn't do this. The advice from my lawyer is to say as little as possible. You don't want to put the [district attorney's] office in North Carolina on the defensive, so I'll leave it at that. It really makes you think about some things." Williams declared himself prepared to handle the scrutiny that goes with his position but admitted being caught off-guard by the way he believes his profile bled over into the coverage of his sons' arrests. Williams said Kenny Royal was suspended indefinitely from his Plainfield High School baseball team, an action that could carry into football season. Williams indicated he would move his son out of that school and might consider moving the family out of the state altogether. Again, however, Williams wrestled aloud about issues involving shielding his family from the spillover of his public prominence. Again, however, Williams said it was "definitely a little premature" to believe he would quit as GM at the end of the year and that he would do nothing drastic in the short term. "No, no, no, no, no, no," he said. "No, we're not going down that road. We've got a job to do. "I'm here to try to hand a World Series trophy to Jerry—both Jerrys [Reinsdorf, the chairman, and Manuel, the manager]. That's the focus." Williams said he met Tuesday with Manuel and Frank Thomas about comments they made after Sunday's loss in Seattle. When questioned Sunday about the reception the Sox could expect at home, Manuel had asked with a smile, "Have we ever had a good welcoming?" and said he expected "55,000" fans in the stadium that holds 47,098. The manager also said it was time for his offensively struggling regulars to shoulder some responsibility and "look in the mirror." Thomas was quoted as saying he didn't have to look in the mirror "because I know what I'm getting day in and day out [at the plate]—and it's garbage." "A lot of what Jerry said with regards to the fans and the attendance, as well as the Frank issue, is a little bit overblown," Williams said. Williams took issue with the way Manuel's and Thomas' comments came out. "It came as though it was a confrontational kind of message, and it wasn't," Williams said. "It was a direct message. "We don't need to be confrontational to anyone around here because the messages have been communicated and we're all on the same side and all have the same goals." Williams, who said he has a date in mind—but declined to cite it—for when it will be time to make a major move, denied his 18-20 team was lifeless. "In the dugout here, they're fighting, believe me," he said. "In the clubhouse, after games, they're fighting, believe me." Then Manuel's job isn't in the kind of jeopardy everybody thinks he is? "I never said he was," Williams said.

Falls under the total base part. HBP and BB count for a point.