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Hawk and Stone pretty jovial with each other of what I've seen this year so far.

lol Hawk. Well done on the game summary there.

Please God let one of these shirts have Adam Dunn on it.

And Greg Walker going to Atlanta is the other. *ducks*

Kind of hope the next few get rained out so they could contend for the record of most games postponed in a row. It's always important to contend for something in order to stave off unhappiness within the fanbase.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 08:55 PM) Oh Hawk, shut up. That was foul by 30 feet Camera man kind of anxious too, it appears.

This team is fast approaching that point where people start devising drinking games to accompany the telecast.

QUOTE (Knuckles @ Apr 22, 2013 -> 06:10 PM) Half price Monday's beautiful weather, place is dead. I'm not sure Free Mondays would do the trick either at this point.

This is a difficult thing to consider and I've given it a lot of thought over the years. My conclusion is that the world doesn't revolve around me. If something were to happen to a friend or relative (or to me), it would hurt, but I wouldn't be the first in the history of the world to suffer an injustice at the hands of someone else. I think it's kind of disgusting to watch families of victims screaming for blood or taking great pleasure in telling the offender about how they're going to "burn in hell" (bonus points if they claim to be God-fearing Christians- a recent example being the family of the first wife Drew Peterson was recently convicted of murdering). It's animalistic and repulsive. Compose yourself and think before you talk out of your ass, Ass. Think about all the people that will see the petty way you act before you throw your adult hissy fit.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 08:52 PM) I'd go if you get good seats and only if you get good seats. The 1,000,000 year old bats that the Cubs employ as ushers are a lot less picky about sitting in the seat on your ticket once it becomes apparent that the Cubs are going to be an abysmal baseball team again that season. There are exceptions- Cardinals, White Sox, and AL teams that don't often come around (NYY/BOS). Year round interleague play may ease demand for the higher profile AL team games.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 09:28 AM) I'd go, but I still don't see how people say they "love the park", because the park flat out sucks. Everything about it is just bad. I have no issues with loving the history, not that it's a very good history, but I at least get that. But loving the physical structure itself is an exercising in "loving" bad. Much of it is atmospheric and the placement of the park itself- right in the middle of a residential area. You're right on top of the field and have a good view just about anywhere with the exception of seats right behind a pole or the deeper seats in the lower level bowl. Deteriorating structure isn't anything that can't be rectified, and apart from that, most of the complaints (off the top of my head) are bathroom troughs (ok), parking (ok), no jumbotron (they add absolutely nothing IMO), crappy locker rooms (na), and less than ideal batting cages (na). I especially enjoy the absence of loud noises and an electronic billboa...err, jumbotron that most teams employ to cater to fans afflicted with short attention spans. Unfortunately, it looks like that will be changing in the near future.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 21, 2013 -> 04:09 PM) My response to anyone calling the Astros a positive example is going to be pretty simple. They had a game last year where 1100 people watched. On TV. The cherry on top of that is the kind of fans the team does draw to the ballpark.

Most good ADA.

Nice ADA.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 20, 2013 -> 05:08 PM) What he say? He kept saying that Jake Peavy is a man's man over and over.

Whoever just called into Rongey's show is excellent. I'm a better person for having heard it.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 04:47 PM) FBI now acknowledges they interviewed Tsarnaev 2 years ago at the request of a foreign country about possible extremist ties -CBS

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 03:26 PM) The media and normal people following on scanners is slightly crazy. this is no 24 hour news cycle, this is 24 second news cycle People are bored and have short attention spans.

Sweet. Had tickets, but I'm going up to Milwaukee for a Jim James gig. De-listing @ Stubhub.

Entire city of Boston in lockdown? Is that perhaps a little excessive?

Uncle on tv. I feel awful for the relatives that are pretty much being forced to explain themselves just for being related.

I usually go to 4 or 5 Cubs games a year. I don't paint my face blue or sing their insufferable song if they win, but I love the park, and it's MLB baseball. Bonus if it's a night game, I love that place at night.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 19, 2013 -> 07:08 AM) Sigh Not quite sure why, maybe because over time I've come to expect (and accept) bottom-feeding scumminess from news sources, but I'm far more appalled, nauseated, and saddened by people acting like they're Tom Parsons' children in the Junior Spy League. It was especially prevalent on Twitter and Facebook (posting or re-tweeting misinformation), but it wasn't limited to social media- anywhere you saw a group of people engaged in small talk about what has been going on- there's always some clown who thinks he or she is motherf***ing John Walsh from America's Most Wanted.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 18, 2013 -> 07:16 AM) The problem is the language. On that page, they Post doesn't call them "Suspects" or obviously say that they did it, they just say that the Feds want to interview them. That's notably different from when they said that the Saudi man was a "Suspect". If the Feds want to interview them, then nothing on that page is incorrect. That's incredibly frustrating. I don't have the patience to master the mind-numbing intricacies of the law, but couldn't it be argued that they know damn well that despite not using the word suspect itself, they know that by linking them to this story the people in question are being put out there to be treated as such- something that they wouldn't have had to deal with otherwise? This isn't something that will go away easily for someone who gets yanked from their everyday life and thrown to the masses in the midst of an event like this that people are very passionate about. No matter how quickly they're cleared of anything and everything, their world has been turned upside down and they get to deal with the stigma of being associated with such a thing. Everyone loves hearing the same story that inevitably makes it rounds about how tragic events like this bring out the best in people (first responders, volunteers, good Samaritans), but this kind of ugliness also rears it's head and is right there for all to see- it just evades getting much mention for some reason, gets swept under the rug, and ends up being forgotten by most.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 05:14 PM) It is also a pretty solid bet based on the history of some of the things we have been allowing our government to do, and the power grabs they have made in the past. QUOTE (Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train @ Apr 17, 2013 -> 05:14 PM) "They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train. Sounds about right.