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I really like chicken soup on a cold day

I've loved to read since well as soon as I could. I remember an english teacher who, in high school, we would have voted most likely to fire up a joint in the washroom, sugggested I read the Lord of the Rings. I got as far as Bilbo's birthday party and thought dude, I don't do drugs and never read any more. My son thought they were the greatest books in the world and finally convinced me to read the first one. I was hooked. Great story line, excellent characters and the film makers have done an incredible job of bringing the characters to life.

Susan Lucci sets straight Emmy incident LUCCI: I had just presented the award previous to the award I was nominated for. And they asked me to wait in the wings. And I was in the place where there were curtains around me and I was on my mark. I heard them announce the award that I was up for and I heard them say "Susan," but I didn't hear anything after that. I don't know whether it was the curtains, or I have said previously, after about the ninth time I didn't win, I go numb when they say the name.

Was that too obscure of a reference for you?

Sometimes you're the pimp, sometimes the customer, and sometimes the cheap crack ho. Have fun tonight BEGOOD

I can't go until Friday I wish a movie theater down here would put togetehr all three movies for an all day movie

Until I win a category I thought we could just keep them open I stated in the beginning they will be open until at least 12:01am Monday December 22nd. Unless there is a automatic time lock I can set I will lock them early Monday morning.

I forgot to turn the green off. Hey pa I think I found your soul mate

That's almost a shame to have a poll on. We should have awarded the best baseball and best non baseball. But we wouldn't have needed to vote.

We didn't vote for you either

s***, I was going to vote for myself so I wouldn't have zero votes. I think it was PA who suggested he, ss2k4 and I should get a 3 stooges award. I just realized we probably average 5 or 6 threads a day that's just the three of us bouncing back and forth.

Which is why I voted for you. Now you go and vote for me Wading through the nominees and all the "how can we leave off X and Y" PM's and emails really pointed out what a great corner of the web we have. I know it sounds like a cliche but it really did kill people to leave some people off. It was equally hard to take some people off to make room for others. Remember we were trying to narrow it to 3. That really was impossible.

Check out the just added Rookie of the Year

This was open to posters with less than 1,000 posts. Good idea sox4lifeinpa

If it makes you feel any better both your names came up in discussion.

Did they report if Mark had any no trade clauses in his contract? I'm wondering if signing him to a 3 year deal made it easier for KW to move him.

So no mistakes by commision, maybe just ommision. Do you think Kenny getting any calls besides do you want to dump Maggs, Mark, Frank, etc.

We're keeping it positive. We also dropped an idea for Soxtalk Queen when we realized guys couldn't make a decision between all the great ladies here. I would like to do some awards like that at the All Star break.

And I forgot to thank the Dirty Dozen. The committee really did an outstanding job and took it very seriously.

The 2003 Soxtalk awards polls are open at Sex, Lies and Politics.

The committee agonized and analyzed the nominees and we know some excellent friends and posters have been left off. We hope no one is offended, we hope all of the nominees are excited to be in the finals. We hope to work out some of the details for next year. Maybe add and subtract categories. Maybe offer some Razzies at the All-Star Break. Cheat as designed some excellent electronic awards and deserves a mention for that.

One pretty much summed up the White Sox season the other spawned a Forum. Both are worthy Hall of Fame honorees and there was no need to toss up token competition. Kudos to Heather Lee and whitesoxfan99 for starting these.

This was an impossible category to narrow down. There are so many excellent people who have been left off. We could have expanded this list to 50 and left off some great people who make this the best place to be on the web. Each of these people have entertained, informed, and helped us through our days.

Gotta be startin' something. Who can ? Who finds the coolest topics to get started? Who's threads do you always click on? These guys are always looking for something to get started and these boards are better because of it.

Who's keeps it on topic, keeps the threads moving, offers insight, humor, etc. Even when a thread has almost died, who makes you click on again just to see what this person has added?