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Operator: Good Afternoon...Hyatt Regency Hotel Manila. Can I help you? Gary Glitter: Yes...I need a room. Operator: Your name? Gary Glitter: Um...Gary...Ritter...Yes Gary Ritter, that'll do.

Went to Wildfire in Oakbrook last night. Wood oven roasted mussels to start Spinach salad Bone-in Filet with crusted blue cheese on top with redskin mashed pototoes Finished off with a dirty martini.

Fantastic idea!!! Kudos to The Score and congrats to jr.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 4, 2006 -> 01:30 PM) Well hopefully we can come to something with Crede, but I am not holding my breath. It still would not surprise me to see a deal involving Contreras for a 3B, reliever, and prospects. Is Eric Chavez available??

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QUOTE(sayitaintso @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 09:37 PM) I have heard up to 95 mil. The Chicago White Sox: Buying a Championship! We are what's wrong with baseball!

Brown and Ogunleye didn't have enough sacks to warrant interest, I guess. Maybe when the expected players decide not to show, they'll get picked for reserve.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) I will be the first to go on record to say the Dodgers will suck with that line up. I'll bet that group misses 300 games next year between all of them. Let me be the first to call them: The "DL" Dodgers

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! You tell 'em Grandma!!

Chuck Norris sounds like he is a close relative to The Rally Crede!

3. A Christmas Story I just my "leg lamp" Christmas ornament for our tree. 2. Elf "Tickle Fight!!" 1. THE REF Mrs. Ribbie and I watch this classic every Christmas Eve after our son goes to Sleep. Ahhh...what a warm, romantic film. Caroline: I had this dream... Lloyd: Do we have to do dreams? Caroline: I'm in this restaurant, and the waiter brings me my entree. It was a salad. It was Lloyd's head on a plate of spinach with his penis sticking out of his ear. And I said, "I didn't order this." And the waiter said, "Oh you must try it, it's a delicacy. But don't eat the penis, it's just garnish." Dr. Wong: Lloyd, what do you think about the dream? Lloyd: I think she should stop telling it at dinner parties to all our friends.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Dec 17, 2005 -> 10:06 AM) This really hurts when you look at what the Yankees gave up for Villone. That's just awful. Why Willie or Timo weren't offered is beyond me. I'm not saying the Marlins would do a deal straight-up for either of those two, but, the f***ing Yankees gave up a non-prospect and were able to land a very nice lefty in Villone. Was Kenny asleep at the wheel on this one? :headshake After the last couple years, I think it's near hysterical to even insinuate that Kenny Williams is ever "asleep at the wheel" as a GM.

QUOTE(santo=dorf @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 09:34 PM) LMFAO!!!! I used to use that joke when we had Bartolo. If it smells like Bartolo, leave to alone-olo? That doesn't rhyme!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 17, 2005 -> 06:31 AM) Roses are reddish Violets are blueish If it wasn't for Jesus We'd all be Jewish What we did when our kids were younger was traced the roots of Christianity and "celebrated", to use that word, the similarities in the faiths. I remember the first time I was at the service for a Jewish friend who had passed away. As the readings began, I realized they were Old Testament. That more than anything woke me up to the common beliefs we share. Remember the major difference is that Christians accept Jesus as the Messiah, Jews are still waiting. We share the Old Testament. Or to put another way, for most mainstream Christians, looking at Bibles, one would say, The Jewish is tooooooo short, and the Mormon is tooooooooo long, mine is juuuuust right. Old Testament, Jews, Christians, Mormons New Testament, Christians, Mormons Book of Mormon, Mormons So celebrate the roots, explore the differences, and expand the knowledge of the world. It can only help. Maybe a Jewish friend could come over and discuss not being Christian during the biggest marketing push the planet has ever seen for Christians. To quote Homer: " Whoa whoa whoa. I'm just trying to get in, I'm not running for Jesus" Seriously though, well said Tex. There is no reason not explore and honor the similarities between the faiths than dwell on the differences.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 04:43 PM) Technically true, but then I still don't understand what the end result would be here. Are you saying that you believe that you can follow two different religions, by piecing them together and avoiding the parts where they would conflict? Again, I'm severely curious, that's all. We're not approaching it religiously at all. He is just very curious about other cultures and we believe one good way to learn is to experience part of them. All we will be doing is lighting the Menorah each night and maybe get him a few tiny things. It's a nice story, too.

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 04:21 PM) Can't they show him the different ways of celebration without compromising their personal beliefs..? Exactly Steff. No where in the story of Chanukah does it compromise the role of Jesus. We are still celebrating his birth, then we are observing another gift from God that happened some 300-400 years before the birth of Jesus. That's how we are approaching it. Steff: Mrs. Ribbie says "Hi" right back at cha!

My Son, Mikey, came to us a few days ago and asked us about Chanukah and why don't we celebrate it. (To give you some background, my son just turned 7 in December and is in the first grade.) We explained that we are Catholic and we celebrate Christmas because it is Jesus' birthday. He understood that, he told us. Mikey went to Catholic school for pre-school, but now he is in Public school for first grade in Downers Grove. He attends CCD once a week. They were talking about the different holiday celebrations in class. Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza...etc. Something about Chanukah caught his imagination. He liked that it was called the "Fesitval of Lights", that a Menorah looked pretty. He asked us why we could celebrate both. He said a girl in his class is celebrating both. So we agreed. Why not? Mikey has always been very interested in different cultures and people. We felt no reason to stifle his natural curiosity. So, on a small scale, we will be observing Chanukah this year. We have a Menorah(courtesy of a Jewish friend) to light and a dreidel to give Mikey. He is rather excited. I see nothing wrong in trying this for one year. The story of Chanukah is quite uplifting. Any other advice from my Soxtalk friends on what we can do during this time? Again, we're keeping this on a small scale...Christmas is expensive enough.

Tabloids should learn to read...it'll save them money. Here's Teri's van:

69 dude!!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 01:39 PM) I like DDs myself...Oh wait, we might not be talking about the samethings here... Now we are...

http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=44396

And the first game Vasquez loses and Tejada goes 0-4 with 4Ks, Jay will be calling for Kenny head. Don't bother with that windsock...read something more productive with your time.

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 08:41 AM) I almost wish I was in NY for this shindig tomorrow. Yahoo is going to stream it live though.. It is going to be insane. I'm recording the radio broadcast.

I also loved hearing the old crew back together this morning. My favorite moments, and I know I speak for my wife also, were the times during the "Magic Johnson Show". Magic's show was god-awful and Howard spent at least an hour every day dissecting it and tearing into him. It was gold! Then Magic invited him on the show and Howard had his "band" play the song "Wipe-out" with a couple professional farters. Great stuff!

QUOTE(TLAK @ Dec 14, 2005 -> 08:28 PM) He has trash canned the best hitter I ever saw in Frank Thomas and traded the man threw the best single ½ inning a baseball I have ever seen in my life, in Orlando Hernandez. He disposed of the epitome of the World Championship team in Aaron Rowand, a guy we watched grow and regress in Marte and a guy who took one for the team in April that haunted his entire season in Vizcaino. He discarded Carl Everett who carried the offense at times. He dismissed the man who hit a game winner in the first World Series the team went to in 46 years. He is bringing in some big names to replace them but I miss my guys. I waited all my 53 years for a championship and now 6 of the 25 heroes from the playoff roster plus Frank – a quarter of them – are gone and we haven’t even gotten to spring training yet. The magic of 2005, of our guys, a team that nobody else respected but knew in its heart it could do it, a team that got great plays from the most unlikely sources is gone. The warmth I felt for the team going against all probabilities is being replaced fantasy baseball-like expected run production ratios. When Williams starts his BS about the Sox being a family all the players need to do is look how Frank, Aaron, Orlando, Damaso, Luis, Geoff and Carl were all s*** canned within 2 months of winning the ring for them -great family. When is Kenny going to stop killing the best thing that ever happened to the White Sox for a half century? Seriously though...ask the 2003 Angels what it's like not trying to improve a team after winning the world series and not making ONE move in the off-season.