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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) Follow-up: Yahoo (AP) now reporting that the mother ship was in fact sunk by the Indian frigate.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 02:48 PM) I'm honestly trying to do my part. Ditched the car a couple of years ago and make a strong effort to purchase locally sourced food and goods. I wish I could ditch my car but it wouldn't be practical.

QUOTE (MO2005 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 01:53 PM) I'll tell you what to say...I'm going to have another krispy kreme and go back to work. The carts are getting full in the lot. I was being polite, but since you want to act this way I'll drop that pretense and say that if you want to be taken seriously you should probably say things that don't sound ridiculously uninformed. Like... "Stats don't mean s***!" If you want to hear what my actual thoughts are on that post, see the words in my signature. If I were to take the expression literally along with the reference to Scott Podsednik and '05 right afterwards, then that would mean I could relax since our leadoff hitter for 2009 could just be Jerry Owens (we can ignore the fact that Owens has never had a season with a .379 OBP in the majors or stolen 70 bases in spite of a .313 OBP to be consistent, since you did - after all, stats don't mean s***).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 02:32 PM) If people want to pissed at someone, they need to be pissed at themselves. We are the ones who have supported this system for decades now. All the oil companies are doing is feeding our addiction. We are the addicts. You're preaching to the choir. I chose my words carefully.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 05:10 PM) I think I'm going to vomit. I look at an MVP as, "who scares the other team the most?" When Pujols came to the plate, teams were f***ed. Same with Morneau. Sure, the Twins didn't win the division, but they came as close as you can behind two bats and a bunch of over-worked arms. When Morneau came up, you knew you were in trouble. Teams game-planned around him. Pedroia was the 3rd to 7th scariest bat on his team. He's probably the worst MVP I've seen in my lifetime. I'd rather it have gone to Youkilis than Pedroia. For all the love that Morneau (somewhat unjustifiably) gets, Dye isn't even really in the conversation for some reason even though his offensive season was probably better for just about the whole year. Both of them disappeared in September though.

Prices the company pays to get the energy vs. what the company actually charges the consumer. edit: In my experience the average person seems to think that oil companies randomly choose to charge 4 dollars a gallon at the pump, and people who are really dumb think that the manager at the local gas station is gouging, they don't realize that it's the price of crude that affects everything else and the oil companies have to pay higher prices like everyone else. So if a person needs to be to be pissed at someone, be pissed at suppliers of crude.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 01:10 PM) What regulations do you feel could be implemented that would double energy costs? When I read that what came to mind was the clusterf*** of uneven regulation that happened in California a few years back.

I know I can't be the only one looking at the Titans being 10-0 and thinking they really just aren't... that... good...? Can I?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Nov 20, 2008 -> 11:47 AM) the question is if a bandaid will really fix a gaping stab wound. Many of us say no. Others say it's better than gushing blood everywhere. It will help stop the bleeding, but not by itself. You have to do other things. Apply pressure, elevate, close it up, etc.

I am fine with drilling here in America if there are other conditions attached to it, because that would mean it was one part of a multifaceted solution. "Drill baby drill" is not a solution by itself, it's a weak ass bandaid.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 06:18 PM) You are and as soon as Yas jumps off, I'll be driving us around another lap, keep your heads and arms inside the ride at all times. Do not get off the ride until we come to a full and complete stop. Thank you for posting at Soxtalk and please have a nice day and evening!

QUOTE (MO2005 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 08:08 PM) And everyone PLEASE stop referring to stats all the time as your reference. Stats don't mean s**t! Pods had a very low OBP when he came here the year before? What did he do again in 2005 for this team? This post made me lol. I don't know what to say.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 05:59 PM) oh man, lost, St louis is disgusting with it. If someone from STL tried that I'd just laugh. wtf does STL have?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 03:34 PM) It's funny how sometimes third base coaches want to believe our plodders can somehow make it home on a single to left or center from second base. Then reality sets in and our only hope of getting the runner in is a horrible throw. Not complaining. Our home run era has been exciting, but the coaches at third need to get real and never get a plodder throw out. In their defense even slow guys can make it home on a liner to the outfield, usually. Cora just used to have me throwing things with his over-aggressiveness and wasted outs. Ugh.

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QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 04:49 PM) New York > all thats the only city that can realistically say that, the hell with everybody else

Also, I feel like I'm on a f***in merry-go-round.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 03:57 PM) I don't remember where it was posted, but it seems to be me like the areas that had the biggest moves towards Obama were in the North and is more minority populated areas. The whole map moved towards Obama (which doesn't necessarily mean they voted McCain, but statistically, more voted Democrat than in '04). The shifts were biggest in all populated areas but that's where the Democratic base of support is, and blacks weren't the only minority that did it, they all did.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 03:38 PM) Forget just regionalism - Chicagoans tend to be huge proponents of their own city's greatness beyond what I've seen from any others aside from New York. Ha, this is so true, I tried explaining this to my wife. My brother went out and got a tattoo with what he called the 7 most recognizable buildings written over "My City" on one of his shoulders, and my wife was wondering why he loved the city so much he had to do that, and why I talk about the city so often. She's never met anyone else like that and I told her we weren't unique. New York is the only other place that rivals Chicago for civic pride, and to a lesser extent, Atlanta is like that too, maybe Southern Californians. You won't hear someone from Cleveland, Philly, Boston etc. sounding like that.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 03:00 PM) They defend those that have a difficult time defending themselves. It seems the pro gun lobby has plenty of resources to fight. And it is a miscarriage to say defend Nazis. Usually it is the law they are fighting, and it usually is applied first to those groups we find morally repugnant. But if we head it off at the Nazis, we save the Young Republicans, Sierra Club, and Daughters of the American Revolution. That's about right. And it's not defending Nazis, it's defending the free speech rights of Nazis. In a related semi-rant, of my pet peeves is when people say "free speech is dead." God I hate that. No, what's dead is the ability to say things in public that piss people off without consequence. But the right to say it never went anywhere.

If he loses Ohio then it will have meant they thought he sucked as a president, same as any other re-election campaign this country's ever had. There is nothing credible to point to statistically that gives a reason to believe otherwise.

I lived in GA for 3 years, I remember once stopping to take a dump at a gas station in Tennessee on my way to Chicago one January and there was some graffiti in the bathroom that said "Happy James Earl Ray Day" (an obvious play on words in reference to MLK) and a bunch of other stuff. That made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I've been to Paducah once, I never detected any overt racism there (as if I was there long enough in the first place), but the hillbilly stereotype applies to eastern KY, not western.

I think the ACLU is misunderstood. I guess what people (mostly Republicans) take issue with is the way they prioritize who and what they defend, but they usually take the more controversial viewpoints.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Nov 19, 2008 -> 02:04 PM) I honestly don't know. I never considered the possibility. If you can put me on to something that points to what you say, I'll delete it off my sig. I saw the quote and thought that it worth mentioning. I don't remember where I read it but the best thing I could find is this: The whole socialist/Communist movement was pretty young back then and it had its roots in the labor rights movement. So, at first, he was a Communist and the quote is probably accurate. The bolded part is what I was referring to.

So the rules for having Derrick Rose: 1. no motorcycles 2. no trades for lottery picks