Iwritecode

Happy. Because then maybe we won't have 40 different Chris Sale threads in the main forum.

Humblebrag time. My daughter made her HS bowling team. Likely only JV but good to be on the team. Now I'll basically be living at a bowling alley pretty much every day for the next few months.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 16, 2016 -> 01:21 PM) Where I am, 600K would get you a place across the street from the Lake. I could buy like 10 houses in my neighborhood for 600K.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Nov 11, 2016 -> 01:11 PM) Yes it means to continue to fight for liberty thru political discourse. To not just sit idly by while the liberals destroy this nation. Protest is fine. Violence and ignorance is not. I think there was quite a bit of violence the last time a group of people used muskets to settle a dispute.

I just read this on another board. Dude is a Yankees fan:

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 01:00 PM) To most people, turns out it actually is. Based on the responses you're getting here, I'd disagree.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) SO was this. 166 years without a championship between them. This will be turned into a movie. Book it. Come on now... 2001 was the literal storybook ending. Game 7, bottom of the 9th, bases-loaded, game tied, 1 out facing the best closer in the game. This game 7 would've only been comparable had one of the Indians batters walked off Chapman in the 9th. The story-line of two teams that have been bad for a really long time just isn't as compelling.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) A team of superstars making over 3 times more money than a team full of no-namers, squeaks by even though they were huge favorites. Plus most of the games were not competitive. So memorable. I read an article the other day that said the Cubs are basically the Yankees minus competence. A team with a top 10 payroll beat a team with a bottom 10 payroll. What a shocker.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 12:02 PM) I'd say the 2001 D-Backs/Yankees was much better. You had a team winning it's first title in franchise history against the Yankees when they were THE team to beat in MLB. They won it on a walk-off hit in game 7 against arguably the greatest closer in history. Forgot to also add that the Yankees were the 3-time defending champions. That series was a literal storybook ending.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 11:53 AM) I could definitely be swayed on that if someone can find a better one given the context of this one, but I'll stand my ground on Game 7. I'd say the 2001 D-Backs/Yankees was much better. You had a team winning it's first title in franchise history against the Yankees when they were THE team to beat in MLB. They won it on a walk-off hit in game 7 against arguably the greatest closer in history.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 4, 2016 -> 11:17 AM) I'm not expecting anything. I'm simply suggesting to step back and look at the bigger picture, and to let go a little of your pride and your egos and see this for what it really was - a great moment for the game of baseball. Stepping back and looking at the big picture, what exactly does this mean for the game of baseball? Sure it was a big moment for the Cubs and their fans but outside of them and maybe Sox and Indains fans, does anyone from the other 27 teams really care? I think for a lot of them it was just another WS they probably didn't pay much attention to. When we look back at the record books in 10, 20, 30 years will there be anything special about this other than it broke the Cubs losing streak (which was bound to happen eventually)? To me, the big moments for baseball are when the "big" records are broken. Barry Bonds breaking the single-season and later career HR records. Somebody breaking Joe DiMaggio's hit streak. Somebody breaking Cal Ripken's streak. Somebody breaking Pete Roses' hit total. Someone breaking Ty Cobb's career batting average. Some team wins the WS every single year. But most of those records are unlikey to fall within our lifetimes. Maybe not ever.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 08:36 PM) If you're still pissy after watching that, you're no true baseball fan. The end. You're actually right. I'm not a baseball fan. I'm a White Sox fan. Unless the Sox are playing, I couldn't care less about the game. I know there are people out there that can watch and enjoy a game between two random teams that they have no emotional investment in. I just find that supremely boring.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxfan1986 @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 12:47 PM) One thing I thought about is, we've seen our crosstown rival win one World Series in our lifetimes. How do you think New York Mets fans feel? A Met fan in their 20s or 30s has seen the Yankees win five championships, including one over the Mets. Oakland A's fans have seen the Giants win three out of the past five World Series while they have to hear talk about their team possibly relocating. At least Mets fans and A's fans understood why they were second fiddle to their rivals. They were/are actually good. As Sox fans, we've been second best for years to a team that didn't do anything in over a century. There has basically no reason for the Cubs to be as popular as they have been over the past 20 years. If any other team in any other sport had the record they had they'd be the laughing stock of the league and rightfully so. Yet Cubs fans can't understand why we have been so bitter over the years. Being continually forgotten because of a team that gets more recognition for losing than winning is not fun.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Nov 3, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) I can't really talk s*** to them anymore, but I guess I'll have to settle for "we did it first" We still have twice as many championships as they do in the last 100 years.

We've lived in our house since 1999 and last year was the first year (and so far only time) that we stayed home to pass out candy. Before that, we would always get together with friends and/or family and take our kids out as a big group. There was also a 5-year stretch where I didn't get home from work until the trick or treating was already almost over. This year we passed out candy at our seasonal camping site during their Halloween weekend at the end of September. Then we passed out more candy Saturday night at a trunk or treat that was put on by the local HS bowling team which my daughter is a part of. We gave out probably $60 worth of candy between those two events, so we decided not to pass out candy at home this year. Even when I did go outside I didn't see many kids. Last year we got maybe 30 or so. Hardly worth it anymore. So many different places do the trunk or treat now. I think that's where most of the kids go instead of walking the neighborhood.

QUOTE (Carlo Paz @ Oct 27, 2016 -> 12:25 AM) Jesus, that catch by Uribe. Probably the most unheralded play in MLB history. Derek Jeter makes a lesser but similar catch mid season and it's on every highlight reel for all time. This x1000. That was literally the 2nd to last out of a 1 - 0 World Series championship-clinching game with the tying run on 2nd base and it gets almost zero recognition. Hell, considering the circumstances, I'd put it above Willie Mays' catch. His happened in game 1.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) Doesn't mean anything to me since I don't read the comics. EDIT: Plus, it's completely different when you compare a comic still to video footage of someone's head getting bashed in repeatedly. I don't either. I'm just saying that it's not like they were making it extra gory just for shock factor or anything like that. They were just following the already established scenes. You can google side-by-side comparisons and see how they copied many of the comic panels almost exactly. I don't think it was any worse than anything else we've seen on the show already. I remember when they discovered they could cover themselves in the walkers' blood and walk among them unnoticed. One of the characters literally had some intestines hanging around his neck. Or the time that Daryl's brother stuck his bloody stump on that hot plate to stop the bleeding. Or any time we see somebody literally torn apart by the walkers. The only difference in this episode is that the gore was coming from a character that many people loved. So that's probably made it seem worse.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 26, 2016 -> 08:56 AM) Teams that lost the first game of the WS have lost 12 of the last 13, and 17 of the last 19. In 7 game playoff series, the Cubs are 0-9 when they lose the first game. Hopefully things will continue. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/page/playo...e-trouble-think

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 25, 2016 -> 05:20 PM) After watching The Walking Dead season premier last night, the wife and I both looked at each other and questioned why we continue to watch the show. It's become straight up torture porn. Just felt sick watching it. They basically shot it exactly the way it happened in the comics.

I got a PS4 for my birthday this past weekend. I got the Uncharted 4 bundle and also picked up MLB The Show and The Last of Us. I know nothing about the Uncharted series but I've been enjoying the game so far. I think there were some references to the previous 3 games in a couple of cut scenes that I didn't totally understand. I had been playing The Show 12 on my ps3 for a while. The upgrade to 16 is quite a jump. It just sucks that I have to start over from scratch with my created player in RTTS. Haven't cracked open The Last of Us yet. Heard good things about it though. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 24, 2016 -> 06:59 PM) I'm pretty sure the tips get split up amongst all the folks behind the counter at most places. I don't mind tipping because these people typically aren't making a whole lot of money. 10% is typically not a whole lot of money on a normal carry out order, to be honest. Usually no more than $3, unless I order 2 pizzas or something, in which case, I'll keep up the tipping as long as they keep making me good pizzas. When I get some sloppy ones, I usually don't tip next time. The people at McDonald's aren't making very much either. Why doesn't anyone tip them?

QUOTE (shipps @ Oct 24, 2016 -> 08:30 AM) Whoa whoa whoa, why the hell would anyone tip picking up an order? That is the whole damn point of going to pick the food up yourself! People have taken the tipping s*** too far. The girl wanted a tip because she walked the bag from the back counter to the cash register? No, that is bulls***. I am seriously mad at this right now. Thanks for pissing me off kyle. I don't even know who the tip would go to. AFAIK, the cooks make regular hourly wages and don't rely on tips as part of their salary. I don't think handing someone a bag and taking their money is tip-worthy either. Otherwise we should be tipping McDonald's workers too.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 19, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) The next spin-off should contain the word "definitely". I see "defiantly", "definetly", "definitly", etc. on a daily basis I always had trouble with that word until I realized that it has the word "finite" in the middle of it.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 23, 2016 -> 11:20 PM) Suspect on the loose. Four shot and killed in mall in state of Washington. Sickening. Again, the lunatic is on the loose. The victims got shot in a Macy's. Our country leaders, citizens, everyone in the USA should be embarrassed. You can't go to a mall on a Friday night without a good chance you'll take a bullet. Sad. Is it like this in other countries?????? Let's get our act together. I haven't run the numbers but I'll bet you have a better chance of winning the lottery and becoming a millionaire than getting shot at a mall on a random Friday night.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 21, 2016 -> 12:05 AM) I'm all about the military. If ONE military man or woman is upset then I am upset. I respect the hell outta the military. Colin is going about this in a very wrong way. I'm curious what the "right" way to protest is?