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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 18, 2012 -> 03:46 PM) Good catch. I fixed it. Can you come fix my TV next? One of the buttons is broken on it.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:36 PM) There are a lot more options in the summer. QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 04:54 PM) Summer camp, summer jobs, a million other things that people plan for. Some parents get part time jobs during the school year. I'm not even talking about the summer. I'm talking about all the days during the school year that kids get off. There are a lot of them. For example my kids are only in school for 3 days next week. There are parent-teacher conference days, institute days, holidays that most people don't get off (Columbus Day, Veteran's day), etc...

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 11:19 AM) I do a lot of legal aid. None of them are supporting the teachers, they just want their kids back in school so they dont get fired for taking days off. A lot of people are concerned that they are going to lose their jobs because they have to stay home to take care of their kids. I went to the protests to try and see how many "regular" people were there, not many. I don't understand why this is such a problem for so many people. What do they do with their kids the other 180 days/year they aren't in school?

QUOTE (farmteam @ Sep 17, 2012 -> 12:08 PM) Unless you are Tom Selleck. Or Paul Teutul Sr.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Sep 14, 2012 -> 06:28 AM) Olney said you can't rule out Ozzie getting canned. This is like predicting snow sometime between now and April. Will anyone really be surprised when it happens?

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Sep 13, 2012 -> 11:24 AM) I guess you didn't read your math book, because if you did, you would have comprehended all of it! HAW HAW I always did well on the math portion of standardized tests by simply knowing that the correct answer was always one of the choices. It was just a matter of plugging each one into the formula and seeing which one fit.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 02:25 AM) My college withdrawals are at an all-time high. It took about 10 months for me to hit the bottom. I miss my friends so much. I'm struggling bad right now. If you're coming to Rockford, check out Forest Hills Lanes. They have sand volleyball leagues, softball leagues, kickball leagues in addition to the aforementioned bowling.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Sep 11, 2012 -> 07:52 AM) I'm not sure if this was a solicitation for advice, but here it is anyway: Try to become part of some kind of group. For me, it was finding a church that I liked that also had several people my age. If you aren't religious, then some kind of common interest. If you play poker join or form a weekly home game. Maybe there is a local Sox hangout where you can meet other Sox fans. Making friends takes more effort when you aren't surrounded by hundreds (or thousands) of other single people your age on a 24/7 basis. I've found that it's incredibly rare and slightly awkward to make new friends as a adult. Especially after you have kids. With Facebook and email it's easy to sort of keep in touch with old friends from high school and such but I really only have 2 or 3 people that I still know well enough to actually hang out with on a day-to-day basis. It was so much easier as a kid. You'd see someone everyday at school, have them come over and check out your GI Joe collection and maybe play catch outside, then suddenly you're friends. Honestly my wife and I met more people in this past year because we've become permanent campers at a campground. We typically only see them on weekends but we've gotten to know them well enough to exchange cell #'s and they even gave us a spare key to their camper for emergencies. They also have kids around the same age as our kids, so it works out pretty well.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 01:01 PM) Daver's apparently a cop. He threatened me over email after I got permabanned for posting about something that wasn't even illegal and he ended up posting some s*** about how my posts could result in lawsuits for them. The administrators over there are just awful. They run their forum like it's 1980 in Communist Russia. In his real job he's a plumber, not a cop. He's also a game warden or something like that which again is not a cop. They also have a warped sense of understanding about copyright laws and fair use. I'm just waiting for him to get wind of this thread and reply to it since, IIRC, he's registered here too.

Cubs too. Edit: Nope, they're still not eliminated from the WC.

QUOTE (BobDylan @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 08:21 PM) Why did you ignore what I was really saying and jump to defense against a statement that really meant nothing? Seems the status-quo hasn't changed around here. It's been dead for a few years now and it's in the same boring state it was when I left two years ago. But like I was saying, message boards are meant to have new threads. New threads keep s*** interesting, and even though it may look "messy," it encourages participation and discussion. You notice the growth of this place has been stagnant for years? Before you answer that question, it was rhetorical. The userbase very well could be growing. But the discussion isn't. By just looking around I can tell this place is in a never ending loop, forever caught in a self-created meme and circle-jerk. Go Bears. Anytime something big comes up (like the AJ on peds rumor) a new thread is created and it gets discussed. It's just that those big events don't happen all that often. There's only so much to talk about during the season. Most people have a pretty good idea of what deserves it's own thread and what can be thrown in the catch-all. I think the catch-all actually promotes better discussion about the minor things that happen day-to-day with the Sox. The subject gets discussed and the conversations ebbs and flows as needed. Commenting on a guys batting average or who you think should start a certain game doesn't necessarily deserve an entire thread. With the major threads, there are usually only so many things that can be said. Typically everyone decides which side they are on, it gets discuss for a few pages, then somebody new comes in and repeats a thought that has been expressed 100 times already in the same thread. Then it all starts over again. Either that or the thread goes off-topic and a completely different discussion breaks out.

QUOTE (ewokpelts @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 06:49 PM) Also, Daver is a total jackass. The reason I dont post there anymore is that HE insulted me, and I "reported" his post. He took umbrage, and had me banned. When i asked "wtf"?", he made it a lifetime ban. This story doesn't surprise me one bit. The rules have never applied to the mods. It's like they are trying to drive away their posters. Many of them long-timers. Also in his mind, Daver is never, ever wrong.

I bought the latest DVD set of Sons of Anarchy and I'm trying to get through it as fast as I can so I can finally be caught up for the start of the new season next week. It really sucked not being able to watch the show last season but it's kind of nice not having to wait a week between each episode. Also no commercials so I can get through the episodes in 45 mins instead of an hour.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Sep 7, 2012 -> 12:51 AM) Anyone currently or previously live in Rockford? I'm moving out there for a new job next week. Wondering if someone in their early 20's is going to go crazy out there. I've gone fishing in and around Rockford hundreds of times, but I'd also like to have a good time out on occasion. Stir crazy maybe. Not a whole lot to do in Rockford. Unless you like bowling.

QUOTE (Cali @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 02:49 PM) I dont understand this. The numbers I have in front of me may not be correct but don't 1000% of all email addresses use one of those domain names? Not everyone goes to school or works at a place that offers an email address. So they want like no new members ever? The point is that anyone can have any number of the free email addresses. It's a little more difficult to make a fake address with a work or school email. But yes, they are very, very paranoid over there.

Just have him mention something about attendance, politics or quote a sentence from a Tribune article.

The catch-alls are usually the first thread I read in each sub-forum. In fact, I probably keep up with them more than the individual threads.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 6, 2012 -> 01:32 PM) Yeah, I don't get it. Do they only allow school or work e-mail addresses?? Not everybody has one of those or uses it. I have one from my ISP. I just very rarely use it. I know some people don't have an ISP.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 5, 2012 -> 05:06 PM) Very true. I am scared to death to start a new thread ever. And believe me, I'd be starting a ton of threads if this board was new-thread-friendly. I don't think it's the thread-starting. I think it's the fact that you have opinions that 99% of the people here don't understand or agree with.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 3, 2012 -> 09:46 PM) In a Tribune article today, a Cubs employee mentioned that 40% of the fans at Wrigley are from out of state on any given day. That's what happens when you are on a nationally televised TV station and also have a major newspaper as your marketing department for 20+ years. You can advertise the "experience" of coming and seeing a "beautiful" and "historic" ballpark without ever mentioning how good/bad the team is that plays there. Then suddenly it becomes a tourist destination for people that care nothing about the sport. The other 29 MLB teams actually have to win to get people to show up. Sometimes that's not even enough.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 31, 2012 -> 01:45 PM) I might be crazy but wasn't there a different Soxtalk board before the one we know now started up those 10 years ago. I seem to remember having to resign up once this board became official. Also, I must own the ratio for longest time here, least amount of regular posting haha. (that's not including people who disappear for years haha) You're at 1.79 posts per day. I'm at .6. I win.

I never realized that I joined this site 3 weeks after it started.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag...-mlb.html"" target="_blank">I'd never heard of this guy until now. Guy was on the Cubs in 2005 and got beaned in his first MLB plate appearance on the very first pitch. Concussion happens and he never makes it back to the bigs. Now there's an online petition for him to have just one more MLB plate appearance. I guess the idea is that since 1) the Cubs are horrible this year, and 2) they have exactly 1 open spot on their 40-man roster, he should get that shot against the even more horrible Houston Astros in the final game of the season.

It's hard to draw the line between being mad at your kid for getting it trouble because they hit another student at school and being proud of them for standing up for themselves. I know from my own childhood experiences that telling an adult usually doesn't help the problem and can sometimes make it worse. There are definitely kids out there that don't know what the words "leave me alone" mean and knocking them to the ground is sometimes the only way to get the message through.

I got You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone. My oldest daughter got Macarena. Middle one got Candle in the Wind 1997 and youngest got Fallin by Alicia Keys.