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QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 08:45 PM) Separate teams by sex, not one team. Honestly, softball shouldn't even exist in a competitive youth format. It's a game that is played by people who would rather be playing baseball if given the option. Women should play baseball on their own teams and softball as a sport should be delegated to the YMCA/church/beer leagues. Are you talking fast-pitch softball or slow-pitch softball? They are vastly different.

I pulled into my driveway last night and happened to glance down at my odometer. It was at 222,222.2 I didn't even notice it until that exact moment.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 04:06 PM) I think generally there aren't many boys volleyball teams and if boys starting playing on those girls teams there would be outcries. Someone tried it a few years behind me in school and they were basically told not to try They way I always understood it was that if the school doesn't offer the sport for both boys and girls, either one can try out for the same team. That's why girls were always welcome to try out for football and guys for cheerleading. Not that any ever did.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 03:30 PM) Absolutely not. But 99% of the time it is always about how girls/women are being slighted for not being allowed to participate. You almost never hear it from the other side. It's ok for girls to jump on to the football team, or wrestling squad or baseball team. But the second a guy wants to try out for volleyball, field hockey or softball it's no longer okay. Actually my high school didn't have men's volleyball. There were a few of us guys that liked to play and we were pretty good. The volleyball coach said we could join and we almost did. She told us we'd have to wear the same uniforms at the girls though.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 01:41 PM) Someone start a girls league, then people won't b**** when a girl is cut from a boy league. I actually agree with this. If they are switching the league to be all boys and kicking the girls out, they should make an all girls league. 7 years old is old enough to start dividing up the boys and girls. They are going to have to split up eventually anyway since typically the boys play baseball and the girls play softball. Even the men's fastpitch softball leagues use a different size ball than women's. 12" ball for men. 11" ball for women. QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jan 31, 2012 -> 01:13 PM) For whatever reason baseball draws this type of scrutiny. Every kid plays baseball. Unfortunately the numbers, 9 per team cause some gaps. You can get by with a soccer team of 18 kids or basketball with 15. It is not easy but it can be done. In baseball though it does not work as a kid may not bat in game as there are limited opportunities for hitters and fielding time. Youth teams really need to be 12 to 15 kids tops. What happens if 17 kids want to play. You can't have two teams because inevitably grandma's 71st birthday will cause a kid to miss. The league my daughter plays in is the same one I played in when I was her age. They always manage to even the teams out. Some may have 13 and other may have 15 but it usually works out. They also have the rule where everyone has to play at least 2 innings and they have age groups all the way up to 16.

I would have clicked already filed but my wife had jury duty last year and I'm waiting to see if we get a 1099 for it. Other than that, they are done and we are getting around $5000 back. QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 30, 2012 -> 09:35 AM) People say I'm giving the government an "interest-free" loan, but I don't care. If I had gotten that money bi-weekly during the year, I would have spent it all, not invested it. I like suddenly getting a large bonus check in February to buy something nice with and build up some more savings. Same here. We are using our return to pay off a loan that isn't scheduled to be paid off until 2014. It'll save us a bunch in interest alone.

My daughter started playing softball around age 7. It was her first year playing so she completely missed the t-ball level. In t-ball the boys and girls all play together on the same teams. At the next level, they split up. Boys play baseball and girls play softball. It continues that way pretty much through high school and college. I did read the article and think it's a pretty lousy thing to do if they aren't going to offer softball for the girls to play.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 26, 2012 -> 03:26 AM) If Cabrera can play even a passable 3B, then they are 5 wins better today then they were yesterday. Not if they move Inge and his -.4 WAR to DH.

We use a website called mycheckfree.com for a lot of our bills and have never had a problem. For some reason my wife still insists on writing a check for our mortgage and our two major credit cards (Discover and Chase). The funny thing is we bank at Chase and they also have our mortgage. So we literally pay our Chase mortgage and our Chase credit card with physical checks out of our Chase bank account. I've tried to convince her to just do it all online but she refuses. The Discover bill we pay at Sears. We have one bill that comes out automatically from our checking account but that should be going away real soon. We also pay our sewer bill with a check but that's only once every 3 months.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 25, 2012 -> 12:13 PM) Also they should see if they can get a care credit card from GE to pay for the medical bills. I was able to get 18 months no interest on a 5k emergency vet bill recently, I've never heard of this before. It's a pretty good idea.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 25, 2012 -> 11:52 AM) Excerpt from the Trib today... Always liked the guy, he just wasn't a major league hitter. I'll bet he comes back to the game to be a coach at some point. He's going to sell avocados.

My oldest daughter starts driver's ed classes tomorrow. One of my co-workers suggested that I stock up on alcohol now.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 23, 2012 -> 01:07 PM) I have a perfect record of never trading a car in. They have all either been totaled or the engine blew up and wasn't worth it to fix. We got a new vehicle a year ago finally because our 1997 blew the head. I'm the exact same way. I just keep totalling cars. Which really scares me because I need my current car to last another 6 or 7 months. Even then we are probably going to keep it and just pass it down to my daughter who turns 16 this year.

QUOTE (Rooftop Shots @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 02:38 PM) geez, you guys want to talk about HERE being snowmageddon? Check out this link and your tune may change Justtttttttt a tad! The REAL snowmageddon Sure that's a lot of snow, but there's not nearly as many people trying to get around in it. Valdez, Alaska population = 4,020 Chicago, Illinois population = 2.7 million

QUOTE (PorkChopExpress @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 12:25 PM) Even when it's written I still have trouble understanding what he is trying to say. That's because he writes exactly the way he talks. Also he's never heard of spell check.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 20, 2012 -> 10:19 AM) They lend each paid copy once at a time. I'm ok with that for music downloads as long as only one paid copy is being listened to at a time. Libraries do not buy one copy and then make 50 copies for their borrowers. Not true for ebooks.

There are actually some high schools that have started just giving the students iPads instead of textbooks and it's saving them tons of money.

I remember when we could buy a pass for all 3 days for $35 with no hotel reservation. They doubled the prices when they changed hotels.

I wonder who the moron is that came up with the idea of charging people $131 to stay Friday night at the hotel and still not allow them into Soxfest itself.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jan 16, 2012 -> 04:20 PM) I was underwhelmed by Bridesmades. Went in really wanting to love it but came away lukewarm. I'm not the biggest Kristen Wiig fan in the world, though. QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2012 -> 06:17 PM) That's how I felt about it. It had moments, but it wasn't nearly as funny as it was made out to be. This actually makes me feel better. I was afraid I was the only one. I finished it last night and it didn't get much better. It got a couple of smiles out of me but no real big laughs. Also, Melissa McCarthy has a really annoying voice. Almost reminds me of Rosie O'Donnell.

I watched the first half of Bridesmaids last night and haven't been impressed with it so far. It really hasn't been funny and some parts were pretty awkward and hard to watch.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 11, 2012 -> 11:00 AM) I know what virtually all of those are. And I thought you were an iSeries programmer, right? So most of the upper section should be pretty familiar for you. Are you an RPG guy, or COBOL, or something else on the 400? I worked in the iSeries world for a long time, if you want any info send me a PM. No, I'm a COBOL programmer. Did PL/1 for about 11 years which is almost identical to COBOL. I had some RPG classes in college but no real world experience.

QUOTE (Palehosefan @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 12:24 PM) Here's a solid website that tracks the trends in programming languages. I have experience with about 10 languages, and I barely make a dent in the list. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/pap...tpci/index.html On another note, I get extremely frustrated with the splintering of new languages. Everyone and their mom wants to create the new "IT" language. The only languages on the list that I even have a minuscule amount of knowledge about are VB and C++. I took a couple of classes for each one in college and have forgotten most of it since. That's interesting to see Pascal on the list. I remember seeing it in the catalog when I was in 9th grade but they took it out the next year because it was considered out-dated even then. Then I took Cobol in college and have been programming in it and other similar languages since then...

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 11:28 AM) That was my thought. I've talked to a few other people and they've NEVER heard of anything like that. The only person in the department making more than everyone else is the department head. I've never heard of that in any business anywhere. The closest I've ever heard was somebody spending so long at one company that they actually maxed out their raises. It didn't matter if they worked another 20 years, they couldn't get any more raises. Meanwhile the company could hire people off the street at a starting wage near what the person with the experience was maxed out at. That's almost as bad, although it was retail and they probably don't expect people to stay there that long without moving up into management or something.

QUOTE (SOXOBAMA @ Jan 10, 2012 -> 10:54 AM) AJ PK Thornton Crain Ohman Beckham Floyd Alexei Danks I'd hope for some of these players we would get some great young prospects into this organzation. Peavy gone after this season and with all the money that the Sox saved, they can use it on next year free agency You're just playing along with this to get some discussion going during a boring off-season right? You can't possibly be serious. Right?