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Quote from: hammerman on April 06, 2008, 03:31:32 PM
2008: the new 2005 for DLee?

2008: the new 1908, except this time with radio, for the Cubs?

Bump. Hey, hey did go 4-for-4 this afternoon, right?

Quote from: Chuckosan on April 02, 2008, 09:01:24 AM

Quote from: flannj on April 02, 2008, 08:43:29 AM

Quote from: RedBeard on April 02, 2008, 08:41:22 AM
Just pool your money, get one really good hooker and share whilst watching the game on TV in a swank suite downtown. Everybody wins.

Speaking of HJE - Where the hell is it? It won't show up for me this morning.

Or hook up with Stuart Levine at the Purple Hotel.

That hotel has a heckuva history.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/October-2005/The-Lost-Don/index.php?cp=3&si=2

In December 1982, after four days of deliberations, the jury found Lombardo, Dorfman, Williams, and two others guilty on 11 counts of bribery, fraud, and con-spiracy. A month later, while out on bail awaiting sentencing, Dorfman was shotgunned to death in the parking lot of the Lincolnwood Hyatt Hotel. The mob apparently thought Dorfman was too soft to do his time and might start singing. ABC-TV's Ted Koppel devoted an episode of Nightline to the murder, accompanied by a profile of Lombardo. To this day, the Dorfman slaying remains unsolved.

I'm astonished at how Stuart Levine could remain such a functional Illinois political hack, siphoning off so much cash from the state the "clean" way (kickbacks as opposed to good old-fashioned embezzlement), while raising money for BOTH major party candidates for Gov. in 2002. You'd think you wouldn't be able to keep everything straight after a couple stiff drinks, let alone after emptying the inventory of meth from Alsip and ketamine from Arlington Park several times a week.

Quote from: Thrillho on March 31, 2008, 10:10:33 PM
The first YouTubings...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJBtrsz5rA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30IbAShOMY

That second YouTube was from Huey Country.

Quote from: Slaky+ on March 31, 2008, 05:55:47 PM

Quote from: EG on March 31, 2008, 05:31:45 PM

Quote from: ChuckDickens on March 31, 2008, 05:26:39 PM

Quote from: EG on March 31, 2008, 05:23:26 PM
Holy. Shit.

I've got chills.  That was incredible.

Details. I need some details. I've heard Fukudome hits like a Nancy; was it a Nancy home run?

It was a 410-or-so-foot Nancy-homer to right center. 

Tough loss, but we saw some good things. Also, I'm never going to post in a gamecast again. I didn't today, but I just read it. Lame--O.

Yeah, some awful bad wrist-slitters there. Who are these guys?

Quote from: BigDrinky on March 14, 2008, 02:33:45 PM
Mrs.Drinky is planning on attending.  I haven't sprung on her who the other attendees will be.  Time for her to think about the whole 'internet friend' concept might be a little too much.  I'm guessing it won't matter once she is there.  By August, it will be a rooftop with the guys I'm in a roto league with...which might be marginally less ghey.

To Mrs. T.J., there's no difference. They're all "men you meet on the Internet."

Quote from: Chuckosan on March 13, 2008, 04:24:30 PM
Not sure if you've got me.  Me.

Just curious, but are there any women signed up?  SMG?  You out there?

I thought someone named Steph was going to go. Fork put her in charge of the Cheesecake Factory postgame.

Quote from: PTanner on March 13, 2008, 03:45:06 PM

Quote from: Andy on March 13, 2008, 02:28:57 PM
Kasper said he might come.  It's likely going to be an ESPN 7 p.m. start so he'd have the day off.

This is as good a time as any to tell folks that I'm putting together the paperwork, and it's gonna run everyone $140 a head, tax included.

This includes a seat, food and beer.

Witty repartee is free.

I'm going to need to pony up the money up front. As you can probably understand, while I happily laid out the ticket money for Hockee Night, this is a slightly different proposition.

So, everyone who said they were in, start scraping your pennies together. I'm going to start hitting everyone up for dough next week.

How many people do we have lined up?

Mark me down for 2.

Quote from: RedBeard on February 22, 2008, 11:00:38 AM
Dipshit, I know how the fuck to look up weather on the web. What I fucking want is someone on the fucking ground to say, "Hey, IDOT sucks right now, can't keep up, expect it to take 2 hours to get from Galesburg to Peoria." Or, "No problems, radar lies, clear sailing."

How hard is that?

It looks like I-74 in Indiana has a few Sox fans running amok.

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7909936

My mother's father was an Italian from near Rome, and my mother's mother was born and raised in rural Kentucky. Whenever my mother and her siblings would visit Kentucky, all the kids on the block would come by to gawk, or more specifically to inspect my mother's head for devils horns. We're Papists, after all.

Quote from: Tonker on February 12, 2008, 06:11:30 AM

Quote from: Slaky+ on February 11, 2008, 05:26:42 PM

Quote from: Al Czervik on February 11, 2008, 05:21:21 PM

Quote from: Oleg on February 11, 2008, 05:00:29 PM

Quote from: EG on February 11, 2008, 04:58:00 PM
So, it's tax season, and I was wondering if people had any experience with the big tax prep companies like H&R Block and Jackson-Hewitt.

I've done my taxes on my own in the past because they've been as simple as possible, but this year I worked six months in Illinois, moved to Kansas, but worked across the state line in Missouri.  With three states involved, I'm afraid I'll screw everything up and I was thinking of taking it to a prep service.  Anyone have any recommendations, etc.?

Just make sure the accountant is Jewish.

Is there an option?

My dad. Roman Catholic. Best accountant there is.

Me.  Also Roman Catholic.  Also the best accountant there is.

Wait, did I say accountant?  I meant "lion tamer".

I didn't think they allowed Catholics in Scotland.

Quote from: Corn-fed on February 07, 2008, 11:10:12 AM

Quote from: Slaky+ on February 07, 2008, 10:46:19 AM

Quote from: Taylor on February 07, 2008, 10:34:36 AM
Scott and Dusty reunited?

QuoteWayne Krivsky happened to be touring Dr. Tim Kremchek's facility when right-hander Scott Williamson was throwing. So are the Reds interested?

"He looked good," Krivsky said.

He left it at that.

Wiliamson has a great arm when healthy. He still lives in the area. Stayed tuned.

Williamson stayed tuned? I don't get it.

http://frontier.cincinnati.com/blogs/redsinsider/2008/02/williamson.asp

I think the full-body shots on the Cincinnati.com blogs have been mentioned here before, but I really find them disconcerting...



Meet also Mr. Brian Butts:

QuoteI'm a pop culture sponge. I can't listen to "Don't Fear the Reaper" anymore because all I hear is cowbell, I love a good Strong Bad email, and I still to this day crack up laughing every single time I see Pee-wee Herman drive his motorcycle through the billboard in "Pee-wee's Big Adventure."

Surprisingly, the hipper-than-hip Butts is also apparently their IT guy.

Never would've guessed.

(Have we covered this all before? I feel like we have.)

Didn't the Sun-Times do that? Do they still do that? I haven't purchased a hard copy of the Sun-Times in months, so I don't know anymore.

Quote from: Old Style Man on February 03, 2008, 09:45:31 AM
I agree with the recommendation to stay at the Days Inn on Diversey. Book it as soon as you can. Parking isn't the best. You probably have to park at the mall's garage around the corning, but it isn't hat big of a deal. The hotel is pretty decent, and the rooms are quite a bit bigger than at a lot of places in the city. The location is great. After you're done at Shuba's you can cab it to Weiner Circle, about a half block south of the hotel. Good times. And getting out of the city that early shouldn't be that big of a deal. Just take Diversey all the way back to the Kennedy (90 West).

Or zip down Lake Shore Drive to the Stevenson.

What's the station (call letters, frequency, location, online streaming)? Will you take callers to your show?