Also anyone plugging the Cubs as the alternative to the Sox because the Sox haven't won the WS since forever need to like, get real.
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 9 August 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm can't tell if hstencil is kidding or not.
― John (jdahlem), Monday, 9 August 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Jose Valentin (S) (current), Ray Durham (S) (2002), Robin Ventura (L)(1998), Harold Baines (L) (1997), Tim Raines (S) (1992)
Also notable: a half-year of Kenny Lofton; dicking around / getting dicked by D'Angelo Jimenez; Ozzie Guillen (cough cough)
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 9 August 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 August 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, put a fork in the palehose.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― John (jdahlem), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
"Last night John McEnroe's on MSNBC was a repeat from during the Democratic National Convention. It had a piece in which John Cusack interviewed Barack Obama. At the end Cusack made a point of saying that both he and Obama are Chicagoans. "But," said Obama, "you are a Cubs fan and I'm a White Sox fan. Go Sox."
― Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 23 August 2004 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"The comments he made, I think they were unprofessional, because I was doing my job.... The only reason I did it is because he would do the same if he was on my side. And I didn't make it a big deal because it was Mr. Wetteland coaching first base. If it was somebody else coaching first, I will make a big deal about it because that's the rules. I think you can call up people to be on your coaching staff, but you can't have them on the field." --Ozzie Guillen, White Sox manager, on Buck Showalter's Thursday post-game comments, which questioned Guillen's knowledge of MLB's coaching rules (Daily Southtown)
"Even after the game, I forgot about it. Now all a sudden they come up with his comments and I think it's unprofessional. But when the 'best manager' in the history of baseball talks about you, that means you're on somebody's mind. And when you're beating the crap out of the best manager in baseball, and we beat the (bleep) out of them, it makes me feel a lot better." --Guillen, on Showalter's comments
"To me, I think [Atlanta skipper] Bobby Cox was the best.... To compete against the guy [Showalter] that invented baseball, and beat him, that's something you should feel good about as a rookie manager." --Guillen, on Showalter
"I could have made a big deal about it, but I was professional enough because I respect the guy that was coaching first base.... Wetteland did something in the big leagues. [Showalter] never even smelled a jock in the big leagues. He didn't even know how the clubhouse in the big leagues was when he got his first job...'Mr. Baseball' never even got a hit in Triple-A. He was a backup catcher or a first baseman all his career. Now all of the sudden he's the best ever in baseball." --Guillen
"He told somebody he didn't like me because I have too much fun in baseball. I have fun in baseball because I was good playing this game. And I made a lot of money playing this game...something he never did. And I have a championship ring on my finger. He made comments he's not supposed to be making about anybody." --Guillen
"It's too bad I didn't have to go to the minor leagues to get this job like he did. I was coaching straight up in the big leagues. I was a big-league coach and I went straight to big-league manager. Ozzie Guillen had to do something to take those steps. I only played two, three years in the minor leagues and played 14 years with the same team." --Guillen
"There are so many different things he might be jealous [of]...I was a better player than him, I've got more money than him and I'm better looking than him." --Guillen
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
I hadn't seen any of this. that is HILARIOUS. Classic Ozzie.
This is my favorite: To compete against the guy [Showalter] that invented baseball, and beat him, that's something you should feel good about as a rookie manager."
― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Round 2 between White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and Texas skipper Buck Showalter not only proved to be anti-climatic but also seemed to be the end of the fight.One day after Guillen laid into Showalter because of comments the Rangers manager made following Thursday's 7-3 Sox win, both seemed to want the war of words to end Saturday.Guillen's Friday tirade came in the aftermath of Showalter questioning Guillen's knowledge of the rules concerning replacement coaches at first or third base. Texas had received special permission from Major League Baseball to have roving pitching instructor John Wetteland take the spot of a suspended coach on Thursday, but Guillen didn't know that.After that game, Showalter all but said that maybe Sox general manager Ken Williams should explain the rules to Guillen, and that didn't sit too well with the first-year Sox skipper when he heard those comments Friday.Guillen blasted Showalter, calling him "Mr. Baseball," and insisting that not only was he a better player then Showalter ever was, but had, "more money than him and I'm better looking than him."
One day after Guillen laid into Showalter because of comments the Rangers manager made following Thursday's 7-3 Sox win, both seemed to want the war of words to end Saturday.
Guillen's Friday tirade came in the aftermath of Showalter questioning Guillen's knowledge of the rules concerning replacement coaches at first or third base. Texas had received special permission from Major League Baseball to have roving pitching instructor John Wetteland take the spot of a suspended coach on Thursday, but Guillen didn't know that.
After that game, Showalter all but said that maybe Sox general manager Ken Williams should explain the rules to Guillen, and that didn't sit too well with the first-year Sox skipper when he heard those comments Friday.
Guillen blasted Showalter, calling him "Mr. Baseball," and insisting that not only was he a better player then Showalter ever was, but had, "more money than him and I'm better looking than him."
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― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
If the Sox enter '05 with no Frank and no Maggs, Ozzie may be getting his wish for a faster, less powerful team earlier than he hoped...
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 14 October 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I was trying to figure out who the Sneliuses were, and how they got their money, and then I remembered, and I found this article. People who are born wealthy are usually tightwads, so it figures:
Paying home-age to the King January 14, 2001 BY NEIL STEINBERG STAFF WRITER Devotion to Elvis Presley, for most, is expressed in the form of a music collection or video library, supplemented by various posters, black velvet paintings, ceramic busts, wristwatches and official commemorative plates from the Franklin Mint. Tom and Cindy Sanocki are going beyond that. Way beyond. On Jan. 8--on what would have been, or, to some, is, Elvis' 66th birthday--ground was broken for the couple's new Palos Heights home, a faithful $1.3 million copy of Graceland, the Memphis mansion where Elvis lived from 1959 until his death--or, if you wish, disappearance--in 1977. Only the Sanockis' Graceland is bigger. More than twice as big. "We're not trying to relive Elvis," said Tom Sanocki, 42. "We found his home to be a beautiful place we spend much time at, and now we have the opportunity to do it here, and bring some of that Southern hospitality up North." The opportunity came courtesy of Cindy's parents, Alex and Ursula Snelius, who won $64 million in the Big Game lottery last September. Electing to receive their jackpot in a single $18 million payment, they promptly gave a million dollars to charity and told their four children to go out and buy or build their dream homes. "Each one gets a house," said Alex Snelius, 64, a former truck mechanic. "That's all they get. The rest of it, they got to go to work. I started out with nothing, and I was blessed with this and wanted to buy them a home." "My father-in-law said, `Whatever floats your boat, whatever you want to do, do,' " recalls Tom Sanocki.
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~presley/elnews135.htm
RIP, Ursula.
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I had no idea how they had achieved their wealth either. That's a great story! Thanks for posting that, Kerry. You could tell by looking at them that they seemed pretty normal, when the TV cameras would occasionally show them sitting at the games (always in the stands, never in a box.)
I had actually been thinking of using Ursula Snelius as my ILX name after I got bored with this one, no joke.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
'Ursula Snellius' is so outer-space sounding.
― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yr3k (dymaxia), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link