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I have both MVP 2005 and 2K6, and when I first started playing 2K6, I hated it. I think a lot of that was due to how different it was from MVP. The hitting, pitching, baserunning, and throwing were completely different. The only thing that I actually enjoyed was the pitching because you were not always sure where the ball would go. After playing it for a few days, I am getting used to it, and am starting to enjoy playing the game rather than thinking about what buttons I need to push. I must say that it may turn into an ok game, but it just seems to lack the polish of MVP. For example, there is an annoying glitch where the announcer says that a batter had no home runs, and no rbis last year. That seems a bit odd to be stating about Pujols. One other annoying thing is the rankings on this game. Yankees are #1, Boston is #2, White Sox are #7, and Cubs are #6. Seems pretty weird to me. Is ESPN involved in this?

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 7, 2006 -> 10:26 AM) Although I'm not familiar with them - I love the idea of the Gnostic Gospels. I love the fact that there are competing stories about Christ's life. And I love that some of them aren't afraid to portray Jesus in an unflattering light at times. Isn't there a story in the Infancy gospel about how Jesus make a dove out of clay and then kills it? And then he feels bad about it? Right now I'm reading a book called "The End of Faith." I think it's meant to be a modern day update of Neitzche's whole "God is dead" thing. I don't know if he makes a good point or not to be honest because my thinking is so clouded by his obvious and unmasked contempt for religion. I too like that the Gnostic Gospels are out there. IMO, it gives more validity to the texts that were written close to when Jesus lives because IIRC, the Gnostic Gospels were written a couple hundreds years after the original gospels. That is right around the time that you would expect to see documents like that come out. By that time, any eye witnesses had died, and I would think that people would start asking "Is that how it really happened?", or they would say "I think that it is more likely that it happened this way because I just cannot believe that." IIRC, the council that decided on the canon of the NT came about as a result of things like the Gnostic Gospels that started appearing, and they wanted to get things set before they were overrun with all kinds of documents proclaiming to the "the Word of God."

This is a very interesting discovery to me. I wonder how long before they put a translation of the text out. Hopefully, it will get people to think about the NT canon and how it was formed. Whether they agree or disagree with it, I like seeing the discussion and the thoughts. I think that kind of stuff is always fun to learn more about. Maybe the document will make it out to Chicago like the Dead Sea scrolls did a few years back. I thought those were pretty amazing too.

Gameday is reporting: Top 3RD B:0 S:1 O:0 Chicago White Sox right fielder Jermaine Dye left the game due to an injured leg.

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 12:33 PM) Mackowiak replaced Dye in RF for some reason. Uh-oh. What is this about?

Has he been missing, or is he getting squeezed? Can anyone tell?

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 5, 2006 -> 08:14 AM) American flag comes in second Dang Cubs fans not respecting our flag....(bottom right)

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:45 PM) LOL. Yah. It's like clockwork. This team deserves better. I don't know. I'm seeing a lot more people saying that it is only the 2nd game of the year and that we have a ways to go.

QUOTE(fathom @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 01:08 PM) I'm not going to lose sleep over losing the 2nd game of the season. I'm as emotional as it gets....and I've even realized that we're not going to go 162-0. Pessimist

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 11:40 AM) Must be kidding me. The ring cermony is not on the Score. If you look at the ring thread, there is a link to NBC where they are showing the coverage live. I was unable to get it working, but my workplace blocks a lot of stuff.

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Apr 4, 2006 -> 11:21 AM) Anybody see this picture of Thome's dinger Sunday night? Check out the reaction of the batboy in the background I think I had about the same reaction. He crushed that thing!

42, Headed to Geekdom

I am kind of surprised by Tad not starting. I thought that he looked pretty good yesterday. I'm sure Oz knows what he is doing, but anyone have thoughts as to why Tad would be out?

That was good for a laugh.

QUOTE(Elcaballo45 @ Apr 2, 2006 -> 09:56 PM) Tarp is coming off the field! Yes!

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Apr 2, 2006 -> 09:53 PM) I don't think I've seen enough promos for the Benchwarmers. Is that what they are promoting?

ESPN is saying it will start again at 10:50.

Anyone else have Thunderstruck going through their head already?

Anyone have the lineups? It looks like the bats are pretty quiet based upon the Yahoo! box score.

Five more days! I cannot wait!

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Mar 28, 2006 -> 07:57 AM) Am I the only one not seeing anything? I can't see it either.

Sweet work!

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) That was hit even farther than the first. Well gone, oppo field. And one of the Scrub fans throws it back, awesome. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Mar 27, 2006 -> 08:35 AM) If the next president is Republican, it will be the same thing. Because of all of the information that is now available, I have a feeling that we will never see a presidency in which there is not a White House "scandal" of some sort. Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc. It does not matter. As long as someone has a motive to find something to cause a scandal they will be able to do it even when it is not completely true.