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QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) 1st, I don't believe you can use the Sony PlayStation 2 controllers on PS3. The new PS3 controllers will not have rumble(absolutly terrible choice, I know), and will have to be wireless. I didn't figure that. I just like the fact that when you pick it up it looks and probably feels like what you're already used to from the PS and PS2. Compare that to the varations between SNES, N64, GC and now Wii. QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ May 11, 2006 -> 01:34 PM) 2nd, PSP is getting a redesign as well, so both companies deserve some critisism is that area(Even though I admit I'll be picking up the DS Lite when it hits). Really? I hadn't heard that. What are they doing it? My oldest daughter has a DS and now she wants a DS lite.

QUOTE(SmokeandMirrors @ May 9, 2006 -> 10:08 PM) Actually, the controller was changed. It no longer looks like a boomerang. Which is a shame.. now if you throw them in anger they won't return to you. If you go to ebgames.com and click on the PS3 link under Specialty Shops you can check out the controller. It looks exactly like the PS2 one, except it's wireless and has a guide button in the middle (not quite the size of the 360 controller guide button though). Ahh... It's good to see at least one of the companies can design a controller right the first time and stick with it throughout the newer versions of the system. I would hate having to get used to a new controller every time I bought the lastest system. QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ May 8, 2006 -> 10:43 PM) And I can't wait 'til I have my navy blue DS Lite at a very good price while sony is scrambling and knocking down the psp price. So Nintendo is duping people into buying a newer version of the same thing they already have just because it's a little bit smaller and the screens are brighter?

I'm pretty much righty the whole way. I throw like a girl when I try to throw anything left-handed. I can bat left-handed but not real well. QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ May 8, 2006 -> 12:25 PM) And my theory is lefties eat with the fork in there left hand, but unlike righties, we use our right hand with our knife and don't set it down. Righties tend to use the knife and switch hands when they do things, but than set it down. I eat with my right hand but if I have to use a knife for anything I'll eat with my left.

I'm left-brained. Does that count?

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ May 5, 2006 -> 07:42 AM) Hands down, it's Uribe diving into the stands in the 9th inn... That is still one of my favorite PBP calls ever. "Did he catch it? Did he catch it? ... HE CAUGHT IT! HE CAUGHT IT!" Right behind: "OUT! OUT! White Sox winner! and a World Championship! The White Sox have won the World Series and they're mobbing each other on the field!"

The bank I go to has these little video screens in the drive thru that show the CNN news. This video was playing when I drove up.

QUOTE(GreatScott82 @ Apr 28, 2006 -> 10:17 AM) Hmm thats a very good question. Well he will most likely hit #500 here, and he would win his first every world series here. It would be a very close call. However, he would probably go as an Indian. Didn't Wade Boggs win a world series with the Yankees, but still went in as a Red Sox? Wade Boggs was the reason MLB started choosing the hats for the players. He was going to go in as a Devil Ray because he signed a contract with them that had a condition that he would wear a Devil Rays cap in his Hall of Fame plaque.

Can he pitch? We had plenty of offense in 01-04.

Most bathrooms already have a urinal. It's usually called a shower...

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 07:37 PM) Back then they didn't have the technology. Nor was the Power Glove a Nintendo product. And I'm not sure you are getting it right. From my understanding in FPS games, the Revmote will essentially be a Light gun, while movement will be done with the nunchuck add-on. In Red Steel, the Revmote will also act as a sword. Nothing like this has really ever been tried. Not a Nintendo product? I don't know if it was made by Nintendo but it was certainly used on the system. It was horrible because you'd move the glove a certain way to make your character move and it wouldn't pick it up or he'd move too far or he wouldn't jump... Plus you constantly had to "re-center" it. The new technology may have improved it but until I see and try it myself I'm still going to be pretty skeptical. Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with sitting in a chair holding the controller with your hands and pressing the buttons with your thumbs?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 27, 2006 -> 03:35 PM) A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work & life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen & returned with a large pot of coffee & an assortment of cups made of Porcelain, Plastic, Glass, Crystal, some ordinary looking, some expensive, some exquisite. He told them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in their hands, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap looking ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and worse, you were eyeing each other's cups. Now if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it." So folks, don't let the cups drive you..., enjoy the coffee instead!! But I don't drink coffee...

I finally saw in a magazine how the new controller is supposed to work. I only saw it used for a couple of shooting games but basically the controller will act as the gun in the game. If you twist it left or right the gun in the game with twist left or right. Seems to me they tried this one other time and it was a pretty spectacular flop. Back then it was called the Power Glove...

Hoover Dam Guide: I am your dam guide, Arnie, please don't wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions? Cousin Eddie: Yeah, where can I get some damn bait?

I wonder if it was a God dam.

I ran into that "we don't match prices from other Wal-Marts" once. We happened to see a swingset on sale while vacationing in Wisconsin. Since we didn't have a vehicle to bring it home in, we figured we could get it at home. Nope... IIRC, the excuse was that other Wal-Marts match prices with other stores in their area. One question. Why didn't you just buy one from Target and return the first one back to Wal-Mart?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) Coincidence??? That was actually the only game I've been to so far this year, too. I think I've only witnessed three wins in person. Twice against the Twins and once against the Cubs. Every other game I've been to they've lost. I guess it's good that I'm only planning on going to 2-3 more games this year...

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 23, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) Well obviously we all remember how last year we set that major league record by leading at some point in every game the first 30 something (was it 36?) games of the year. Well this year, in our 18 games so far, we've had a lead in 17 of the games at some point (the only exception being the 8-2 loss to Cleveland in the 2nd game of the season). That's awfully impressive right there. Of course. Guess which game I was at?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) It seems like alot of people who just starting watching baseball think that a stretch of games signafies how a team really will play over an entire season. This is why baseball is the greatest sport there is. Over 162 games it is almost impossible for a bad team to keep up a hot streak, and good teams will always go cold. This time last year was about when we went on our longest losing streak to date. We will get hot like we are now, and we will get cold as well. It is entirely too early to predict that we will be one of the winningest teams around. In fact, it is somewhat ignorant and rookie-like to do so IMO. The Sox first losing streak last year was a whopping 3 games from 4/26 - 4/29. Then they went on one of their patented 8-game winning streaks. The first time they lost more than 3 in a row was that 7-game losing streak in the middle of August. They lost 4 in row only twice after that. That's what was great about last year's team. They stayed fairly consistant throughout the year. A few winning streaks and only one really bad losing streak. If they can continue to just win each series and try to keep the losing streaks to 3 games or less, we won't have to worry about the team being on a hot streak or a cold streak.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 10:23 AM) I meant the differential cost difference between two similar new cars, one with a hybrid drive system, the other a conventional motor-only. I know. It just sucks because I'm the kind of person that could really use a car like that. 80 miles roundtrip 5 days a week = about $80 a week in gas. I used to be able to get away with $40 - $50 a week. The people that can afford those cars probably spend that $30 a week at Starbucks...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 07:49 AM) One interesting side effect of that: at $4 a gallon, the cost savings for hybid vehicles, especially for high mileage drivers, suddenly becomes significant (where as at $2.50, the savings may never happen at all (if based purely on the gas math). I paid $6,000 for my current vehicle. I'd have to pay $20,000+ for a hybrid. Somehow I don't think I'd be saving much money...

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Mustnotmakejokemustnotmakejoke. . . Wrong kind of "tang".

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Nah. There will always be a few games in April or September where the pre-sale and walk-up numbers will be really low. I'd be surprised if it happened again in June or July. I guess it suprised me because the Wednesday day game had 26,000+. At least the Monday night total was explainable because of half-price tickets. It's just funny that 5,000 more people decided to skip work on Wednesday rather than go Tuesday night and go to work the next day.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 09:42 AM) When the Sox draw 26,000 on a weekday in April against a team that will probably lose 100 games this year, you know the ballpark is going to be very full this summer. I was somewhat suprised at the 21,901 for the Tuesday game. I didn't figure they'd have a game under 25,000 the entire year...

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:33 AM) It's the active ingredient, Sodium Fluoride. Given the concentration of NaF in toothpaste, you would have to eat at least 10 tubes of toothpaste to kill yourself. Some symptoms might occur after one or two tubes, though, so beware! And, if a child were to eat a lot of it, they could get really sick or they could die. So the warning is there for two reasons: NaF and lawyers. And I don't know which is worse. So in other words don't try to be like Al Bundy and make a toothpaste sandwich. Tangwiches aren't that great either. Especially if you don't pinch the ends and it all falls out...

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 19, 2006 -> 10:13 AM) Just out of curiousity, don't pitchers who throw with more of an overhand motion, rather than 3/4, also put more stress on their shoulders? The reason I ask is that I tend to use more of an overhand motion in my intramural softball league (the ball doesn't sail on me as much). By the time we get to the playoffs and are playing 4 or 5 games per week, I usually have to drop down and throw sidearm because my shoulder is weak and aching. Overhand pitching in a softball league??? Or are you talking about throwing the ball as a fielder?