And if a scheduled televised game is rained out, FSN doesn’t automatically televise the makeup and when they do its the exception. Its like they look for reasons to avoid televising games.

Their schedule is filled with utter garbage that I can’t imagine anyone watching… and they just canceled the only show worth anything on the channel besides Pirates and Pens games. And that show just happened to be based on what I’ve read the highest rated show on the channel… But its to expensive for the cheapskates that will only show 120 games instead of the full season…

How about Comcast Sports Net coming into the Pittsburgh market? Or the Pirates and Pens forming their own channel together and saying adios to FSN like the Cleveland Indians? We are after all following the Cleveland model.

There is quite frankly not a single team in the Central that is a team I ever want to watch.

Whereas the East has the Mets, Phillies, Marlins, and the Braves. All teams I enjoy watching the Pirates play. Of course I like it even more when the Pirates beat them.

How hard would it be to move the Pirates into a division where they actually have historical rivalies? I don’t think too hard since the Central has 6 teams and the East 5. Just change which division has the higher number.

This will be extremely interesting to get a look at.

Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament.

The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections — some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences.

By the middle of the fourth century, when the Codex Sinaiticus was written, there was wide but not complete agreement on which books should be considered authoritative for Christian communities, according to the Web site where the Codex is posted.

The Bible comes from the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai desert, where a scholar named Constantine Tischendorf recognized its significance in 1844 — and promptly took part of it, Garces explained.

“Constantine Tischendorf was in search for ancient manuscripts, so he appreciated the age and value of it,” Garces said.

He took a handful of pages to Germany to publish them, then returned in 1853 and in 1859 for more. On that last trip, he took 694 pages, which ended up in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Soviet government decided to sell them in 1933 — to raise money to buy tractors and other agricultural equipment.

The British government bought the pages for £100,000, raising half the money from the public. Garces called that event one of the first fundraising campaigns in British history.

Film footage from the time shows crowds of people turning out to see the manuscript, which was considered a national treasure, he said.

What do you think of the Pirates’ ‘big risk’ trades with the Yankees and the Nationals?
Category: Sports
Voting began on 7/1/2009
Voting ends on 7/3/2009

A.
Good trades - 686 (23%)

B.
Bad trades - 1493 (50%)

C.
Undecided; will have to wait and see - 780 (26%)

Just unbelievable. The Pirates robbed and I mean robbed the Nationals yesterday and this is the result of the polls. Trades = bad. Even though the team STINKS. Even though we traded away what amounts to a 6th outfielder on any other mlb team and a relief picture with past arm trouble for a potential superstar that just has to mature.

Oh my goodness he did a rap song with bad language. Geez… don’t they all have bad language?

This is the problem with people. They think ball players need to be role models. Parents are role models. Baseball players are baseball players. And good ones are jerks.

That’s why the Pirates have stunk for 17 years. Trying to do it with nice guys who can be role models. Instead of talented players.

And and the other trade a bench player with one homerun who has done nothing for them all year for prospects. And that’s bad?

And then there’s the people who complain they should have kept Bay. Then signed a free agent for 3rd base… That’s how Littlefield tried to do it. It failed miserably. That’s how we ended with Burnits, Randa, Bell, ect. Signing cheap free agents for too much money.

“We know that they’re looking to the future, which doesn’t say much about 2009,” he continued. “That’s probably what’s so shocking. We’re five games out, and we lost two or three of our everyday players. That’s what hits us the most. You can understand if it’s the end of July. You see that stuff coming. … They’re businessmen. They’re trying to achieve winning baseball in Pittsburgh. The biggest question is: When is that going to be. When do things start turning around? It’s just hard for guys who have been here and seen these exact same trades happen and seen it absolutely do nothing. I’ve been here nine years. I’ve seen these trades 2 or 3 times a year every year and still haven’t had a winning season. You hope, eventually, some of these trades will work out. It’s just they haven’t yet. They think they’re getting deals they can’t pass up. I guess. I guess. I guess. Whatever.”

So I guess Jack Wilson thinks that the Pirates should have held pat and continued to lose. You know this is funny coming from a guy who came here in a trade. And who’s 2nd basemen came in a trade. Who’s first basemen came in a trade. Who’s third basemen came in a trade. Who’s Left Fielderfrom tonight came in a trade. Who’s right fielder from tonight came in a trade. Who’s catcher came in a trade. Who’s starting pitcher came in a trade.

Yeah making trades never amounts to anything. And I’m sure all of those teammates are just thrilled to death with his comments that their coming to the Pirates was a mistake.

I’ll take Karstens, Ohlendorf, Morton, and Lastings over Bay, Nady, Morgan, and McLouth. The only one of those four I regret seeing gone is Bay. Although his tendency of striking out when it mattered was quite annoying. Particularly when he took strike three.

And I’d take a talented immature player over a medicore nice guy any day of the week. I’m tired of the mediocre fan favorites. It started with  John Weiner and continued to this day with Morgan and McLouth. Its time to stop with the he’s such a swell guy and get some ball players on the roster.

I prefer getting the guy with the attitude that might actually be the next Bonds to this.

When you get right down to it, the choice is: Keep loving the McLouths and Morgans and whining when they’re gone and you’ll get another 17 years of losing or take a chance for the talented one with the attitude and the losing might actually end.

And that’s on top of stealing from Atlanta for a mediocre center fielder a few weeks ago.

Three great trades.

Keep it up Neal Huntington

The report said the investigation into the death of Agha-Soltan is continuing, “but according to the evidence so far, it could be said that she was killed by mistake. The marksmen had mistaken her for the sister of one of the Monafeghin who had been executed in the Province of Mazandaran some time ago.”

You know I’m trying to figure out this justification for shooting Neda. They thought she was the SISTER of a terrorist… So now one is guilty for what their SISTER does? WHat kind of logic is that?