Leonard Zelig

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 12, 2013 -> 01:12 PM) My apologies. How about 4 straight years he has failed to match his rookie season, with drastic decline over the past three. The f***. He had an OPS of .650 last year and people try to say "oh, well, if you ignore the first three months... and the last month... he was good!". Yeah, that's half the f***ing season, and every game counts. God, the desire to phallate Ramirez around here because of a good glove is ridiculous. The guy has been increasingly disappointing, but my apologies for saying 4 years of straight decline. Let's just look at the overall numbers. OPS by Year .792 .723 .744 .727 .651 Dude hit 140 OPS points below his rookie season. Dude has 711 OPS over the last four years. Dude's also 32 this year. Yup, guys leaving their prime tend to improve! But don't worry! He's pretty good for an AL shortstop! Oh, wait. Alexei ranked 10th out of 12 AL starting shortstops last year that qualified for the batting title, and 17th overall out of 20 that qualified for the batting title across all of baseball. f*cking statistics of f*cking shortstops ranked by OPS 2012 But keep telling me that he's the "best shortstop in the AL" or "underrated". I hope that these numbers satisfy your urge and were worth the wait. Alexei Ramirez sucks, and RBI are not a statistic to tell anyone otherwise. Imagine if there were a productive player in that slot - how many runs would have been knocked across the plate. LOL. Aren't you the guy who likes to bring up reading comprehension? I did not say any of that stuff about him and I didn't see anybody else claim that either. You made a statement and it wasn't true.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 12, 2013 -> 12:52 PM) I am busy at work and didn't get to this ASAP. But thankfully Marty has access to that new-fangled Google website. And that's not just a decline - it's a DRASTIC decline. Sorry, that doesn't fit your claim of 4 straight years of decline. I will wait for some numbers that do.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Mar 12, 2013 -> 09:53 AM) So you expect a player turning 37 (Konerko) to do better than last year? You expect a player who's declined 4 straight seasons to do better (Ramirez)? You expect Adam Dunn to do better than 40 jacks hitting .204? Honestly, I don't expect anything out of the lot. Please explain, using some facts, how Ramirez has declined 4 straight seasons.

QUOTE (IowanSoxFan @ Mar 10, 2013 -> 06:28 PM) USA advances to the next round after a comeback win against Canada. I know many superstars aren't on the US roster, but I've found the games to be pretty entertaining and the players that are on the roster seem to care a lot about it. Did they fight?

pics or it never happened

Great news!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 02:55 PM) I think this thread actually started as the ipad introduction thread. Yes, but I thought there was a more recent one that compared different models. There's over 3 years and 5,000 posts in here.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 3, 2013 -> 11:49 AM) Why do people do the polar plunge? Not sure if there's more than one, but the people I know who do it raise money for Special Olympics.

Does any body know if there was there a tablet specific thread on here at one time or was that in this thread?

QUOTE (The Baconator @ Mar 1, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) I lost a bet a while ago and have to wear a cubs jersey to work for a day. Today is the day I finally had to pay up. Mortifying sitting around in a Derek Lee jersey all day. Eat a messy lunch.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 28, 2013 -> 06:48 PM) I still can't find it but I will. The album is .

QUOTE (ptatc @ Feb 28, 2013 -> 04:49 PM) Is #30 a Dead song? I'm pretty sure it is but I'm looking through the albums and can't figure it out. Oh crap its . Can't believe I missed that one.

Wow! Somebody is selling a super-cool Sox hoodie in the Ticket Exchange forum. Sox Hoodie

Stephen Jackson voided the final year of his contract and is now a free agent.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Feb 21, 2013 -> 02:35 PM) WHITE SOX WINNER The Sox lost.

It is perfectly normal to attend women's college volleyball games alone.

QUOTE (2nd_city_saint787 @ Feb 19, 2013 -> 08:58 PM) I need some dinner ideas for poor folk. Healthy meals for 3 for as cheap as possible... I've convinced mi madre to shift from the pasta, rice, and processed heavy meals and she wants me to put together a 2 week menu. I told her just get a s*** ton of chicken and make it different ways she wants a more specific game plan. You will need: Cook the green pepper & onion in some olive oil until they are soft. Add the 2 cans of beans and the can of salsa. Do not drain the beans. When it's hot, it's ready to eat. Put it over some brown rice or quinoa. If you have some meat cook it and throw it in, I often use leftover chicken. This is awesome, especially considering how easy it is.

Thanks for the suggestions. Our shirts have always been silk screened so I don't know how that would translate. I normally email the design to the shirt guy.

We are looking for some new uniform designs for our softball team this year. Does anybody know of any fonts that would work on old time style baseball uniforms such as these?

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Feb 5, 2013 -> 03:19 PM) Pretty sure i heard he called a press conference to announce retirement I don't think he was even at the press conference.

Chris Carpenter will not pitch this year. Possibly (probably?) done for good.

Why would Greg be banned? He does not break any rules here, he just has different opinions.

A friend of mine returned an inflatable sleeping pad to REI 2 years after she bought it and they replaced it without hesitation. I have run into a jackass salesperson there on one occasion.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 31, 2013 -> 10:12 AM) Hah, that made me giggle. I wonder where Kyle Lohse will eventually land. At what point would a team signing no longer have to give up a draft pick?