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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 11:25 AM) LOL. His overall hitting stats for both (combined) playoff series or this one even are better than 80-90% of Cardinals' players, though. Well hey, lets award Puig the "This guy has good combined numbers in both playoffs but is only hitting .150 in this current playoff" trophy right now! He can put it between to his "The Next Roberto Clemente Award" and his "Caulfields BFF" trophy on his mantle. I am sure the Cardinals would take the crappy numbers and late inning wins over good (combined) numbers and absurd strikeouts and late inning fail.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 16, 2013 -> 08:24 AM) I had to watch my grandmother go through Alzheimer's. It was like 8 years of a slow decline to the point where she didn't know anyone but my mom and her two siblings. Everyone else was a complete stranger and she couldn't remember conversations from 30 minutes prior. It was heart breaking. My grandfather, one of the strongest, most bad ass people i've ever met in my life, withered away to nothing in like 2 months from pancreatic cancer. At least he lived a full life up until that point and then went quickly. Death sucks. My grandfather went a year and a half after my grandmother passed. He also was one of the bad ass people I have ever met, he lost half of his left leg to a bomb in WWII in Germany. I never heard the man complain once about his leg, or having to care for my grandmother when things started to go south. Once their partner goes, the air is let out of the balloon for them.

Sorry to hear that Steve, I understand what you are saying. When I was around 13 years old, my grandmother had a series of small strokes and then a grand mal seizure that incapacitated her, and then alzheimers set in shortly after. It wasnt the person I knew for the last 5 years of her life.

My brother went to the game and was honored at intermission as a combat veteran. He was super pumped up about it, they brought him down and gave them seats on the glass. He said it was pretty awesome to get a standing ovation from the crowd. The PR lady made him take off his blackhawks stuff when they honored them on the screen, lol.

Puig dp in the ninth. Him and Punto had some big inning kills

Caulfield, how come in the White Sox thread, you post about Mattingly and the Dodgers, but in the Dodgers/Cardinals thread you post about Ventura and the White Sox? It cracks me up

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 12:42 PM) Funny how they missed Adrian Gonzalez go nuts after his RBI single. No, Wainwright called it Mickey Mouse nonsense

Nolasco is the right move with the win yesterday. Kershaw would have been a down 3-0 "oh s***" move

Dan Pompeii was saying today that they have around 3 Million available, so if they made any move via trade they would have to start asking players like Jay and Briggs to take a paycut now in exchange for a bonus later

HOW DID I KNOW AN ARTICLE WOULD BE POSTED?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:35 AM) Premature evaluation.Wait until the entire series is over. You're really going to use a two game stretch to make some kind of judgment? Nobody on the White Sox could have hit the ball 355 feet to RF in that fashion except for Viciedo and Carlos Quentin when he was hitting like a monster/machine and maybe Beckham his first 2-3 months. Say what you want about his posing, but it inspired the team and stadium, didn't it? He has a 788 OPS for the entire set of playoff games. It's not like it has been a complete disaster. http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_...louis-cardinals Great storyline now. Who wins? Puig or Beltran? Something's got to give. No, a premature evaluation is stating that Puig is the best rightfielder since Clemente after a months worth of games. You can keep comparing him to white sox players to boost up his value in your eyes, but it doesnt change the fact that he is spinning himself into the ground in the playoffs swinging at everything he sees.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:10 AM) So you're down on Adrian Peterson this year? AP is a freak for sure. CJ hasnt come close to the same production. Jamal Lewis and Terrell Davis fell off the table as well

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 10:02 AM) Look, I'm all for being reasonable here...and surely many advanced statistics are not perfectly fine-tuned. But to dismiss them outright because there may be some flaws is ridiculous. I don't know why you seem to be holding on to this line of reasoning because we all know you are smarter than that. Let me put it this way. If we were in a postseason game, tied, in the 9th inning, and PK singles or doubles with less than two outs, and you have De Aza on the bench...would you not pinch run him for PK? I just dont think that is really the argument. Of course you would pinch run him right there. I think the argument is pretty much "Is De Aza a good baserunner?" I say no. I watched him all season make one bonehead mistake after another, and not learn from it. There may be a statistic that says he is a positive on the basepaths, but it is really hard to agree with that after watching him this past season.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 05:15 PM) Sigh, I remember when I was so adamant in saying Chris Johnson would return to his former self with the upgrades they made on the line. Got him in my money league and one other...At least the main guy I was arguing with was the same guy who was talking up Ryan Mathews Isnt it pretty much a guarantee that once a RB has a 2000 yard year, that the fall off is steep and dramatic? I could have sworn i read something that showed that once a RB crosses that line, chances are they will not be the same again.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 15, 2013 -> 09:15 AM) Note to people: don't be stupid. 36 months ago I purchased an LCD television for $1,500. I went to make my last payment on it this am and saw I was charged 36 months (thought I had two more days). Ebilling is fun and everything, but always look at the pdf statement. Result: Made the final payment over the phone one day late and they waived the $1,300 fee. I took about 3 s***s waiting for customer service to open. Don't be stupid! HH Gregg? Best Buy?

QUOTE (Lillian @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 06:47 PM) Thank you, gentlemen. For a long time, I have been asserting the importance of having more left handed hitters, especially in our division. The idea was largely dismissed as "unimportant". The response was simply; "It doesn't matter from which side of the plate they hit, as long as they are good hitters". I'm glad some agree that the Sox need a couple of good LH hitters. It might even be feasible to get a couple of guys who don't have very impressive overall stats, but who really dominate RHP. If they can be platooned vs the occasional LHP, that would work, and such players might be much more affordable. and nobody ever disputed this notion, despite you constantly stating it over and over. Nobody said it was unimportant either. The response was "GRADY SIZEMORE CANNOT PLAY BASEBALL ANYMORE, ACCEPT IT"

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 11:06 PM) Therein lies the problem with the White Sox. There's a malaise. Except for Sale, there's no player you can ever put together with "amazing" and the same sentence except when DeAza, Ramirez or Viciedo do something amazingly bone-headed, or one of Ventura's managerial moves. Or Dunn/Flowers/Konerko etc., looked amazingly inept at the plate. Amazingly inept at the plate kind of like 0/11 with 7 k's(5 in a row) before that triple? Amazingly boneheaded like staring at a ball and posing when you think the ball is out of the park?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 08:24 PM) Lol Puig! That was amazing. Biggest bat flip ever. It is amazing that he still got a triple out of that. I would imagine if he wasn't posing and watching the ball after contact, and hustling out of the box that he could have gotten an inside the park homer. He was MOVING

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 06:05 PM) Supposedly he was getting like 30k per appearance from TNA. And they wonder why they are falling apart

I wonder how much Hulk asked for. It isn't like he can work intense crowd pleasing matches

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 04:17 PM) He was convicted and sentenced two years ago. http://host.madison.com/news/local/crime_a...1cc4c03286.html http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09...brendan-scanlon edit: he was the guy that killed Chicago street artist SOLVE, if anyone knows anything about that scene. So, how do you view your friend now? I mean, you say drunken brawl that got out of control, but your friend stabbed him. I was thinking maybe he hit him in the head and the guy never woke up. Im just curious, I really dont know how i would feel about my friend if something like that happened.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 14, 2013 -> 02:56 PM) I disagree she is entitled to a strong defense in a case this cut and dried. She said she did it. Her relatives know she did it. I believe she is entitled to a defense but it should be at society's terms. i.e. A QUICK TRIAL. Let her team of lawyers scramble to get it together quickly, get her in court and get her sentenced. Look, what makes you believe our court system is working well?? You don't think it can be improved?? I happen to think so. In a case this blatant, this case where everybody is in agreement she did it, including the murderess, why can't we get her in the f***ing courtroom SOON and convicted?? You are saying I'm against America's system of justice. I am all for people getting their day in court. I am NOT FOR giving these people all sorts of time and the benefit of the doubt when THEY ARE GUILTY OF HEINOUS ACTS AND THERE IS NO CHANCE THEY ARE INNOCENT. NONE. Why do you think our current system of delay and zillions of appeals is the right way to conduct business in this decaying country of ours? You seem to accept this current system as the ONLY way we can and should do business. Why is that? I want improvements. And I want her in court soon so we can get on with the conviction. Just say it greg, you dont believe in due process. You know, there are many times that people were believed to have committed heinous crimes, and even said so under interrogation, and it turns out they didnt. Just ask the West Memphis 3 about that. Those kids were railroaded to death row simply for looking different and being outsiders, and they were interrogated until they admitted guilt. Im not saying this lady is innocent, she certainly looks like she is guilty as sin, but that doesnt mean we string her up in the town square and let her hang immediately.

Derek Lee straight beasted in that series IIRC

There is no doubt the Governor will be back. He wont just disappear into the wilderness after Michonne kills his kid and Rick fights him off/outsmarts him. The Governor is going to be all about revenge.

LOL, WWE is like "Thanks but no thanks, Hulkamania" http://rajah.com/node/36573