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Cowley was involved in a very similar sexist taunt just one month ago about a Matt Forte article written by GASP a female sportswriter/blogger/columnist who dared to question his opinion. What seemed to really upset him the most was his last name being spelled Crowley instead of Cowley. http://deadspin.com/5906139/joe-cowley-the...r-keep-him-down http://playerperspective.com/nfc-north/chi...tt-forte-elite/ Here's the article the woman had written disparaging his Forte column. It seems Cowley had a signature sign off for those he was through antagonizing: "Now cue my damn music..[link to a video from the fuc---- Karate Kid.]" Kid next to me looks like "Short Round." Think I'll give him a dollar to say to me, " You cheat, Dr. Jones!" #firstclassproblems. cst_Cowley ... 获取过去 24 小时内的更多结果 So, to summarize, Cowley has managed to offend: 1) Female pilots, female flight attendants (Squatches or Sasquatches) and more or less all airlines crew members 2) Female sportswriters/bloggers 3) All females in general 4) All Asians in general Just in the span of 24 hours. He's doing well in his plans to emulate Ozzie and clan in every way.

Not sure what the methodology was there. I did the simplest thing, took the composite average of the last two seasons, 39.5 homers and 108.5 RBI's, divided by 6 (for six months in a season), the multiplied by 5. In other words, let's just say he was injured the first month of the season and didn't play at all, what would his expected numbers be? I came up with the statistical result of 33 homers and 90 RBI's...well, really 94 because he already has 4. So all is not lost clearly, but he really has to pick up the pace and batting average, no doubt.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-04...iams-joe-cowley Whatever happened to THIS version of Joe Cowley, before he became a parody or satire of himself? And no matter what you say about Jerry Manuel, the guy's an outstanding human being. The morning after the surgery, Cowley picked up the phone and heard these words: "What are you doing, Cowley? Get up. I'm going to call you every day until you get back on your feet." It was former (Sox manager Jerry) Manuel. Sure enough, Manuel called every day until Cowley went home. But the worst news was yet to come. Doctors found traces of cancer in Cowley's bone marrow, giving him a cure rate of 50 percent. He was at Stage 4, the most serious of all. And his faith was starting to waver. "That's when Molle gave me a big speech, like Adrian and Rocky (in the movie)," Cowley said. "She said: `You've been a fighter your whole life. You have another fight. And you can't quit.' "That sunk in and I said: `That's it. This is not going to be the end of me.'" In early December, Cowley shaved his head in front of his son, Aidan. He and Molle wanted to be open with him, and now it feels better when Aidan kisses him on the head and says, "You're getting better." Cowley, who has lost 17 pounds, down to 158, recently completed his sixth and final round of chemotherapy. His fifth was by far the roughest, as doctors administered shots to stimulate the white blood cells inside his bone marrow. "It felt like a giant picked me up and squeezed me and cracked every bone," he said. "Molle had to help me up the stairs for two days. You just lay in bed and look at the clock and want time to go by. You're in and out of sleep like a bad nightmare." But the nightmare appears to be over. Cowley accomplished his goal of covering Opening Day, and his most recent CT scan showed no signs of cancer. Like Lance Armstrong, Cowley believes cancer survivors are the "lucky ones." "I have a perspective I never imagined," he said, "and that's what I'm thankful for. This has made me a lot better person, a better husband, a better father." But his writing won't change. Cowley is sure to rankle Williams again this season with a story about a contract dispute or a failed trade. "When it comes to the job, I'm still in attack mode," Cowley said. "It's not like I get cancer and become some docile, hippie peace child or something. But at the end of the day, you let things go. All that matters is your family."

The Five-Year Engagement settled for a fifth place debut (although every movie from No. 2 to No. 5 could shuffle around over the next 24 hours) with $11.2 million. While many prognosticators (like this one) thought the film would top the chart, Universal claims it was always expecting an opening in the low double-digits. Still, the result seems very disappointing given the massive success of Bridesmaids, which earned $169 million last year, and the date night-viability of 2012 titles like The Vow and The Lucky One. The Emily Blunt/Jason Segel rom-com earned a lackluster “B-” CinemaScore grade from polled audiences, which were 64 percent female. Fortunately, the film cost a modest $30 million to produce. Huge disappointment for this movie...many expected it to finish first, and it might end up all the way back at 5th. Competition from THINK LIKE A MAN (which is a really good movie, and Meagan Good is hot, hot, hot!) and THE VOW overwhelmed it a little. SHAWARMA rocks! My Avengers reference of the day.

Just saw THE AVENGERS, it's excellent. A little bit like a cross between the most recent X-Men and the Captain America prequel. Josh Whedon did an excellent job melding all the moving parts together into one cohesive whole, the intra-team jousting and rivalry which you knew was inevitable with all those egos in one room...there's lots of action and it feels more grounded in the storyline than the typical special-effects driven summer fare. Loki was much more formidable and "unhinged" in this one, an improvement on the THOR movie. Only one negative review out of more than 60 at rottentomatoes.com 'The Avengers" is neither overwhelming nor underwhelming. What it expertly is, is whelming. The movie guarantees fast-paced fun without forcing anyone to think about what it all means, which is nothing. The dialogue sparkles as brightly as the special effects; these people may be wearing ridiculous costumes but they're well fleshed-out underneath. And so in every regard, this movie truly fulfills its hype. Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, Joss Whedon's buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order. Whedon pulls off a stunning feat in bringing balance to this superhuman circus, engineered to charm the geek core and non-fans alike.

Just read Deadspin. Very well done. A blog site built on satire doesn't get satire. Maybe I can e-mail a QB penis picture into them now. 22 hours ago Standing room only in the media closet at the Berto Center. So this is what a team's playoff funeral looks like. BREAKING NEWS: Rose ACL is still torn. More to come. Been a long time since I've used my medical background to sketch an injury ... might be time to dust off the notepad. RT @willbrinson: Creating a parody account for @cst_cowley would be amusing. Unfortunately it would also be redundant. 23 hours ago Someone hit him with the following, lol... The Scorpion and the Frog is a fable about a scorpion asking a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion points out that this is its nature. The fable is used to illustrate the position that the behaviour of some creatures is irrepressible, no matter how they are treated and no matter what the consequences.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) Funny thing is they match up better with ALC teams this year then they have in years past. Maybe it will keep them in the hunt. To be honest, .500 and 2 games out of first coming out of what has been traditionally been a bad month for the Sox isn't a bad place to be in. Just one game back, CLE is two games over .500. They've simply played 2 less games than the Sox.

http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-sports-m...s-from-twitter/ Cowley, always having to get the last word, took the time to mention how handsome he is, what life is like in first class, bashed Title IX, and told Sloane to “hottie up that pic.” In other words, he was far from the paragon of professionalism and virtue. And his relentless self-aggrandizement doesn’t reek of over-compensation for perceived insecurities. No, not at all. Not one bit. In short, it looks like the age of social media is about to self-inflict damage on the career of another journalist who’s going to be missing some work, and not by choice. And that Cowley has become that new extremely hated figure- replacing the now banished Jay Mariotti. Paul M. Banks is CEO of The Sports Bank.net, an official Google News site generating millions of unique visitors. He’s also a regular contributor to Chicago Now, Walter Football.com, Yardbarker, MSN and Fox Sports A Fulbright scholar and MBA, Banks has appeared on live radio all over the world; and he’s a member of the Football Writers Association of America, U.S. Basketball Writers Association, and Society of Professional Journalists. The President of the United States follows him on Twitter (@Paul_M_BanksTSB) You should too.

12 game hitting streak through Sunday's game. http://tribstar.com/sports/x1585735586/MIN...eaches-11-games 21/49 (.429), 3 doubles, 3B, 1 HR, 7 RBI's Last time he played and failed to record a hit was almost 3 weeks ago, on April 12th.

Kemp and Ethier combined had more homers (11 + 5=16) than 9 whole major league teams coming into Sunday's games. Kemp putting up softball league numbers. One could argue he's had the best non-PEDS derived April start in modern history.

They've "only" won 3 of the 5 games that Verlander has started, too. I think one of them was blown by Papa Grande, and they got the win in the bottom of the 9th or 10th. Another game, Justin fell apart after dominating going into the last inning. Then there was the 7-6 lose to the Yankees Last year, Verlander had 34 starts, the Tigers won 25 of them and lost 9 (Justin only 5 losses personally). So a .735 vs. .600 winning percentage for the first month, or a one game shift. So even with his 2011 version, they'd likely be only tied for first with CLE. The big differences to me: Peralta was a huge force last year, this year not so much. Loss of Victor Martinez's RBI bat. Avila hasn't been nearly as good (offensively) as he was last year. Bullpen...obviously nobody's going to go 49/49 two seasons in a row in save conversions, but their middle relief has been average at best. Loss of Fister, although Smyly has pitched well.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 03:50 PM) I dont know how Phillips gives you a range to 50 sb especially when I said excluding his 2007 season. Okay, I over-exaggerated by a bit, but Saladino's not the type of prospect who's going to consistently put up 25, 30, 35 steals at the major league level. The one plus is he should walk a lot more than Morel, so there's that. Hopefully more XB hits than Brent has shown the ability to generate at the MLB level (I know some will argue the "real" Brent was the one we saw the last 6 weeks and that this version is an impostor).

How will they do in their next 10 consecutive games against Cleveland, then at DET and at CLE? The easy thing to do would be to predict 4-6 or 5-5, but with our road excellence carrying over from last year, I'll go with 6-4.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 06:57 PM) That was the worst thing about the small ball, Kotsay, Pierre plans of the last few seasons. It's a hitters park and you are trying to move runners along and score one run at a time. Even in 2005, when they supposedly played small ball, they were 5th in MLB with 200 home runs. Get out to early leads with Pods and Iguchi, pound away with the bombers, lockdown bullpen. Now, if you're playing small ball to add on runs to a 2/3/4 run lead, that can be effective, AT TIMES. But, once again, you're taking yourself out of lots of big innings, especially at a park more well-suited for homers.

Kenny Williams challenged Greg Walker to a fight last year but cooler heads prevailed. National headlines with that breaking TMZ-ish gossip. What legitimate or credible writer has a nickname for himself? Even that, he copied the concept from AJ Pierzynski's pro wrestling forays. This must have started when he saw how much national attention that JET BLUE flight attendant who initiated the emergency evacuation system and slid out of the plane got and decided it would be cool to emulate the anti-airlines bashing crowd.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) After the way Lillibridge performed today, he should be starting in place of Beckham for a while. Heck, even Escobar showed today that he can give better ABs than Beckham has been giving this season. Maybe they can platoon Lillibridge with Escobar at 2B and use Beckham as a utility infielder for which he is most suited. If Morel continues to struggle they can alternate Beckham in at 3B every now and then. Either that or just send Beckham down to work on his swing and bring up a third catcher to free up Flowers and AJ to PH more. They're going to leave Phegley down there to play nearly everyday. Gimenez would be that catcher. I don't see any way they'll move Beckham back to 3B at the big league level this year. He's either in the minors playing everyday or at Charlotte IMO. Of course, that requires Morel pull out of his skid, too. If just one of those two continue tanking, we can overcome it. Not both.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 03:22 PM) The Red Sox have zero room to add salary this season if they want to stay under the luxury tax, which has been made quite a bit more painful this year for teams that get there, especially multiple years in a row. They are not paying Marlon Byrd's salary, because that would put them over the luxury tax. They gave up on their SS and replaced him with Aviles...to avoid paying the luxury tax. They don't have quite as many prospects left (Boston), but we could definitely play the Red Sox/Yankees/O's/Jays against each other. Montero would have been the hitter to get (from the Yanks), but too late for that. If we're willing to eat salary and/or the buyout, then we can get some great prospects back if Peavy keeps pitching like this. Every team in baseball would like to have him as their 3rd for a playoff rotation. The Yankees just gave up on F. Garcia in their rotation.

Saw Battleship here in China last week. Don't think they will ever allow THE HUNGER GAMES, especially with the political turmoil here over Bo Xilai and the activist who is at the US Embassy (Christian Bale tried to meet him when he was here promoting FLOWERS of WAR). Titanic-3D has actually done very well in China, selling out many shows and earning more money here than in the US. That's the ninth-biggest worldwide opening weekend of all-time, and the biggest for a movie that wasn't explicitly a sequel (semantics perhaps, but bare with me). No, I can't BEAR to see a film critic/writer bare anything, lol.

Except Saladino's never going to nab 30-50 bags. He doesn't have that type of speed and athleticism. He actually sounds like another version of Morel, lol. Doesn't really wow with any one skill (actually, Morel was known as a better defender)...not going to be project to anything more than maybe 12-15 homers, 18 tops, at the major league level.

Gavin Floyd now 7-0 career against the Red Sox. 60-58 cumulatively in the majors. Hello, Brian Cashman? If Bard is pushed back into the bullpen (right now things have stabilized with Aceves), then you could also see the Red Sox making a hard push for adding Jake Peavy down the stretch. 22,811. More there for a Sunday Bat Day than Saturday night, but the weather was pretty brutal last night.

QUOTE (jeffro2525 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) Well...if you would have told me we going into the series that the Sox were only going to muster 10 runs in 4 games against Boston, I would probably would have taken 1 win out of the 4. GAS!!!! 2 down! Gavin finally nutted up and Peavy continued to pitch extremely well. In the end, if we keep getting that type of starting pitching (hello Danks!) we'll be competitive. On to Chris Sale versus Ubaldo Jimenez Tuesday night for 1st place.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 04:05 PM) I've only started watching since the top of the 7th. Who was the Sox player who "lost" a homer due to the wind? Alex Rios.

First place CLE next Tue/Wed/Thur with much more comfortable temperatures. Then the struggling Tigers in DET, final road trip of the season to Cleveland, including the doubleheader/make-up game, I think on May 2nd. So 10 huge games in a row within the division. Still haven't seen the Twins or Royals, which is unfortunate with how they've both been scuffling out of the gate.

A week ago, Dayan was either striking out or pushing/flailing/lunging at balls and cueing them to the right side. Much more dangerous hitter now...especially if he can lay off the high fastball. Trying to be more patient wasn't working, only had resulted in one walk all season. Thornton for the save? Hmmm.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 29, 2012 -> 03:54 PM) Team stats, bases loaded. Player, at bats, hits. Alexei got much of his clutch hitting out of the way in 2008, it seems. Although that double in the 14th against the A's was huge for about 10 minutes.