Pushfrog98

Adrian Peterson has likened the current conditions of being an NFL player to that of being a slave. I need to punch my History teacher(s) for telling me that the slaves were forced to work for nothing. I didn't realize they were making 100x the median US salary at that time!

I think you mean moist...

If I'm reading the stats correctly on baseball-reference, that's not entirely accurate. He had 310 instances where the 3-0 pitch resulted in something (hit, walk, HBP, out, etc.), but he actually got to a 3-0 count 644 times in his career. Hrm, that does seem to be the case... My source was incorrect.

He also only gave up 7 hits and 213 BB after falling behind 3-0, so still registering 90 outs. I'm not sure how many IBB this accounts for though...

Greg Maddux faced 20,421 batters in his career. Just 310 of them saw a 3-0 count. That's roughly one every three starts.

from Joe Strauss:

Bernie Miklasz just said that Carpenter was escorted off the field with an injury. Didn't have any details other than that.

Not when there's a 700+-page politics thread and a 900+-page movie thread in Social. I do think it could become the longest thread actually related to baseball, though.I think once people navigate to the "Boo the dog" thread, it will pick up steam as well...

Looks like it was the night before that he sent the text: http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/21/anxiety-about-brain-damage-pervades-football/?hpt=Sbin

Flushing dns doesn't work for me at the local level... I'm goin to see if out network admin can flush it at the firewall/dns server level.

It's weird that it has propagated for me at home and on my phone, but at work it hasn't, even though it's all the same ISP (ATT). We have an internal DNS though that may be screwing things up.

I dont know...4th smallest market in baseball and even if the Cardinals payroll was at 120 million, he'd make up 25% of their payroll. I realize that they operate and produce revenues that a mid-market club would, but thats only 15 million less than what the Cubs are spending this year. I personally think they would have a hard time fielding a competitive team with a $30 million player on the payroll. There's a big gap between $30 million and $21 million. Just that they'd be that far apart from what the greatest hitter of all time is asking for, a guy who came up in their own system, is laughable. I mean, he's already getting $16 million this year, so it's not like they have to look at $27-30 million like it's coming out of nowhere. It would push their projected 2011 payroll of about $95 million to $109 million. OK, so he makes up a huge chunk of their payroll...HE'S ALBERT [expletive] PUJOLS. He's going to, and should, make up a giant chunk of any team's payroll. I can't tell if it's cheapness or stupidity (like the Loshe contract), but it's sure amazing to watch. Aren't they usually in the top 10 of baseball revenues each year and making around $200 million? The Cardinals, while #4 in attendance last season, had the 13th highest payroll (lower even than Detroit, Minnesota, and Seattle). Had Albert Pujols made $30 million in 2010 (instead of $15 million) their payroll would've been the 7th highest in baseball, just slightly ahead of the White Sox but still $14 million behind Detroit at #6. I don't think adding an additional $15 million to the payroll (which is what his contract would have done) would "handcuff" a team that draws tons of fans and sells tons of merchandise.

We need to chip in and get this man some eyebrows. http://asset.soup.io/asset/0561/8392_8ad8.jpeg

Just wanted to know what kind of people you're talking about here. I personally have a degree in both dietetics and nutrition/fitness/health. While I'm no expert in muscle hypertrophy and have not really studied it much, based on what I've studied I feel that some people have the ability to add muscle at a rate such as 20lbs over 3-5 month period, as long as they train and eat properly. I would love to read research on it though. Personal fitness, even in extremes, have always been very interesting to me. Also, you may want to check the math on Splendid Splinter's testimonial. He started at: 200lb*.13 body fat= 26lb body fat; 200lb-26lb body fat= 174 lean body mass He ended at: 217lb*.10 body fat= 21.7lb body fat; 217lb-21.7lb body fat= 195 lean body mass 195lb - 174lb = 21lb lean body mass He actually did gain 21lb lean body mass in 5 or 6 months. Granted, he may have had an extra month on LeMahieu to gain that weight if it was 6 months. Regardless, I don't think it's anectdotal evidence that agrees with what you believe. Thanks! That's why I wanted to know body fat% before and after. It is not impossible as some are suggesting, to put that kind of muscle mass on if that's all you are doing.

I didn't even start to add muscle mass until my early 20's, so I think that there are different stages of growth. Height tapers in late teens/early 20's, but muscle mass really doesn't start to develop until late teens/early20's and usually goes through late 20's or so.

Unless we know what his body fat% was before and after weight gain, it's impossible to know. Quit being so absolute.

ESPN Stl radio was talking about the Pujols negotiations the other day (as they do every day), but they were absolutely livid that there was a 2 week span where Mozeliak had no communications with Pujols or his agent. They are preparing for the worst down here and I hope Albert delivers it to them. On a platter. With a big middle finger.

I like the size, but does anyone know how fast this guy is? Looks like he was a star in the CFL, but so is Henry Burris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbV9PFK1DE 4.52 in the 40-yard dash at the 2006 NFL combine according to some guy on another board. doesn't sound like he's all that fast, but then again the Bears have a couple really fast guys already. EDIT: Apparently he ran a 4.72 at the CFL combine. Didn't realize they had one. This video has a better shot of a foot race at about 1:10 in: http://www.cfl.ca/video/index/id/14159 But you have to do the conversion. He ran a 4.72 in the 43.74yards... that equates to a 4.31 40yard run!

Plus, he could be taking AB's away from Rasmus!

I think he dabbled in both, but I'm calling BS until Aramis punches him in the face. Mike Quade really needs to grow a thick mustache. Then again, he would look more like Scruffy from Futurama than Lou Brown from Major League. Works for me. If only he could grow hair. He has a lot in common with good ole Stanley Sitwell...

Looks like Piniella will be a front office consultant for the Giants. Didn't think he would stay away for too long, but I thought it'd be a little longer than this. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2011/02/giants-to-hire-lou-piniella.html

I wonder how much of an impact Gaines Adams would have had on this team. I honestly don't know how good he was, but it seemed like he had a lot of potential.

WHO??? http://www.santella.org/anthony/ My sarcasm detector is off, but http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/santella_anthony00.html I think he'd be a GREAT pickup if he doesn't get drafted I'm just unfairly picking on Lo Pan and his Illini fetish Fair enough. Santella IS a good punter though!

Wasn't sure if this had been posted yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqOSu0Ngz8 Looks like Cutler injured the knee on the 1st play of the 2nd quarter...

WHO??? http://www.santella.org/anthony/ My sarcasm detector is off, but http://www.fightingillini.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/santella_anthony00.html I think he'd be a GREAT pickup if he doesn't get drafted