I figured we could use this thread for things that need to be explained to Chris Carpenter's son. First, I'll throw in some stats since we're mostly a SABR-friendly crowd.
Since August 14th, 2010, I have counted 39 different threads with references to 'How will Chris Carpenter explain this to his son?'
Breakdown by month:
08/2010 - 6
09/2010 - 12
10/2010 - 2
11/2010 - 3
12/2010 - 9
01/2011 - 7
The longest it took for the reference to pop up was on August 31st, when CarolinaRedleg asked the question in the 739th post of a thread. On the other side, Brutus the Pimp asked the question with the second post in a thread on January 9th. On average, it's the 60th post in a thread in which Carpenter needs to explain something to his son.
Vottomatic is currently in the lead for bringing up Chris Carpenter and his son with five mentions. Second place goes to CarolinaRedleg at four times, and third place belongs to Chip R, who has done it thrice.
Here is the database:
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Poster Date of Post Post # in Thread
texasdave 1/26/2011 23
top6 1/20/2011 3
Vottomatic 1/17/2011 17
CarolinaRedleg 1/16/2011 18
I(heart)Freel 1/16/2011 90
Brutus the Pimp 1/9/2011 2
Vottomatic 1/3/2011 3
Quatitos 12/29/2010 26
Vottomatic 12/27/2010 10
StriksOutLookng 12/19/2010 339
Homer Bailey 12/13/2010 102
Vottomatic 12/13/2010 9
LoganBuck 12/13/2010 14
HeatherC1212 12/10/2010 26
StriksOutLookng 12/10/2010 7
Degenerate39 12/2/2010 4
Edskin 11/22/2010 56
traderumor 11/5/2010 20
Chip R 11/3/2010 42
Matt700wlw 10/11/2010 6
CarolinaRedleg 10/2/2010 26
Brutus the Pimp 9/30/2010 8
membengal 9/29/2010 34
Matt700wlw 9/29/2010 15
Chip R 9/28/2010 39
Chip R 9/27/2010 20
CarolinaRedleg 9/21/2010 13
FlyerFanatic 9/21/2010 5
cw0802 9/20/2010 85
GIDP 9/19/2010 6
Tommyjohn25 9/9/2010 118
HalMorrisRules 9/5/2010 176
Vottomatic 9/1/2010 12
CarolinaRedleg 8/31/2010 739
guttle11 8/30/2010 39
OesterPoster 8/26/2010 116
jules2 8/17/2010 30
RedsFanInBama 8/14/2010 11
Cedric 8/14/2010 38
Okay, now back to my motivation for starting this thread. What do we, as members of RedsZone, feel Chris Carpenter's son needs to have explained to him? I'll start . . .
There is a decent chance that Pujols won't be around next year, which would make the Cardinals irrelevant in the race for the NL Central in 2012 and beyond.