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:
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 . . .Code: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
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.