James vs. Pujols

Bill James, the man who the book Money Ball is really based off of, has come up with a system to project players' lifetime stats. Don't ask me how he does it, but he does it. James is also the Red Sox baseball operations consultant and has turned down numerous opportunities to be GM for Major League teams.

With Derek Lee's monster year last year, he bumped his projected career totals by 100 home runs. So, Lee's projected homeruns? 474. Not bad.
I'm not comparing these two to prove a point of who's better or anything. I just have the stats for these two players.

What about Albert Pujols?

2,507 RBIs, 3,845 hits, a .325 career average and … 830 homers

don't _____ to a teacher.

First, in case you haven't seen it, I have a new podcast below this post.

One of my students called me a "fruit lin". Whatever a Fruit Lin is. But I know it's not good. So, in response to him calling me a Fruit Lin, I told him (after yelling for a few minutes) that he needed to go down to the in-school suspension room and write me 2 full pages, small handwriting what it means to be respectful to adults. I told him that if I went down there and he wrote a page and 3/4, then he'd have to write 3 pages. And if he wrote 2 and 3/4 pages, he'd have to write 4. I also told him that if it took him the whole day, then he'd be down there the whole day.
This morning, I got back the paper he wrote. It took him all day. Here are some of my favorite lines. I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried...

"Don't crack jokes on a teacher to be cool."
"Never call a teacher by his or her first name."
"Just go along with the flow."
"Never call a teacher unfair or a racist."
"Don't get smart if the teacher mispronounced your name."
"When someone else talks back to a teacher, don't yell out 'treat!' or 'treated!'"

And my favorite...

"When speaking to a teacher or an adult, never greet them with 'what's up bro' or 'what's the dilli yo'. Simply say 'hello' or 'hi'".

Episode 3

In the 3rd podcast, Jeremiah interviews T.J. Alumbaugh and has a heated, yet loving conversation. Also, the segment, "Word of the Week" makes it's debut with Scott Wentworth as the weekly contributor. This is the episode you'll be telling about to your grandchildren when your 85. And if you are 85, God bless your soul!

You can download episode 3 on iTunes or here.

Episode 2

In the second Jeremiah Cox Show, Jeremiah vents about Arrested Development, interviews his nephew, Free, and reads listeners' e-mails. He hopes that after his interview with Free, that Gabriel will be able to take time out of his busy schedule for an interview.

You can download the latest podcast off iTunes or download it...here.

booh-yah.

<----- picters...free

I walked into school today and I saw a sign taped up on the wall. It was written on computer paper and it said, "Picters" and underneath that word was written "Free" and then an arrow pointing to my left, your right. The as if it wasn't bad enough that someone at my ghetto school spelled the word "pictures" "picters", the handwriting looked as it would if I would have attempted writing this sign with my left-hand (I'm right handed). I was tempted by two things.

1. To follow the crooked arrow and see where it led me.
2. To take down the sign and keep it.

What kind of picters were these? And why were they giving them away...at no charge?!? Maybe they were picters of giant redwood trees. Or of Saturn. Or of people. Whatever they were, they were well worth the price.


One another note, only 7 people have downloaded my podcast. SEVEN! C'mon, people!
I'm officially on iTunes now. On the iTunes page, click on podcasts on the left-hand side. Then click on search. Type in "Jeremiah". You can subscribe to it so it automaticaly downloads on your computer.


Picters
Free
<-----

Episode 1

So I told you I had some huge news coming. I'm debuting my first ever podcast. It's going to be called The Jeremiah Cox Show. You can download the first episode...here.

I hope to get his up and going on iTunes so you can download and subscribe to it there. I'm going to answer listener e-mails every show, and I hope to have a special guest on most shows. You can e-mail the show at TheJeremiahCoxShow@gmail.com


Enjoy!

HUGE.

There's a BIG announcement coming your way. I will give you one clue at the end of this post. But first, I'll tell you some things that it's not going to be...

- I'm not having a kid
- I'm not moving
- I'm not quitting my job
- I'm not gay
- I'm not trying out for the 2nd base opening on the St. Louis Cardinals
- I'm not signing a record deal
- I'm not about to start drink coffee



CLUE: I'm about to shake your digital world.

Welcome back, Mr. Cox!

My first period with kids, and here is a conversation I had with a student...

Student - Mr. Cox, the sub said that you focus too much on our assignment notebooks and not enough on our actual assignments.

Mr. Cox - Oh really? The sub doesn't know what in the wolrd she's talking about.

S- She's more experienced than you are.

C- She's been with you for 2 weeks. I've been with you for 2 years. She has no business saying that.

S- She's better than you are.

C- [ignore]

S- That's what I thought.

C- Leave.

S- What?

C- Leave! Go do the discipline office!

S- Huh?

C- I didn't stutter. You aren't going to talk to me like that. Get out of here.


I knew I was going love being back at work.

sorry.

It's not like I've been laying/sitting at my apartment for the past week with NOTHING to do. You'd think I could have blogged some. Here's a gift from me to you. An "I'm sorry" gift. Delivered in the perfect, uncompromising form of the Bluth family...



And for those Buster fans out there...

Role-model

I've never been one to believe that pro athletes should be role-models based on the fact that they're athletes. There are a lot more people out there who have done a lot more important things for kids to look up to. However, I think that if any kid says that Albert Pujols is one of their role-models, I think he or she has picked a pretty darn good one. He's a man of great faith and work ethic.

"People ask me if I believe how quickly my career has taken off. I just tell them Christ is my strength. God has blessed me and I will continue to do my best for Him. That is more important than anything I could ever do in baseball."

This quote is from yesterday...

"I'll go to spring training with the same attitude I took five years ago: I want to make the team," he said following a two-hour autograph session at the Cardinals Winter Warm-Up.

"It sounds stupid because people think I'm on this team, but that's not for sure. There's somebody in the minor leagues who wants to take that job from me just like I did in 2001," Pujols said. "That's the attitude that keeps me humble and keeps me from taking things for granted. I never want to change the attitude I had six years ago in the minor leagues."

I think I'll buy my nephew, Free, a Pujols jersey for his birthday. And then a Jeremiah Cox jersey for Christmas.

can you tell me how to get..how to get to...

I know I'm about 4 years behind on this, but I just read something where the TV show Sesame Street added to its cast a Muppet who was HIV-positive. This blows me away. Her name is Kami, and they showed her scenes in South Africa and other parts of the world where 1 out of every 6 children is HIV-positive.

I know that some people probably put up a stink about this, but all it shows me is that Sesame Street is not just worried about the bottom line-money and ratings. They have worked to be relevant to the children of not only our country but in places that need help maybe even more than here.

My only beef with Sesame Street is that it introduced Elmo, who took all the thunder away from my boy, Grover. Elmo is just a baby talking, ditzy version of Grover. But I'll let stuff like that slide when they step it up with characters like Kami.

Good work, Sesame Street.
Whenever you need someone else to play "Gordon", give me a call.

Bruuuuuuuce!!!!

Yesterday, Bruce Sutter was elected into the Hall of Fame. There was some debate whether he should be inducted in The Hall as a Cub or Cardinal.
He pitched one more season with the Small Bears and won a Cy Young award with them.

He did, however, strike out the final batter in the 1982 season to win the World Series for the Cardinals.

Today, MLB.com said that Bruce Sutter will be wearing a St. Louis Cardinals hat on his plaque.

Then what would he have had to do to go in the hall wearing a Cubs hat?
Maybe if he would have struck out the last batter in the 1908 World Series.



**************Part II*********************
Let's just throw this in for kicks...

Barnes-J-C- Hospital

Kortny and I went to Barnes-Jewish-Catholic Hospital in The Lou yesterday. On Sunday night around 10pm, we got to see the new Busch Stadium being worked on. I must say that I got even more pumped about the new Busch. I found these pictures from inside the stadium. The skyline view is going to be pretty darn incredible.

I'm going to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis on Monday for a second opinion.

I wonder if that's a Catholic hospital?

Thanks to Phil, (his blog link to the right) I have discovered an incredible new show called Arrested Development.

It's by far the best show I've seen on network television since Seinfeld. Fox has shown two seasons, and had ticketed this 3rd season for 22 episodes. However, that number has been cut down to 18 in preparation for not renewing the show next year. The only way it is going to be saved is if people like us watch this show and tell our friends. I'm going to have a link on the side of my page to the show's website and the website that's a grass-root movement to try and save the Bluth family.


By the way, the show airs on Monday nights at 7 on Fox.

If you live near me, let me know if you want to borrow some DVD's. I would be more than happy to help you see the light, as Phil helped me.

If you're already a fan of the show visit Save Our Bluths and sign the on-line petition.

in the hizzie

1 new pair of jeans.

1 new pair of scrubs.

8 tickets to the new Busch Stadium.

12 days off of school.

40 episodes of Arrested Development watched.

1 wedding documented by our video cameras.

2 surgeries.

1 trip to the Emergency Room.

I'm back.

published

I'm coming out with a new book just in time for the hollidays. I figured that since I work at a job I really don't like all that much, I may as well capitalize on the opportunity and cash in while I can.
So what is this book?
It's going to be a new coffe table book that sweeps the nation. Our America...or even the world...hasn't seen the likes of it since Kramer's coffee table book about coffee tables.

Because you all are my loyal readers, I'm going put the Introduction to the book on this blog. This is the same introduction you will see once the book comes out. The following should explain everything.


Ladies and Gentlemen, the Introduction to my first coffee table book.


Introduction
Being a teacher puts me a unique position. I get to
educate America’s tomorrow. I also get to confiscate
their notes. The following notes you are about to
read have been censored in terms of who wrote them and
cuss words. Every note in here was either found on the
floor, a desk, the water fountain or seized.

Some times I wonder if I were to have let him or her
write a little longer…just a little longer… what other
magnificent insights you, me, and the world would
receive from these seventh graders. However, I can’t
take that chance. If by the chance they quit writing
and put it away, I can’t have them open their
three-ring binder and ask them to take out the note
they were just writing on, can I?

you've got to be kidding

A lady in St. Louis had this in her obituary this weekend...


"Mrs. Eckert was a member of Zion United Church of Christ, Millstadt, Ill., Zion Women's Fellowship, VFW Post 7980 Ladies Auxiliary, Millstadt, Ill., an avid Wednesday night bingo player at VFW, when she was younger and playing softball she led the league in batting, she made several quilts, enjoyed cooking and baking and she was a big Cardinals fan, she was glad to see Ray King traded."


I don't make this stuff up, people. I just report what I see.

borring schmorring

Whoever posted that, obviously didn't leave a comment on the last post, so guess what you get.

More baseball talk! Maybe someday, we'll learn our lesson.

Last year, Edgar Renteria signed with the Boston Red Sox. Then, David Eckstein signed with the Cardinals. Cubs fans every where were going nuts.

"Ha! Eckstein to the Cardinals! He's...like...12!"

Cubs fans love to say that Eckstein is looks like a twelve year old. As if that makes him play worse.
That's fine. That's one heckuva 12 year old baseball player.

Cardinals fans all along said that Boston fans were going to rip Edgar apart, and he would not be nearly as good or happy there. Not soon after the season started, fans there started calling him, "Edgar Rentawreck". Rentawreck commited an MLB leading 30 errors, and did very little with the bat.

Yesterday he was traded. To the Braves. Now, I actually think that he could do very well under Bobby Cox. But, I think I can speak for all of Cardinal Nation when I say to Renteria...I told you so*.

Matt Morris should learn from this and resign with the Cardinals. 8 million per year for him is the going rate now, and that'd be okay with me. I'd rather have Burnett, but not at 55 million dollars.



* I've actually never talked to Edgar Renteria. However, a year ago I did say "Edgar is not going to be good in Boston. It's going to be too much pressure" to my computer screen.