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.