Starlin Castro Unbridled Manlove with a Side Order of Sploogetasticism Thread

[Jon]

I see nothing wrong with comparing a 19 year old's minor league stats with those of major leaguers with long careers and coming up with such a comparison.

It's science.

I sense your green font, and your stick in the mud old timey ways are a joke old man.

See, you grew up in the Space Age.  You dreamed of colonizing Mars and boning hot
blue alien chicks.  And your generation blew it.  You wasted untold resources and
destroyed our environment and the closest you came to your goals was to shoot a fucking
probe out of the solar system and then make a jerk off sci fi movie about it coming back
with some aliens.

We've moved on from your mistakes.  We're in the Information Age now gramps.  We
use computers to make money instead of creating nuclear waste all over the place and
we wear jeans while we do it.  And if a computer tells you that Starlin fucking Castro
(we curse all the time now, too) is destined for greatness because at age 18 he hit
.311/.364/.464 and Jose Reyes hit .307/.337/.472 at the same age, then you sure as
shit know that he's going to do it.

You are my hero. doppelgänger.

Based on my drunken recollection of last Kitty's'd.

Only if I stood on a chair and was allergic to wheat.

[MAD]

I see nothing wrong with comparing a 19 year old's minor league stats with those of major leaguers with long careers and coming up with such a comparison.

It's science.

I sense your green font, and your stick in the mud old timey ways are a joke old man.

See, you grew up in the Space Age.  You dreamed of colonizing Mars and boning hot
blue alien chicks.  And your generation blew it.  You wasted untold resources and
destroyed our environment and the closest you came to your goals was to shoot a fucking
probe out of the solar system and then make a jerk off sci fi movie about it coming back
with some aliens.

We've moved on from your mistakes.  We're in the Information Age now gramps.  We
use computers to make money instead of creating nuclear waste all over the place and
we wear jeans while we do it.  And if a computer tells you that Starlin fucking Castro
(we curse all the time now, too) is destined for greatness because at age 18 he hit
.311/.364/.464 and Jose Reyes hit .307/.337/.472 at the same age, then you sure as
shit know that he's going to do it.

You are my hero. doppelgänger.

Based on my drunken recollection of last Kitty's'd.

Only if I stood on a chair and was allergic to wheat.

And if Pre were cool enough to have worn a kick-ass Piggly Wiggly t-shirt.

[JD]

I see nothing wrong with comparing a 19 year old's minor league stats with those of major leaguers with long careers and coming up with such a comparison.

It's science.

I sense your green font, and your stick in the mud old timey ways are a joke old man.

See, you grew up in the Space Age.  You dreamed of colonizing Mars and boning hot
blue alien chicks.  And your generation blew it.  You wasted untold resources and
destroyed our environment and the closest you came to your goals was to shoot a fucking
probe out of the solar system and then make a jerk off sci fi movie about it coming back
with some aliens.

We've moved on from your mistakes.  We're in the Information Age now gramps.  We
use computers to make money instead of creating nuclear waste all over the place and
we wear jeans while we do it.  And if a computer tells you that Starlin fucking Castro
(we curse all the time now, too) is destined for greatness because at age 18 he hit
.311/.364/.464 and Jose Reyes hit .307/.337/.472 at the same age, then you sure as
shit know that he's going to do it.

That post was awesome.

[Wheezer]

I see nothing wrong with comparing a 19 year old's minor league stats with those of major leaguers with long careers and coming up with such a comparison.

It's science.

I sense your green font, and your stick in the mud old timey ways are a joke old man.

See, you grew up in the Space Age.  You dreamed of colonizing Mars and boning hot
blue alien chicks.  And your generation blew it.  You wasted untold resources and
destroyed our environment and the closest you came to your goals was to shoot a fucking
probe out of the solar system and then make a jerk off sci fi movie about it coming back
with some aliens.

We've moved on from your mistakes.  We're in the Information Age now gramps.  We
use computers to make money instead of creating nuclear waste all over the place and
we wear jeans while we do it.  And if a computer tells you that Starlin fucking Castro
(we curse all the time now, too) is destined for greatness because at age 18 he hit
.311/.364/.464 and Jose Reyes hit .307/.337/.472 at the same age, then you sure as
shit know that he's going to do it.

That post was awesome.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

I see nothing wrong with comparing a 19 year old's minor league stats with those of major leaguers with long careers and coming up with such a comparison.

It's science.

I sense your green font, and your stick in the mud old timey ways are a joke old man.

See, you grew up in the Space Age.  You dreamed of colonizing Mars and boning hot
blue alien chicks.  And your generation blew it.  You wasted untold resources and
destroyed our environment and the closest you came to your goals was to shoot a fucking
probe out of the solar system and then make a jerk off sci fi movie about it coming back
with some aliens.

We've moved on from your mistakes.  We're in the Information Age now gramps.  We
use computers to make money instead of creating nuclear waste all over the place and
we wear jeans while we do it.  And if a computer tells you that Starlin fucking Castro
(we curse all the time now, too) is destined for greatness because at age 18 he hit
.311/.364/.464 and Jose Reyes hit .307/.337/.472 at the same age, then you sure as
shit know that he's going to do it.

That post was awesome.

Reading an image, like the reception of any other message, is dependent on prior knowledge of possibilities; we can only recognize what we know. Even the sight of the awkward naked figures in the illustration cannot be separated in our mind from our knowledge. We know that feet are for standing and eyes are for looking and we project this knowledge onto these configurations, which would look 'like nothing on earth' without this prior information. It is this information alone that enables us to separate the code from the message; we see which of the lines are intended as contours and which are intended as conventional modelling. Our 'scientifically educated' fellow creatures in space might be forgiven if they saw the figures as wire constructs with loose bits and pieces hovering weightlessly in between. Even if they deciphered this aspect of the code, what would they make of the woman's right arm that tapers off like a flamingo's neck and beak? The creatures are 'drawn to scale against the outline of the spacecraft,' but if the recipients are supposed to understand foreshortening, they might also expect to see perspective and conceive the craft as being further back, which would make the scale of the manikins minute. As for the fact that 'the man has his right hand raised in greeting' (the female of the species presumably being less outgoing), not even an earthly Chinese or Indian would be able to correctly interpret this gesture from his own repertory.

We didn't send it out there to be read by Chinamen, Ernst.

[Wheezer]

Reading an image, like the reception of any other message, is dependent on prior knowledge of possibilities; we can only recognize what we know.

And here we have the enduring failure of "library and information science" in a nutshell.

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

Reading an image, like the reception of any other message, is dependent on prior knowledge of possibilities; we can only recognize what we know.

And here we have the enduring failure of "library and information science" in a nutshell.

I do in fact deny ontology.

[Wheezer]

Reading an image, like the reception of any other message, is dependent on prior knowledge of possibilities; we can only recognize what we know.

And here we have the enduring failure of "library and information science" in a nutshell.

I do in fact deny ontology.

These creeps are like Guinea worm.

[BH]

rotoworld.

"Cubs manager Lou Piniella may lead off 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro in Thursday's spring opener.
"I'm anxious to see the kid myself," Piniella said. "He handles himself very professionally for a young kid out here, he really does. He's calm. He's not awed by being here. He's relaxed. He's not starry-eyed. If you didn't know he was 19 years old, you couldn't guess he was 19." Castro isn't projected to make the team out of camp, and should spend most of the season as Triple-A's shortstop. A good showing in camp, however, would put him first in line for a promotion if Ryan Theriot gets hurt.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times "

[JD]

rotoworld.

"Cubs manager Lou Piniella may lead off 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro in Thursday's spring opener.
"I'm anxious to see the kid myself," Piniella said. "He handles himself very professionally for a young kid out here, he really does. He's calm. He's not awed by being here. He's relaxed. He's not starry-eyed. If you didn't know he was 19 years old, you couldn't guess he was 19." Castro isn't projected to make the team out of camp, and should spend most of the season as Triple-A's shortstop. A good showing in camp, however, would put him first in line for a promotion if Ryan Theriot gets hurt.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times "

He's a Latin 19, which means he's probably an American 24.  Start him!

[Armchair_QB]

What's Gary Scott up to these days?

[D. Doluntap]

I find Starlin Castro's brother, Dennis, to be far more intriguing.

[Powdered Toast Man]

rotoworld.

"Cubs manager Lou Piniella may lead off 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro in Thursday's spring opener.
"I'm anxious to see the kid myself," Piniella said. "He handles himself very professionally for a young kid out here, he really does. He's calm. He's not awed by being here. He's relaxed. He's not starry-eyed. If you didn't know he was 19 years old, you couldn't guess he was 19." Castro isn't projected to make the team out of camp, and should spend most of the season as Triple-A's shortstop. A good showing in camp, however, would put him first in line for a promotion if Ryan Theriot gets hurt.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times "

Starlin Castro is the only thing that interests me in the Cubs this Spring.

[Internet Apex]

rotoworld.

"Cubs manager Lou Piniella may lead off 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro in Thursday's spring opener.
"I'm anxious to see the kid myself," Piniella said. "He handles himself very professionally for a young kid out here, he really does. He's calm. He's not awed by being here. He's relaxed. He's not starry-eyed. If you didn't know he was 19 years old, you couldn't guess he was 19." Castro isn't projected to make the team out of camp, and should spend most of the season as Triple-A's shortstop. A good showing in camp, however, would put him first in line for a promotion if Ryan Theriot gets hurt.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times "

Starlin Castro is the only thing that interests me in the Cubs this Spring.

Between Starlin and the new Cubs hot dog they're rolling out, I've got all the excitement I can handle as well.

[Quality Start Machine]

rotoworld.

"Cubs manager Lou Piniella may lead off 19-year-old shortstop Starlin Castro in Thursday's spring opener.
"I'm anxious to see the kid myself," Piniella said. "He handles himself very professionally for a young kid out here, he really does. He's calm. He's not awed by being here. He's relaxed. He's not starry-eyed. If you didn't know he was 19 years old, you couldn't guess he was 19." Castro isn't projected to make the team out of camp, and should spend most of the season as Triple-A's shortstop. A good showing in camp, however, would put him first in line for a promotion if Ryan Theriot gets hurt.
Source: Chicago Sun-Times "

Starlin Castro is the only thing that interests me in the Cubs this Spring.

Between Starlin and the new Cubs hot dog they're rolling out, I've got all the excitement I can handle as well.

Thank Gord they're not taking the troughs out of the mens' rooms. If they did that too, all our heads would explode.