My team is in a playoff race, and the DirecTV is still down in my store.
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Cedar Rapids defeated Quad Cities 5-2 in game one of the Midwest League playoffs. Felix Jorge struck out seven in 7.1 innings, giving up nine hits an a walk. Nick Gordon was 3-for-3 with a double. Alex Real had two RBIs. Game 2 is tonight with Sam Gibbons pitching for the Kernels. Chattanooga plays game 1 of its series against Montgomery at home tonight.
Haha, got my coupon code for free White Sox tickets. Oh, the Twins are in town? Bully.
The must have liked your Ligue answer.
keeping my eyes on twitter for an extra code. i'd love to take the whole family on the sox's ("sox'"?) dime.
You're welcome to my two complimentary tickets - I just got my email as well
I certainly wouldn't say no to that. 😀
On the Sox's dime, assuming Sox is singular. I'm considering "the Chicago White Sox" to be a singular entity here--it is a single team, after all. Despite the fact that sox comes from stockings, which is clearly plural.
According to my friend Chicago*, "The possessive of most singular nouns is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s. The possessive of plural nouns (except for a few irregular plurals, like children, that do not end in s) is formed by adding an apostrophe only."
*Neither Chicago baseball team is a friend of mine, but I'm on close terms with this.
So what is up with the fact that singular-ized teams like "The Wild" are usually described as taking actions as singular ("The Wild is going to need score goals") but pluralized teams like "The Twins" get the plural verb treatment ("The Twins are going to end their season on a 24-game winning streak!")? That's just stupid, right?
"Wild" is singular, gets singular verb.
"Twins" is plural, gets plural verb.
"The Twins' record" vs. "The Wild's record".
Breaking that connection takes grammar to a step too cute and breaking natural English from some theoretical English.
Clearly, "Sox" is either a singular noun or a plural noun that does not end in s*. "Sox's" is correct by Chicago no matter how it is interpreted, unless it is a singular noun exception.
The singular noun exceptions I remember are biblical names like Jesus and Moses, which avoid the "s" following the apostrophe for no clear reason.
If Chris has sox, it is they are "Chris's sox", not "Chris' sox". But if Jesus had them, they were "Jesus' sox". I'm unsure of what to call sox that belong to Jesús. Perhaps just "Sox de Jesús".
*as opposed to ending in /s/.
But "The Wild" isn't singular because it refers to a team. It's just a plural that doesn't have an "s" at the end. Like "children."
I think team names are handled in a variety of ways when it comes to constructions like "The Wild is great" or "The Wild are fantastic." Here's a good write-up about the conundrum from Bleacher Report.
You want exceptions? Here are a couple.
Possessive of nouns plural in form, singular in meaning (e.g. politics' true meaning; Highland Hills’ mayor)
“For . . . sake” expressions (e.g. for goodness' sake)
According to CMS 16, Jesus is no longer an exception, so it would be "Jesus's sox"
If you want more detail, I'm sure I could arrange to hand off some printouts in a clandestine manner.
I don't consider the first of those exceptions. It goes back to the form, not the meaning.
In "Highland Hills", "Hills" is a plural noun, like "Twins".
I do count this as an exception: "goodness' sake"
But it's also idiomatic, a contraction, or both.
Good to know about the CMS 16 correction.
AP style is to treat all sports team nicknames as plural, which is what I've always done.
That's at least better than the alternative.
Go Leaf go! (chant in Toronto).
sox's ("sox'"?)
you better believe i knew what i was setting off here.
Max Kepler with a two-out, two-run single to give Chattanooga a 4-3 win in Game 1 of their playoff series. Lookouts had two outs and no one on base in the 9th before two walks brought Kepler up. After a wild pitch, I have no idea why Kepler wasn't walked to bring up Travis Harrison. You just can't let the league MVP beat you in that scenario.
Its probably time to retire the Nikola Pekovic 11-12 banner.
Fun with sortable stats:
Player A = .287/.382/.701/1.084, 19R, 25H, 24RBI
Player B = .329/.385/.622/1.007, 22R, 27H, 14RBI
Cedar Rapids defeated Quad Cities 5-2 in game one of the Midwest League playoffs. Felix Jorge struck out seven in 7.1 innings, giving up nine hits an a walk. Nick Gordon was 3-for-3 with a double. Alex Real had two RBIs. Game 2 is tonight with Sam Gibbons pitching for the Kernels. Chattanooga plays game 1 of its series against Montgomery at home tonight.
Haha, got my coupon code for free White Sox tickets. Oh, the Twins are in town? Bully.
The must have liked your Ligue answer.
keeping my eyes on twitter for an extra code. i'd love to take the whole family on the sox's ("sox'"?) dime.
You're welcome to my two complimentary tickets - I just got my email as well
I certainly wouldn't say no to that. 😀
On the Sox's dime, assuming Sox is singular. I'm considering "the Chicago White Sox" to be a singular entity here--it is a single team, after all. Despite the fact that sox comes from stockings, which is clearly plural.
According to my friend Chicago*, "The possessive of most singular nouns is formed by adding an apostrophe and an s. The possessive of plural nouns (except for a few irregular plurals, like children, that do not end in s) is formed by adding an apostrophe only."
*Neither Chicago baseball team is a friend of mine, but I'm on close terms with this.
So what is up with the fact that singular-ized teams like "The Wild" are usually described as taking actions as singular ("The Wild is going to need score goals") but pluralized teams like "The Twins" get the plural verb treatment ("The Twins are going to end their season on a 24-game winning streak!")? That's just stupid, right?
"Wild" is singular, gets singular verb.
"Twins" is plural, gets plural verb.
"The Twins' record" vs. "The Wild's record".
Breaking that connection takes grammar to a step too cute and breaking natural English from some theoretical English.
Clearly, "Sox" is either a singular noun or a plural noun that does not end in s*. "Sox's" is correct by Chicago no matter how it is interpreted, unless it is a singular noun exception.
The singular noun exceptions I remember are biblical names like Jesus and Moses, which avoid the "s" following the apostrophe for no clear reason.
If Chris has sox,
it isthey are "Chris's sox", not "Chris' sox". But if Jesus had them, they were "Jesus' sox". I'm unsure of what to call sox that belong to Jesús. Perhaps just "Sox de Jesús".*as opposed to ending in /s/.
But "The Wild" isn't singular because it refers to a team. It's just a plural that doesn't have an "s" at the end. Like "children."
I think team names are handled in a variety of ways when it comes to constructions like "The Wild is great" or "The Wild are fantastic." Here's a good write-up about the conundrum from Bleacher Report.
You want exceptions? Here are a couple.
Possessive of nouns plural in form, singular in meaning (e.g. politics' true meaning; Highland Hills’ mayor)
“For . . . sake” expressions (e.g. for goodness' sake)
According to CMS 16, Jesus is no longer an exception, so it would be "Jesus's sox"
If you want more detail, I'm sure I could arrange to hand off some printouts in a clandestine manner.
I don't consider the first of those exceptions. It goes back to the form, not the meaning.
In "Highland Hills", "Hills" is a plural noun, like "Twins".
I do count this as an exception: "goodness' sake"
But it's also idiomatic, a contraction, or both.
Good to know about the CMS 16 correction.
AP style is to treat all sports team nicknames as plural, which is what I've always done.
That's at least better than the alternative.
Go Leaf go! (chant in Toronto).
sox's ("sox'"?)
you better believe i knew what i was setting off here.
Too good.
Heard that on the way into work ... kinda funny, but it somehow manages to sound both trite and old-hat (hanging around here).
There's no business like Sano business.
I'm sad that the Twins probably won't share the field with Jim Joyce's mustache again this season
Kepler and Berrios make another minor league all-star team.
List of worst September collapses includes 2009 Tigers losing to Twins.
Wait, that was one of the best collapses
Oh man, there are Game 163 highlights linked to in the article.
That. Was. Awesome.
It's a shame MLB had to cancel the playoffs that year. That was a hell of a last game of 2009.
What I've done on vacation so far:
At first I thought those were two halves of the same picture. I was about to ask where this awesome grop (hrape?) plant exists.
King Felix with a 2-0 lead over the Rangers in the sixth inning.
Mariners now lead 5-0 bottom 7. If they hold on, Twins just 1 game back of final playoff spot.
Thank you, Seattle! Long live the King.
That's a final, 5-0. 1 game back. That's after the Twins won 2 of 3 at KC and the Rangers split at Seattle.
I'm normally a big King Felix fan, except for when he's beating the Twins. I like him doubly when he's helping the Twins.
Jon Bois' 'Breaking Madden' series is back!
Max Kepler with a two-out, two-run single to give Chattanooga a 4-3 win in Game 1 of their playoff series. Lookouts had two outs and no one on base in the 9th before two walks brought Kepler up. After a wild pitch, I have no idea why Kepler wasn't walked to bring up Travis Harrison. You just can't let the league MVP beat you in that scenario.
Its probably time to retire the Nikola Pekovic 11-12 banner.
Fun with sortable stats:
Player A = .287/.382/.701/1.084, 19R, 25H, 24RBI
Player B = .329/.385/.622/1.007, 22R, 27H, 14RBI
Zoinks