Pregnancy Prediction Pool
As you might surmise from the alliterative title, Mrs. Pops and I are expecting child number two around mid-May.
Now, I do not often post anything of value hereabouts and am usually only entertaining myself with my absurd blitherings, but I thought this might be a good opportunity for me to pull back the curtain and invite everyone here to share some of the joy of our imminent arrival.
For those of you interested, I am asking for predictions about sex (we are not going to find out), weight, and length in inches. For the number huggers among us, I offer the following information to aid in predictions: My first child was a boy 9lbs. 8oz. and 22 in. long. My wife is 6'2" and ???lbs. (quite slim) and I am 6'1" and 203. I am one of three boys and my wife is one of two girls.
Name shout-outs might be fun too.
The results shall be posted here as soon as the little one gets here and the winner gets and authentic Tony LaRussa 8x10 glossy "enhanced" and signed by yours truly.
Thanks and let 'em rip. (the guesses, not my wife of course)
It has come to my attention that Fat Vegas Alan, and Bob Estes have liluns on the way as well. A big congratulations to them! The more Reds fans that dislike Paul Daugherty the better.
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I love non-sabremetric guessing games:
You'll have another Boy
10lbs, 5oz. and 22.4 inches longs
Some names that your wife will love:
Farney
Neckbeard
Pops Jr.
George Gland
Fellon
Dusty
LaRonne
Tony LaRussa Pops II
Buzz
Scamp
I could go on - I have 4 kids and 2 grandkids with another due in the next couple of weeks. As my personal name choices for my kidds etc.were rejected; I would be proud to have you and Mrs. Pops consider any of the above, esp. LaRonne.
by Madville on Mar 18, 2008 1:35 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
LaRonne and or LaRamone?
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn - LaRamone my new FAV kid's name
by Madville on Mar 18, 2008 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
We've settled on Annabelle.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Quite beautiful
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Heh
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah..
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't get it
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, AfterEllen.com says...
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dust Rose - That's very AtniClogesque
by Madville on Mar 19, 2008 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My stab at it
by jch24 on Mar 18, 2008 2:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This was a mirror
My son - 9 lb 12 oz, 22.75"
My Daughter - 10 lbs 3 oz, 21.5"
FWIW, I'm 6'3", my ex-wife is around 5'8".
Good luck, and congratulations!
by jch24 on Mar 18, 2008 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
She's due in mid-May?
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 2:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Nah
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're like Luke Skywalker on the Death Star
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If Pops gets to be Luke Skywalker..
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Shit
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well...
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
8lb 9oz, 21" girl
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 2:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought for a minute...
by Paul Householder on Mar 18, 2008 2:46 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
As did I...
by Ash on Mar 18, 2008 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Girl
22 in
Sarah's a pretty name.
I fear for when I have children. I think that I will be one of those hipster parents. Like, naming a daughter Surfer Rosa. That'd be a fun conversation to have with the future bearer of my children, convincing her that a kid named Surfer wouldn't be made fun of, and c'mon it's a cool name. Plus the Pixies rule.
Lately I've been feeling more Irish about it, and have thought that Anna Liffey wouldn't be bad. Or Shannon Strummer (that hipster thing again. I will be a terrible parent).
by Brendanukkah on Mar 18, 2008 2:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
We're using "Ruth" as a middle name..
I've been telling my wife that I'm going to call her "Baby Ruth" and of course "Babe Ruth."
And on her really good days she'll be referred to as simply "The Babe."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 2:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You should call her George Herman
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm a bit of an old hipster myself
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If your daugher's Surfer Rosa,
I'll go with girl, 8 lbs 9 oz., 19 in.
by ken on Mar 18, 2008 9:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If you believe all the talk about my mom
by Brendanukkah on Mar 18, 2008 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
got one on the way too
assuming a girl
by bobestes on Mar 18, 2008 2:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Congrats
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes, congrats to Bob.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's just like
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When are
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
19 June 330pm
My wife's petite and yet we make 9 pound babies that can't get out the old fashioned way. With our first two, she labored and pushed (drug free!) for a cumulative ten hours and still twice went to surgery. So this time we're just picking the date and going in knowing pretty much exactly when and pretty much exactly how. You might call it the sabermetric approach.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like the sound of that
by Slyde on Mar 18, 2008 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Let's see
Our son was 2 weeks early and our Doc has a tendency to suggest induction so that stuff can be scheduled (which we found quite nice). My wife had no labor pains even with the pitosin. You get that shit? No pain in the contractions, and none until the actual end of the pushing. It was odd. Even the labor/delivery nurses were openly kind of pissed at her for not being in excruciating pain. I expected this inhuman monster yowl, and I got one cool collected chick. Maybe it'll work out differently for you this time without the surgery and extra time.
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
June 19th is our 32nd ANNIVERSARY
by Madville on Mar 22, 2008 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's a curveball....
by bobestes on Mar 18, 2008 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
two and done
plus this one (hopefully a girl)
even odds.
by bobestes on Mar 18, 2008 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Me too
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
When my wife was pregnant with our twins
I still ask people how many instead of what gender to throw them for a loop.
by JJ on Mar 18, 2008 3:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Shit
by Pops Daniels on Mar 18, 2008 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It just amplifies everything, I think
I think my kids are funnier because they are in tandom and they have someone to play with. But they can throw bigger tantrums because they comes in surround sound.
The lack of sleep is twice as hard when they're sick and when they were little, but now they play happily in their beds for hours before they fall asleep and after they wake up.
When we decide it's time to expand the family again, we won't be wishing for twins, but if they came, we wouldn't be upset. That would be the end of my wife's having kids though!
by JJ on Mar 18, 2008 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
congratulations pops, alan, and bob

by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 18, 2008 5:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Congrats to the expecters
by BK on Mar 18, 2008 5:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
congrats to all the expectants
As far as names my advice is to not go with a theme like a family that my kids went to school with. Their kids given names are:
Galaxy-Rainbow (female)
Rocket (male)
Jupiter (male)
Their last name, I shit you not, is Starcruiser.
by Caleb on Mar 18, 2008 6:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow
by BK on Mar 18, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jupiter...
by Paul Householder on Mar 18, 2008 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
perfect
by Red Menace on Mar 19, 2008 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
[On go the nerd glasses]
by Brendanukkah on Mar 19, 2008 1:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
everybody already KNOWS that
by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 19, 2008 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sorry
by Brendanukkah on Mar 19, 2008 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i like Galaxy Starcruiser better
so my wife got her masters in drama ed. she was assigned to do a group project with two other students, one chinese and the other cypriot. they were to student teach at a public school. the theme of the drama lesson they put on was "outer space". one of the drama games they played with the kids was a game where they were to make up outer space names for themselves, you know, a name that is totally out there and befitting an intergalactic explorer. presenting the game to the class, my wife (whose ordinary, everyday name is alyson) explained the rules to the children and proclaimed that her crazy outer-space name was "ziggy stardust". then the young cypriot fellow (whose ordinary, everyday name is evangelos) proclaimed to the children that his crazy outer-space name was "elliot". the kids didnt get it.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 19, 2008 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
7 pounds, 11 ounces
and it's going to come on May 12.
fistbandspopslovechild
by boobs on Mar 18, 2008 7:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Congrats to all expecting
We're also expecting a boy near the end of April. This will be my first and her second. Fortunately, I should be able to make Opening Day, unless something really strange happens...and the Power Pack works out pretty well for me, since most of the games are later in the season. Might even get to take him to one of the games in the Cubs series...get him started early! :)
His name will be Harrison Davis.
We never could agree on a girl's name, though. The closest we got was Eleanor, but no agreement on a middle name at all.
by Officer Dibble on Mar 18, 2008 7:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Dibs??
by Caleb on Mar 18, 2008 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Depends
As much tradition as I seem to like, I can't really get behind going out of my way to support the Junior Leatherpants unless they are playing the Junior Redlegs.
This is only slightly more support than I gave the Junior Pinstripers, who I would actively root against...loudly against...whenever I went to go see them no matter who they were playing.
That got a major amount of stinkeye going from the crowd at large, but so be it. I hates me some Yankees, ripe or not.
by Officer Dibble on Mar 18, 2008 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thursday April 3
by Caleb on Mar 18, 2008 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I understand this correctly...
I'm all fired up for the new Coop. And I hope the Tribe storms in and chases out the Nationals.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And by the way..

by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 18, 2008 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh yeah...
On the one hand you have Han Solo, on the other you have Beatle George. How can you go wrong with that?
And if all else fails, he can always be a Southern lawyer with one of those wack string ties.
For amusement's sake, here is a link to the picture we sent out as a Christmas Card this past year:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14573038@N04/2346216616/
Tried posting it as an image, but even after reading the wiki, I still have no idea how to do such things.
by Officer Dibble on Mar 19, 2008 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
they have a deal to that effect
by Caleb on Mar 18, 2008 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn
But since I'm here, 9 lbs even, 18.5 inches.
Annabelle for a girl, Anabel Sanchez for a boy. Or Alan.
by Brian B on Mar 18, 2008 11:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow..
Like JCH, our first boy was 9#8oz and the second boy was 9#11oz, 22.5" and 23.5" respectively. The wife is 5'10" and I'm 6'3" so I expect ours to be big..
Anyway, I'm going to guess a boy at 9#12oz and 23".
And go with Bronson Alan Daniels.
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by snohio on Mar 19, 2008 12:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You know
by Pops Daniels on Mar 19, 2008 9:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i love this game
OBC - 6'1" 185lbs
MF'in OBC ex - 5'0" 110 lbs
#1 - 7 lbs 6oz 19"
#2 - 3 lbs 10oz 19"
#3 - 3 lbs 4 oz (30 wk preemie)
Im shooting 9lbs 1 oz, 20", bouncing baby boy "Rolando Roomes"
by obc2 on Mar 19, 2008 12:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
All I know is I am so glad
by Caleb on Mar 19, 2008 7:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Me too, but my oldest is expecting
by Madville on Mar 22, 2008 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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