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  1. ashbury
    Jepsen gets hammered ONLY when he makes bad pitches. I think if he would just cut down on those, he will have a good rest of the season. / trying to avoid negativity
  2. ashbury
    He is signed with the Angels through 2020.
  3. ashbury
    This is exactly what Ted Cruz supporters are saying. It is what Bernie Sanders supporters are saying. It is what Rand Paul people are saying, but at the same time what the nativist portion of Donald Trump supporters are saying. Hillary Clinton supporters are thinking it too. Don't you see the futility in this form of rhetoric, "take back our country"? From whom, and who gets to be the "we"? Because apparently you aren't too keen on the "we" that has gotten us to this point in time.
  4. ashbury
    That one vote won't fix it if I do it the third party way either. I don't have to be engaging in group think, to opt for one group over the other, imperfect as either one may be. It's just thinking.
  5. ashbury
    The time for compromise is over. Now we need to get the country on the right track, once and for all. Trouble is, the various factions disagree over what the right track is. I count about five main factions, each with somewhere in the neighborhood of 20% of the voting public, having the following as their core principle above all others: 1) those who would put the country on an explicitly Christian footing, 2) those who would put the country on an unfettered free-enterprise model, 3) those who would put the country on a fully socialist path, 4) those who would put the country on a nativist mode favoring European lineage, 5) those who would continue a mushy status quo with little tweaks here and there to improve perceived justice. On particular issues there is room for these factions to work together, sometimes. In the main, though, the majority feels the country is headed in the wrong direction.
  6. ashbury
    He had a lot of flaws at the plate. Not laying off of breaking pitches in the dirt, not laying off of low outside pitches, but also swinging through pitches in the strike zone. I think 3 months in the minors to make sure all of these are corrected will be just fine.
  7. ashbury
    Spycake, I'm curious, what tool did you use to locate these records?
  8. ashbury
    Bingo. The more I think about the GM's job, the more I believe that the constraint of having 25 players at a time on the roster is the biggest limiting factor in constructing a championship team. WAR is a nice simplification of the issue: to construct a 100-win team, you need about 50 WAR in that one season. Voila, you need to achieve 2 WAR on average from every slot on your roster. Utility players and relievers by nature of their jobs can rarely give you 2. And some guys will disappoint or be injured and not give you any WAR at all that year. So 4+ WAR players are gold. You can't win a pennant with 100 0.5-WAR players; you can't rely on players who amass 10 WAR but require 10 years to do it. To have a guy like Trout, who you can pencil in for pretty much 8 WAR every year, gives you quite a head start toward your 50. And if you're not aiming for 50, at least at some near-future point, why bother? You could offer 100 players for Trout. Still no deal.
  9. ashbury
    Hope you like 55 MPH speed limits on wide open state and federal highways. Because, they have 55 MPH speed limits on wide open state and federal highways there. Also, hope you don't like pumping your own gas. Because, they don't let you pump your own gas there. Other than getting from point A to point B, it's a fun state. The area around Bend is cool. While painstakingly fact checking this post, I discovered that they raised the Interstate highway speed limit to 70 just this year. And a few of the two laners get bumped up to 65. Pretty forward thinking!
  10. ashbury
    Contempt for opinions other than one's own is red meat of a different type.
  11. ashbury
    As the Framers intended it. They were as fearful of the tyranny of the majority as they were of His Majesty. Legislation in their view should be easy only if some sort of super-majority is on board regarding the issue.
  12. ashbury
    Now I know that there are other things than water balloons to worry about at the next Moderators' Convention.
  13. ashbury
    I was so looking forward to a sudden shift in POV as the camera went flying out of the operator's hand.
  14. ashbury
    ... try, try DH?
  15. ashbury
    Yogi? How are things in the afterlife?
  16. ashbury
    Flattery will get you nowhere. He's not a has-been, he's a never-was.
  17. ashbury
    Getting beat in every way, including the other team just playing well.
  18. ashbury
    I stopped reading here. Don't do that.
  19. ashbury
    Norfolk isn't real good this year either.
  20. ashbury
    There was a petition to send ya to Rochester but I stood up for ya.
  21. ashbury
    Liked Rosario's spirit there.
  22. ashbury
    Also an insurmountable hill for the offense to climb.
  23. ashbury
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  24. ashbury
    Another great post, Brian!
  25. ashbury
    There's some Baseball IQTM by the manager, sending Nunez. The run counts.
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