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  1. ashbury
    I only said "discouraging".
  2. ashbury
    Molitor's quote about Polanco "guiding" the ball to first is discouraging. This is what I saw in him, last spring - he can get the distance, or the accuracy, but not both. I was hoping he could find some way to get over the hump. But it sounds to me as if he is just shy of having a shortstop's arm. A pity. I imagine he can have a career at 2B (for some team, maybe the Twins), but SS would be nicer.
  3. ashbury
    Some people already complain that modern stats are too complicated. But these stats often contain a simplifying assumption that only highly-talented players (i.e. those who can hold onto a MLB job) are being measured. If a truly universal stat were devised, to measure pitchers on a spectrum from you or me to Clayton Kershaw, how much more arcane might it become?
  4. ashbury
    Huh. I would have thought that the constantly wagging finger would endear him to his senate colleagues.
  5. ashbury
    Sorry, did I say deadpan? I meant bedpan, oldtimer.
  6. ashbury
    I considered editing what appears to be a small typo but decided maybe it was just your legendary deadpan humor.
  7. ashbury
    Whether through fortune or misfortune, the various components of my life have been such that they didn't all peak during the same years of my life. My children, my career, my retirement... I dunno, life is pretty darn good for me in retirement right now but that doesn't mean the other parts weren't good too.
  8. ashbury
    Rubio is young, and politicians have nine lives anyway. Tricky Dick was finished in 1962 and of course he was elected President in 1968. "For good" is an awfully awfully long time.
  9. ashbury
    Interesting that "last best hope" now evokes J. Michael instead of Abraham.
  10. ashbury
    I agree. I'd have to be awfully cocky to believe that a SC nomination would be coming my way at any given future point in time. I'd accept an offer and go from there; who knows, at worst I would be an interesting historical footnote instead of just one of many in a list of Circuit court justices.
  11. ashbury
    Conventional wisdom is that pitchers are ahead of hitters at this point in spring. So no worries, I'm sure those numbers will come down from such lofty levels as we approach Opening Day.
  12. ashbury
    My advice to Obama, were he to solicit it, would be to simplify this and pick the nominee he thinks would be the most outstanding jurist. Nominate somebody you would love to see on the Supreme Court, an asset to the nation for 30 years if we should be that lucky, and let the chips fall where they may as regards confirmation. Such selection process is rarely quite that simple and clearcut in judicial terms, so if it's down to a list of two or three, maybe weed out the one who is farthest left, if that one really is FAR left. But don't nominate someone mainly on the grounds of confirmability. The scenario you don't want at the end of all this is "we won! we won! ... wait, isn't there some way we could have lost?" And don't bother at all with electoral calculus. Regardless of who is nominated, the political machines on both sides will be adept at milking it for short-term advantage as they perceive it.
  13. ashbury
    This, on a web site where we constantly remind ourselves about small sample sizes. In a general election I am not one to hope for the "other" side to nominate the least electable candidate; too much can happen.
  14. ashbury
    Back when it was Florimon versus Escobar, there was genuine disagreement over who was the better choice at SS, but it seemed clear to me that based on minor league progress the hitting stats said that EE had the upside. He was still so young. Now I think we may have gone a little too far overboard; he's a competent defender but not much more, and his hitting will not likely stay at such an elevated level. On the other hand, my eyeball test tells me he's a smart hitter, with legitimate pop in his bat when he chooses his spots wisely, and it's possible that I am underselling his bat by a little.
  15. ashbury
    They do. It's called SABR. You can join.
  16. ashbury
    Imagine a world in which Ron Paul could not vote for himself.
  17. ashbury
    Perhaps I misunderstood the question, or read something into it.
  18. ashbury
    No. A paparazzo, and negotiate my percentage cut. With which, I then hire a divorce lawyer.
  19. ashbury
    Like, anyone could tell the difference?
  20. ashbury
    Maybe, if the aforementioned friends and family also agree to this arrangement with their dreams. I'm not doing it unilaterally. It could be an interestingly different society if we all did, though. I stopped having a series of disturbing nightmares when I finally got around to writing them down systematically over a period of a few months - coincidence? I still don't know what they mean, except maybe literal anxieties from decades past about school and jobs and buying houses and so forth.
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  22. ashbury
    You will love it in Ft Myers. Wish I could be there. I always promise to buy people their first beer, when I'm not there.
  23. ashbury
    Anecdotal, but a fair rebuttal. Thanks.
  24. ashbury
    This has the merit of being logically unassailable.
  25. ashbury
    Yes, that's exactly what I said. Look, I just explained why a pitching injury is a poor guide for Mauer. If you can explain how playing some of the time but not all will improve Joe's vision, we'll have something to talk about. Otherwise, it just sounds like you want his playing time reduced because he's hitting poorly and someone else in his place would help the team more - which is nothing new, and has nothing to do with the revelation about his blurred vision, and makes the pitching example a red herring.
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