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  1. ashbury
    Exactly. The ninth inning is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
  2. ashbury
    Best job of lip-synch ever. You can't even tell.
  3. ashbury
    We need an organization of like-minded citizens along the same lines as the NRA. Just as muscular. If we can't build up something like that, shame on us. / of course I'm going to wait for someone else to start the organization, then just mail in my check from the comfort of my barca-lounger.
  4. ashbury
    There's a fine line between "pitch framing" and "catcher and umpire conspiring to screw Plouffe on strike 3". / Perez pulled his glove up after the catch a good 4 inches
  5. ashbury
    Perhaps, by going to the county courthouse and getting his name changed to Plouffe?
  6. ashbury
    f t f y
  7. ashbury
    I'm sorry, no. The panel of judges would have accepted... well, pretty much any answer except that one or Tommy Milone.
  8. ashbury
    That fastball has some movement. / shall we post a poll as to which pitcher I'm referring to?
  9. ashbury
    Watch that baseball soar!
  10. ashbury
    If your internet connection is good enough, can you go to mlb.tv? http://mlb.mlb.com/mediacenter/index.jsp?c_id=mlb Royals-Twins is a Free Game of the Day today.
  11. ashbury
    We came to that fork in the road last night, and unfortunately we took it.
  12. ashbury
    Bench calling Tommy Tommy Tommy - Tommy is there, Zuke bumps into his glove arm - I admire this ruling. If this was college hoops (I won't stick my neck out what an NBA ref would call) it would be a two-shot foul, in the act of shooting.
  13. ashbury
    Good call in the scorer's booth putting the error on Suzuki.
  14. ashbury
    We live with Perk, we die with Perk.
  15. ashbury
    I guess you missed the news. “In accordance with the decision by Supreme Commander of Russian Armed Forces Vladimir Putin, aircraft from the Russian Aerospace Force began today an operation which involves precision airstrikes on Islamic State land-based targets in Syria,” Russian defense ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov confirmed. Looks like we've found our Russian version of Baghdad Bob. http://images.scribblelive.com/2015/7/8/648f87d8-344d-4c8e-81b4-6f83b9a543e1_300.jpg
  16. ashbury
    With secular dictators. I don't like that answer. I hate that answer. But, for that particular region, it was the height of navel-gazing for the Neocons in the early 2000's (OK, and well before) to believe that liberal democracy would take root by "just" toppling one or more dictators and then giving them some support. While I'm generally an Obama supporter (if not apologist ) his adherence to part of the necon orthodoxy in the region is likely to turn out to be the worst mark against his 8 year administration. And Syria itself will be the worst of all - the half-measures taken to oust Assad have instead resulted in the slaughter of all the moderate political/military types and the exodus (or also slaughter) of all the moderate citizenry. If stability isn't your #1 concern, maybe my answer is different. But 15 years of experience in regime-change is telling us something here.
  17. ashbury
    Believe me, I was tempted, when I provided the Nolasco-Hughes-Perkins-Pelfrey link.
  18. ashbury
    Weighing against this, 1890s groupies weren't all that hot anyway. / yes of course they were
  19. ashbury
    Not having played more than slow-pitch myself, I have never understood how batters learn very much from swinging at meatball pitches tossed by fat-bellied old men. (Or even by some of the spry old coots that haunt the cages area.) No, Buxton needs to stand there swinging the bat for 30 minutes while Tyler Duffey throws him yakker after yakker, alternated with hittable fastballs of course. Then bring in Perkins as a reliever, to work on recognizing those sliders for 10 minutes (Perk's not stretched out, dontcha know). Repeat every day. But you never hear about that happening, do you? Of course you can't waste major league arms this way. (Hm, Nolasco as BP pitcher, surely this is an original thought.) So how DO you hone your batting skills in a cage, when almost by definition you're not seeing the pitches you'll see in the games? Thanks for taking my call. I'll hang up and listen.
  20. ashbury
    Seemed like the illustration needed a link, so I have tried to remedy that.
  21. ashbury
    Head-to-head Hall of Fame credentials of team managers!
  22. ashbury
    As you say, currently people can be institutionalized, with appropriate checks and balances. If 2nd Amendment proponents counter that no gun laws should be added and the shootings problem should be addressed from the mental health side, then there will have to be even more people placed under officially-sanctioned supervision (of whatever form) than now. So some aspect of the protection of individual freedoms will have to be loosened. I don't know of any specifics being proposed - indeed that's what's frustrating for me, because when a shooting occurs there will be vague statements about "mental health" to try to take focus away from the guns, and then no substance follows. Plus, can you actually see a Republican congress allocating any significant additional funds toward genuine mental health initiatives?
  23. ashbury
    BTW there is this new thing called bifocals. Much more convenient than holding up your glasses' glasses in front of them. Ask your doctor or pharmacist.
  24. ashbury
    I. Can. Go. Smaller.
  25. ashbury
    I try not to be small minded at times like that.
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