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  1. ashbury
    Lou Grant: You know what? You've got spunk. Mary Richards: Well, yes… Lou Grant: I hate spunk. / why yes. I am old. Thank you for asking.
  2. ashbury
    From the TD Comment Policy: A minimal level of grammar and spell-checking is required. Nah, we'll let that slide. Oh, and yeah: the bickering and overly personal take on things. The poster you (I think) were responding to has reiterated that he's not saying TR doesn't deserve to stay GM1, so there's been no call for sword-falling etc. It's a Terry Ryan thread, so some of this can be expected, but enough. Time to dial it down a notch, everyone. 1Double negative there, but I think I'm following the logic
  3. ashbury
    Fair enough. Hopefully you can see how the shorter wording could be subject to misinterpretation. I'll offer in response to your view, that Ryan might not have made the same moves in a different market with a different franchise. The expectations in that market might be proportional to the team's revenue, and maybe Ryan's plan would still have been to build up the farm system but slightly less aggressively (trading only one of his CF, say), and the answers to "how do we bridge to that coming wave of players" could have involved players different than Willingham and Doumit, for example. His job security in that unnamed other market could well be about the same as here and now.
  4. ashbury
    I won't speak for Gunnar but when I saw "Job security he likely wouldn't have in any market that stressed winning" I thought it amounted to "undeserved job security", which in many discussions would be followed by "he should be fired". Help me out here, since it's now sounding like you meant something different.
  5. ashbury
    I expressed my share of skepticism (and maybe then some), but share your hope.
  6. ashbury
    I remember seeing a highly touted prospect get brushed back and nearly beaned in a very scary way, in a game in Columbus around 1995 or 1996. He dusted himself off, and put the very next pitch deep over the left field wall. I said to myself, man, this guy's the real deal, and he's *ready*. The name of this future Hall of Famer? Ruben Rivera. Oh well.
  7. ashbury
    And it does not include any information about opportunity. How often did his fielding chances come with a man on first and fewer than two outs? Without that additional information for comparison, we are in about the same situation as awarding the batting title to whomever gets the most base hits - that might be the right thing to do, or it might deprive the honor from someone who had fewer plate appearances or many more walks. None of which changes that I like Polanco a lot, too.
  8. ashbury
    Ty Cobb was a hell of a hitter. I don't think numbers are necessary to convince you of that.
  9. ashbury
    No, it's not really like that at all. And it will be a struggle to replace it with some other analogy that also relates to daily life. Because I'm pretty sure running a franchise isn't very much like daily life.
  10. ashbury
    I wonder if anyone knows whether a player is able to talk to other teams to gauge their interest, before having to decide to opt out or not. It could be that the Twins signed him purely as AAA depth, agreed to the opt-out clause, but hope to persuade him to stay anyway - but if he can't know whether some other team would take him as the 25th man, such persuasion would be hard. I'm sure someone under a normal contract can't talk to other teams (tampering), but does the presence of a spring opt-out change anything "legalistically"?
  11. ashbury
    I doubt you'd get much dissent from that view. So I am inclined to give the manager the benefit of the doubt that he believed he had a compelling reason to take action. That the team owner evidently disagreed doesn't change my view that the the situation wasn't cut and dried. It doesn't necessarily mark the player as a bad guy for life, and as others have said, we in the public will likely never know the full details. Just an episode to tuck away for future reference if need be.
  12. ashbury
    Welcome!
  13. ashbury
    Blaine Boyer will not be one of those gentlemen, I feel safe in predicting. Unless he joins an over-40 league.
  14. ashbury
    tl;dnr
  15. ashbury
    Wow, so that means I finally know a guy who knows a guy. I'm going to give my boss the good news that we're about to crack this case. I mean, can you give me this guy's home address, I want to send him a Christmas card.
  16. ashbury
    California Math got him in!
  17. ashbury
    If I win, can my prize be some of what this poster is smoking?
  18. ashbury
    I previously chose April 28 and will stick with that. Wild-eyed optimist, you. / me too, actually > .200
  19. ashbury
    Baseball cards. We were promised worthless cardboard baseball cards.
  20. ashbury
    With regard to Perkins specifically, the "book" on him is that he's unusually analytic and introspective about his job, and it wouldn't have to be weird if the manager brought it up as an idea. In general, you're probably right.
  21. ashbury
    *snork* Buh-bye Blaine, we'll remember the fun weeks in March always, I'm sure. Now was that respectful? I'm sorry. Good for him if I'm wrong about his chances. There's 22 guys ahead of him on the 40-man right now. Jack Goin must see something he likes about guys who pitch for the Padres.
  22. ashbury
    More and more, I think the NFL has one part of it right. Every year they elect 6 or 7 guys to their Hall. That tends to make it The Hall Of Very GoodTM, but there is some value in that. Let the fans see their favorite players honored. Baseball diminishes its product by in effect arguing whether some of its best players are even "good enough". Football hypes their product, 13 months a year, and it works. What the baseball Hall would then need to do, on top of that, would be to have some distinguished panel (sorry, BBWAA, maybe the living HoFers themselves) vote 1 or maybe 2 players each year into an Inner Circle of the HoF; whoever gets the most votes is in (no years with nobody), second highest vote getter is in if it's above some threshold, say, for additional suspense. Probably that would be a little less restrictive Inner Circle than the Ruth/Cobb/Musial version we usually talk about, but would address the thirst for some kind of additional honor, currently satisfied approximately by notions of "first ballot" and "near-unanimous" and so forth.
  23. ashbury
    My wife already questions the quantity of awesome baseball cards worthless cardboard on our garage shelves. So... I'm in.
  24. ashbury
    You can never have too much good pitching. But you also have to fill your AAA roster.
  25. ashbury
    Robinson would have to be added to the 40-man, yes? Currently the Twins have 22 pitchers and 18 hitters, so presumably a pitcher would have to be exposed to waivers. Makes me even more perplexed that they signed Stauffer. But, along the lines Shane (Wahl) just said, Shane (Robinson) strikes me as more of an emergency guy stashed at AAA than a real option for Opening Day.
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