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  1. ashbury
    So you're saying, he's NOT a WWII era guy. I've seen more movement out of those tall guys that live on Easter Island.
  2. ashbury
    Can we re-roll the Constitution attribute for Pelfrey, the Wisdom attribute for Hicks, the Dexterity for Pinto, the Strength for Mauer (legs pricked by a xan?), the Charisma for Bill Smith, and the Intelligence for any number of journalists? / just repeating some memes, no personal opinion intended
  3. ashbury
    I'm with you completely on driving versus flying. Delay the arrival as long as possible, force the departure early... given that it's Milwaukee.
  4. ashbury
    Oh boy. All of a sudden the 15-day list doesn't sound sufficient...
  5. ashbury
    Put yourself in the shoes of the other team's fans. How thrilled would you be to get Colabello at the cost of your team's equivalent to Danny Santana? And if the value Cola fetches is more like the other team's equivalent to Levi Michael (or Evan Bigley), how thrilled will you be for us? Just a blip in the big scheme of things. You don't invest major league at bats in the hope of such an outcome; you do it because you need him to fill a hole.
  6. ashbury
    And yet, his (paltry) two homers both were RISPy. His RISP OPS is higher than his OPS with men on base overall. And his OPS with men on base is higher than with bases empty. IMO it's not a situational thing. It's a matter of diminished production overall. Whether that is due to permanently diminished skills, or a temporary problem from which he'll bounce back, or just a long stretch of bad luck, it's probably too soon to say.
  7. ashbury

    David Ortiz

    ashbury replied to kydoty's topic in Other Baseball

    Every player wants to avoid getting told it's time to retire, and walk away on his own terms. David is just getting some practice in early.
  8. ashbury
    His past twelve games, which is classic cherry-picking, his BA is .488. Four doubles and a homer fatten up his SLG, and the few walks aren't needed for a towering OBP, giving a stupidly high OPS of 1.170. Of course, this is built on a BABIP of .613. Also stupidly high. Probably that number will get more intelligent soon.
  9. ashbury
    Or paying for an upgrade to first class when flying.
  10. ashbury
    To assess the likelihood of trades, I think the expected value returned in trade has to be considered. Is this wrapped up in your "value to others" ratings? I.e. you think Suzuki would net us a better prospect than Willingham, who would net us a better prospect than Correia, who would... ? Where does "pretty high" rank relative to "medium high"? And ultimately, what kind of prospect do you think gets offered for someone of "high" value like Suzuki? I'm not sure much of anything important will be obtained for the guys with 2+ months remaining on their contracts, thanks in part to the recent changes in free agent compensation. (I bet Stephen Drew and our own Kendrys Morales wish they had been traded last July. )
  11. ashbury
    Probably sums it up. I'll go with a 29er, which will coincide with one of the bike shops' advice but not the LBS in my town, as it happens. Your advice lines up with much that I have read. My wife tried to get me into touring bikes before we married, and I gave it a go (owned some model of Trek back when they were new and cool) but it never really "took". My interest now is in exploring trails or roads around Tahoe that my hiking range limits me from doing fully and getting to the points of interest in one day. I just turned 60 so I'm not ever going to be as hardcore as you were in this hobby, and it won't be all consuming because I have to get back for Game Threads. The bike I get might still wind up being as expensive as one of my cars, but that's because I drive beaters.
  12. ashbury
    At the start of the year I viewed Escobar's ceiling as a utility infielder on a good team or a starter for a few years on a bad team. I'm happy for his start but I'll stick with my forecast. I'd prefer to try for a self-fulfilling prophecy with an eye toward better days in 2015-7, and use Esco-bear all over the infield. Over the course of 4 days, start Plouffe at 3rd 3 days, Dozier at 2nd 3 or all 4 days, Santana at short 3 days, and Escobar at each of the positions to cover the starter's day off. This gives them all nearly "starter's minutes", and enough PAs and defensive innings to make sure of what we've got. Squeeze in some time for Nunez in all this. For center, I hate spreading Santana's defensive development thinner by giving him more than emergency time out there. Let Fuld get more innings out there than he deserves, unless and until a low-cost acquisition of someone better is achieved or until Hicks proves himself ready again. Parmelee can be an embarrassment as a backup there - just desserts to the organization for botching the plan for a backup plan in case Hicks didn't pan out again. (And for the record, I thought Hicks would succeed this time - but that doesn't mean having essentially no backup until Fuld was snagged off of waivers.)
  13. ashbury
    Gonna have to leave early. I get to drive our cat to an eye specialist in Reno. Pray for me. Forty five minutes of yowling going over, forty five minutes of yowling coming back. / and the cat doesn't take so well to the ride either. Ba-dum-tsssssh.
  14. ashbury
    Ugh. Now Parms is going to have to hit a 5-run homer leading off the bottom of the 9th.
  15. ashbury
    BABIP. SSS. A Jinx.
  16. ashbury
    Which kind?
  17. ashbury
    Two strikeouts and a popout. Not quite how the script was laid out.
  18. ashbury
    Carrying a spare does sound prudent.
  19. ashbury
    Not a frequent worry. The bears eat them all.
  20. ashbury
    Doesn't the power company suffer brownouts when everybody is trying to do this all at the same time?
  21. ashbury
    Shoot. Casey Fiend messes up Gardy's strategy of a 3 run bomb by Parms in the bottom of the 8th and a save by Perkins. Now all three guys have to reach base in front of Parms.
  22. ashbury
    Oh, I left out the most important detail, then. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_unicycling
  23. ashbury
    That's what I'm thinking. I neglected to include that I expect to use the bike for very mixed purposes including as much pavement as I can find off of highways - but with occasional dirt trail use, and a touring bike on dirt would be much stupider than a mountain bike on pavement.
  24. ashbury
    Done that. Three shops, three different recommendations. So I'm coming here to the experts. / edit: Brian's observation about what I'll get here also is accurate
  25. ashbury
    Most Sweat Resistant Sports Bras HTH.
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