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  1. ashbury
    Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY picked off. There's a big difference between mostly picked off and all picked off. Mostly picked off is slightly on base. With all picked off, well, with all picked off there's usually only one thing you can do. Inigo Montoya: What's that? Miracle Max: Ask the manager if you can have his spot in the lineup.
  2. ashbury
    Escobar's kind of a ballplayer.
  3. ashbury
    So hot, Buchholz ignited into flame from 60 feet 6 inches away.
  4. ashbury
    Aven't eard.
  5. ashbury
    Bremer just mentioned Huckleberry Hound as an example of Bert's mental level. / to which I also have to plead guilty
  6. ashbury
    No, the problem is our pitching coach making this chump look good at the plate. ---signed, the fans of the Boston Red Sox
  7. ashbury
    Bremer doesn't get excited over nothing, for once. PARMS!
  8. ashbury
    Best I can find:
  9. ashbury
    Hey Boo Boo, you've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
  10. ashbury
    Throw strikes, but don't give him anything good to hit. The classic coaching mantra.
  11. ashbury
    Of course he doesn't. We know he is smarter than the Average American.
  12. ashbury
    Ha ha! You fool! You are falling victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia".
  13. ashbury
    Had me worried there for a second.
  14. ashbury
    That's the spirit!
  15. ashbury
    Used to say that about Boone and Erickson, too.
  16. ashbury
    Only sometimes, though.
  17. ashbury
    You'd be their niece?
  18. ashbury
    FTFY. [/geek]
  19. ashbury
    I take no pleasure in seeing him fall apart, of course. He battled a physical ailment this spring that would have kept me recuperating for weeks longer. This is probably harder for him than being waived by the Orioles, since someone still wanted to pick him up and give him a chance. The fielding will straighten itself out, but the bat just won't. The majority of aspiring infielders eventually have to face this, it just took longer for him and it's probably no consolation to him at this moment that he held onto that bottom rung in the majors for a while.
  20. ashbury
    What I saw was Fien was examined and it was called a contusion. Presumably it means an x-ray or similar revealed no break. I interpret it as an owie that will be evaluated no sooner than shortly before Tuesday's game, and will be day-to-day rather than DLed.
  21. ashbury
    Team A wants to remove a player from their 40-man but would like to keep him in their minors. They waive/DFA him. Team B makes a claim and gets him. Some weeks/months later, they want to remove him from their 40-man but would like to keep him in their minors. My view is that Team A ought to have first claim on keeping him in the minors and off their 40-man; when the dust settles, why should Team B get their wishes granted for a player that nobody evidently has actual room on their 40-man for? And if the player is made a free agent, then Team B has caused Team A some harm that would not have occurred if Team B had just minded their own business. Undoing the claim as though it had never happened and reverting to that original moment, subject to other teams possibly having put in a claim too, seems fairest, if the player has not been kept for some fixed threshold of time (which I could be persuaded should be shorter or longer). I view claims like Team B here to be somewhere on the spectrum of spurious/nuisance/dishonest, and this takes away the incentive of getting free roster filler for their minors. And I find it especially regrettable that "my" team has gotten itself into this pattern of retaliatory bottom-feeding.
  22. ashbury
    He will depart the same way he arrived, via waivers.
  23. ashbury
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=patootie
  24. ashbury
    The business about families is a red herring IMO, but I agree the rules need to be adjusted. Teams doing tit-for-tat claims, which seems to have come up also with the Orioles a while back, just look like GM's acting like tools to address real or imagined slights in the past. I agree with Thrylos that overly strict rules will tie teams' hands needlessly. One simple (?) change is that if you claim a guy on waivers you can't turn around and waive him yourself for say 12 months; if you do want to remove the player from the 40-man, you lose him and he reverts to the original team, at the same stage of the waiver process as before the claim (so that one team can't screw others trying to claim players).
  25. ashbury
    Your absence will be missed. /
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