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  1. ashbury
    Winnable game, going against a pitcher who is very hittable. We can't blow this ... says each team about the other.
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  3. ashbury
    This goaded me into looking at Wikipedia, which is Never Wrong, and they say: both! "The team's nickname of "Pilots" came from Soriano's part-time job as a harbor pilot and the city's association with the aviation industry.."
  4. ashbury
    It's a seaport town. Pilot ships bring the big ships in. I doubt it is anything more complex than that, but it could be researched I suppose.
  5. ashbury
    Guess we're seeing why Balmer felt they could risk parting with a starting pitcher.
  6. ashbury
    Sick's Stadium. Hard to believe they didn't draw 3 million that year.
  7. ashbury
    It's what you do when the ceiling is high. If, say, Ryan Kreidler* is hobbling, you just IL him and bring up someone else; at 85% he's below replacement level. If it's someone like Buxton and he's limping, you may judge to rest him because he's at 40% and you hope in a couple of days he's at 85% because at that improved level he's better than who would replace him. (Walker Jenkins being a very temporary and no longer relevant side issue.) A decision to IL him costs 10 days - what if he's better in a couple of days and is antsy from not playing? My complaint with a lot of the discussion about injuries in general is the notion that it's an off-on switch. Most players are banged up to some degree by this point in the season - several are at any given point. How much of their game have they lost, and how likely are they to recover by playing through it, are not the simple calculations many make them to be. Based on what I see, Buxton probably belongs on the 10-day IL at minimum. But I'm not privy to many facts. * No offense, Church
  8. ashbury
    I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday.
  9. ashbury
    Yeah. Minutes after I made my post I saw that Gleeman was relaying a specific comment about surgery on the horizon. Never mind. Though, it was a genuine question, that I had missed there being an answer to. He might go on the 60-day the day after they lose the game that finally makes the FO (and ownership) throw in the towel on the season.
  10. ashbury
    This is way down the list of priorities, but I've been making use of the Ignored Users feature and have a couple of tweaks to request. 1) When I click the "Unread Content" icon near the top of the page, I would just as soon not see any threads listed where the only unread posts are on my Ignored list. 2) When adding someone, it would be nice to have a short text field I can fill in to remind myself months later why I put them on Ignore (rudeness, idiocy, lack of proofreading, etc). I do like that the present version of the feature allows individual posts to be overridden in case I am curious. I just wish that other posters wouldn't respond to those posters, so I don't wind up seeing the posts anyway and get reminded why they're on Ignore in the first place. Life is short, and has been better since I embraced the feature. 😄
  11. ashbury
    Is there reason to think some specific surgery is being considered? People older than Buxton get their hips entirely replaced; if "surgery" less than replacement were an option presumably that would be the preference. It's possible there's no fixing him.
  12. ashbury
    Back in my software development days we had a saying, the bug fix release will be ready Real Soon Now. Buxton being close to ready has that same feel to it.
  13. ashbury
    But forgotten.
  14. ashbury
    "But be not afraid of contention: some are born contenders, some achieve contention, and some have contention thrust upon them." -- Willie "Say Thee Hey" Shakespeare, The Twelfth Inning
  15. ashbury
    The blogger at Comics Curmudgeon the other day pointed out that "Sarah" likes to play dangerously: if Jamaal had simply replied "oh, okay, thanks," she would have lost her chance at a sick burn.
  16. ashbury
    Alex Jackson: TD: Yes. Sorry.
  17. ashbury
    AKA the Pony in the Pile.
  18. ashbury
    Brock seems mostly to be looking at the revamp of the look and feel. wRiTiNg qUaLiTy is a bugaboo for me too - but realistically the old model of newspapers is gone, and here we're getting a game recap within hours of last pitch, plus at least a couple of opinion pieces each and every day, and essentially for free. Sid Hartman's columns used to draw eyerolls too, but we still bought the paper. I choose to count the blessings.
  19. ashbury
    Your periodic reminder that last year after an equivalent number of games the Twins were 61-73. 64-70 this year is a helluva anything?
  20. ashbury
    It's like having a mid-season Rule 5 Draft where you pick a 22-year old you don't really want to play right now but your scouts say he should develop into a nice starter in the next three years while you burn his options, and have to carry him the rest of the season. Except this guy is age 30 and his role on a good team will be a backup at best. I don't really get it either.
  21. ashbury
    Not this day, of course. But some other day. Surely.
  22. ashbury
    As a trade chip to use later, he was plausible. But they needed to flip him, or one of his near-clones already in the organization, as part of an off-season package, and that's what still baffles me. Lefty-hitting corner outfielders can be kind of valuable. But when you corner the market on them, you can't package up, say, the four you don't want, and swap them en masse for the pitching prospect you've had your eye on the last six months. Other teams don't look for a bunch of any one thing - trades of prospects generally involve a variety of player types - so several trades were needed last off-season to clear the perceived glut. IOW acquiring Roden wasn't necessarily a mistake, but it committed the Twins FO to effort in addition to what was already on their plate, that somehow they didn't wind up doing.
  23. ashbury
    Living his best life. May we all be so lucky!
  24. ashbury
    There are 28 games to go and the next 15 of them will tell us a lot. Okay.
  25. ashbury
    Prepare to receive money.
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