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  1. ashbury
    Hammer at DH should allow him to rest up for more stolen base attempts. No one was reading yesterday's game thread when I came back and asked the circumstances of his SB - does anyone know? With a lead, it just can't be that a steal was called, or that a green light was given, so I assume a busted hit-and-run or something, but I'm still curious for more than just a guess.
  2. ashbury
    Hoping for the best against Ogando but he seems like the quality starter that the Twins have trouble with.
  3. ashbury
    This was on a stolen base? What was the situation on that, a busted hit-and-run? You wouldn't send him straight away, would you? For the reason stated in what I'm replying to.
  4. ashbury
    I see what you did there.
  5. ashbury
    When Allison Stokke was first an internet meme, the quote I liked best about her was "she won the genetic lottery".
  6. ashbury
    You want DeVries with that? (I know, I'm mispronouncing his name.) Can't stick around for the game. Here's the eye-candy - come back to page one now and then if you need to.
  7. ashbury
    And I think we're talking past one another by not finding the middle grounds between "obsession" and "not a factor" for service time. It's an issue Terry Ryan must consider, but in the case of Gibson it's a second-order consideration; things that actually affect/enhance his development rate higher.
  8. ashbury
    Service time matters when it's a not-ready-for-prime-time Carlos Gomez at age 22 or so. I agree with you that it's hardly relevant for a 25-year-old like Kyle Gibson.
  9. ashbury
    (Comments posted in the Community Blogs section don't seem to make it over here to the articles/forums area, so I'm re-posting here. Maybe RP can explain why this happens.) I've played OOTP enough to love it, and eventually come to critique aspects of it that are too easy to exploit. One can put the setting to higher difficulty, of course, but that seems to make it unrealistic in a different extreme. Still, as an inveterate tinkerer, I found the game very very addictive for days at a time. I've played Strat-O-Matic only as the dice-game version, starting way back in the 70's or so, and again when my sons were old enough to enjoy it. (Never got my daughter into it - or my wife for that matter - go figure.) Before we discovered SOM, by brother and I devised our own randomized game based on our baseball cards' stats. Much cruder than the commercial products that we didn't know about yet, but for kids around 10 or 12 years old it wasn't bad. All this is basically to say: welcome to the crowd.
  10. ashbury
    I've played OOTP enough to love it, and eventually come to critique aspects of it that are too easy to exploit. One can put the setting to higher difficulty, of course, but that seems to make it unrealistic in a different extreme. Still, as an inveterate tinkerer, I found the game very very addictive for days at a time. I've played Strat-O-Matic only as the dice-game version, starting way back in the 70's or so, and again when my sons were old enough to enjoy it. (Never got my daughter into it - or my wife for that matter - go figure.) Before we discovered SOM, by brother and I devised our own randomized game based on our baseball cards' stats. Much cruder than the commercial products that we didn't know about yet, but for kids around 10 or 12 years old it wasn't bad. All this is basically to say: welcome to the crowd.
  11. ashbury
    I'm with Joe. Normally I don't like to cherry pick stats but, as I detailed in another thread, if you break down this early season into before April 14 and after, the K rate and BB rate are as though of two different players. There's good reason to suppose that this corresponded to an actual change in approach. And I went on to hypothesize that pitchers will soon change their approach to Hicks in response, and we will potentially see a third kind of stat line when he starts getting pitches to hit. I think the analytically minded are best served to wait at least another two weeks or so and see whether this past week was just SSS rearing its ugly head or the start of a genuine turnaround that at long last results in consistent base hits.
  12. ashbury
    Then you trade your "established starter" for something maybe not quite as good as we got for Denard, and pick up your new utility infielder cheaply somewhere else. Nice problem to have.
  13. ashbury
    No one bothered to supply the answer of Napoleon Dynamite; line delivered by the douche brother when Deb said she was raising money for college.
  14. ashbury
    OK, time for some post-game eyebleach avatar medicine, despite it not being a win.
  15. ashbury
    Three run homer against their relief ace. That means we win, right? Game over?
  16. ashbury
    It's just one ballgame, that's for sure. But if even one run scores, you can count on witnessing her again sometime.
  17. ashbury
    Bad news, guys: the Rally Avatar is working so far.
  18. ashbury
    But TD doesn't cost anyth.... oh. Right.
  19. ashbury
    If snepp clicks Like on that one I will too. RB said to empty the bench. So I did.
  20. ashbury
    I'm sure there's guys at AA that it fooled last year...
  21. ashbury
    Poast of the day.
  22. ashbury
    Rally avatar.
  23. ashbury
    I'm with you on the "crap" part. But I can see an argument for sending the young guys out there again, at least. Reinforce that when a little 3-game losing streak happens, there's no cavalry coming to the rescue, they have to rescue themselves.
  24. ashbury
    Rubber arm, that one.
  25. ashbury
    Now that Cy Young is out of this game we've got a chance.
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