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  1. ashbury
    I'd trade my soul for a wish Pennies and dimes for a hit I wasn't looking for this... But now one's on base First baseman holding Relief ace, bunt is showing Hot night, wind out-blowing Where you think you're going, baby? Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, But here's a fastball, so slug it maybe. It's hard to swing, at Uncle Charley, But it's a fastball, slug it maybe. With apologies.
  2. ashbury
    With the exception of the debatable (and debated) choice of Robertson to pitch to Davis, Gardy's had the bench to make moves that put players in a position to succeed, and the moves have worked often enough. Now either the underperformers you named will step up to match the record being achieved, or the record itself is going to drop. Right now I'm not inclined to bet against the former, even if I wasn't forecasting great things before the season started. It's fun being a front-runner sometimes.
  3. ashbury
    The Wings are no longer sharing their ballpark with Scranton. I think that had to be kind of a negative last year.
  4. ashbury
    With the way Gardy has used the bench, Escobar+Florimon+Ramirez together amount to a starting "shortstopinchitter" that does have very admirable stats to start the season, even if you take out the one start in the outfield.
  5. ashbury
    > Across Minnesota's four victories, the bullpen has delivered 13 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing only seven hits. Allowing that this stat removes the less effective bullpen contributions, it's still an unsustainable stat. Someone in the game thread yesterday offered a remark along the lines of "OK bullpen, now do your job" when the Twins took their one-run lead. I didn't bother to harsh the buzz but it's somewhat above the job description to always throw three innings of shutout ball to preserve such a lead. > My perception of this team thus far is that virtually everyone is doing about what they were expected to do. This includes Gardy, IMO. He's got a bench that permits more maneuvering than in years past, and so far he has used it to put players in position to succeed. Ditto with the bullpen, and even with Robertson's gopherball it was a situation where the pitcher was put in where the odds should be in his favor, and if it doesn't work out you look into getting a different pitcher, not a different manager. (Not that a lefty-lefty matchup is rocket surgery, nor that a lefty can never give up a hit to a lefty, just that so far IMO Gardy's been pushing the right buttons.)
  6. ashbury
    I have no complaint with his performance - not getting rattled by a few runs, and battling through to complete 5 innings, is important toward getting the most out of the bullpen, though 6 would have been even better. And since he's born in Venezuela, I'm certainly not making fun of any limitations he might feel in using English (and maybe his English is better than mine), if that had any bearing on what he chose to say in response to reporters. I dunno, the quote just seemed... odd. Maybe I'm just too used to cocky athletes.
  7. ashbury
    From the Yahoo page for the Twins (didn't dig into what the original source is): "I feel really good right now. I feel fantastic for this opportunity and to get a chance in the major leagues. You have to stay focused on the strike zone." —Pedro Hernandez on allowing just three runs and four hits with three strikeouts and three walks in five innings in his second MLB start Sunday. Three walks in five innings is staying focused on the strike zone? Three runs in five innings makes a pitcher feel really good? OK, making even a mediocre start is not something that the majority of human beings can do. But this interview snippet sounds like something out of the bus in the movie Bull Durham.
  8. ashbury
    Or May 15, or May 1. But not April 7, or 8, or 9...
  9. ashbury
    If my math is correct we are on pace for 160 wins. I do math differently than some people.
  10. ashbury
    I have to admit, I was very late to the idea that Perkins would be elite, as I saw 2011 as a fluke or career year or small sample size or something. He's actually bringing comfort when he's in to close a one-run game.
  11. ashbury
    Oh no, my mistake of typing 'to' instead of 'too' has infected RB's normally impeckable posting style.
  12. ashbury
    Catcher's interference? There wasn't anybody on base to distract Teagarden; just a brainfart by him setting up to far up, or what?
  13. ashbury
    Hooray!
  14. ashbury
    He slid into first to record the out?
  15. ashbury
    Kidding or not, it wasn't his glove that kept him from establishing himself for the good paydays with the Twins.
  16. ashbury
    Is this one of those Circle Me Bert slogans on posterboard?
  17. ashbury
    Forget the twelve-year-olds, my problem is being a bad influence on the (other) old goats here.
  18. ashbury
    Geez, the mods are now gonna have to ban all of us just for what we are thinking.
  19. ashbury
    A gentleman from Nantucket got banned by the mods for thinking this.
  20. ashbury
    We do not know this yet. Reno's game at Colorado Springs has just started.
  21. ashbury
    Hicksie!
  22. ashbury
    I suppose it says something for the integrity of this website that this particular article hasn't mysteriously vanished.
  23. ashbury
    This is a sabrmetric mantra that I actually do tend to agree with, but I'm not 100% sold that certain young players in particular are immune.
  24. ashbury
    I've forgotten how it was before, but was it that you could click directly to someone's blog from when they posted to a forum thread? John Bonnes the other day said that it was a goal to promote blogging, and not just of the established blogs. Then this bit of "clutter" removed strikes me as overkill.
  25. ashbury
    Well, as the old saying goes, nobody needs a left-handed pitcher. What is needed is a guy who can get lefties out.
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