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  1. ashbury
    He's better than his numbers.
  2. ashbury
    Same lineup as Game 1, right? Looks like Gardy wants to go with a set middle infield, rather than by committee. Maybe he'll do a platoon split versus lefties?
  3. ashbury
    Doumit was DH'ing and Escobar seems to be the emergency third catcher. I wonder if this factored into not removing Escobar. This is hardly better than carrying a third catcher.
  4. ashbury
    This belongs in that other thread yesterday, but baseball is also the sport that I'll enjoy watching at just about any level of skill. Small-time HS football makes me cringe when a good runner just walks by a smaller defender and goes for an easy touchdown, likewise when a middle-school basketball center is a man among boys, but to me it's not unpleasant to watch a kid with a great fastball mow down his opponents, or to see a different kid launch a moonshot against a skinny pitcher who hasn't got facial hair yet. Fans of other sports will differ, naturally.
  5. ashbury
    From the standpoint of the team investing in the arm, you are probably right. From the perspective of the athlete, I suspect most would say they would accept *some* risk (which they will immediately discount to about zero) of permanent injury in exchange for a chance to finish the last inning of a perfecto. A few, the non-HOFers probably, might even say yes to a 100% certain end of the career in exchange for a 100% certain completion of their historic game. I think the manager has to balance these views, since the owner signs his paycheck but he has to have the respect of this players too.
  6. ashbury
    I'm waiting to see thepuck's take on this, before forming my own opinion.
  7. ashbury
    Great to see athletes not being immediately dismissive of this. I wonder who most influenced him, in accepting an analytic POV. I remember Glenn Gostick going over his hand-typed sheets of stats at the local SABR confab in the '80s. In every generation, there are always at least a few trying to do this. Maybe it's gaining more traction.
  8. ashbury
    In honor of KC maybe I will put up my prior Sunshine avatar when he starts, for the benefit of all the readers old enough to know the reference.
  9. ashbury
    Yes, and there seems to be a split of opinion whether this would be a good outcome, to punish ownership, or a bad outcome, harmful to the team's long term hopes. A related split was whether there was any value in spending more in 2013 when the only hope would be to improve the team's results closer to .500. It's easy for us armchair GMs to crave one more top-5 draft pick next year, and for fans to take the "teach 'em a lesson" approach to revenue, but I am honestly surprised Terry Ryan as an actual GM wasn't more aggressive in the FA market to reduce the chances of 90 losses.
  10. ashbury

    Changes

    ashbury commented on IdahoPilgrim's blog entry in Blog IdahoPilgrim

    It should be a national law that all local baseball diamonds be located on main highways and other arterial streets. I've done the same as you, stopping to take in an inning or two when I spotted a game in progress and didn't have to be someplace urgently. It's cool.
  11. ashbury
    It depends on why they are watchable. If because of players who will likely still be with the team in 2015, then people will feel genuine interest. If it is clear that the 30-somethings were providing the steam and the youngsters didn't show growth, not so much. [Edit: clicked on the article too soon and responded too slowly, kind of a redundant response but I'll leave it.]
  12. ashbury
    The video has pretty much every editing cliche there is, but even so, I'm having trouble getting worked up in anger over it. It's just a disposable piece of entertainment trying to aim for a younger crowd than me. I'll have to ask my sons or daughter if it works for them. Did you click on the other video link on that page to the Bosox crooner? Seth MacFarlane without the irony. Not bad enough to be camp, not good enough to catch on.
  13. ashbury
    When I am not making p**p jokes or d*ck jokes, I am a very subtle writer.
  14. ashbury
    There is something to this point of view. OTOH no executive usually has all the skills necessary for success, and he makes up for the weaknesses by hiring the right people. Ultimately the buck still has to stop with the guy sitting in the big chair, and if his particular deficiencies are such that even the right deputies can't cover them then he has to take the blame, and eventually the fall.
  15. ashbury

    Game 1 of 162

    ashbury commented on Riverbrian's blog entry in Blog Riverbrian

    I think you failed to take into account that Prince Fielder is not a fast baserunner.
  16. ashbury
    > You had to figure he wanted no part of striking out four times in his debut. He probably wanted no part of striking out three times, either, but Mr. Verlander had different ideas.
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    What's In A Name?

    ashbury commented on ashbury's blog entry in Left Coast Bias

    I put the uncensored list on the web at http://www.skypoint.com/members/ashbury/anagrams
  18. ashbury
    It was a joke. The Tigers' bats were sleeping, no sense in waking them up for the top of the ninth by tying the score prematurely... like you can actually control such a thing.
  19. ashbury
    It was inferred.
  20. ashbury
    Terrible terrible news.
  21. ashbury
    In case the original poster isn't familiar with George Carlin's take on baseball, with football as comparison, here it is in text, or a performance of it on YouTube. It probably won't persuade the person asking our poster, but if you're already hooked it expresses things well.
  22. ashbury
    Ditto to the notion that others have covered many of the important aspects already. Here are one or two more: What other sport has a significant portion of the crowd keeping a score sheet? Even if you don't do it yourself, you can lean over to the guy one row back and ask "who turned the pivot on that double play last inning, second or short?" and get your answer. And the fact you would even care is indicative of the reward gained by the careful observer - no one would bother asking "who fed LeBron on that outlet pass before the timeout?" or "who made that one block on the fumble return in the first quarter?" And a related aspect is that I see baseball-watching as more social than other sports. Of course there is conversation at any sporting event, but it seems to me that a baseball conversation can touch on more things over the course of a game. The breaks between innings seems fundamentally different than breaks between quarters/halves and especially TV timeouts, for chatting about what just happened or what is about to happen or why the Florida teams just can't seem to develop a devoted fanbase or how my great-uncle almost got a tryout with the Yankees back in the fifties.
  23. ashbury
    I had just forgotten, particularly the Braves' fans chant of "briiiing... in David West", and now you go and remind me.
  24. ashbury
    Also, it was a speedy runner at first base. Even the cheesiest double has a decent chance of scoring him. You know who had the poor plate appearance that inning? Hicks. He played right into the Tigers' hands by taking that walk. Should have popped out meekly, setting up Mauer to lead off the ninth like we were forecasting in this thread.
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