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  1. ashbury
    I am still seriously hoarse this morning from yelling my lungs out the past two days.
  2. ashbury
    Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
  3. ashbury
    I don't know if the origin of the sound clip is in doubt. But what does it have to do with a baseball game? Lots of ballparks play it.
  4. ashbury
    Maybe you misunderstood what I meant by 100 percent. With two out, it's correct to send even if the chance of success is under 50 percent. You don't simply give away outs and runners, but you have to take into account that the next batter is under 30 percent to get a base hit. The decision there seems to me to be one that every third base coach would have made.
  5. ashbury
    Don't forget it was two outs. I think sending him, given the chaos going on, was 100% right.
  6. ashbury
    The atmosphere at the ballpark yesterday was reminiscent to me of the good times at Fenway. The crowd was into it and did not need the prodding usually encountered at Target Field from the sound effects and visuals imploring the fans to make some noise. Day-O? Sure, there was some of that. But there was plenty of spontaneous stuff like "Hip Hip?" "Jorge!" (I hope Polanco tolerates the good-natured mangling of his first name), "Pablo!" when a big pitch was needed, "MVP!" every time Royce came to the plate, and simply "Let's Go Twins!" when the spirit moved someone and everyone nearby joined in. I wish Twins fans would dial up a fraction of that every single game of the season. Enter the ballpark and expect a party atmosphere, win or lose. Imagine poor Oakland coming to Target Field and enduring a crowd that is cheering every pitch and standing on their feet when there are two strikes against their batters. It would be fun to out-Fenway Fenway.
  7. ashbury
    If we're going to talk about clutch then I need to add MAT's name to the discussion. He bailed out his pitcher twice, when it mattered, on balls that just about no one else not named Byron would have hauled in. Michael A Taylor? I'm sorry, I think you mean Michael THE Taylor.
  8. ashbury
    The rate has held steady through the years, just going by memory, though I don't know whether there are advanced statistics to back that up.
  9. ashbury
    Amazingly, our plan coming in was to buy tickets for Tuesday and then plan to watch the game at a sports bar downtown on Wednesday. Yesterday before the game we came to our senses and bought tickets for today too. We fly out after today, so they'd better win.
  10. ashbury
    I lost count of the number of times the Twins made me say, "oh no he didn't!" yesterday. It was one of the most awesome ballpark experiences of my young life. I issue this challenge to the Twins today: exceed that!
  11. ashbury
    With sons Crashbury and Bashbury.
  12. ashbury
    Turns out you should have been rooting for the Braves' pitching staff. Michael Tonkin did us a dirty trick in the top of the ninth, to give his teammates one last chance. And then Ozuna connected, for the tie.
  13. ashbury
    I don't know what Luplow has to do with rookies. His rookie status expired in 2018 and he turned 30 years old last week.
  14. ashbury
    Rock, Paper, Scissors, with the ultimate tiebreaker to Scissors. 😊
  15. ashbury
    When one comes to an article via the Forums rather than the front page, there may not be bright red text to read. One mark of good satire is that when there isn't sufficient warning, some readers will think it's legit.
  16. ashbury
  17. ashbury
    Here are a few serious notes:
  18. ashbury
    No one is equal to Joey Gallo. No. One.
  19. ashbury
    The A's are my nearest American League team and thus I am on their mlb.tv blackout list, but I can at least be grateful that I'm not contractually obligated to root for them as my second-favorite or whatever. At least, not this season. Mrs Ash and I enjoyed our ballgame at the Coliseum earlier this year, but I did not establish a rooting interest from the experience.
  20. ashbury
    Tell me you've clinched the division and are just preparing for the postseason, without actually saying "we've clinched the division and are just preparing for the postseason,"
  21. ashbury
    Hope they alerted the Stationmaster at third base, because a runaway freight was headed their way.
  22. ashbury
    Have you looked at who these three teams play in the coming week? Each other, to a large degree. Wins are guaranteed to happen. It's still faintly possible for the Twins to pass all three but in the spirit of fairness you should offer higher odds than 10-1 or you're just taking Peter's dollar.
  23. ashbury
    Took more effort than I expected - and it depends on some arbitrary choices - I ruled out spring games and threads where the game got rained out and anything in 2012 when the site was just getting its legs under itself - but I found this one from 2021 with 16 posts which includes the OP:
  24. ashbury
    Sonny Gray, this coming November: "In September you gave me Stevenson, Luplow, and Vazquez in the starting lineup with MAT as DH to rub it in. Today I'm giving you my polite turndown of your Qualifying Offer."
  25. ashbury
    Don't include Andrew Stevenson in this list. He's just less than 6 months younger than Byron.
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