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  1. ashbury
    When the Athletics say Jump, the Twins respond, "how far?"
  2. ashbury
    The references to Super Mario, by contrast.... 😄
  3. ashbury
    As expected. I sneaked a peak at his BABIP this month. It's .333. So this is looking totally sustainable. 🙃
  4. ashbury
    "You miss an inning, you miss a lot."™
  5. ashbury
    We forgot to exchange phone numbers. Some new best friend I turn out to be.
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  7. ashbury
    Baby steps. The guys behind me at the game yesterday (I'm back home now) were wondering out loud why someone batting .313 (at the time) was 7th in the lineup, so I had the privilege to explain to him that he's a rookie. You might like a one-two Culpepper-Keaschall punch at bottom and top, but Kreidler batting 9th gives more or less the same outcome if-and-when he gets on base, and meanwhile every rung up the batting order that Culpepper moves gives him 11% or whatever percent chance more of an extra plate appearance, which is starting to look warranted (though I want to pump the brakes until his BABIP regresses to a more normal value). BTW, Culpepper showed his inexperience on a play at shortstop last night. On a popup fielded by Lee, the two collided - fortunately Lee hung on. Routine third out in the bottom of the 7th according to the box score. Both players, as experienced shortstops, know who makes the call on every standard play, and either Culpepper tells himself "I'm the SS now" and waves the 3Bman off, or else stays an arm's-length away. Mrs Ash noticed Lee talking with Culpepper as they walked off the field; I trust that Brooks was kindly and effective, as the veteran of 2500+ innings of major league defense he now is, in whatever he had to say.
  8. ashbury
    He's had a couple of clunker starts but enough decent-to-good ones that #10 ought to have happened by now - if the bats hadn't gone quiet at the wrong times.
  9. ashbury
    If the Baseball Gods had mischievously placed Caratini or Bell on defense at first base for the ninth inning, a) the game would have continued and b) I would have suspected some kind of major jinx going on. But anyway, yeah, TD articles continue their impressive string of anti-jinx.
  10. ashbury
    How about we save up for an 11-game winning streak to begin the post-season, after winning the division by hook or by crook.
  11. ashbury
    As expected.
  12. ashbury
    I attended the game tonight and recommend the ballpark to anyone who has a hankering to watch major leaguers in a minor-league setting. Food options in particular are minor-league (at major-league prices). But seats at $40 just behind 3rd base are perhaps the best bargain in MLB. You can pay even less and still have good seats in such an intimate ballpark. Oh, and a fun game to watch in person. I should have been more nervous in the 9th but I wasn't - it's only a game!
  13. ashbury
    Hope the OP stayed up to enjoy tonight's game.
  14. ashbury
    Not a very crisp photo, but there's the view.
  15. ashbury
    Pro tip, sit in section 119. Great sight lines, out of the sun, views of the bridge into West Sac and a pyramid office building. Only my second game here but I love this place.
  16. ashbury
    It's a nice urban minor league ballpark.
  17. ashbury
    The Church of Kreidler is in session!
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  19. ashbury
    Haven't followed the thread. Anyone else here at the game?
  20. ashbury
    What role do Larnach and Buxton share? "Non-injured LHP masher"? Trevor is currently covering the non-injured part and Byron can certainly handle lefties.
  21. ashbury
    The fact is, against RHP he is. He's maintained an above average OPS, .750 or higher, each of the last four seasons. That's his bread and butter. Yes he's a platoon bat, but on the important side of the platoon, and he's good at it. Teams can find use for that.
  22. ashbury
    The rooster crows; therefore the sun rises. Once a stretch of batted balls finding opposing fielders' gloves begins, there will be various explanations for why it was bound to be. And unless injury is the explanation, when those batted balls do resume falling in, as they will for an experienced hitter with a track record, there will be new explanations for what he's doing differently.
  23. ashbury
    Please let us know which plays we're supposed to critique - BEFORE they're made - so we can be 100% certain we're doing this fan thing right.
  24. ashbury
    A lot of Twins fans will be right there in heaven with you.
  25. ashbury
    But they're making it very difficult.
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