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Open conversation about the state of the forums
ashbury replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
That's exactly Squirrel's point. They lurk until the tide turns, and then they grace us with their wisdom about how "they knew it all along." One of the game thread regulars departed late in the game yesterday. So I'm going to use this analogy. Suppose you went to a ballgame in person with a friend who provides good banter and good discussion of the finer points of the game as it unfolds. That friend gets a call and has to leave the game. No sooner does he leave than the other team mounts a rally in their half-inning. Just then, a drunk sits down in the vacated seat and proceeds to let you know what an awful team you are cheering for. You move to another seat but he follows you. Lo and behold, your team turns things around and finishes with a win. The drunk has magically disappeared during that rally, so there's no one to celebrate with. That's the effect. And there's a word for that on the Internet. It's called trolling. I'm here for good companionship and bad jokes. Cheer with me when things are going well for our Twins. Curse and analyze with me when things go wrong. Be there for the good times, be there for the bad. If our left fielder can't haul in a fly at the wall, let me bemoan that one player or that one play, don't make me pivot to defend that the whole franchise isn't rotten to the core. That's what I'm asking of these certain individuals. Game threads are not just regular topic threads.- 190 replies
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Game Thread: Twins (Ober) v Mariners (Hancock), 5/7/24 @ 6:40 CT
ashbury replied to wsnydes's topic in Archived Game Threads
It was a difficult play. Martin made it look difficult. In all fairness, his throw on the single by Rodriguez shortly after was the best I have seen from him so far. -
Scoring in the bottom of that inning would have raised some eyebrows about the game, too.
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Suppose Arraez were not in the picture. If the Marlins still had Pablo Lopez, and decided to wave the white flag this early in the season, and traded him to the Padres for these four players, a pitcher who looks to be not very consequential and three bats who are outside the top-100 across MLB but are highly enough regarded to be around top-10 in either the Padres or Marlins organizations, would this be seen as a good trade for Miami? Usually I want more young pitching than this in return for an established starter, but the Marlins are perennially short on bats, so all in all it looks like a reasonable return. If so, then this recent trade doesn't change my view of last year's MIN-MIA trade, namely a good move by MIN but a win-win for the two teams.
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I read the linked article about her - and recommend it to anyone else - and after reading it I had the same reaction as yours. I also lol'ed at this paragraph early in the article: DSP, my favorite hate-read, does it again. He sounds like my Dad. When Dad was 97. The guy simply should not speak in public. He always manages to make it awkward. Break his sentence in two; the last part is merely cringey, but the first part contains a certain amount to unpack, slipping an implied negative into an ostensible compliment on top of the other person's compliment. I could envision her accepting a good offer if it came along, partly because any ambitious person might, and partly to get away from him. I know I'm reading too much into it, but that's the fun.
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In the running for best TD article of the year.
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This is not one of the situations the rules give the scorer any discretion. (And in the case, not at all similar to tonight, where discretion is allowed, the starter can't be given the win.) Been that way a long time. Sorry.
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Calculation of who is the "pitcher of record" has been part of the rule for 100+ years. What suddenly went wrong with it? Shall we go back and retroactively assign a few additional wins to Warren Spahn and Gaylord Perry for games their teams won after they departed? They merely led their leagues in complete games some years, they didn't pitch one every time out, so surely we'll dig up a few unjust no-decisions for them. Let's go back and remove some wins from star reliever Phil "The Vulture" Regan who got his nickname the old-fashioned way by vultching wins from deserving starters. Maybe we should fix some additional injustices while we are at it. In 1987 the Astros went 12-22 in the 34 games Nolan Ryan started, despite his leading the league in ERA. The batters didn't score for him; let's award him some wins anyway. Starting pitchers victimized by teammates coming in from the bullpen and coughing up a lead; teammates failing to hit and thus dragging the team down. What's the difference? Let's fix everything, when the starting pitcher does his job. No. Fans have always understood that the Win statistic for pitchers has to be taken in the full context of the pitcher's season.
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Eh, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.
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Worst loss of the season. Rocco should be fired.
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Alas.
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Chief! Come back! We're messing this one up, somehow!
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Still waters might run deep on that'un on the right. 😀
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And thrown out stealing, when you did.
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I forget exactly but it's a few hundred a game.
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There's your run, Mr. W-R. Make it stand up.
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Yes. No one gets rich doing it, but it's not like the old days where a beat reporter would pick up a few bucks for the effort.
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*shrug* Like any corporate employee, they do what the company wants.
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Official scorers are loath to let the first hit off a good pitcher be questionable like Kepler's was. Had Correa's hit preceded Kepler's attempt, I think Max would have been awarded a double.
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There goes the perfect game. (Baby steps, baby steps.)
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Ima stick my neck out and say sub-3 hours. "Ima". Speaking of things young teens stopped saying as soon as I found out.
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A sudden moment of clarity!
