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  1. ashbury
    Popping in here during the fourth inning of a 7-5 game, I'm starting to appreciate Kelley's thought process.
  2. ashbury
    Let it be noted, the Twins will never: give you up let you down change towns and desert you make you cry say goodbye (see 3. above) choke in the postseason and hurt youYou know the rules and so do I. You wouldn't get this from any other team.
  3. ashbury
    There's not an attendance limit? I would hate to take up a spot that an actual job applicant might want.
  4. ashbury
    5 Prospects Who Could Be the Next Cody Stashak We're down to 4 now?
  5. ashbury
    Until they prove something, the relievers as a group are ranked too high. There isn't evidence yet that the group is upper echelon. In 2019 their collective OPS-against was .740. Oakland, Houston, and Tampa Bay all had relief corps with an OPS-against below .699. Maybe Taylor Rogers strikes a little fear in the other teams - maybe. No one else.
  6. ashbury
    I'd like to see the Breaking Down of the Twins' 9 Opponents. With a barrage of bombas.
  7. ashbury
    What am I most looking forward to in the season? Moreso than any particular facet of the game, it's finding out whether all the pieces have come together for a genuine World Series contender, as we've (or at least I've) led ourselves to believe.
  8. ashbury
    Why did you click on a thread with '2021' in the title?
  9. ashbury
    A little late, but the sentiment is appreciated. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/37857-5-twins-overunders-in-60-game-season/?do=findComment&comment=969832
  10. ashbury
    You left out Zimmerman.
  11. ashbury
    Last year on May 1, approximately 30 games in, the teams that were 8 games behind already were Baltimore, Kansas City, and Miami; these were 3 of the 4 teams that finished with 100+ losses (Detroit somehow was only 5 back, as yet). I'd say, if we are 8 games behind at the halfway mark of this abbreviated season, maybe we just aren't as good as we hoped. Or to say it a little differently: 30 games is not nearly enough to prove you are good, but it may be enough to warn that you are bad.
  12. ashbury
    Caution: do not attempt to drive within a twenty mile radius of either of the venues until further notice. The sudden influx of old people running red lights and making random lane changes will be hazardous to your car's metalwork!
  13. ashbury
    You are predicting other teams will offer him few opportunities after we eventually cut him loose?
  14. ashbury
    Odo for Game 4 if needed. So use Wood liberally in situations where stamina will be called for in any of the games - hopefully never!
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  16. ashbury
    I would think so, unless the cutoff man commits an error while throwing home.
  17. ashbury
    The Twins need to be opportunistic, and aggressive, if a bottom-feeder team throws in the towel for competing in 2020 and wants to divest of blue-chip talent that doesn't fit into their plans, for reasons that bottom-feeder teams sometimes have but which I fervently hope our Twins don't currently feel apply to themselves at this point in their cycle. Otherwise, I don't expect a very active trading season. Blockbuster, or small stopgap deal to fill a need that arises, or nothing, / edit - just on a hunch, I ran that first sentence/paragraph through a series of readability tests. The worst outcome was a whopping 30.9 on the Automated readability index. According to that metric, tenured college professors would come away from reading my prose, unenlightened and weeping from shame. If any of you have a clue what I just wrote, up there, please explain it to me. I am happy to report that this present paragraph earns a much more decipherable score of 5.4.
  18. ashbury
    60-0, still falling short of the major league record for wins by 56. (BTW, the major league record for Wins by a team playing exactly 60 games is 43. That was the 1873 Boston Red Stockings, precursor to today's Braves. Since only 6 teams in total have ever played that number, we're dealing with somewhat small sample size of course.)
  19. ashbury
    Did you not notice what transpired near the end of his reverie? A.J. Pi-erzynski. π, I tell you. Irrational. Worse than that, transcendental. It transcends reality. This is the dream of a madman.
  20. ashbury
    This is what we acquired Snell for - when one game decides something. If he lays an egg and we go next to a one-game wild-card series, we've got Berrios on normal rest for another game that really decides something. If Snell pitches like we hope and we win, we start a series with Tampa with Berrios on normal rest. I like the way it's set up.
  21. ashbury
    I'm sympathetic to the concern about a short bad streak burying our team. OTOH every other good team in the majors faces this same risk. And, if I'm hoping for a post-season juggernaut, I want my guys to be ones who answer the bell every time it rings - the playoffs are a string of short series each of which could bury our team. So in practicality, I'm putting this special 60-game risk out of my mind.
  22. ashbury
    With absolutely no evidence to back it up, I suggest that Carl Pohlad's heirs wanted an eventual statue of him, and used Griffith as a stalking horse to get a tradition going of honoring ownership. There is no pressure from anywhere else to put up a statue of anybody but the on-field heroes of a team. Grudgingly, the team is admitting their mistake ten years later.
  23. ashbury
    Bummer to lose a year of our window of contention. But if our FO built the team with one year in mind, that probably wasn't a very good strategy in the first place. And I don't think that's what the writer is saying, so I'm really not sure what more to say than my first paragraph.
  24. ashbury
    If I had a nickel for every time someone told me that, some richer guy would have $50 every time someone told it to him.
  25. ashbury
    Speak for yourself. My (mainstream Republican) dad would never have uttered stuff like Calvin said in Waseca. Don't normalize racism.
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