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  1. ashbury
    THERE'S NO TYING IN BASEBALL!
  2. ashbury
    It's gonna be close ... too close to call ... probably the call's going to get challenged...
  3. ashbury
    Moderator's note: One of the core principles at this site is respect toward others. Comments should not be to mock the player. The writer of the article has taken the time to bring forward a thoughtful analysis, please respect it with constructive discussion. Review the site's Comment Policy if you need to.
  4. ashbury
    Funny. Could be the first time I clicked Like and handed out a warning point on the same post! J/K, but kinda not...
  5. ashbury
    They do. The guy in the lineup just above the leadoff hitter, i.e. usually the guy who made the last out the previous inning, starts on 2B. (Do they allow a pinch runner?) Makes for slightly different earned-run determinations, as the runner is treated as though reaching base on an error - you can be the losing pitcher without giving up any base runners, even by error. I didn't see the play, but I am presuming they attempted to get the runner going to third, resulting in no outs. That's kind of the purpose of the rule, to put pressure on the defense from the beginning, to result in more runs and get the darned game decided. It isn't baseball anymore, IMO, but it's not a stupid rule and it was conceived for a purpose. If I'm at a AAA game I may not really want a 15-inning experience. And the teams definitely don't want it. I like the rule better than the 25-yard-line rule my wife alluded to - that REALLY isn't football anymore.
  6. ashbury
    I find his affection for ash... deeply disturbing.
  7. ashbury
    I think there is zero chance the rule comes to the majors. Its purpose is to get minor league games over with quicker. If I'm paying for a minor league ticket, I just have to accept that I am watching player-development, and not genuine competition.
  8. ashbury
    Interesting AAA game there at the end, judging from the box score and PbP. O'Rourke was brought in to face a succession of mostly right-handers, unless I misread - not a LOOGY audition by a long ways. Walks factored into both innings, resulting in bases loaded in the ninth, which he wriggled out of, and a run given up in the tenth. The Red Wings' leadoff batter in the bottom of the tenth reached base on a fielder's choice. I read that item to Mrs Ash, who gave me the hoped-for look of puzzlement - she knows enough to know that that sounds odd, but didn't know the answer of why*. Do you, without looking it up? * After I explained, she commented, "like starting at the 25-yard line." I married well.
  9. ashbury
    Reference probably goes right over the heads of the nice folks in Pensacola. Ought to save that'un for a Cedar Rapids player.
  10. ashbury
    The sitcom dad Randy Dobnak had a terrible episode last week; it was really obvious he hadn't memorized his lines and was reading from cue cards. I won't be surprised if the show's cancelled, if he's this bad again.
  11. ashbury
    Maybe he watched Mike Clevinger on teevee and said, "hey, I could do that!"
  12. ashbury
    Moderator's note: The article makes this assumption plain: "if the Twins do make the postseason." Let's give the author the courtesy of considering his actual points, as opposed to contradicting the premise. There are plenty of other threads for that.
  13. ashbury
    Google Image Search returns this guess when I gave it the JPG: "Tree" Thanks Mister Google!
  14. ashbury
    No.
  15. ashbury
    So Rob Antony's out of the loop, and is purposely blowing a hole in his own career by bringing up the possibility in public comments?
  16. ashbury
    No, the move itself smacks of desperation. You judge a decision at the time, not after the results come in. Hoping that Kirilloff turns around a month of tepid numbers at AA into good major league numbers would mean our FO is much like a batter who is pressing. Anything can happen, but it doesn't make it a solid move.
  17. ashbury
    This would be a desperation move, more than just an aggressive one.
  18. ashbury
    Relax. Have fun. Oh, and change your entire approach when you go up to the plate. ???? Profit!
  19. ashbury
    Prepare for the same kind of disappointment as with Cave's major league batting. They both have unsustainably high BABip at AAA. The balls stop falling in, the OPS plummets, even before taking into account the higher level of competition. De Aza, in his 30s by now, represents emergency depth only, IMO. That said, he impressed me with a fine running catch in the RF corner, the game that I saw last week in Pawtucket, so it's not like I dislike the guy. If not for 40-man considerations I'd swap Cave and De Aza too. Give me a good show, I'm a fan for life - or at least until the next bonehead play.
  20. ashbury
    His name anagrams to: Dark and bonyAny band dorkAdd yarn knobOdd, barky NanNark no baddyDad born YankOK, brandy and .... ?I think this speaks for itself. (Actually, I did this investigative report based on the mistaken notion that "Randy Dobnak" HAD to be an anagram of SOMETHING else. It's not a real name. It's just not.)
  21. ashbury
    I wish I could be optimistic. They do have a lot of wins in the bank. But they are playing like a .500 team, and with any bad luck they'll be running on fumes or perhaps even just coasting in to the finish line. With 7 teams vying for 5 spots (I refuse to rule out Boston as yet), they need to do better than I'm forecasting. Low 90s in wins won't get the job done - mid-90s might prove iffy. This is a feast or famine league this year, and I'm not sure we're capable of loading up at the buffet.
  22. ashbury
    "Called Pistol Pete long before Pete Marinovich" I was thinking Maravich, the basketballer. The footballer was Todd, right? / picky picky picky
  23. ashbury
    Looks like Romero had a decent seventh inning (a four-pitch walk followed by a double play), then walked the first two guys in the eighth, on 3-2 pitches both times. Bleich then completely failed to do the job, saddling Fernando with the first two runs. Could have gone differently for Romero with a better pitch here and there, but Oh Those Bases On Balls. They will haunt.
  24. ashbury
    Concur completely on the first sentence, disagree strongly with the second. There is no "on/off" switch or "yes/no" dashboard light with regard to injury. It's all shades of gray, until maybe something goes snap. Players are told to report injury, then they get a thousand subtle lessons to not bother the staff with minor things you can play through. "God heals and the doctor takes the fees." -- Benjamin Franklin, baseball coach And yes, sometimes this approach hurts the team, and the player himself. The problem with the analysis, and calling the mindset toxic, is the voluminous missing data. How many times do pitchers take the approach Dyson took, with what started off as an owie, and it works out great? We just hear about the cases where it doesn't work out great, and then start to look around for malfeasance on somebody's part. The pitcher himself is often ill-positioned to make the judgement, and the team trainer then would have to go on general principles if given the vague information. As a boss of mine used to ask me, "what would you do with that information, if you had it?" So, the pitcher keeps it to himself, until necessary. As an analogy, how many times have we heard about a pitcher having great stuff while warming up and then getting rocked after entering the game - or once in a while a pitcher pitches a gem and we hear later that while warming up he wasn't even sure he could go? The pitcher is nearly as much in the dark as anyone. Absent further information, I've got this one in the Bad Luck All Around pigeonhole.
  25. ashbury
    How did you enjoy his sixth inning and his ninth inning, during which the Twins scored all their runs and he scored two himself plus an RBI?
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