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  1. ashbury
    If a vendor had been hawking hot toddies at the chilly series at Shea earlier this month I might have been a buyer.
  2. ashbury
    Contenders also lose unexpectedly to cellar-dwellers in August and September. It's a long season with many ups and downs. I'm in agreement with your main point, though, not to get too worked up or enthused at this time.
  3. ashbury
    Quoted For Truth.
  4. ashbury
    / obligatory
  5. ashbury
    Likewise for pitchers, in reverse. Clayton Kershaw seems to be capable of rocking a steady .275 BABIP. Most other good pitchers, that "ability" comes and goes.
  6. ashbury
    i don't call it luck. Because not that much in baseball is luck. I do consider BABIP "non-repeatable," until a player repeats it. Very, very few do. J.D. Martinez had a .375 BABIP last year. That's pretty awesome, and goes a long way toward explaining the awesome year he had. His prior year it was 315. So far this year it's up at .371 too. Maybe he's found some new approach that makes this an established level of ability going forward, but I want to see more than the 88 PA he's had this season to embrace that. And I want to see more than Buxton's 61 PA, by the same token.
  7. ashbury
    And who would have signed that supposed contract?
  8. ashbury
    His OPS is good but when I watch him at bat I still see a fragility to the results that I'm not tempted to mess with success quite yet. A BABIP of .390 suggests that a few fortuitous balls have fallen in for doubles for him. I see a few too many center-cut pitches missed. So, I'd give it another month at least.
  9. ashbury
    I give benefit of the doubt that DSP is good at the nuts-and-bolts of running a franchise, which covers a lot of operational aspects that would be painful if done badly. But when he speaks in public, he needs an experienced PR person at his side to tug on his sleeve in anticipation of when he's about to say something tone-deaf. Because he does that, just about every single time I've seen him quoted at any length.
  10. ashbury
    “You should not have to spend $6 on a hot dog. To me, that’s crazy.” Who is holding the gun to their head, forcing them to place that price on their menu?
  11. ashbury
    His batting average. He went 2-for-5.
  12. ashbury
    We currently have 4 guys listed as starters (Garver at this point qualifies) with an OPS above 1.000 - catcher, shortstop, left field and DH. CF and 2B aren't exactly scuffling either, above .800. Not surprisingly, this adds up to a league-leading OPS. This can only continue as the status quo for the remainder of the season.
  13. ashbury
    You resisted to summarize the AAA game as "Lehigh Valley Hitters Chase De Starter".
  14. ashbury
    This could be the first instance of a full-fledged Article at TD earning the writer a coveted Warning Point from the moderators for trolling, but I will have to check with my colleagues... Nah, nah, it's just Satire, and well executed. Good job!
  15. ashbury
    Idle threats, you say?
  16. ashbury
    Yes, if there's anything that will keep the fans home in droves, it's anticipation of a win.
  17. ashbury
    All right, you asked for it. Mantis accidentally chops down Groot with a martial arts move, and this lame ending results in poor box-office which kills the franchise. Hope you're happy.
  18. ashbury
    Vulcans NEVER bluff. Oops. Wrong universe.
  19. ashbury
    How many minutes did you spend proofreading that visual before posting?
  20. ashbury
    Depends on whom they trade for.
  21. ashbury
    The source I rely on says he has 3 years and 66 days of service time. I forget what being on the IL does to service time - if it counts, then he'd need to spend 2+ months in the minors, and then there are probably arcane rules on top of that which I'm not aware of. Bottom line for me is to not try to play that game on him ... but who knows? (Well, FalVine know.)
  22. ashbury
    This is the obsessive attention to detail that I can only aspire to. Kudos.
  23. ashbury
    I didn't know another Avengers movie would be coming out. And they're moving forward with the Star Wars series too? C'mon, publishing this article ruined the surprise, you jerk.
  24. ashbury
    He was added to the 40-man in November 2014, but I THINK his short stint in Rochester in 2016 was injury-related and was not done by exercising an option. He played not at all in AAA in 2017. So I think the exercises were only 2015 and 2018.
  25. ashbury
    If you hired Dan Rather to ghostwrite metaphors for you... reconsider.
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