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  1. ashbury
    Who on the coaching staff works with outfielders on their routes and so forth?
  2. ashbury
    So the problem is less the frequency, and more the poor rate of success. Looks like the Twins had more *failed* sacrifices than some teams had *attempts*.
  3. ashbury
    Over half of PA are with the bases empty. About 30% of PA are with two out. There's some overlap there, but with only 1135 PA in a man-on-first-only situation this year, taking away 30% of those leaves you with a much smaller denominator for your purposes. And that doesn't take into account situations unfavorable for bunting such as being ahead or behind by several runs.
  4. ashbury
    http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/499/285/459.jpg
  5. ashbury
    From this afternoon's Boston Globe daily baseball capsule: "The Yankees built a bullpen Death Star at the trade deadline, a singular force capable of obliterating opposing teams right out of the postseason. On Tuesday night, in their 8-4 wild card victory over the Alderaan Twins, they deployed it," Awwww, the big city boys think our team's cute. And hopeless.
  6. ashbury
    OK, but add this to your game theory: good or even great starting pitchers sometimes start out without full command, and it takes them as long as a couple of innings to start cruising. That's when you want to spring your trap?
  7. ashbury
    If so, they've looked like pretty resilient boys all game.
  8. ashbury
    Looks like I jinxed us by coming home from the store. Fortunately I just remembered a couple of things that should have been on the shopping list. Brb.
  9. ashbury
    Just got home. Did I miss anything?
  10. ashbury
    Do not fear me, Yankee Fan, all I want from you is your tears! Please give them to me or I will take them.
  11. ashbury
    These aren't the strikes you're looking for.
  12. ashbury
    Concur, strictly by process of elimination. Brought in for just the correct batter, he's got a chance with that funky windup. But mostly, the other candidates named have proved they can't get upper-tier batters out at this time, I'm afraid. Maybe Perk, if you phrase it to him as "are you willing to risk serious further injury, by throwing 5 to 10 of your absolutely best pitches in two years?" assuming someone thinks he's still capable.
  13. ashbury
    The Gulf Coast season is already completed.
  14. ashbury
    My luck with The Orville has not been good. After seeing only part of an episode involving a tough guy sitting on an egg, I watched an episode that was paint-by-numbers anti religion. I'm not even religious but the stick-figure portrayal of the leader of that culture's religion set my teeth on edge from start to finish. Surprise me a little, Seth!
  15. ashbury
    Pitching is patient, pitching is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud - but it would be within its rights if it was.
  16. ashbury
    It's a useful way to start thinking about it. But since the games are not coin flips, and indeed do not have an independent or uniform distribution of expected outcomes, even if the players were robots which they are not, you'd need higher powered statistical methods than I could muster to say whether 100-to-1 odds are too high or too low to offer for the proposition bet. Where humans are involved, across just four days, I think I want a little more than the coin-flip analysis to call it foregone. And I wrote the, ahem, foregoing before checking the ALE standings this morning. Put it this way: a mere day later, the likelihood is now down around 97%, probably (a 1-in-32 shot). Is that number still foregone? Darned likely, of course. But if foregone is too strong a word now, maybe it wasn't quite foregone yesterday either. A single day shouldn't matter that much. For me, foregone is more like the Astros' and Dodgers' chances heading into late August. The Dodgers withstood a horrendous stretch and still made it in a breeze. Time-remaining is the big differentiator.
  17. ashbury
    Where is Bark's Lounge? I want him to make me a poster, a Breaking Bad promo with Jose Berrios's face superimposed over Walter White's, with a logo of Breaking Ball. He could make this lame idea work.
  18. ashbury
    Perhaps he has already purchased his gravesite and has this option now.
  19. ashbury
    Great minds think al-ZZZZZZZ.
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  21. ashbury
    That was some framin' there by Gimenez.
  22. ashbury
    We've gotten accustomed to Kepler and Buxton making those catches each and every time.
  23. ashbury
    Let alone, spell it. (Yeah, I had to be that guy.)
  24. ashbury
    "Say, aren't you the spokesman for that one milk company? I see you on all their cartons."
  25. ashbury
    Hey Brian, my dad's birthday was the day before yours, and we took him to Red Lobster too. So. congratulations: you have something in common with a 95 year old man.
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