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  1. ashbury
    Sign him for two more years at something around or above $10M/per. Sometimes events force a team's hand. Public relations can't be ignored.
  2. ashbury
    Aaron was exceptional too. Aaron's power and stolen base trend for his career are both unlike very many other players. Plus we don't know Trout's trajectory yet. So I don't know how the comparison will go as time moves forward. It's just that Trout leaped to mind.
  3. ashbury
    Through age 25, Hank Aaron had 179 HR and 20 SB. Go refresh your memory and look up Mike Trout.
  4. ashbury
    I'm often asked by people, "I just want to know where the line is." Or "I just want to know what the limits are." Here is the answer: We are in a very nebulous and dynamic environment. We are figuring out our policy for maintaining civil discussion as we go along. There are people with different opinions. Every time each of those people checks in, they're in a different state of mind.So there is no line. There is no limit. There are a lot of them, and they're always changing and that's the way it has to be. So just stay the hell away from it. And frankly, that shouldn't be so hard. -- lightly paraphrased from a smart guy back in 2013
  5. ashbury
    You mean to say that by age 5, little human beings will have started trying out the social mores they have observed around themselves? Shocking! I'd venture to say that a whole lot of different types of behavior have manifested themselves by that age. The saying "in order to reform a man, you must begin with his grandfather*" comes to mind in this situation as well. * Actually the attribution I found to Victor Hugo used the word "grandmother", but that sounds a little too pointed in this context.
  6. ashbury
    I trust both Mejia and Gibson more than I trust Tillman, which is not saying a lot. A Tillman signing would be merely the embodiment of the saying that there's no such thing as a bad one-year contract - on the 25% chance that he bounces back to what he once was. Except, that it would take up a 40-man spot and (I assume) a 25-man spot, both of which are currently kind of full. And the ceiling for Tillman hasn't been very high for a long time, unless you're a team with a sturdy bullpen because even his best years lately have been of the "six inning pitcher" variety.
  7. ashbury
    I live to serve.
  8. ashbury
    For helping in your decision process.
  9. ashbury
    You're welcome.
  10. ashbury
    Only if one equates "romantic" with "erotic". I think there's quite a line separating the two. Glunn elaborated further in that vein. The comparison to Beauty and the Beast goes only so far. And this hard-R movie contains many triggers for different people, as glunn also alluded to, so I don't think it's especially wrong to spell those out a little. Someone who likes cats an awful, awful lot might want to be forewarned, for instance. (That's a mild spoiler, but not a crucial plot point.) And, like glunn probably, I was moved to tears by (another mild spoiler, sorry) the sight of a pristine vintage Cadillac getting mutilated in an unfortunate accident, in a scene gratuitously set up by this edgy director. Isn't there a concept called Chekhov's Chevy, where a car featured early in the film is bound to figure into the denouement?
  11. ashbury
    Fair warning, more like. It's rated R for several reasons.
  12. ashbury
    Just got back from seeing it. Since I liked La La Land very much, I probably should have felt the same way about this one, but for me it was too realistic to be a fantasy, and far too silly to be taken at face value.* The symbolism and moral values were administered with anything but a light touch. That said, it's good, and probably benefits more from the big screen than the average (non-"action") film - with regard to Carole's comment about waiting for Netflix. I'll also say that, for someone with exactly the right mindset, it might be the most genuinely erotic movie of the year. Unfortunately, that exact mindset isn't mine. * My one-iine review is probably that it's a Donald Trump movie: meant to be taken seriously, but not literally.
  13. ashbury
    Perhaps my attempt at humor was a little too "meta" - based on a takeoff on a longtime Nicolas Cage meme. BABIP (and any other stat) is a thing, whether the people being measured are aware of it or not. So I'm not actually in disagreement with you, and I apologize for my misfire at a joke. (Unless your "gif is insulting" was intended as parody of "hair is a bird", in which case, OK, you got me back.)
  14. ashbury
    BABIP didn't exist in the days of Ruth, Aaron and Mays.
  15. ashbury
    If more than one big-market team felt their forecast on any pitcher was solid enough to predict this, the six-year $160M contract that MLBTR predicted for Darvish back in November would get obliterated. It's hard to keep up with how rapidly the price has gone up for players who control their own destiny. An ERA you mentioned would be something like 3-4 WAR if at a starter's full workload. Estimates of the going rate in free agency have been in the neighborhood of $10M per WAR lately. And six years of solid performance like that, regardless of the pitcher's age, is a whale of a long time. $200M would probably be a cheap outcome for the team that wins the bidding. MLB is raking in the dough. Top players are getting their cut. If Darvish does go for the mid-$100M range, it won't be with the performance expectation you laid out.
  16. ashbury
    It's still not too late.
  17. ashbury
    Watching tonight's Celtics game, I saw no meaningful defense in the 4th quarter from these Wolves. If that doesn't change, they will be no factor in the playoffs, if they make it that far - they will be blown out in the 1st quarter instead of the 4th, at that point in the season.
  18. ashbury
    Perhaps you haven't seen the threads where the accusation has been discussed. There are some in the Forums area under Sports Bar - 4 threads by my count.
  19. ashbury
    I'm going to watch three longshot lefthanders, Jovani Moran, Bryan Sammons, and Ryley Widell. They all put up good strikeout numbers at Elizabethton in 2017, after being picked in the 7th and 8th rounds in the last several drafts, and lord knows we could use someone like these guys to break out and become legit prospects. Widell walked too many last year, but hopefully that's just a matter of harnessing his stuff.
  20. ashbury
    At the risk of stating the obvious, there are other threads in which to address this topic. Or start a new one. But please don't pursue the merits of the Sano allegations further in this thread.
  21. ashbury
    Nick couched this in terms of trade value (nil, given Joe's no-trade status) and future value (limited, with one year to go on the contract at age 35). A list based only on expected 2018 contributions might look different. It's hard to assign value when a player's contract has literally no possibility of being turned into some other asset.
  22. ashbury
    Was there ever anything that came out about Jackie Robinson that would tarnish his status as a hero?
  23. ashbury
    Well, I suppose that's the question. Is he unable to find the strike zone at will without giving up some "stuff"? Or is he purposely nibbling, in the belief he'd get hammered if he came in with more strikes?
  24. ashbury
    What about for someone who voted for Nixon?
  25. ashbury
    Kennys Vargas Resolution: Treat every plate appearance as though trying out for the team No more wasted at-bats. No more falling behind 0-2 on weak breaking stuff out of the zone. If his last at-bat in a Twins uniform occurs this season, make sure that the video of it shows it was a professional one.
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