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  1. ashbury
    I want "able". / h/t to Brian, generous comedian that he is, for the straight line
  2. ashbury
    Please no.
  3. ashbury
    The old rope-a-dope, suckering Peacock in for the killing blow of a ... passed ball.
  4. ashbury
    That's right, keep moving the goalposts...
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  6. ashbury
    Chief sent a telegram stating that his wagon train broke down but they are back underway for their Memorial Day roadtrip.
  7. ashbury
    "Gentlemen, this will be a bullpen game. Peacock will start, and if it goes extra innings one of you other guys may need to warm up."
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  9. ashbury
    Peacock had one, and you get credit for calling it.
  10. ashbury
    That's just one game. He often has four. One game this year he had six. All he does is win. Pitch To Contact, baby! / He's my Adopt-A-Prospect (everyone should adopt someone) so I'll stand up for my guy where possible. This admittedly wasn't the best instance to try.
  11. ashbury
    #ff7f00 is the new #000000.
  12. ashbury
    Late to the party and maybe I missed this, but some of us like to sit and contemplate Pi. It's our transcendental meditation.
  13. ashbury
    There's a general appreciation by the professionals for the relative value of prospects at every level, and how to compare them. There is no reason we fans can't attempt the same for our amusement.
  14. ashbury
    Yep. He's had 3 good games in a row, but that's not yet enough of a demonstration of consistency to indicate he's ready to be an asset at the major league level, and he's not yet 25 so I would not advocate rushing him based on a good two-week stretch. July's soon enough if he continues at a really good pace, August if he mixes only a few clunkers in with the good starts, and September to give him a taste if he's doing just-OK.
  15. ashbury
    Most of them probably think studies exist showing that avoiding outs is one of the most highly correlated stats to scoring runs.
  16. ashbury
    This makes it sound as though every prospect fails due to one cause or other. Agreed, that the pundits ought to be doing a more careful job of explaining what is meant by risk. But I don't want to have to read a treatise in every prospect evaluation. What better term would you advocate than "safe"? Would "relatively safe" do the job?
  17. ashbury
    ... at which point we label the guys at one end of the spectrum as "safe" and those at the other end "risky", simply for brevity.
  18. ashbury
    #firstworldproblems
  19. ashbury
    Felix is my Adopt-A-Prospect so I'm going to pick a nit. He kind of did the opposite of scattering 5 hits and a walk - instead Biloxi bunched their offense to close to maximal effect for their 3 runs, truly wasting only a double in the fifth. On a different day, those baserunners might actually have been scattered and he would have thrown a shutout for seven innings, and perhaps would have been given the opportunity to go a little longer since he was at only 88 pitches with a 3-0 lead (before the fourth run in the 8th). Hey, he's my guy, I'll stand up for him, when I see what I think to be a bit of bad luck there.
  20. ashbury
    Asking, for a friend?
  21. ashbury
    I stopped reading the Bill of Rights when it began "Congrefs of the United States...". How did anyone back then take those people seriously? "Yo, Madison my man, are we not doing spellcheck anymore?"
  22. ashbury
    Giving up only 1 or two runs, if it happens, would probably count as a "reason".
  23. ashbury
    Except for the 6-inning no-hitter in his first 2017 outing. And his two most recent starts were 3 hits in 7.1 innings, and 5 hits in 8 innings.
  24. ashbury
    My explanation is that the front office has a self-imposed discipline, and they stuck to it. Had Berrios not thrown a relative clunker on April 19 in suburban Atlanta, he might have been up sooner. Two straight high-quality AAA starts afterward must not have been their metric, but the next one was. Management always preaches "consistency", and two in a row doesn't cut it. That's my reverse-engineering solution to the puzzle. I always prefer to try that, than to conclude "their idots".
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