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Everything posted by ashbury

  1. ashbury
    Me: "What time is the game?" Ticket office: "What time can you be here?"
  2. ashbury
    I think you don't actually love it at all.
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  4. ashbury
    ftfy.
  5. ashbury
    At the end of the season we need to do a "Guess What Possible Context On Earth" contest on game thread quotes like that one.
  6. ashbury
    Not sure the reasoning. AAA pitchers won't throw him sequences like this, in which case he doesn't get to practice against what's wrong? Or, they will, in which case how is this different than working on it against MLB pitchers?
  7. ashbury
    I remember. Those were good times.
  8. ashbury
    Snell zeroed in on Kepler's weakness and did very well.
  9. ashbury
    They should aim higher, and go for a ballpark.
  10. ashbury
    Best photo of [insert name of least favorite politician] we've ever had posted at this site!
  11. ashbury
    No DSan? I thought we wanted to win this game.
  12. ashbury
    No Santana in history has ever deserved this kind of punishment.
  13. ashbury
    Yeah, I turned my attention away from the video and just heard the radio announcer, and wondered what it was.
  14. ashbury
    If Suzuki is in pain on a swinging strikeout, isn't that catcher interference?
  15. ashbury
    Wow, Kepler's throw home was closer to getting the runner than I thought it had any right to be. Figured the cutoff man blocks it for sure.
  16. ashbury
    And what is your secret sauce for convincing Joe to waive his no-trade and go play at Tropican?
  17. ashbury
    I would like to have a word with you about the fuel injectors on that supposed creampuff driven by the little old man I bought last week. (The car, not the little old man.)
  18. ashbury
    I think you've uncovered an important flaw in Buxton's approach, that should be communicated to Bruno at once! Maybe if he moves up in the batter's box, he won't be so vulnerable to breaking pitches in the dirt.
  19. ashbury
    Maybe you've been dreaming your participation on TD this whole time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUAuhiRgMgU
  20. ashbury
    Maybe it will help us old-timers to change it to HHH: Hurricane Hazle Hazard.
  21. ashbury
    The pitching staff did their job and held Cleveland to single digits. The offense just choked.
  22. ashbury
    A couple of other contracts also come off the books. We don't know who the next general manager will be. This 9M is additional flexibility, and need not be used by itself on a similar player, but can for example be combined. It also could make a trade for a more expensive player palatable.
  23. ashbury
    That's funny, because no batters ever seemed to.
  24. ashbury
    Kuo Hua Lo and Brian Gilbert being released is a little surprising to me. Any reason to think they asked for their release? There are a couple of guys at Ft Myers with worse results and higher age than Gilbert. And Lo has a very strange stat line at Cedar Rapids this year, giving up 24 runs of which only 13 are earned - so a 23-year-old pitcher with a 2.60 ERA got his release. Maybe they think the way those unearned runs came in reflect badly on him anyway. Neither guy looks like a strong prospect, but still...
  25. ashbury
    The flexibility aspect has been covered sufficiently by now, so let me introduce another angle. I use chess as an analogy now and then, even though I barely remember from game to game how the horsey is supposed to move. But as I understand it, chess at high levels is a game of small incremental advantages (barring outright mate-in-three blunders), built up until the advantage is overwhelming. The analogy isn't completely apt since a baseball GM is not playing against a single opponent but 4 or 14 or even 29. Still, I am content with a series of roster moves that follow a plan and that succeed two times out of three without any outright blunders. From such patience, championships can be built. I'm not going to go to the mat defending this one trade, but I am cautiously optimistic we are seeing the beginning of a self-consistent blueprint for 2017 and beyond. If your analysis is we came out 1 win or $9M ahead of where we were on one deal, that's OK by me.
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