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  1. ashbury
    Stop beating around the bush, Nick. Tell us how you really feel.
  2. ashbury
    Franchise—front office steering, straight into the ditch. Two bad years, ’21, ’22— already had me leaning, thinking: 2023, prove it. And they did. Competitive, sharp, one nice postseason series— a tune I could hum along to, and remember. Then ’24 slipped, ’25 worse— notes sour, melody lost. Now it’s “rebuild.” But why the same conductor? First movement failed, second sounds the same. Ownership nods along— complicit, complicit. We thought they’d leave the stage, but no. Still here. So now what? Silence. I don’t know.
  3. ashbury
    "Hello, Twins Offense. Whaaat's happening? Ahhm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and start producing some hits. So if you could do that, starting next game, that would be great. Mmmkay? Oh, oh, and I almost forgot, ahhm, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and turn some of those hits into runs right after that, too. We, uh, lost some games this week and, uh, we sorta need to play catchup. Thaaanks."
  4. ashbury
    "Hello, Twins Offense. Whaaat's happening? Ahhm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and start producing some hits. So if you could do that, starting next game, that would be great. Mmmkay? Oh, oh, and I almost forgot, ahhm, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and turn some of those hits into runs right after that, too. We, uh, lost some games this week and, uh, we sorta need to play catchup. Thaaanks."
  5. ashbury
    No. As usual, Betteridge's law of headlines applies here.
  6. ashbury
    Yes, I believe Hayes made such a speculation.
  7. ashbury
    Twenty-six Larnachs—imagine it. Payroll balloons to a paltry $130 million, 2026 and broke before spring. So, yes—ship Trevor out. Value near zero, I know. But don’t you dare say it’s the money. Fans hear that line, it cuts deep. No—his bat never bloomed, his glove weaker still. Even MLB minimum feels heavy. And that hurts. Him, the team, us— all of us, left holding the tune.
  8. ashbury
    That was the working title for one of the Turtles albums until their record label stepped in and put the kibosh on the word "crap" on the cover.
  9. ashbury
    Events since mid-July have already established that.
  10. ashbury
    Okay, okay.
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  13. ashbury
    Don't look now but perennial All-Star and two-time Hall of Fame inductee Luke Keaschall is OPSing .604 in his last ten games. Buckle up and strap in - 2026 will be a bumpy ride.
  14. ashbury
    Apparently, Onion News Network's bid to provide coverage lost out.
  15. ashbury
    This "get to know him" article didn't mention what seems to be an interesting tidbit, that Kyler has an older brother (or cousin or something) named Christian who also played at UConn as an infielder and who, although undrafted, has gone on to play three years (so far) of independent ball in the Frontier League after graduation. This involved no deep research on my part of course, merely typing the name Fedko into b-r.com.
  16. ashbury
    There has to be more to what they're saying than "Single A is less difficult than major college." Because I don't see the record as bearing that out. (Although I by no means performed a careful study.) Can you point me to a link for each of these references?
  17. ashbury
    Is it? I would guess it's generally harder. Reason #1, we're in an era where draftees are often not thrown immediately into the full-season leagues that same season - if it were easy the teams might be more inclined to say "why not?" Reason #2, I took a quick scan down the full list of 2025 draft's first-rounders, and in the small set of top players who both were from a college and also have played in single-A, not one has put up better numbers this year as a pro as they had done in college. I feel like paraphrasing the "Ron Washington" quote from Moneyball: Low A is incredibly hard. 😀
  18. ashbury
    You jest but non-numerical analytics is a thing.
  19. ashbury
    That goes too far in my book. I want my sport to be healthy in all aspects.
  20. ashbury
    I did check, and it's covered in the Official Baseball Rules, Rule 9.17(c) Varland's 1/3 inning facing 2 batters pretty much fits this description, so the Official Scorer gets no choice but to award the Win to the guy, Hoffman, who otherwise would have gotten the Save. That's a different kind of Vultured win than we usually think of, since Hoffman totally did his job. Sorry for the tangent to the actual purpose of this thread. Hopefully someone besides just me finds it interesting.
  21. ashbury
    You were talking about last night's game and I responded with what I thought to be an interesting Baseball Quirk (and I don't mean Jamie). Now it seems you wanted to talk about something broader; I can leave that alone.
  22. ashbury
    His team won. Looking at the box score on b-r.com this morning, Louis came into the game in the 8th inning, down by a run and with a man on base. He gave up a first-pitch homer to the first batter and then got the next guy out. But in the bottom of the 8th the Jays scored 4 to take the lead, and then the closer did his job. It seems the official scorer gave the W to the closer. I know the OS has that latitude in some instances, but didn't know it could happen like this. I'll check with someone to see whether there's anything deeper here.
  23. ashbury
    This is a really bad graph. The scale for the dollar figure bar chart starts at 0 (where no team can reside) but goes only as high as the Twins go, not the major leagues as a whole. By contrast, the scale for the line graph goes from 22 to 12, lopping away both the top and bottom of the ranking. Addressing both of these issues together would result in a graph that looked a whole lot less dramatic and ominous.
  24. ashbury
    That's just not true. Many are driven by chauffeurs. (Yes I edited your post.)
  25. ashbury
    Mrs Ash and I enjoyed a brief impromptu visit to Portland last month. There were no riots scheduled during our stay so apparently we missed out and will have to try again some other time when we can plan our events better. 😀
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