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  1. ashbury
    Please re-send.
  2. ashbury
    We're certainly transmitting right now, but I'm not sure if anyone can reasonably be expected to receive and translate.
  3. ashbury
    Yeah, and if sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, why do vacuum cleaners make so much noise?
  4. ashbury
    Woah, you got back up to speed quickly!
  5. ashbury
    This is great. The Spiders are now the bar we are measuring against.
  6. ashbury
    Sanóty! / OK, the accent messes up the meter of the joke a little...
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    See, Chief, while you were taking one of your extra long naps, they invented this thing called newsprint....
  8. ashbury
    You have to first GET to Texas in order to keep on going.
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    Approves:
  10. ashbury
    Once again I learn something by reading Game Thread. Exactly what value I gained... ummmm... / edit - one of the things I learned is that you have to include "Duchamp" in your Google Image Search string...
  11. ashbury
    Also, at the other end of the spectrum, most plays that just fall in as Texas Leaguers, or land in the gap for extra bases, would have done so regardless of the defender. It's a rather narrow band of this spectrum for which defense matters. And it does matter, but among all the things that matter I have come to view it as part of the lower-priority group.
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    Kurt Suzuki legging out a triple. The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports!
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  16. ashbury
    Now repeat the ancient chant, "Owah... Tagu... Siam".
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    Yeah, it's easy to do that. Pro-tip, get there early, because they run exactly on time.
  19. ashbury
    http://media1.giphy.com/media/6OWIl75ibpuFO/giphy.gif I am not a pile of poo, sorry.
  20. ashbury
    This view is useful, but seriously clouds the value of a stud athlete if he makes it to the major leagues. First, because these career WAR totals reflect both higher per-year WAR accumulation, and longer careers. Second, because you can't put together a winning team by promoting 50 1.0-WAR players to the majors in a season. The constraint of a 25-man roster looms huge, in making grade-60 prospects more valuable than 55-grade. I was being a little flippant in suggesting an actual exponential weighting (and I backed off of it in the next breath). But it's far, far from linear.
  21. ashbury
    Yes, and it's not just not linear, it's almost exponential, how much more valuable a player gets as he moves toward the tail of the bell curve. I'd almost try a point system like this: 45 = 1 pt per player 50 = 2 pt per player 55 = 4 60 = 8 65 = 16 70 = 32 Maybe cap it at 8, though; there is a lot of noise in these 80-point scale rankings of players, and someone's opinion that a player is a 70 and not a 65 shouldn't leapfrog a team over a lot of others.
  22. ashbury
    Probably the first time anyone has hung that nickname on him since he was a toddler.
  23. ashbury
    I am high on Kepler but I will not be surprised if he gets off to a slow start in AAA. Last year was the "two steps forward" phase, I'm ready for "one step back". A full year for Max at AAA will not disturb me.
  24. ashbury
    That's assuming Murphy is batting north of .230 in AAA by May, which at the moment doesn't seem like a sure bet...
  25. ashbury
    The Maestro is not actually a very good CFer, from all the reports I recall seeing. He's merely serviceable in the field, and since his bat is below par, it's tough to see him getting enough playing time to be a starter even on a temporary basis.
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