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  1. ashbury
    That's what she told me, but it was a lie.
  2. ashbury
    That way, if the melon slices don't come out so good, eat something else.
  3. ashbury
    You're soaking in it right now!
  4. ashbury
    Big deal. Polanco's now at .333.
  5. ashbury
    Unless his rehab therapy includes a Cure For The Common Breaking Pitch In The Dirt, I am keeping my 2015 expectations modest.
  6. ashbury
    Slice one watermelon Put the slices on the grill Take them off the grill after a while EatI think I got that recipe from Gibby, a while back.
  7. ashbury
    That'un needs more Likes than it is getting.
  8. ashbury
    FTFY. / she's apparently still around, at age 97. Hope she's doing well.
  9. ashbury
    WHICH OF SEVERAL? WHICH OF SEVERAL? / yeah, I know, the one who went yard...
  10. ashbury
    Maybe now they want to go back to being Happless. / obligatory anytime we face the guy
  11. ashbury
    Hopefully we gave up only a C prospect in this deal.
  12. ashbury
    "Unless you are the lead dog, the view never changes."
  13. ashbury
    HICKS!!! ... still murders left handed pitching. Waiting to see him turn the corner with respect to righties.
  14. ashbury
    A mental image I. Did. Not. Need.
  15. ashbury
    Just arrived. Score of 5-2 (CBU!). Looks like we got a well-pitched game from Hughes. About ready to bring in Perk to finish this one out?
  16. ashbury
    Come to Spring Training sometime, if you haven't. Watching Kelly work with the young'uns is one of the highlights, either during drills or when he's managing one of the minor league games. (Jeff Smith comes to mind as being more "all business" around his charges.) Kelly might be a bit reserved in matters relating to the general public, but he's a different guy when in his element. That's probably true of a lot of us.
  17. ashbury
    A meaningless plate appearance I watched (and wrote up) in spring training is totally consistent with what we're seeing now that he's been called up. Some pitcher got two strikes on him - one called, one sharp foul. Sano just looked so locked in at that point. He watched the next pitch go by, low, for a ball. And another out of the strike zone. And another. And ball four. But he seemed so utterly ready to punish a pitch had one been in the strike zone. Just a simple walk, in a spring game, but I was sold, both on Sano's discipline and on the fun spring training is. OK, I already knew the latter.
  18. ashbury
    For one thing, his lack of speed on the basepaths suggests to me that he lacks the quickness to play short at the major league level.
  19. ashbury
    Unless and until the makeup of this roster changes, I am against signing anyone to a multi-year contract when part of the unstated logic is "and if all else fails, he can play corner outfield or first base or DH." That is how we got Ryan Doumit, and similar (restricted) logic had us with Josh Willingham for longer than it turns out we should have. (And I was for the Hammer signing at the time, mea culpa.) We have a first baseman, and the rules state that we can only put one DH into the starting lineup per game.
  20. ashbury
    I dunno. If your team can hit 4 home runs a game, the wins should come pretty reliably.
  21. ashbury
    He could be valuable as a final piece to a contending team lacking a solid 3B or a prospect they expect to move right in. However, I don't notice any NL teams fitting that description, and I don't want to think about trading with AL rivals. Bad luck for the moment, maybe things change in the off-season.
  22. ashbury
    My one lasting memory of him in spring training was a bullet to erase a would-be base stealer. I can't speak to other aspects of his game, of course, nor his consistency. From the TD Prospect Handbook last year (which you really should have bought ):
  23. ashbury
    You outbid all 29 other GMs for the guy's services. No one else wanted him at that particular price. Now you want one of them to take him off your hands, without any additional concessions from you? You paid market rate for a player, for which you sacrificed no players in return. Now you want a fellow GM to give you players, for that same contract? You trade a player in his first year. Then you ask future free agents to commit to you without a no-trade clause, and expect them to listen?For all these reasons, I agree, trades of this sort can be expected to be rare.
  24. ashbury
    harmonykillebrew.256
  25. ashbury
    My cat clickerycup832 finds these different points of view troubling.
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