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  1. ashbury
    That's a thing, is still a thing?
  2. ashbury
    I tuned into the TwinsFest live video feed, just in time to hear a reference to what could be the solution: have Hrbek take Nolasco out ice fishing. That should change Ricky's attitude about the place!
  3. ashbury
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Poor_Little_Rich_Girl_1936.jpg
  4. ashbury
    Darn stat-heads, making judgements via age and league level.
  5. ashbury
    I'm very doubtful they would consider putting the franchise in Warroad.
  6. ashbury
    As a Nevadan now, I concur with the shortsightedness of this. First, and not that it affects most of the population centers in the nation, but the apparent need to color in every single square mile of the US with a team allegiance strikes me as obsessive rather than business-based. Do the teams in the Bay Area really believe that someone in Reno's going to slap his forehead and say "shoot! the game's blacked out, guess I'll hop in the car and drive across the Sierra to take in a game this afternoon"??? I mean, some percentage of the A's tickets do get sold to folks from around here, just as the Twins rely on buses full of Iowegians coming up for a day trip or even making a weekend of it. But it's not because the game is blacked out on teevee. It's an event when I go. And I'm more likely, not less, to attend a game in person if I've watched the year's edition of the team some, and have gotten to know and root for the players. This seems like Marketing 101 to me; guess TPTB have taken the graduate level course though.
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  8. ashbury
    Je suis Charlie.
  9. ashbury
    Tip over and set fire to all the police cars and buses you want, in real life, but keep the rioting peaceful on TD.
  10. ashbury
    No love for the snap throw that picked off Darrell Evans in the '87 playoffs? That was such a turning point, at least in my mind.
  11. ashbury
    What is it that remains, that you do appreciate, then?
  12. ashbury
    Mike, I attempted to message you but your mailbox appears full. Please don't engage in discussion of moderation within a baseball thread - there is a forum for discussion of moderation, or you can always PM a mod (if your mailbox isn't full...)
  13. ashbury
    Moderator's note: Please avoid making things overly personal. Don't try so hard to place a poster's comments in some larger context. Particularly with the offhand comment about another site, it almost comes across as stalking. We know each other and it's hard sometimes, but try to keep things to the subject at hand. Conversely, it would be well to avoid banging the same drum in thread after thread, about the team's pace in promoting prospects.
  14. ashbury
    Yeah, but you're allowing yourself an "if" there, while you are denying it to the GMs.
  15. ashbury
    Along the same lines as the strategy of cutting one of the tires on your car and buying a new one, just before a long trip, because, come on, what are the odds of you having two flat tires?
  16. ashbury
    Painstaking research1 reveals it to be the 2012 Oscars. 1Meaning, I googled for 45 seconds and made the call
  17. ashbury
    Every Costello needs his Abbott to set things up.
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  19. ashbury
    That little crow-hop at the end of his delivery, in the "Before" picture, can't signify anything good either, can it?
  20. ashbury
    Baylor had a nice postseason though. Memorable, even. In a 7 game World Series, tiny differences could have swung it a different way.
  21. ashbury
    My snap reaction would be to reach out to people who have been working on defensive metrics for a long while. Two names that come to mind are Chris Dial, and Vince Gennaro. Both are SABR members so I could put you in touch with them if you wanted. The purpose would be to ask if this is a computation that has been looked at in the past; it's not good to be trapped by the orthodoxy of the "experts" but neither is it good to ignore their experience. Just as things like BABIP are in principle supposed to even out but sometimes don't, I think a year's DP and TC totals could be skewed for an individual player if the total opportunities are far from the norms, and I don't know how to easily get the number of situations where there is a man on first and fewer than two out.
  22. ashbury
    I was pleasantly surprised to see this post from my friend Dan, and just want to take this moment to recommend anything that comes from his word processor. You can expect a meticulously researched treatment of the subject; but you guessed this already from seeing his writeup here. Should be good reading.
  23. ashbury
    Old saying: nobody needs left-handed pitchers, what is needed is pitchers who can get left-handed batters out.
  24. ashbury
    And it does not include any information about opportunity. How often did his fielding chances come with a man on first and fewer than two outs? Without that additional information for comparison, we are in about the same situation as awarding the batting title to whomever gets the most base hits - that might be the right thing to do, or it might deprive the honor from someone who had fewer plate appearances or many more walks. None of which changes that I like Polanco a lot, too.
  25. ashbury
    I doubt you'd get much dissent from that view. So I am inclined to give the manager the benefit of the doubt that he believed he had a compelling reason to take action. That the team owner evidently disagreed doesn't change my view that the the situation wasn't cut and dried. It doesn't necessarily mark the player as a bad guy for life, and as others have said, we in the public will likely never know the full details. Just an episode to tuck away for future reference if need be.
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