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  1. ashbury
    I couldn't find the full movie on Tubi and I'm too cheap to have a good streaming service. But there are some clips of the movie on YouTube which gave me the flavor, including what may be the ending you referred to. I'll draw a parallel of that scene to the Warner Bros classic Baseball Bugs and leave it at that. Looking forward to when my grandson may be old enough to enjoy it (and Bugs, too).
  2. ashbury
    He had the opportunity to at least suggest more than a half-share of the playing time, in very small sample size in the 2023 post-season when Vazquez didn't get a single plate appearance in 6 games, and gave a miserable showing.
  3. ashbury
    Pitching is the hardest thing to acquire so I don't feel like making other teams' task easier for them. But then I'm a prospect hoarder and will not likely ever change. Paddack? Sure, I'd listen to offers that make us better. We're still in Counting Chickens Before They Hatch territory with this Pitching Pipeline™. Some of the chicks are pecking at their shells, some are out and are actual chicks, but it's premature to call them chickens yet. It's easy to telescope the future into the present and think they're all happening at the same time.
  4. ashbury
    I still can't decide if this is a 95-win team or a 95-loss team. Potential is there for either.
  5. ashbury
    There is no 'i' in team, and no 'u' in Berenger.
  6. ashbury
    ¡El Gasolino, sí!
  7. ashbury
    You misspelled Lavagetto.
  8. ashbury
    Exactly. In the moment it looked like he got caught in-between, but even if so he made a nice toss to second base. Unlucky play for Toronto, all in all.
  9. ashbury
    Sounded like they went to the trouble to talk with him in person before the game. Good for them, doing some homework. I'm not sure our broadcast team brings much direct information to us about the opposing team.
  10. ashbury
    Breaking News: Brooks Lee is pretty slow to first base, for a young middle infielder.
  11. ashbury
    If Camargo and Cartaya can't be depended on to outhit Trevino, they certainly won't out-defend him, and the relatively low salary Cincy is paying him this year, presumably to be backup to Stephenson, looks pretty good to me. Very complementary players on the Reds roster, and he'd pair up similarly to Jeffers. If you're prepped for Trevino, anyone better next year would be a really nice outcome. Lot of ways the FO might try to make that happen. Vazquez of course has established that his salary now should have been on a par with Trevino's. That's a problem, but it's not a very serious one in the overall roster construction process, especially now that we have left the off-season.
  12. ashbury
    Well then I'm buying one of them Texas hats. / Edit - I went to the MLB site and the Tetas hat was unaccountably not offered, although the Overlap hats for other teams are there. Ashos si, Tetas no.
  13. ashbury
    Orioles, Red Sox, who can really tell the difference? 😀
  14. ashbury
    Living your best life. I'm jealous.
  15. ashbury
    For we walk by faith, not by sight. Certain players come to mind.
  16. ashbury
    I'm wondering if the entire purpose of the undertaking was the Texas cap - if you speak any Spanglish.
  17. ashbury
    A RandBalls Stu headline, complete with a RandBalls Stu illustration. This was seen on Reddit, which has its share of RandBalls Stu's, so to speak. Have these caps been confirmed in the wild?
  18. ashbury
    I have the impression the present Twins FO steers away from that sort of player. The Hit tool might be the one exception where that tool alone can allow a player to have a career, and the Twins had one of the best in that single dimension when they had Luis Arraez (who isn't too much to write home about with any of the other 4 traditional tools), but then they traded him away. Having "the fastest player in the Florida State League" would have seemed like a very Terry Ryan type of thing to lay claim to, though. Back in the day. "Man, if we can just teach him to hit a curveball, and to track a fly ball, man, we'd really have something. If he could pop a homer now and then, that is. Don't know what to do about that rag arm. Guess he'll play left. He can really cover some ground when he isn't doing 180s and even 360s out there."
  19. ashbury
    Chief is so old, he was here BEFORE the beginning. I'm talking Book of Genesis of course.
  20. ashbury
    I have time for this. 😀 Here are the pertinent dates for transactions having bearing on his 40-man status from his MLB.com page. August 8, 2019 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of Randy Dobnak from Rochester Red Wings. August 15, 2019 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to Rochester Red Wings. September 16, 2020 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to Twins Alternate Training Site May 3, 2021 Minnesota Twins optioned RHP Randy Dobnak to St. Paul Saints. September 16, 2022 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints July 30, 2024 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of RHP Randy Dobnak from St. Paul Saints. September 18, 2024 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints. September 29, 2024 Minnesota Twins selected the contract of RHP Randy Dobnak from St. Paul Saints. November 5, 2024 Minnesota Twins sent RHP Randy Dobnak outright to St. Paul Saints. To summarize, he was optioned during each of three years 2019-21, so after that, by league rules, he had to pass through waivers in order to be outrighted to the minors again. He didn't pitch in the majors in 2023. And I believe that waivers are good for the remainder of a given season. So by my count, he's cleared waivers twice. Which, of course, is kind of a lot, if other teams coveted him.
  21. ashbury
    Well, in fairness, there might be a secondary clue that would rule out Samwell.
  22. ashbury
    Indeed. Why wouldn't it?
  23. ashbury
    Possibly some general managers, too. All they needed to do was guarantee him a contract, instead of what he signed with the Twins for.
  24. ashbury
    Let's see, 16 games, but there are only 30 teams. Which two teams will have two games? Ima guess Red Sox and Yankees. Checking... huh. Cubs and Nationals.
  25. ashbury
    I wonder if Oriole fans would be as charitable. I believe one of their players had to come out of the game after being plunked.
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