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  1. ashbury
    Mrs Ash makes sure I get my minimum daily allowance of zirconium in my morning oatmeal. She used to use arsenic but my doctor told me I needed to cut down.
  2. ashbury
    Annnnnd.... that's why we don't steal more.
  3. ashbury
    There's no movement on the fastball, the little bit I've been watching. Unless a pitcher's got a lot else going for him, it's hard to forecast success with that to build on.
  4. ashbury
    Sorry. I already looked into this, and the best they can promise is cubic zirconia.
  5. ashbury
    This belongs in the Fun Torture With Numbers thread.
  6. ashbury
    Dunno, but with regard to pressure I do know this: Heat, Pressure, and Time: The three things required to make a diamond also make a waffle.
  7. ashbury
    Back in my day we used to die of dysentery. Over. And. Over.
  8. ashbury
    And then the single. I'm only watching the TV feed sporadically, but he doesn't seem to have a lot of movement on his fastball. Yeah, how about that play by Polanco?
  9. ashbury
    Nice to get this from Mitch.
  10. ashbury
    Perez escapes. Hopefully a little tighter performance in the coming innings. Can't dance on the edge all the time.
  11. ashbury
    Pressure's OK. They think there's pressure now, just wait until a post-season game.
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  13. ashbury
    Ever ascended in NetHack? #backinmyday #ubergeek
  14. ashbury
    Team BA has been higher with men on base (and more specifically with RISP) than bases empty. Ditto for slugging average. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=MIN&year=2019#all_bases
  15. ashbury
    Quite. Quite.
  16. ashbury
    The team hasn't felt like they're ready to win, for some time. They feel more like 1984 than 1987 to me, if you want an analogy. I think the scenario you describe is unlikely, but would be a better indication of being ready to win than the first two months of the season were.
  17. ashbury
    It's that kind of lack of attention to detail that got me fired from my last three jobs.
  18. ashbury
    The Twins kind of did, this past weekend at least.
  19. ashbury
    Only if he can approach it differently, such as not pacing himself to try to go six innings. Max-effort, in other words.
  20. ashbury
    Step three: Profit!
  21. ashbury
    Missed that. Good to see. At least, I picked the right guy.
  22. ashbury
    Another poor game from Wander Javier. At this point in the season, is there anything being gained by putting him out there on the field? Is there someone else who should be getting his innings? Is there someone at Elizabethton (Spencer Steer?) who would benefit from a headstart in single-A? I'm not saying to flush the guy, just to suggest a reset and start again next March. Let him sit on the bench and think about it the rest of August, rather than stink it up further?
  23. ashbury
    Unless they had acquired five starters better than Berrios, the same logic probably would still apply - he's better than whoever we could bring up - so that's a bit of a red herring. The article is about Berrios's performance, not the trade deadline.
  24. ashbury
    I need Heezy to interpret this. How can a ruptured tendon not require surgery? The tendon will wither and be beyond repair within a few weeks, won't it? And if it hurt that much when he ruptured it, surely it was doing something useful and important to a batter.
  25. ashbury
    I don't necessarily disagree, but it might be more layered than that. Maybe Gibson had success three years ago when he started going after batters, if the book on him was that he wouldn't. Later, if the book on him caught up, batters might have been jumping on pitches, causing him to back off. It's a game of constant adjustments - while on top of that, his problems with command are self-described as fatigue. It is indeed frustrating to see how many of his pitches have no chance of accomplishing anything - someone needs to invest a stat "waste of time pitches" and keep count. Pace, likewise, is a two-edged sword. Get the ball, get the sign, fire... you can have men on second and third with no one out, before you even realize it. Coaches tell their charges, "slow the game down". Of course hitting coaches tell their batters the same thing, so if the pitcher has enough moxie to hurry them even a little, it can indeed pay off. Until, suddenly, it doesn't. Constant adjustments, once again.
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