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  1. ashbury
    JORGE!
  2. ashbury
    By next week we'll all be dead from this, making it moot.
  3. ashbury
    Polanco breaks up the no-no, nice and early!
  4. ashbury
    Yeah, my toddlers liked to throw their food on the floor too, back in the day.
  5. ashbury
    Mayonnaise, Deli ham and Tomato sandwich.
  6. ashbury
    There are discussion forums where this concept can be considered in depth. I think Twins Daily even has one.
  7. ashbury
    I was wondering the same thing.
  8. ashbury
    Welp, there goes the 1-run outing.
  9. ashbury
    Yeah, a walk on 3-2 means a lot of hard work was wasted.
  10. ashbury
    His command at painting the black was so much fun to watch. Tonight, so far, not as much.
  11. ashbury
    Coming in on slow grounders is what Sano does so very well.
  12. ashbury
    Oy. Was that the first pitch?
  13. ashbury
    Y
  14. ashbury
    hot dog, not a sandwichcorn dog (from last night's game thread) not a sandwichtaco (from tonight's) not a sandwichThis is a sandwich:
  15. ashbury
    I don't know whether the idea can be extended to lots of other pitchers or only a few. But I'm definitely in favor of taking advantage of each pitcher's individual strengths. If Rogers is reliably a two-inning pitcher, you can plan around that and use him for maximum benefit. The only problem is that ideal usage occurs irregularly, so that you may have three games in a row that would fit his profile, and then not any for a week.
  16. ashbury
    I'm speaking of RandBall's Stu.
  17. ashbury
    In the team lineups, alongside the players' handedness and position on the field, you need to list their ages. How many of Oakland's players tonight are babies?
  18. ashbury
    Yeah. Death threats. I suppose make-up sex is so much better after those.
  19. ashbury
    According to wire service reports, tonight's game for Cleveland is in jeopardy. The opponent's players are threatening a walkout crawlout if certain demands are not met. Apparently only apple juice is being provided during mid-inning nutrition breaks, and a radical faction of the young players' union is insisting grape juice be offered as an option as well. Also, a Designated Napper is being demanded by the babies, for both teams' lineups. The Indians are not totally averse to the idea, since third baseman Jose Ramirez has been caught napping several times on defense this season, but the league is not yet on board with this. Finally, the Sunshine Kidz are holding firm that all sliding be done on actual playground slides, to be installed at each base. In one concession, the babies are dropping their demand that Cleveland players change their diapers when needed. "I'm not taking **** from any team," second baseman Jason Kipnis stated, claiming to speak for others as well. At press time, agreement had been reached that brand-name Crayola crayons will be used by both teams in writing out the starting lineups, and not those waxy ones you find at the dollar store - observers were surprised that Manfred let the Indians cave, on this cost-be-damned initiative. These are no babes in the woods, at the negotiating table.
  20. ashbury
    It's no coincidence, to my eye. I mentioned elsewhere, that this year they are 43-23 when Byron plays the full game. Only 15-14 in their other games. Last year was a bad year for him and for the team. When he played a full game: 13-9. Other games: 65-75. 2017 was a good year for the Twins. They went 66-45 when he played the full game. 19-32 when he didn't. I actually could play further slice-and-dice tricks with his partial games, which are a mixed bag of early departures or late insertions in the lineup, but this is sufficient to convince me: there's a ripple effect when he's not in there. I haven't done a similar analysis for any other players, but I'm pretty confident that nobody except a starting pitcher has had the positive impact on the Twins these past few years that Byron Buxton does. Yeah, I realize I just got done saying I (like anyone else) don't know nothin'. Bear that in mind.
  21. ashbury
    I quoted Yogi Berra recently and I'll do it again by paraphrase: the truth of baseball and of our Twins is that you don't know nothin'.
  22. ashbury
    Venezuelan baseball is quite good. Welcome to the Slippery Slope to Excellence, folks!
  23. ashbury
    I suppose most of us understand that this trade-value tool factors in remaining contract value, to assess how GMs would evaluate a possible trade. It doesn't mean a forecast that Lewis will be a better player than Trout. And yes, a trade involving Lewis would need to be huge. We don't need a simulator to know that.
  24. ashbury
    You should give this album a try and reconsider:
  25. ashbury
    I saw your question and then got busy and forgot to circle back to it until now. For the baseball threads I think the site's policy is unequivocal, although not phrased to include the specific term you mention. A sentence in the Comment Policy succinctly covers a lot of ground and is mostly based on common sense for when interacting with unknown strangers: However, I presume you are referring to posts in the political discussions found in the Sports Bar forum. The moderators have taken action in certain cases of disrespect or trolling, but I think it's fair to say that we try hard to not to prohibit discussion of even difficult topics. Best is to rebut, respectfully and without inflammatory rhetoric, those ideas you disagree with. That said, let me offer an observation and a question. This is a baseball site. The Comment Policy has been refined over the years and IMO works well. I'm less confident that the same policy would be devised for a site that was devoted instead to politics. There is no shortage of websites that cater to political debate. The question then becomes whether it makes sense to continue to foster discussion areas that aren't central to the site's mission when they prove to be problematic?
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