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  1. ashbury
    Big deal. At your advanced age, isn't that your usual schedule?
  2. ashbury
    The two sides of a negotiating table may have different ideas about what is "signable," but I did invoke that word with the intention to rule out downright low-balling the players - the team would indeed get what they deserve if they do that. My hypothetical involves our front office getting verbal agreements, and the Aikin case previously brought up plus Jeremy's response makes it clear: nothing is clear, until all the dust settles.
  3. ashbury
    I suppose there is no excuse for the Miracle to ever be caught short a man or two on their roster.
  4. ashbury
    So then, penalty to MLB potentially on top of that?
  5. ashbury
    Obama was renowned for his dry sense of humor and back then it was considered a good thing.
  6. ashbury
    Not just millenials. You probably haven't had occasion to read the site's Comment Policy, which contains this passage written by an old fart:
  7. ashbury
    This makes sense on the surface. But can you really come to terms when the offer is contingent on others? (People buy houses with contingencies, and those deals fall through all the time.) Can the team "reach an agreement" with a draftee saying "our offer is $x million, but we will reduce it by whatever percent is required if anyone else doesn't agree to terms?" And then if that draftee balks and changes his mind, everyone else's offer is reduced further. There's a degree of circularity and ripple effect that I would think a capable lawyer could ask for damages and receive. Further thought - if it's all not "inked", there is room for one of the draftees to change his mind and demand more, too, thus causing a last-minute ripple effect from the other direction. But verbal contracts can be enforced, in either direction, so I'm actually not sure what it means to delay signing. Here's hoping Jeremy has the answer already at hand. It can't be this difficult.
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  9. ashbury
    OK, but tell me at least this much. Suppose the team puts out what they think are signable contracts that use all the pool to the very last penny, then all the draftees do sign, except one, who unexpectedly drags his feet but strings the team along, and then decides at the very last day to go to school. The team can't un-sign all the other contracts, so then their bonus pool is reduced and they are in a penalty situation despite their intentions, correct?
  10. ashbury
    Because he was aware of the wall.
  11. ashbury
    You must really be an old goat. That young man turned 30 this past January.
  12. ashbury
    I'm a cut-to-the-chase kinda guy and this interview went about 5 questions too long. Eddie should give Zach Galifianakis a call and see whether he is still doing Between Two Ferns. Zach: "Eddie, what's it like being the only player on the 25-man roster who hasn't been convicted of multiple felonies?" Eddie: "Bombas!"
  13. ashbury
    At this point we can confidently say that this is The Best Twins Team Since 2017.
  14. ashbury
    My take on that play, which I already stated in the game thread, was that he's very good at tracking flies, and if the park were a little larger he would have snagged it, instead of a clean miss. So to me that's evidence he was very aware of the wall. Sometimes it can't be fine-tuned better than that. I just hope he's OK and doesn't wind up missing time. I don't recall seeing any updates about this, and unless the news was bad I wouldn't necessarily expect to. As I also said, I wonder if Smeltzer wasn't lucky that Buxton didn't get the ball in his glove. The way the glove went flying at contact, the ball might have popped out and gone over the fence for a homer. The breaks go either way.
  15. ashbury
    That could be how it plays out for a few days. I was probably looking more at the big picture, two position players coming off the IL and two going down, and if the discussion was the inside-baseball aspect of taking advantage of a momentary lull in the need for pitching, then I whiffed.
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  17. ashbury
    Michael "Wally Pipp" Pineda.
  18. ashbury
    Look, I can either do subtraction, or division, or logic. Not all three at once.
  19. ashbury
    The opponent is Milwaukee. So I searched for Milwaukee chicken specialties and this came up. I didn't want to go all gourmet-like on everyone.
  20. ashbury
    Twins, after glancing at the standings: "We're 27-14 in other games. Who needs you?"
  21. ashbury
    Chicken for dinner tonight, folks!
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  23. ashbury
    Suddenly less sure.
  24. ashbury
    Wow, Rocco's evil laugh carries right up to the broadcast booth microphones.
  25. ashbury
    NOW Rocco's pinch-runner master plan is revealed! Adrianza's actually in there for his bat!
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