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  1. ashbury
    POLANCO !!!!
  2. ashbury
    Aw, now see, you jinxed him.
  3. ashbury
    Was it over when the Astros bombed Tyler Duffey? (Well, Tyler somewhat kinda shot himself down...)
  4. ashbury
    In fairness, I don't think anyone anticipated that 3 catchers (yes, including Castro) would have OPS above .800 and Cave would be in the .500s.
  5. ashbury
    Forget it. He's rolling.
  6. ashbury
    Yeah, I was so mad when the Twins put Kirilloff on the TJS track instead. What were they thinking?
  7. ashbury
    Sano will improve the offense so much that the manager can just put the pitching staff on cruise-control?
  8. ashbury
    Just to geek out a little further, a productive way to study traffic is to look at it as a fluid. (I notice that the link you later provided mentions "waves".) Think about how a stream behaves when an obstacle like a large rock is in its midst, with areas of stagnant water resembling certain experiences we've all had in traffic when someone has broken down in a travel lane. Cars can't swirl much, though, except in really dire circumstances. Fluid Dynamics requires calculus but is well worth the years of study to master it. / Spoken by someone who failed to master it - I never did quite understand why the airplane wing doesn't just fall down. But I'm told it's way worth it.
  9. ashbury
    I think it's usually when lumping together the positionally-inflexible players for purposes of roster discussion.
  10. ashbury
    Cave also did himself no favors, when he got 3 consecutive starts in place of an ailing Kepler and didn't hit well. Small sample size, of course, but then so are the postseason series - I want guys who step up to get rewarded, and Cave just didn't this time. We'll see him again in the majors.
  11. ashbury
    They might. Multiple factors play into the ordering of their moves.
  12. ashbury
    I'm not quite sure what your crack about California programmers was meant to convey, then. Resentment toward.... something... is my guess.
  13. ashbury
    I prefer a front office who thinks about asset management. I'm far from a Magill woofer. I don't think he brings a lot to the table. If they cut him loose, I'm probably fine with that. I just don't see a reason to cut an asset sooner than you have to. If Romero had done better in his one major league appearance so far, I'd go along with your rule of thumb and say that it happens this time to coincide with mine. But I'm not confident Romero will be effective.
  14. ashbury
    A quick look reveals that offense is low, so far, in all the high-A leagues this season.
  15. ashbury
    Them California programmers will figger out how to add a line of code or two that adjusts the level of automation when you turn your tractor off the tar road and head back down to the crick. Push one button when you're fixin to go to work, t'other when you're fixin to go home. Honestly. There is so much hostility to addressing problems that pertain to dense urban populations. I love to drive. I will go miles out of my way to try a different road taking me from Point A to Point B. These dumb little New England towns where I live now don't make this as fun as in other places I've lived, but I still waste time and gas exploring. This is not an option for most people while going to and from work, though - all you do is replace gridlock in your neighborhood with gridlock in some other neighborhood. That's not the fun of driving.
  16. ashbury
    Magill doesn't have minor league options. They are milking his rehab stint, because once they activate him, he has to stay. Romero first then Magill is possible - Magill then Romero isn't. And if Romero succeeds, there will be some other candidate to demote when Magill has to be activated. Always do the possible, first.
  17. ashbury
    FSL has been a pitcher's league in past years when I have looked. Maybe that's changed but I doubt it. California League is where I look for gaudy inflated offensive numbers.
  18. ashbury
    I have a car with "adaptive cruise control", which is a far cry from full autonomy but gives a flavor. It doesn't feel like it defaults toward yield. It defaults toward assuming that the car in front will keep moving, but responds quickly when the speed changes, and responds more forcefully when there is sudden deceleration ahead. I haven't experienced a full panic stop, and I don't want to - I continue to "drive", with my foot near the pedals if earlier intervention is called for. Once or twice, it has stepped in to override my choice to let the distance decrease when a driver pulls into my lane, say from a parking lot, and as a human I know the other guy will accelerate smartly but the camera/computer isn't so sure - I was ready to brake but didn't expect to need to, but suddenly my car was decelerating anyway, and I said to myself that maybe I was being a little too aggressive. I am nowhere near ready to trust my life (or anyone else's outside) with the technology in my vehicle, but then again mine is 2015 technology and it already gives me a pretty warm feeling about where we're headed. We need several more years of fine tuning based on real-life feedback on limited access roads, but we're getting there.
  19. ashbury
    BABIP is only .370 this time. I would have bet on it being above .400.
  20. ashbury
    The commute to work will be improved when all the vehicles are robotic. Today, once a certain level of saturation is reached on an arterial route, it quickly gets worse when human drivers jockey from one lane to another seeking an edge over their fellow commuters. Each lane change causes a ripple effect because it requires more than one car-length to accomplish, and pretty soon no one is moving at all. A well-running automated freeway ought to be able to stay at remarkably fast speeds compared to what we have today.
  21. ashbury
    I never noticed how far Altuve stands from the plate.
  22. ashbury
    You have to keep in mind that Max is German. .224 in Metric is .300 here.
  23. ashbury
    La Bombo is pretty adjectivy sometimes.
  24. ashbury
    I drove in Milwaukee for a year, one day.
  25. ashbury
    The team of moderators wishes to apologize that at the present time only one copy of the above-mentioned post can be viewed at this time. We are working to correct the situation and to bring you all three four five six copies in their full glorious slop, as soon as practicable, given that we have all just been sacked.
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