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  1. ashbury
    A Massachusetts State Trooper in my current home town of Natick sees a pristine old Lincoln Town Car puttering along at 16 MPH. He thinks to himself “This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!” So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over. As he gets out of his cruiser he notices that four elderly women are in the car. The three passengers are horrified — wide-eyed and white as a sheet — but the driver is calm and collected. The driver says, “I don’t understand why you’ve pulled me over.” The officer replies, “Ma’am, you weren’t speeding, but you should know that driving much slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers.” “Slower than the speed limit?” she says. “No, I was doing exactly the speed limit. 16 miles per hour, just like that sign says,” pointing to the sign beside her car. The State Trooper laughs and explains that the sign was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, she thanks the officer for pointing out her error. “But before I let you go, Ma’am, I have to ask,” he says, looking at her three still-agitated passengers. “Is everyone in this car OK? Your passengers seem awfully shaken and they haven’t said a peep this whole time.” “Oh, they’ll be all right in a minute officer. We just went through Wellesley on Route 135.”
  2. ashbury
    Careful. I haven't done a Carnac in a while.
  3. ashbury
    Whew, Tortuga didn't cheat himself on that swing.
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    Gameday says he just threw his 89th pitch to finish the sixth. I need to ask him to roll back the odometer on my car, now that I know he has the knack.
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    My lasting memory was mosquitoes.
  6. ashbury
    Likewise for pitchers, in reverse. Clayton Kershaw seems to be capable of rocking a steady .275 BABIP. Most other good pitchers, that "ability" comes and goes.
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    Q: Why does Karl Marx’s toilet play music & squawk when you flush it? A: Because of the violins and herons in the cistern. / stolen from Car Talk - blame them
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    i don't call it luck. Because not that much in baseball is luck. I do consider BABIP "non-repeatable," until a player repeats it. Very, very few do. J.D. Martinez had a .375 BABIP last year. That's pretty awesome, and goes a long way toward explaining the awesome year he had. His prior year it was 315. So far this year it's up at .371 too. Maybe he's found some new approach that makes this an established level of ability going forward, but I want to see more than the 88 PA he's had this season to embrace that. And I want to see more than Buxton's 61 PA, by the same token.
  9. ashbury
    And who would have signed that supposed contract?
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    His OPS is good but when I watch him at bat I still see a fragility to the results that I'm not tempted to mess with success quite yet. A BABIP of .390 suggests that a few fortuitous balls have fallen in for doubles for him. I see a few too many center-cut pitches missed. So, I'd give it another month at least.
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    I give benefit of the doubt that DSP is good at the nuts-and-bolts of running a franchise, which covers a lot of operational aspects that would be painful if done badly. But when he speaks in public, he needs an experienced PR person at his side to tug on his sleeve in anticipation of when he's about to say something tone-deaf. Because he does that, just about every single time I've seen him quoted at any length.
  12. ashbury
    “You should not have to spend $6 on a hot dog. To me, that’s crazy.” Who is holding the gun to their head, forcing them to place that price on their menu?
  13. ashbury
    His batting average. He went 2-for-5.
  14. ashbury
    Not relevant to your post, but since I hadn't used this database before, I located (unless I botched the search) the HR with the lowest exit velocity this year. Eugenio Suarez hit one out at 86.7 MPH on April 11. Not surprisingly, it was just inside the left foul pole. https://cuts.diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2019/2019-04/11/8a6c4b99-16e4ccf7-f018b2d7-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4 Doesn't seem that weakly hit - that's the only disappointment of this little exercise. Last season's low-EV winner was hit by our old pal Eduardo Nunez, at 80.5 MPH. But that was an inside-the-park job. I love the Internet. There, I said it. (Don't tell Mrs Ash, she doesn't suspect.)
  15. ashbury
    We currently have 4 guys listed as starters (Garver at this point qualifies) with an OPS above 1.000 - catcher, shortstop, left field and DH. CF and 2B aren't exactly scuffling either, above .800. Not surprisingly, this adds up to a league-leading OPS. This can only continue as the status quo for the remainder of the season.
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    You resisted to summarize the AAA game as "Lehigh Valley Hitters Chase De Starter".
  17. ashbury
    The border was not a problem, it was a campaign slogan. And afterward there were 2 years of undivided control in Congress and the presidency, if they actually wanted to do something. The policies of the past two years, including slow-walking of immigration applications and the widespread tactical separation of families, have caused misery. This is as phony as a crisis can be. And he somehow expects to be elected twice on the same basis.
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  19. ashbury
    Thanks all. Good thread. Good night. Good night.
  20. ashbury
    A really big plate of CHICKEN DINNAH!
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  22. ashbury
    SCHOOP !!!!
  23. ashbury
    I see that this pitcher the Orioles have out there is batting .140 this season. Typical, I suppose.
  24. ashbury
    How many did you collect?
  25. ashbury
    Need to get Romero out of there. Flat nothing pitches. Something's the matter.
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