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  1. ashbury
    Baseball cards were printed on the backs of Post cereal boxes when I was a kid in the 1960s. I learned about the game via the cards before I ever really remember watching a game in person or on TV. My younger brother and I collected and traded them, as nature intended. Years later, he made it a quest on Ebay to complete a 1962* Post cereal set central to our childhood. Mostly he did it by wheeling and dealing, but in a few cases it cost him money he couldn't afford - but we both derived a lot of pleasure when he got that last card. (I don't remember which player it was, now.) He passed away, and the set is in my hands now. Good memories. * ashburybob and I always referred to it as 1961, both at the time and also later, because that was the year of the statistics shown on the card
  2. ashbury
    It is amazing what baseball-reference.com will tell you if you ask it courteously.
  3. ashbury
    Eleven five-year olds would be too much for me, to say nothing of 21. I'm not ruthless enough. An average one weighs 40-50 pounds so 11 of them total about 500. Unless I cold-cock several of them within the first few seconds, they will swarm and overwhelm me. My mistake would be to try, "doesn't anyone want to pet this puppy?" And then down I go, Gulliver-style. I have nothing to add to Tom's fine baseball answers.
  4. ashbury
    Our first Circus Boy Update of the game, folks.
  5. ashbury
    The balls Rosario hits worst are the ones right down the middle? That's our Eddie!
  6. ashbury
    There's no reason to cast aspersions on another member like that. But yes, MLB's site has Gonsalves on the 40-man. http://m.twins.mlb.com/roster/40-man Looks as if ESPN's list is in error, missing lots of names and consisting basically of the 25-man plus a couple of guys in transition to/from AAA - I didn't inspect closely.
  7. ashbury
    It's a question of room on the 40-man (for either pickup) versus room all season on the 25-man. To me that's a pretty big gap, especially considering that only one bottom feeder out of all 29 other teams needs to find a way to make room on their 40. Again, if he's taken, it may not be a big loss to us. I was just responding to the notion that since he wasn't drafted last winter, no one would claim him now.
  8. ashbury
    Since I pointed to July 22 as a date where buy/sell decisions might start to get serious as opposed to contingency planning, note that last year the Twins record after the game on that date was 49-47. Garcia was acquired two days later. I'm not bothered by different FO responses to different scenarios. We're probably using "die is cast" in different senses. Until late July, I look at it as only contingency planning. There's no hard and fast date - it's until the paperwork for a first trade is signed.
  9. ashbury
    That was my reaction. I simply have no way of guessing whether ESan's remark crosses a line or not. The same words could have a different impact, depending on a dozen individual factors in that particular clubhouse. I'm not there, regardless of whether I'm qualified to judge or not. This is one of a manager's primary jobs, to gauge this and a thousand other things that get said or done over the course of a season, and take decisive steps, or subtle steps, in the rare case he deems it necessary - or, more likely, do nothing. Molitor, Glynn, etc, have seen it all by now. As a fan, I'll merely note this instance, and remember it if some kind of fallout occurs in a week or two. It probably falls in the large category of "do nothing".
  10. ashbury
    Note that it's much easier for another team to take him via waivers than to take him via Rule-5. The fact he wasn't drafted last off-season doesn't mean there is zero interest by some other teams. The FO will need to be very sure, if they were to take this step. Hopefully, a minor trade, or a bigger trade with him as a component or even sweetener, could be done in preference.
  11. ashbury
    This is a very fair counterpoint to 48-56. The die was not cast, until the moment Escobar was traded. (And how pathetic is it, if trading your super-sub utility infielder is what constitutes raising the white flag of surrender?) But trades don't happen overnight, and decisions to raise that white flag even less so. Escobar's trade on July 27 happened to come at an awkward moment, following a four game winning streak. But, on July 22 the team's record was 44-53, and I'm going to infer that it was on this date or shortly afterward that the front office put their stake in the ground and decided the plug was to be pulled. Several trade discussions no doubt had to be put into high gear before the first one was signed. We fans can't look at July 27 as a simple go/no-go date. 44-53 looms large, to me. (And how pathetic is it, if 44-53 followed by 48-53, followed by 48-56, constitutes differences in how the team's chances at post-season play are viewed?)
  12. ashbury
    Marvel's Domino has demonstrated that the ability to control probabilities to one's favor is not merely luck but a superpower.
  13. ashbury
    The NFL shoot straight with anyone about anything? I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around this concept.
  14. ashbury
    Blake Snell struck him out on July 12. They sent Astudillo back down to AAA after that.
  15. ashbury
    I mostly agree, but with one quibble (which I boldfaced) that a sunk cost is a sunk cost whether it's time or money, and you can't get it back no matter which way you decide how to go forward. But your statement is close. Kohl has enough experience by now (drafted at 18 and he'll be 24 next season) that he's either about ready to make it, or probably never will be. So, it's time. Of course, same can be said for a teammate named Stephen......
  16. ashbury
    After participating in two baseball road trips this summer - 4 games in 4 days when a friend visited us in New England in June, and then 5 games in 6 days when I hitched a ride with my son in July - I concur. With all the standing and clapping for old veterans in the third or fourth inning, and standing for God Bless America in the seventh, all on top of the National Anthem, it gets tedious. The hard right has got their hooks into sports but good. Best political advice I got as a youth was a college professor who commented, "watch out for the flag wavers". That was in reference to Nixon, but it's been a pretty good guide through the years.
  17. ashbury
    Bad game. A good game thread made it more tolerable.
  18. ashbury
    Have a good night, Mr Adrianza! Oh wait, he just had one.
  19. ashbury
    Some reliever who pitches on Saturday. / ninja'd by 2791 Kevin Ray
  20. ashbury
    Efficient Erv.
  21. ashbury
    I'm tellin' ya, at least against Zimmerman, I'm liking that swing.
  22. ashbury
    It was his finger, not his shoulder or elbow. Maybe he lost the MPH because of the enforced idleness, and more idleness would do more harm than good now?
  23. ashbury
    Not on that pitch.
  24. ashbury
    I've paid too little attention to Adrianza at the plate. Partly because he's never forced me to. But that single he laced was nice. Maybe coach James Rowson is having a positive effect on him?
  25. ashbury
    Julius Caesar goes into a bar. "I'll have a Martinum." Bartender says, You mean, Martini? Caesar responds, If I want more than one, I'll say so.
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