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  1. ashbury
    They make a hell of a battery,
  2. ashbury
    Welcome back, Parker.
  3. ashbury
    Since Terry Ryan wasn't a stupid man, this kind of reply winds up being a conversation stopper.
  4. ashbury
    Terry Ryan had a reputation for being conservative, but he would gamble. Putting Sano in RF was one such, Tyler Jay was a different type.
  5. ashbury
    Customer surveys are the business equivalent of the push-polls you may get subjected to in political season. They are intended to plant ideas and/or to reinforce a positive view on the topic. They are not a sincere request for information. If Derek Falvey actually wants to know how the customer experience is, all he needs to do is log into his own team's website to buy a ticket (remembering to turn off cookies or use a VPN), drive from his Edina McMansion to the fan parking facility, put on a COVID facemask and wear a hoodie and go in through security, and then buy a meal for the family that he'll pretend is already seated in section 327. Follow me on Facebook for more tips on marketing, running your business entity, and eating your own dog food.
  6. ashbury
    Bottom of the tenth, tie game, Manfred man on second - don't think the extra runner is that much of a gift.
  7. ashbury
    Not to mention that the opposing manager might choose to simply walk your super contact guy.
  8. ashbury
    Lewis Back?!
    Lewis Black?! I misread the title line.
  9. ashbury
    "Pablo López’s Injury May Give Rocco Baldelli What He’s Always Wanted" Yes, because Rocco has long intended to replace Lopez with Travis Adams. 🤣 These headlines just keep getting worser and worser. What would have been wrong with a simple "Pablo's Out; Now What?" That said, Adams has shown a nice track record for learning on the job - struggling a little each time he's promoted then improving at the same level the next time around. If he struggles against major leaguers and has to get sent down, I wouldn't necessarily give up on him.
  10. ashbury
    Thanks for asking. Tomorrow night if all goes well. Sons Bashbury and Cashbury are slated to attend too.
  11. ashbury
    There is no slide that scores the run on a competent catcher by this point:
  12. ashbury
    Seems like a day for the manager to have thrown caution and the computer printout to the wind after the fourth inning, and let this prospect go nuts and toss 52 or even 53 pitches.
  13. ashbury
    Sorry to hear that. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. But I can try a different way: life is impermanent.
  14. ashbury
    He was not. MLB publishes its rules of conduct. You can read them here. Nowhere in the rules is found the word "lifetime" in regard to a ban or anything else. The phrase you are thinking of, stated in a few places throughout Rule 21 regarding Misconduct, is "shall be declared permanently ineligible." It is pointless to play semantic games about Rose or Jackson's life being over; that is nowhere stated as a criterion.
  15. ashbury
    What shortround81 was getting at is people are asking to know the unknowable. The "concussion protocol" is a process spelled out in excruciating detail in the collective bargaining agreement between the players and the league. The CBA is available online at https://www.mlbplayers.com/_files/ugd/4d23dc_d6dfc2344d2042de973e37de62484da5.pdf Here is an excerpt from it, just to give you an idea of the steps in the process. It is simply impossible to know this soon whether either player will miss any games at all, or have to miss enough games to be put on the special 7-day injured list just for concussions, or need to go on the regular injured list. (I was Today Years Old when i learned that players have a "baseline" neurological test done before the season, so that the medical staff has something to compare to when these situations arise during the season.) That's just the summary; you can go to the CBA to see the full details and forms that must be filled out. Do you think anyone in the organization from Derek Falvey on down is going to be able to tell us how this is going to play out?
  16. ashbury
    If there's a teardown it needs to be with a new front office. If a new one comes anyway with new ownership, I would not saddle them with the old regime's decision. Come on Pohlads, quit fighting for the last dollar and sell to the current high bidder.
  17. ashbury

    5-0 walk

    ashbury replied to RpR's topic in Other Baseball

    I imagine there were some pointed conversations among the umpiring fraternity the next day.
  18. ashbury
    My doctor ordered me to cut down on saliency. I've had to give up game threads as a result.
  19. ashbury
    Starting pitcher not as good as we needed, offense not as good as we thought, bullpen capable of giving up late runs.... I hope this isn't a synopsis of the season come October.
  20. ashbury
    Rocco looks so small when he's answering questions from the press after the game. He's always looking up at them from his seated position; he needs to knock that off. i would have guessed him just a shade below 6', and not 6'4".
  21. ashbury
    Probably should just go find some of your other recent posts, but for this topic, which two of the four do you think bring the more wins to the team if given playing time? I can think of ways Martin and Julien can bring needless losses.
  22. ashbury
    Selecting two of four is Rocco's job. There are warts on all four players and I'd be hard pressed to have to select two of them as backups I would ride with. Any combination won't really surprise me; I can't read Rocco's mind. I think I'd keep Gasper and Keirsey on the grounds that they have annoyed me the least at the major league level, but that's mainly a function of opportunity, not skill or accomplishment.
  23. ashbury
    That is not what you said before. Again, no one is saying build a team with strictly free agents.
  24. ashbury
    Who has said this?
  25. ashbury
    Lot of teams have good prospects. It would be an anomaly for someone drafted where Jenkins was to turn out near the top of all in that draft class, not to mention number five among all the other draft classes and international prospects. I look forward to finding out just how good he can be, but I'm not too worked up about exact prospect rankings.
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