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  1. ashbury
    No worries. Cornish hens are known for their agility.
  2. ashbury
    So..... with Rodney pitching, .... who do we have leading off in the bottom of the ninth?
  3. ashbury
    I'll take any sequential ones you don't want, and take my chances.
  4. ashbury
    All bettors holding winning tickets, cash them quickly. After I flag Chief as a spammer, all his posts will be summarily removed by the site software, and the count will be down somewhere around 7 again.
  5. ashbury
    I clicked Like, just so that your typo would come true.
  6. ashbury
    Exactly. Chief then offers side bets the other way too, and when everything is totted up, he makes sure money on the vig.
  7. ashbury
    No, the joke is that after Chief gets enough suckers to bet on the Over, thinking they have the inside information, Chief can threaten to use his moderator powers to delete posts left and right.
  8. ashbury
    Repair was the initial plan. It ended up being removal. http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-twins-c-jason-castro-out-for-season-following-knee-surgery-2018-5 Maybe knees are equally important to other positions on the baseball field. I think they are pretty key to a catcher's viability. And without that cartilage, the wear and tear on the joint goes up by a lot. With no medical expertise to back me up, my expectation is that we'll hear that his recovery is going according to plan, until time to really test the knee next spring, when we'll learn there's been a setback. And so my view is to make other plans now. A stopgap solution is fine for 2018. A real solution must be achieved for 2019. I'll welcome a healthy and productive Castro, if that happens. Always a good "problem" to have.
  9. ashbury
    The tangent about positions other than pitcher will deserve discussion about getting a DH when it becomes a perceived problem. The DH for pitchers wasn't an anomaly thrust upon the game in the 1970s out of nowhere. The idea for a DH dates back to at least the 1930s. That was back when men were still men and pitchers were expected to be complete ballplayers like everyone else. Except.... they weren't. It was well accepted that major league pitchers would be terrible hitters, with few exceptions, and because their role was so important the manager would just live with that. When all managers put the best-throwing pitchers into the lineup, with no regard to their hitting ability, the die was cast. It was already an unbalanced position within the game. The DH just made it official, four decades later, and corrected a perceived problem with lack of offense in games. If and when managers universally put in weak-hitting catchers as their starters, and no amount of differential between a good-hitting catcher will win him a spot, then another DH could be considered. Ditto for shortstops, or any other position on the field. Until such time, it's a bit of a strawman to bring up. There's no slippery slope.
  10. ashbury
    Sounds painful. Pass.
  11. ashbury
    Few ways to spend time are more pleasurable than what you just did, in my book.
  12. ashbury
    Dwight Clark, also 61, has made his last Catch, it seems.
  13. ashbury
    Seth posted today on TD that Ben is being promoted to Ft Myers!
  14. ashbury
    Consider this one stolen for my one-liners file.
  15. ashbury
    Time flies when you're doing great work, huh?
  16. ashbury
    Perhaps true, but this is a site focused on the Minnesota Twins, not on other posters. (Moderator's note: Hint hint.)
  17. ashbury
    I'm sorry to say that Jason Castro doesn't factor into my plans for 2019 at all. It's unlikely in my view that he's ever a viable MLB catcher again, much less to say in 2019, much less a viable backup, much less a viable starter. It's a devastating injury and I wish our guy the best; but if the FO is making moves this season with a view that Castro is back as our starter next season, it's dereliction of duty. I'm fine with a rental for 2018, but then something more will be necessary in the off-season, making Realmuto by far the preferred option now if only the price weren't so darned high.
  18. ashbury
    He'd love it, as it proves he's under assault for his righteousness, as opposed to his assault upon the sinful.
  19. ashbury
    I'm not in favor of ever again spending a high first-round draft pick on a stud catcher. I've laid out my reasons before, and won't belabor them now. The same logic somewhat guides my feelings about trading for a top-end talent like Realmuto. I would not include Royce Lewis in a deal to get him, even taking into account the uncertainty of a prospect versus an established veteran. It would be too much like drafting Realmuto 1-1. Allowing 20/20 hindsight adds a guy like Berrios to that rank - not drafted as high, but if GMs were given a do-over in the 2012 draft JO would have gone much much higher, I would imagine. OTOH, I doubt there is very much disagreement that a do-over would have us pick someone else than Nick Gordon. His lofty draft status wouldn't prevent me from considering including him in a package to get Realmuto. So I don't mean literally that I would not trade first rounders. It's basically just my way of justifying to myself not to trade Lewis or someone at his level for a catcher, no matter how good. Stud catchers are generally the domain for very rich teams, or teams for which all other holes have been filled. I'd love to get Realmuto, I'm just not willing to pay the price that he probably has attached to him. I'd be fine with a far lower price in prospects for one of the other catching upgrades mentioned in this thread, as part-year rentals, if we continue to hang around the periphery of the AL Central lead. We lack anything resembling a complete player at that position.
  20. ashbury
    It's by now a cliche for coaches to tell young players to slow the game down - that they can get eaten up, pitcher or batter alike, if they let the game dictate their approach to it. You look up, and find that you've struck out twice on just six pitches, or given up a 5 run inning, seemingly before you even got set up to compete. But, at some point the young player turns the corner and gains the confidence to want to speed the game up and apply that pressure to the opponent. Berrios seems to have reached that point some time ago, and embraced it.
  21. ashbury
    They later scored a safety on us - nevertheless, PotD!
  22. ashbury
    Good catch. I flatter myself to think that my radar goes up when news concerning viewpoints I oppose seems "too good to be true" (think of most of the "Sarah Palin quotes" seen in the past decade), but I whiffed on that one. I'll still go to his store and buy a [content redacted]. Hardware stores are just the best.
  23. ashbury
    Makes me want to buy a ball of twine at his hardware store, and then announce on my way out the door that my gay lover wants me to tie him up. / except someone will follow me home and light my very butch house on fire
  24. ashbury
    Probably a good question, but for a different thread.
  25. ashbury
    "No bad hops there." LOL.
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