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  1. ashbury
    I'm trying to put this tactfully, but Don Gorske did not wind up looking the way I expected.
  2. ashbury
    Baseball playoffs may or may not be luck-based, but compared to other sports there is no other factor I can think of that is similar to the effect of the starting rotation. In football the quarterback has a similar game-changing effect as a starting pitcher, but a team doesn't have a different QB in different games through the post-season. (In all this, I'm excluding the effect of injuries, which affects any sport.) Hockey has their rotations throughout the game, but over the course of the game the coach has the best players in for the maximum amount of time, and the best goalie plays every game. In basketball I don't think there is a position as determinative as starting pitcher or QB. Baseball managers would prefer to have their best pitchers available for key games, but sometimes fortune intervenes and that pitcher was needed in order to assure a playoff spot at all. And in the WC, if you use your best pitcher then he's not available for maximum duty in the next round. It's not luck, exactly, but if by chance your ace isn't available for the WC, and you win anyway, then you are better situated than if otherwise. It's "luck of the draw", in some ways, except it's not a random draw, it's the way the pennant chases unfolded, for instance if your division happened to be more competitive than others. I think the overall issue of Starting Pitcher has a lot to do with the "crapshoot" nature of how some view baseball playoffs.
  3. ashbury
    You mean the "hesitate all over the place" play? https://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2018/05/06/2014838983/1525639517949/asset_1800K.mp4
  4. ashbury
    That's fair. All the wins count. It's just... for me... this team has playoff aspirations. When they get to the post-season, the opponents won't hand them gifts like the White Sox just got done doing. If they are fortunate enough to get there, doing it this way will likely mean a one-and-done. I'll feel better when they clobber the bottom feeders, and reserve the squeaker wins for against the good teams. Even better will be when the good teams are happy to get the squeaker win.
  5. ashbury
    It may not even matter whether it's a crime or not; money laundering per se usually involves concealing illegally gained sums. But once you point out to a fellow onlooker that the relationship was, "look out for things on my behalf, and I don't want to know the details," the light may finally go on for them that we have a skunk in the Oval Office. Money going out one door and coming right back in by another door. And because they are immersed in this kind of crookedness, it didn't even occur to the participants to disguise the dollar amounts.
  6. ashbury
    My paternal grandmother, accustomed to cooking on gas stoves I suppose, did this at our house when she came to visit and offered to cook dinner for us. In her daughter-in-law's kitchen??? You can imagine, she was mortified.
  7. ashbury
    Right. Just like the picture said.
  8. ashbury
    http://img1.cookinglight.timeinc.net/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_horizontal_-_1200x900/public/updated_main_images/0412p120-chicken-mushrooms-x.jpg?itok=s6ezSVf5
  9. ashbury
    That was a rhetorical question. Here's hoping for more than a rhetorical save.
  10. ashbury
    Little bit of a shaky route for LaMarre but he's fast enough and got it done there.
  11. ashbury
    Yeah, it would be a good strategy if he got by on deception and was trying to distract. But he seems to be a fastball pitcher. I don't get it.
  12. ashbury
    Escobar shows his mettle on a difficult popup.
  13. ashbury
    That is a weird delivery by Nate Jones.
  14. ashbury
    I'm back for a quick break indoors - in time for ... ROSARIO!!!! You're welcome. #superstition
  15. ashbury
    What is it about this individual that says, "have him repeat AA"?
  16. ashbury
    Some replies just write themselves, in this case two letters, but I shall refrain. / ash out
  17. ashbury
    Oh, and this to close: I tuned in late. Gibson limits the damage in the second, after an error and single. You're welcome. #superstition
  18. ashbury
    BTW, can't stay for the game. I'm at Tahoe and it's shorts weather. Everyone nearby, avert your eyes - I'm heading outdoors! I see that it's scoreless after two. Y'all will have to bring this 0-0 win home for me.
  19. ashbury
    This is often misquoted. Here is the correct and original version: Brvty s th sl f wt. -- Wlm Shkspr, Hmlt
  20. ashbury
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t1vaF50Ks0
  21. ashbury
    Ben Rortvedt went 2-for-4 with a homer last night. Call. Him. Up.
  22. ashbury
    Ben launched his first home run of the season, a 7th inning shot to right field that plated Alex Kirilloff, in the Kernels' 7-6 win over the West Michigan HubWhitecaps on May 5. In the lineup as DH, he scored two other times, in the 4th when he grounded into a fielder's choice and came around thanks to a 'Caps error followed by a Trey Cabbage single, and then again in the 6th when he singled and Cabbage homered. A 2-for-4 game with a homer, 2 RBI and 3 runs scored is a good night's work in anybody's book. Keep it up!
  23. ashbury
    It would help if the weight being debated weren't 10 to 20 higher each time the topic comes up.
  24. ashbury
    That's a much more nuanced analysis than what I previously took to be "third time through is coming, take him out".
  25. ashbury
    I may have miscounted, but Ben Rortvedt broke an 0-13 streak today. Hopefully the slump in general is broken too.
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