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  1. ashbury
    And the rout is on.
  2. ashbury
    The 2016 election revealed things about the electorate I never knew were so prevalent. Sam Rayburn and countless others before him would beg to differ.
  3. ashbury
    Quite a turnaround between the fumble and the ensuing touchdown pass.
  4. ashbury
    An example of the latest meme:
  5. ashbury
    I hope the Vikings beat the Eagles tonight.
  6. ashbury
    It's already been asked, but: Tommy Milone? The pitcher we obtained in return for a guy picked up on waivers? What has he go to do with Chris Archer, who FWIW has been involved twice in blockbuster trades, and may be going for the trifecta here.
  7. ashbury
    Just to finish beating the dead horse, I finally was pointed to an online version of the official rules that govern the teams in matters like these: https://registration.mlbpa.org/pdf/MajorLeagueRules.pdf It contains the verbiage concerning the 60-day DL beginning when pitchers and catchers report. (Page 10, rule 2g3F)
  8. ashbury
    A bigger strike zone will just mean pitchers nibbling at a different perimeter, with batters choosing to take just about as frequently.
  9. ashbury
    There's never going to be unanimous agreement, so there being a "good number" thinking things are hunky-dory isn't enough reason to do nothing. As for the strawman solutions you raised, they appear to me as being possibly strawmen.
  10. ashbury
    Obviously you're just another poster in the pocket of Big Turnip. (Or, maybe I'm just being arugulamentative.)
  11. ashbury
    With regard to the fidgeting on the mound and the batter stepping out of the box, baseball needs to confront why they're doing that. The players don't do it to be irritating to fans, they do it to "slow the game down" so that they are focused. That, or to try to get into each other's head. Whether they are correct in their belief or not, batters and pitchers alike, they're going to find every way they can to maximize whatever time between pitches is allowed. Trying to get to the root cause, if possible, seems like a better solution than an arbitrary time limit With regard to pitching changes, I'm not in favor of limiting the number, but why do we have to sit through several warmup pitches, after the reliever has been doing exactly that for the prior ten minutes? Make the reliever come to the dugout before the pitching change can even be called, and then have him trot straight to the mound and get to work. (Bullpens may need to be redesigned so that there is a good route to the dugout while staying off the field of play. A tunnel can be dug, as a last resort.)
  12. ashbury
    Isn't there a lot of dead time when these millenials go to an NFL game, too?
  13. ashbury
    What causes bubbles is that in each case the people investing say "oh, but these aren't tulips."
  14. ashbury
    He does Spring Training in Fort Maiers.
  15. ashbury
    The collusion of the 1980s was pretty cut-and-dried. Some good-to-great players simply weren't getting offers, unless the current team put out the word that they were no longer interested in their player. The Commissioner was actively involved in scrutinizing long-term contracts. After that got exposed, the teams adopted a strategy of keeping a database of who they were making offers to - which likewise was a transparent attempt to rig the market. The case this off-season looks much harder to prove, or even define. Players are getting offers, just not always ones to their liking. Truly free markets go through "boom and bust" cycles - indeed one might argue that the freer the market the worse the bubbles and subsequent corrections - and sabrmetric analysis has led teams to a more co-aligned "rational market", so I'm not at this point convinced there is wrongdoing. But I have an open mind because time will be needed, for instance to know whether average salaries actually go down despite healthy revenues.
  16. ashbury
    You have a gift for possibly uncomfortable metaphors.
  17. ashbury
    Mrs Ash and I saw Three Billboards last night. Not necessarily an easy movie to watch, but very rewarding for the performances.
  18. ashbury
    No, that's ペイントチキンイカ. It's a subtle language.
  19. ashbury
    Thank you. I wish I had thought of looking for empirical evidence. I even sifted through the CBA, which can be found on-line, and learned all about how players are compensated for taking part in the Home Run Derby, but not this basic detail governing the teams. And thank you to Nick, as well, for challenging the point. My read on it was shakier than I realized and I would hate, hate, hate to be spreading misinformation. OK, I did have one other source, which I was too embarrassed to reference: the game Out Of The Park lets me DL guys as soon as Spring Training starts. But they play fast and loose with various rules, so I wouldn't consider them even as definitive as Some Guy On The Internet, so I went with that.
  20. ashbury
    Oy. I hope my source is any good. I looked into the ins-and-outs of the DL a few weeks ago, and tucked that little nugget away as a useful milestone of the off-season. But now that I go back to find it, I don't know how authoritative it is. https://www.thecubreporter.com/book/export/html/3538 It's on the Internet, it must be true. That's my source. 9. A player cannot be placed on the MLB Emergency Disabled List (60-day DL) after the conclusion of the MLB regular season, and during the post-season and off-season, up until the start of Spring Training (beginning on the date that pitchers & catchers are scheduled to report). A minor league player can be placed on a minor league club's 60-day DL only during his minor league club's regular season.
  21. ashbury
    Since we're reviving the small hall - big hall debate, I'll repeat my wish that we eventually have both.
  22. ashbury
    Good list. I don't see Lamont Wade as particularly similar to Granite. Much better power bat, not enough speed to be considered a CF for a good team.
  23. ashbury
    One advantage of a February signing, though, is that the 60-day DL becomes available when pitchers and catchers report. No need to free up a 40-man roster spot, since we have at least one player who will not be healthy at the start of the season. Not that I think a team would take a risk like that. Just a thought.
  24. ashbury
    Cards and Cubs, as of January 2. So yes, very very quiet. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/jake-arrieta
  25. ashbury
    Just a quibble, but it was set up by Dan Gladden's insane* dash to second base on a broken-bat single into short left-center. I was yelling at the TV screen, "no! No! NO! NO! Y....Yes!!!!! A by-the-book bunt, followed by two intentional walks, ensued. * Players do this now and then - pressure the defense to make the play. It still took huge cojones to go for it, in that situation.
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