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  1. ashbury

    Tattoos

    ashbury replied to Doomtints's topic in The Sports Bar

    Some things do work better on a brawny forearm. http://i3.cpcache.com/product/368349856/mom_tattoo_heart_tshirt.jpg
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    Tattoos

    ashbury replied to Doomtints's topic in The Sports Bar

    Yeah, but what would you get a tat 4?
  3. ashbury
    Yeah, I wrote that before having it pointed out that this was a "high ceiling" list. Ironic, since the last time I commented on a ranked list I asked pointedly what the metric was, and here I failed to notice it when it was stated by the writer.
  4. ashbury
    If Berardino originated this list, then I have to believe the Mitch Garver omission is due to signals he is getting that the Twins decision makers dislike something deeply about his game.
  5. ashbury
    I'm often asked by people, "I just want to know where the line is." Or "I just want to know what the limits are." Here is the answer: We are in a very nebulous and dynamic environment. We are figuring out our policy for maintaining civil discussion as we go along. There are people with different opinions. Every time each of those people checks in, they're in a different state of mind.So there is no line. There is no limit. There are a lot of them, and they're always changing and that's the way it has to be. So just stay the hell away from it. And frankly, that shouldn't be so hard. -- lightly paraphrased from a smart guy back in 2013
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  7. ashbury
    Who's being removed from the 40-man to make room for him? Wait, it's a minor-league contract. Teams make these off-season moves all the time. I'm not going to invest much further thought on him in particular.
  8. ashbury
    You mean to say that by age 5, little human beings will have started trying out the social mores they have observed around themselves? Shocking! I'd venture to say that a whole lot of different types of behavior have manifested themselves by that age. The saying "in order to reform a man, you must begin with his grandfather*" comes to mind in this situation as well. * Actually the attribution I found to Victor Hugo used the word "grandmother", but that sounds a little too pointed in this context.
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    I trust both Mejia and Gibson more than I trust Tillman, which is not saying a lot. A Tillman signing would be merely the embodiment of the saying that there's no such thing as a bad one-year contract - on the 25% chance that he bounces back to what he once was. Except, that it would take up a 40-man spot and (I assume) a 25-man spot, both of which are currently kind of full. And the ceiling for Tillman hasn't been very high for a long time, unless you're a team with a sturdy bullpen because even his best years lately have been of the "six inning pitcher" variety.
  10. ashbury
    I live to serve.
  11. ashbury
    For helping in your decision process.
  12. ashbury
    You're welcome.
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  14. ashbury
    Only if one equates "romantic" with "erotic". I think there's quite a line separating the two. Glunn elaborated further in that vein. The comparison to Beauty and the Beast goes only so far. And this hard-R movie contains many triggers for different people, as glunn also alluded to, so I don't think it's especially wrong to spell those out a little. Someone who likes cats an awful, awful lot might want to be forewarned, for instance. (That's a mild spoiler, but not a crucial plot point.) And, like glunn probably, I was moved to tears by (another mild spoiler, sorry) the sight of a pristine vintage Cadillac getting mutilated in an unfortunate accident, in a scene gratuitously set up by this edgy director. Isn't there a concept called Chekhov's Chevy, where a car featured early in the film is bound to figure into the denouement?
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    Fair warning, more like. It's rated R for several reasons.
  16. ashbury
    Just got back from seeing it. Since I liked La La Land very much, I probably should have felt the same way about this one, but for me it was too realistic to be a fantasy, and far too silly to be taken at face value.* The symbolism and moral values were administered with anything but a light touch. That said, it's good, and probably benefits more from the big screen than the average (non-"action") film - with regard to Carole's comment about waiting for Netflix. I'll also say that, for someone with exactly the right mindset, it might be the most genuinely erotic movie of the year. Unfortunately, that exact mindset isn't mine. * My one-iine review is probably that it's a Donald Trump movie: meant to be taken seriously, but not literally.
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    Perhaps my attempt at humor was a little too "meta" - based on a takeoff on a longtime Nicolas Cage meme. BABIP (and any other stat) is a thing, whether the people being measured are aware of it or not. So I'm not actually in disagreement with you, and I apologize for my misfire at a joke. (Unless your "gif is insulting" was intended as parody of "hair is a bird", in which case, OK, you got me back.)
  18. ashbury
    BABIP didn't exist in the days of Ruth, Aaron and Mays.
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    If more than one big-market team felt their forecast on any pitcher was solid enough to predict this, the six-year $160M contract that MLBTR predicted for Darvish back in November would get obliterated. It's hard to keep up with how rapidly the price has gone up for players who control their own destiny. An ERA you mentioned would be something like 3-4 WAR if at a starter's full workload. Estimates of the going rate in free agency have been in the neighborhood of $10M per WAR lately. And six years of solid performance like that, regardless of the pitcher's age, is a whale of a long time. $200M would probably be a cheap outcome for the team that wins the bidding. MLB is raking in the dough. Top players are getting their cut. If Darvish does go for the mid-$100M range, it won't be with the performance expectation you laid out.
  20. ashbury
    It's still not too late.
  21. ashbury
    Watching tonight's Celtics game, I saw no meaningful defense in the 4th quarter from these Wolves. If that doesn't change, they will be no factor in the playoffs, if they make it that far - they will be blown out in the 1st quarter instead of the 4th, at that point in the season.
  22. ashbury
    Perhaps you haven't seen the threads where the accusation has been discussed. There are some in the Forums area under Sports Bar - 4 threads by my count.
  23. ashbury
    When on this subject I always have to mention the elbow-sized divot in the drywall when my son reacted to the Favre playoff 4th quarter interception. My boy apparently found this loss "most disappointing."
  24. ashbury
    Yeah. Slideshow format. Ugh.
  25. ashbury
    Hu?
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