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  1. ashbury
    (... after having it, ahem, spelled out for me.)
  2. ashbury
    If Chief pops in to offer up one of his classic Dad hilarious jokes, we'll know we have a game thread on our hands.
  3. ashbury
    While I agree that closing out the ninth inning has been somewhat overrated through the years, it's not nothing. Pitchers are not ordinarily thrown into the ninth at random, therefore what you are seeing is a combination of ability and the manager's attempt to choose the right guy for the role. It's a bit of a circular argument. Moreover, not every attempt works. Ron Davis would be an example of Good Reliever != Fine Closer. (Granted that Davis was a better closer than he's sometimes given credit for. But you don't want your closer weeping in the locker room after another tough loss.)
  4. ashbury
    I may try one of these games after I finish mastering NetHack.
  5. ashbury
    Mod note: If this tangent is to flare up again, I'd like to ask that it be taken to the Sports Bar forum area, as it fits better with that scene.
  6. ashbury
    Prepare to be worried.
  7. ashbury
    Maybe this encourages the Twins to sign him to a long term contract sooner than they otherwise would. It gives them more to offer, above what he'll get year to year.
  8. ashbury
    I tried to send a moderator's warning to LaVelle for this classic bit of trolling, but the message bounced.
  9. ashbury
    Boston radio this morning calls it a broken tibia. Ankle, leg bone. Potato, potahto. (Harvard, Hahvahd.) Either way the ankle hurts like hell and probably will be surgically repaired ASAP.
  10. ashbury
    Not sure what Cliff Lee has to do with 1983-97. Some highly-presentable teams were put on the field, including that phantom championship team of 1994 due to the strike. Top-half performance on the field many years, bottom-half attendance consistently. They did not have a long run of losing seasons until the late 90s. I agree we should not to judge the city once the bottom fell out with the team. You and I have different ideas on what makes a good baseball town.
  11. ashbury
    We'll make him a Qualifying Offer and reap that sweet sweet compensation pick.
  12. ashbury
    I'm completely OK with going against the standard run expectancy tables. They are just broad averages over the course of seasons, with all kinds of batter-pitcher matchups and baserunner speeds and so forth. But I want such data to be ignored when it's replaced by better and more specific data. I think in some cases Molitor's capable of doing the equivalent of that, through long experience. But I can't say that this article convinces me it's what's happening enough of the time. And Gimenez's contribution to the discussion shows that he doesn't realize the run-scoring tables would already take into account the effects he is looking for. To the extent it indicates he and Molitor are on the same page, it's disheartening.
  13. ashbury
    I just figured you misspelled Rick Anderson's name.
  14. ashbury
    1) After 1983, they were generally near the bottom of the league in attendance. 2) Didn't the owners get the Marlins, and the league took over the team for a while? So it wasn't just one capricious ownership group.
  15. ashbury
    JFK's thoughts concerning Pittsburgh apparently were unprintable because I didn't find any. There's a large clump of people in the NE sector. It's possible the area is underrepresented. There's been talk of putting a third NY team at Coney Island in Brooklyn, for example.
  16. ashbury
    The deal outlined here may be favorable to the Twins, in terms of expected value and all that. They're the team, and are in a position to spread out risk among multiple players. But from the player's POV, getting your risk bought out has some real value. You have just one career. Buxton's signing bonus, minus taxes and agent fees and other costs, probably set him up for a middle-class lifestyle, to raise his family, and for the rest of his life. But a deal like being proposed here lets him, for example, endow a charitable foundation in his name that can disburse a couple million a year or more perpetually, if that's how his mind works - not to mention upgrading the lifestyle a little further. That kind of certainty isn't nothing. $76.5M may be a little light, but not ridiculously so. It shouldn't take $100M for the 7 years.
  17. ashbury
    The team will have better-written scouting reports, at least.
  18. ashbury
    It's hard to place Washington. President Kennedy liked to say that it was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency
  19. ashbury
    Not finding a Don't Like button, I clicked Like.
  20. ashbury
    Measured another way, lifetime he got exactly one courtesy vote, good for 1 point (Ichiro won that year with 289), in MVP balloting prior to coming to the Twins, and he was on no All-Star teams. If he was elite, he slipped under a lot of radars.
  21. ashbury
    If the previous front office thought that a low swinging-strike rate was a market inefficiency, they have been proved incorrect.
  22. ashbury
    My second favorite team is whoever's playing the Dodgers on a given day.
  23. ashbury
    Concur.
  24. ashbury
    I will want to view the highlight reel of the one who wins it.
  25. ashbury
    Southern Illinois Baseball Group, or Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network?
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