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  1. ashbury
    That your new nickname for Brian Dozier?
  2. ashbury
    Guess this'un needed bumping up for admiration.
  3. ashbury
    Concur, strictly by process of elimination. Brought in for just the correct batter, he's got a chance with that funky windup. But mostly, the other candidates named have proved they can't get upper-tier batters out at this time, I'm afraid. Maybe Perk, if you phrase it to him as "are you willing to risk serious further injury, by throwing 5 to 10 of your absolutely best pitches in two years?" assuming someone thinks he's still capable.
  4. ashbury
    The Gulf Coast season is already completed.
  5. ashbury
    I briefly considered a train ride down to Yankee Stadium and back, but the overall cost proved difficult to explain to the person holding joint check-writing privileges in our household.
  6. ashbury
    My luck with The Orville has not been good. After seeing only part of an episode involving a tough guy sitting on an egg, I watched an episode that was paint-by-numbers anti religion. I'm not even religious but the stick-figure portrayal of the leader of that culture's religion set my teeth on edge from start to finish. Surprise me a little, Seth!
  7. ashbury
    I bet tons of examples can be found. They will be local protests where no one is inconvenienced, no one is even aware, and later on it can be said "you've had your say, now let's all unite and move on."
  8. ashbury
    I used the phone yesterday to check on the site, and in that brief time I don't recall any problems. That contrasts with my report back in August.
  9. ashbury
    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, we white males over the age of about 45 ought not to be in our militia anymore, I reckon. We just don't seem to contribute enough to the security, nor to be able to self-regulate.
  10. ashbury
    We may need to form a coalition to send in some troops for an intervention to stop the madness.
  11. ashbury
    I tuned in late to the game, and had to piece together what in the heck was going on. Once I figured it out, I kind of enjoyed it. That might be in part due to a few enjoyable years where I got involved in amateur video production at the local cable-access studio. Getting to do a little technical directing, a little floor directing, a little camera work, a little being on-air talent, a little CGI, a little lighting, a little set design.... well, I could relate, so I didn't find it an intrusion.
  12. ashbury
    NY Times writer today has Mollie as MOY too. I don't see the Twins firing him. Some small chance Mollie pulls a Johnny Keane and quits, but I doubt that too.
  13. ashbury
    I have no interest in the distraction of discussing what he is better off doing. He is doing what he is doing. There never is a shortage of people telling a protester he is doing it wrong.
  14. ashbury
    I just ran into an ad by Dell that started spewing electronic music all over my room. It's the ad on the right. Presumably that tells Brock which agency is involved.
  15. ashbury
    Pitching is patient, pitching is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud - but it would be within its rights if it was.
  16. ashbury
    It's a useful way to start thinking about it. But since the games are not coin flips, and indeed do not have an independent or uniform distribution of expected outcomes, even if the players were robots which they are not, you'd need higher powered statistical methods than I could muster to say whether 100-to-1 odds are too high or too low to offer for the proposition bet. Where humans are involved, across just four days, I think I want a little more than the coin-flip analysis to call it foregone. And I wrote the, ahem, foregoing before checking the ALE standings this morning. Put it this way: a mere day later, the likelihood is now down around 97%, probably (a 1-in-32 shot). Is that number still foregone? Darned likely, of course. But if foregone is too strong a word now, maybe it wasn't quite foregone yesterday either. A single day shouldn't matter that much. For me, foregone is more like the Astros' and Dodgers' chances heading into late August. The Dodgers withstood a horrendous stretch and still made it in a breeze. Time-remaining is the big differentiator.
  17. ashbury
    Buxton. He showed in April he can beat you even when he's not hitting. And when he was out for the second half of July, the team went 5-9. He's the most indispensable player on the team, and the one I cringe most when he dives for a ball or slams into a wall.
  18. ashbury
    Where is Bark's Lounge? I want him to make me a poster, a Breaking Bad promo with Jose Berrios's face superimposed over Walter White's, with a logo of Breaking Ball. He could make this lame idea work.
  19. ashbury
    Perhaps he has already purchased his gravesite and has this option now.
  20. ashbury
    Great minds think al-ZZZZZZZ.
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  22. ashbury
    That was some framin' there by Gimenez.
  23. ashbury
    We've gotten accustomed to Kepler and Buxton making those catches each and every time.
  24. ashbury
    My dad's 95, but it was his sailor hat that put him in harm's way in the 1940s.
  25. ashbury
    That's not a grievance. You are in no way harmed by any of those things. Neither, for that matter, are any of those things the source of Kaepernick's taking a knee during the National Anthem. The first is a consequence of his working hard for a particular employer; the other two are a consequence of his message resonating. The grievance itself is, in his words, "a country that oppresses black people and people of color". I daresay he has standing to air that grievance, on behalf of others as well as himself. What you presumed to air is petty by comparison.
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