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  1. ashbury
    It took me more searching than I anticipated, so to save others the trouble, go to this URL: https://www.americanassociationbaseball.tv/event/1157/st-paul-saints-vs-winnipeg-goldeyes Get to about the 53-minute mark and then watch the routine throw home after a routine base hit. The throw reaches the plate quite high and the catcher is in a vulnerable position trying to reach it. All looks normal, until the very end when the runner coming in to score looks more interested in initiating contact than in hook-sliding into the plate. The ball's high, the runner surely wants to go low, and yet didn't. I don't like that aspect of the play at all. If I'm the ump I find an excuse to eject the runner. (That's probably why the job offers aren't pouring in.) But I guess you're asking why the runner is safe, and like you I need a qualified ump to parse that one. I call the runner out, FWIW. But the ump was looking, looking, looking at something at the very end of the play, so he was watching for something that evidently hadn't occurred yet - the catcher tagged the runner not once but twice and so I don't think it was a matter of dropping the ball or not. Something else was going on there. A tag to the helmet is a legal tag, right? It must be a call on the catcher blocking without the ball, and the ump was simply waiting for the runner to touch the plate; but with interference isn't the base automatically awarded? Next contestant, with your guess?
  2. ashbury
    When I saw the analogy drawn to Jason Kendall's break, I decided I didn't need to click the video.
  3. ashbury
    That's a fair point. Every time I think I have mastered one area among all the constraints that a GM faces, I learn that I've overlooked something more. I would need a strong Assistant GM to handle and/or remind me of the petty details while I masterminded the Big Picture.
  4. ashbury
    Polanco's situation was caused by the rules of baseball. He was signed young, and was added to the 40-man roster when he became Rule-5 eligible. Perhaps no team would have taken him, but if some bottom-feeder team had, and then used 3 additional years of options to stash him until about now, we'd be raking the FO over the coals for losing this can't-miss prospect. Jesse Lund at Twinkie Town called for him to be added to the 40-man at the time. I dislike MLB's punitive approach to signing 16-year olds from outside the US, and therefore I refuse to fault the Twins for Polanco's minor-league options.
  5. ashbury
    As a general principle, TD has always encouraged cross-pollination among baseball writers on the Internet. I can not imagine today's blog entry from Brandon being any kind of exception; as usual, significant content is provided, along with the invitation to come explore further. What would not be acceptable is a simple "come visit my site" post.
  6. ashbury
    I know nobody does this anymore, but I'd still go all '87 Blyleven-and-Viola and use a three-man playoff rotation until it blew up in my face. Santana, Berrios, with Colon being my older-and-craftier Straker. They have all winter to rest up. / edit - nice theory, wrong bullpen. I have all winter to find a new job.
  7. ashbury
    It's normal to have regression when the Pythag and the actual W/L are that seriously out of whack. The run scoring has now come along to approximately match the W/L record. As expected. That is how it works, right?
  8. ashbury
    Not at this website, we don't. http://dxuoddg10rgxw.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/17023346/scoff.jpg
  9. ashbury
    A nice game for Ben in the game versus Burlington on August 30. In the Kernels' 7-run first inning, he drove in a run with a single, and later came around to score. Later in the game he got another single, and then a double, although neither of these figured in the scoring. Altogether, his 3-for-4 night raised his batting average to .226.
  10. ashbury
    Some people say the most exciting play in baseball is the triple. Not me. It's the walk-off bases-loaded HBP.
  11. ashbury
    A healthy Byron Buxton is beer?
  12. ashbury
    Yes, and the good news is that .500 BABIP looks sustainable.
  13. ashbury
    On that 'Completely Disgusting "Batter's Box to Batter's Box" 83mph Curveball', you can see why tipping his pitches could have been the difference between success and failure in his earlier trials. Imagine thinking that's a fastball inside coming at you. Now imagine knowing it's a bender.
  14. ashbury
    I didn't even bring up advanced math. Just calculus. OK, now I'm out.
  15. ashbury
    The ability to blow some other team out skews your chances of being pretty good yourself.
  16. ashbury
    Well, it's a school night, so I need to take leave of this fine game. Crossing fingers for no bad surprises when I read the box score tomorrow.
  17. ashbury
    Big Pelf, I wish I knew how to quit you.
  18. ashbury
    So many, many times.
  19. ashbury
    You'd think I'd be over watching him lick his fingers after giving up a hit, now that he's in another uniform. But I'm not.
  20. ashbury
    We're out of sherbet, if you want to come over for that.
  21. ashbury
    Just made me itchy watching Buxton taking his lead at first base, knowing it would take a triple to score him.
  22. ashbury
    You know what's the downside to having Mauer bat 2nd and Buxton 3rd? We're looking at it right now.
  23. ashbury
    http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Tom-Hanks-Saying-Really.gif
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  25. ashbury
    I had a calculus joke lined up, but it was derivative.
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