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  1. ashbury
    “I have been booed by 60,000 fans at Yankee Stadium standing alone at the pitcher’s mound, so I have never really cared if I stood alone here in Congress as long as I stood by my beliefs and my values. I have also thought that being able to throw a curve ball never was a bad skill for a politician to have.” / How they got 60,000 fans onto the pitcher's mound I'll never know.
  2. ashbury
    But I think this is understood when people use these terms. Otherwise, it means you can't make distinctions among prospects. Everyone's just a zero as a worst-case.
  3. ashbury
    There were a lot of early ballots cast, as in most elections. I think I saw that a casual survey indicated that some percentage of people who voted early said they would have changed their vote. Still, in that part of the country, I think the candidate's behavior counts less as a scandal, and more as a platform to run on. Teh Mediaz, you know. Break their coke-bottle glasses and they are powerless.
  4. ashbury
    Oh, I've thought for a while now that their long-game with the unexpected success of getting Trump elected is to bring down his presidency and see what kind of chaos it brings. Not quite this soon, but yeah. Well, that's still not the long-game, which is to nudge along the breakup of the US into two or more fragments of countries. They've seen the Jesusland Map, same as you and me. (The short game had been just to mess with Hillary.)
  5. ashbury
    #ff7f00 is the new #000000.
  6. ashbury
    Late to the party and maybe I missed this, but some of us like to sit and contemplate Pi. It's our transcendental meditation.
  7. ashbury
    There's a general appreciation by the professionals for the relative value of prospects at every level, and how to compare them. There is no reason we fans can't attempt the same for our amusement.
  8. ashbury
    One more song, this time with not 1 but 3 covers for your money. As before, I may have posted any or all of these before. Often I like a cover not just for a change of genre but because it subverts the original meaning in some way big or small. (The Cake one above turns a song of determined triumph into a cold slow-burning rage, while the Beatles one twists exuberant yet understated lust into unrequited love.) The following goes somewhat the opposite direction, turning Mary Hopkin's melancholy contemplation of mortality into a goofy celebration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROCQoqjCU6U Next, I just think this video itself is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh_h-KdbBrE Finally, I never thought much one way or the other about Dolly Parton, but she finds something new and IMO just-right with this oldie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_sjHnzPyT4
  9. ashbury
    This is an effort I like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyaYLYrFv5g
  10. ashbury
    Those with long memories will know what I will toss out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvsI3jc4pPA
  11. ashbury
    Rather than delete this (additional!) off-topic post about moderation, the moderators again kindly ask that such discussion be taken to an appropriate place. As it happens, a thread concerning this incident has already been opened: twinsdaily.com/topic/26078-alex-meyer-thread/
  12. ashbury
    As the first moderator to step in concerning that thread, let me take a crack at it. A poster wrote, "I think this type of stat twisting could make anyone (maybe not Gibson) look 'effective'." The phrase stat-twisting goes beyond discussing the merits of the actual topic and turns the focus onto the other poster. Moreover, it suggests less than an honest approach to the debate. Since the topic of Meyer is known to be a hot button for some people, and bickering had begun, I posted a moderator's note asking that things be taken down a notch. Coincidentally, the poster who was accused of stat-twisting posted a followup explanation while I was typing. Up to that point, there was no thought of taking any disciplinary action. Afterward, the bickering shifted from parsing the difference between "shaky" versus "effective" to "invective" versus "analysis". At which point, another moderator rightly stepped in. As a moderator, I don't like to interrupt the flow of baseball discussion if I can help it; but for others to turn the discussion toward moderation really compounds the problem, and we take a pretty firm stance on it. You weren't involved in the post that drew my initial in-thread warning, so it's unfortunate you got involved in the resulting off-topic tangent.
  13. ashbury
    Frontrunners. If there's one thing worse in baseball than lollygaggers, it's frontrunners. Frontrunners don't get to extol the virtues of my players once it's blindingly obvious that they are doing well. Not already onboard? Tough. Tell me how great my players are, when it's still in doubt.
  14. ashbury
    Well, sure, but what else can this one-trick pony do?
  15. ashbury
    I'm just offering the caution that apparent consensus doesn't mean some new plateau of certainty has been reached.
  16. ashbury
    With all the draft analysis that gets done, and analysts likely reading each other, there's a fine line between cross-checking and crowd-sourcing and group-think.
  17. ashbury
    Yep. He's had 3 good games in a row, but that's not yet enough of a demonstration of consistency to indicate he's ready to be an asset at the major league level, and he's not yet 25 so I would not advocate rushing him based on a good two-week stretch. July's soon enough if he continues at a really good pace, August if he mixes only a few clunkers in with the good starts, and September to give him a taste if he's doing just-OK.
  18. ashbury
    It's no tall tale to state that Slegers pitched effectively versus Durham on Wednesday, May 24. He threw 6 innings and gave up 6 hits and no walks, surrendering 2 earned runs in the process while striking out 5. The two runs came in the top of the third, on four straight base hits before an out could be recorded. But he quelled the rally with a couple of infield grounders, the second of which resulted in an unusual double play by Hague and Vielma, where one of the outs apparently occurred at third base unforced but the game log shows 3-6-3. I would need to do more research to puzzle this one out. The other hits Aaron gave up were a harmless two-out double in the sixth, and then a single to lead off the seventh which ended his evening's work. He departed with a 4-2 lead. Busenitz snuffed that small fire, but then in the 8th he and the rest of the bullpen that followed completely fell apart, resulting by game's end in a disappointing 6-5 loss. The game improved Slegers's season ERA to 3.72. It was his first no-decision of the season; his W-L record remains at 4-3.
  19. ashbury
    Mod note: let's please keep the invective down. A poster noted that the fifth inning did Meyer in, and that's not a reason for bickering. / edit - coincidentally the poster spoke for himself while I was typing.
  20. ashbury
    Yeah, the truth is that these gentlemen were apparently given mugshots for being arrested for not displaying the "slow moving vehicle" orange triangle on their carriages. But that is less fun than the libelous use I put the photo to.
  21. ashbury
    "You had ONE job, the day before an election, Greg! To not bodyslam any journalists while in the presence of other journalists. ONE JOB!" http://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/you-had-one-job-funny-fails-134-57a1ecc7adab2__605.jpg
  22. ashbury
    My apologies. No hard feelings, I hope? Put'er there, pal.
  23. ashbury
    We all think he's better than you. Let's not derail this important thread, though.
  24. ashbury
    I did seek out a second or third source for myself, when Driv posted that link.
  25. ashbury
    The purveyors:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yrgt2RZ4oJ0/TnX4p9Q0OWI/AAAAAAAAdok/YwCEcKVfViw/s1600/amish8.jpg
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