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  1. ashbury
    I stepped away to take a phone call, and when I came back the score was suddenly 8-0. Whatever happened to the good old days, when that would mean we were losing?
  2. ashbury
    Bert's speculation about the wind has to be right. The way the ball left VARGAS!!!!'s bat, it looked gone from the beginning, yet barely made it out to right.
  3. ashbury
    I believe that, if they detect your IP address is in the geographic area for either team, the game itself is blacked out to you, not simply the local version of the broadcast. They still let you listen to the radio feed...
  4. ashbury
    I'm not sure we're saying anything differently. In the past ("traditional") the home-town scorer would lean toward giving his pitcher a break via an error, or his batter a break via a hit. Today, it's more balanced for home and visitor, and with a more pronounced lean toward giving the fielder a break than you or I would like. What they did at some point, I believe, was tighten up the definition of "Ordinary Effort", which is the key to whether a missed play can be called an error or not. Or maybe this has always been the wording, and MLB decided to enforce it. Either way: It's interesting to me that a play may be called differently in low-A ball versus the majors, though that's not the issue here. Anyway, while paying lip service to calling errors on poor fielders, the main thrust is to grant every benefit of the doubt.
  5. ashbury
    In my statistics class I was referred to as the mean square deviate.
  6. ashbury
    You figure that not even Trump wants to be the President who loses Honolulu or Seattle to a nuclear strike, even if we go on to "win" that war decisively. So then a lot of this from him surely is a bluff. The thing about bluffs, though, is that you only do them when you *want* to be called: the idea being that your opponents continue to call your "bluffs" again and again only to discover each time that you hold the superior hand.
  7. ashbury
    The panel would also have accepted "Rally Monkey".
  8. ashbury
    A request: no derisive nicknames, please!
  9. ashbury
    This must be from some past season. The White Sox haven't played a game in Philly this year.
  10. ashbury
    Ou! I learned a new one! Thanks! / which I will no doubt immediately forget since my capacity for multiple languages is zilch
  11. ashbury
    The "traditional" home-town call has always been to give the home fielder the error. This annoys the fielder (bad) but pleases the pitcher (good) and also annoys the visiting batter (good). So a non-call on Dozier or Sano doesn't fit the narrative. There can be exceptions, as you noted with Ripken, when the motivation is strong. "That should have been an error!" is the common refrain across all of baseball. I doubt there exists a home park where fans are constantly complaining that too many errors are being called. Occasional TD contributor Stew Thornley stresses that MLB strives for consistency in how official scorers across the league do their jobs. A scorer who doesn't get with the system is quickly shown the door. None of this has bearing on the opinion that I share with most others, that fielding percentage was never a great stat and has even declined in value because of the way MLB has chosen to re-implement it. There needs to be a greater willingness to record bad plays in the field, perhaps with multiple categories instead of the catch-all "error". Muffs, flubs and boners - " the shortstop muffed the catch, then flubbed the throw, and compounded it with a boner by failing to cover third during the ensuing rundown" - how's that for a start? (One downside for average fans would be many fewer triples and essentially no inside-the-park home runs, since the majority of those involve a mistake by an outfielder or two.)
  12. ashbury
    Felix had excellent results for Chattanooga again on Thursday April 20, shutting out the visiting Biloxi Shuckers through 6 innings on the way to a 3-0 victory, with 4 strikeouts. He wasn't untouchable, giving up all 6 of the hits the visitors managed for the entire game, while also walking 3 batters. Every inning saw at least one baserunner. But the damage was limited because only one of the base hits was for extra bases - a double in the second inning - and two of the walks were of the two-out variety with runners in scoring position, indicating that Felix wasn't going to give in to the hitter in that situation. So, it was a bit of a tightrope walk, and that doesn't always work out, but there's no arguing with the result this time. He hit the showers after 88 pitches, and presumably got a pat on the back or thereabouts from manager Doug Mientkiewicz for a job well done.
  13. ashbury
    Aaron endured another poor game on Saturday the 22nd. In 5 innings of work, comprising 81 pitches, he surrendered 7 runs, 6 of them earned, on 10 hits which included 3 doubles. He walked only 1 batter, and struck out 3. This outing brings his season ERA to an elevated 6.75.
  14. ashbury
    Too Soon.
  15. ashbury
    Just finished the multi-step account creation and login process. Am I supposed to be hearing something?
  16. ashbury
    Yeah, but: the bad news is I missed two innings typing up the long version. / The good news is, I missed two innings.
  17. ashbury
    I was doing more than one thing at a time, so it's little wonder if something got lost in translation. The (Jewish? Yiddish? whatever) quote I know of is, "from my lips to God's ear". I figured you took that and, I presume, adapted it to the Internet, where one speaks with one's fingers. So if it's from anyone's finger to Molitor's ear, I'd be concerned there might be saliva included: i.e. the Wet Willie. And then I remembered a band by that name from the '70s so I grabbed that as the visual instead of a literal one. I thought I was going along with your lead, but then it got a little too complex to digest. / edit - I knew RB at least would know the band / edit^2 - a little googling revealed it mentioned in "The Taste of Yiddish by Lillian Merwin Feinsilver (1970)" https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/64936/what-is-the-origin-of-the-phrase-from-your-lips-to-god-s-ears
  18. ashbury
    Sounds legit.
  19. ashbury
    Unless Wet Willie was the mental image you were going for. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BokNDL3TL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
  20. ashbury
    Also the ERA.
  21. ashbury
    They both wear a glove on one hand for no reason whatsoever.
  22. ashbury
    Followed by another low point, it's starting to look like, with Tonkin.
  23. ashbury
    Neither does Danny Santana.
  24. ashbury
    Ǝɐɹu ʎonɹ dlɐʎᴉuƃ ʇᴉɯǝ, if he's standing on his head at the time.
  25. ashbury
    And whatever you do, don't mention the War!
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