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  1. ashbury
    You usually have to get people's permission to show them in a video (otherwise you blur their faces) and it can't be under false pretenses.* These people agreed to be shown in this video, even after they found out they'd been punked? I live in a country with a lot of mean people apparently. Ordinary folks-next-door types, who think some other people are sub-human. * Layman's interpretation, obviously
  2. ashbury
    I may be misremembering, but my recent games at Fenway and Marlins Park didn't have God Bless America. So somebody's already been the first.
  3. ashbury
    Ugh. Not fair. I attended a couple of Marlins games last month, and can't say I enjoyed the ballpark experience because of the over-reliance on non-stop sound through the PA system. But it's a good team to root for. This is a terrible setback for them.
  4. ashbury
    Think of one not already on this list, and get back to us. (Uh, putting on my moderator hat, maybe don't.) https://thecompleteworksofwilliamshakespeare.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/ninety-nine-real-baseball-players-with-dirty-sounding-names-and-one-i-made-up/
  5. ashbury
    Where are you getting this? To my knowledge he was Designated For Assignment. DFA means they intend to place him on a minor league roster, subject to various rules. He got one or more days of MLB salary. He comes out ahead of just staying at Rochester for the time.
  6. ashbury
    Hadn't remembered to look at that one in a very long time. Deserves a couple of examples here in this thread. This recent one captures the absurdist spirit. http://66.media.tumblr.com/af6d42acf78bab1ea60251b3cfab2f56/tumblr_oa7ztxbyFa1qz8z2ro1_500.png While this one covers the frequent subtext that Jon is not so much crazy, as a severely depressed individual. http://67.media.tumblr.com/4afdc203e167c637b08ce3f2571b62ed/tumblr_o6o7egoMv91qz8z2ro1_500.png Someone needs to do a Crankshaft Minus Crankshaft. Hopefully, leaving an empty rectangle every day on the newspaper page.
  7. ashbury
    The team needed help in all parts of the pitching staff. A starter is more valuable than a reliever, and IMO May had not pitched himself out of a starting job, and had earned a chance to continue to develop in that role. It's true that a five-inning starter is not ideal, if that's indeed how he was viewed at the time. Five innings from a starter is still more valuable than four innings from your long man, or one inning if you tell him to go max effort. And there's still the chance to grow into the job and complete six or seven eventually. There's always time to convert him to a max-effort guy later, if the starting role becomes closed.
  8. ashbury
    You've heard of Physics For Poets?* Well, I guess I was a poet for physicists, there. * Language in this link NSFW
  9. ashbury
    Only if undercooked. Otherwise perhaps ick, I believe. Or maybe just meh. Most probably blecht, though.
  10. ashbury
    Kintzler has been fine. Coming into the season I didn't expect that to be the case, but as opposed to some of the dumpster-dive projects we've seen, he actually had some record of MLB success in past years, so it might not be a fluke. I think a guy like Kintzler elicits a negative reaction more that he's a symbol of the overall method of obtaining him, than of his actual performance. It's a time- and resource-consuming method, tying up multiple 40-man roster spots and then taking until June or so to find the one or two guys who'll really pan out, that even when it works produces fairly weak results in terms of leading to better days. Every team makes minor bullpen signings in the off-season, so I'm not saying the Twins shouldn't do it. It just seems like they pin more hopes on the process than other teams do. And as I look back to the disastrous 9 games that started this lost season, the bullpen problem wasn't with the flotsam and jetsam signed in the offseason, but Fien and Jepsen and Perkins and May, the guys who were viewed as the sure things. The Brownian motion among the signings seemed to have settled down during Spring Training, as planned. So yeah, it worked. Pay the man, and move on to other strategic decisions for 2017.
  11. ashbury
    You may have a career in front of you in the glamorous field of Fact Checking!
  12. ashbury
    I reported elsewhere a similar behavior on my laptop, with a popup after a certain period of time telling me to accept an update for Firefox when none is needed. I have run Norton Utilities and it finds nothing on my own disk to account for this. I think Brock needs to look into all this when he gets back from his travels.
  13. ashbury
    This is the cartoon that proves Calvin is adopted*. Because if Dad shared any DNA with the boy, you know what he'd do with that car and all those sitting ducks blocking his way. * OK, you can come up with alternate explanations like infidelity
  14. ashbury
    Checking... checking... uh, every player currently in the majors?
  15. ashbury
    Conversely, it's hard to find a Zap Brannigan quote that doesn't work well in Trump's voice. Every mission is a suicide mission. My strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. Checkmate.
  16. ashbury
    On? Poland and Russia? Oh yeah. It's ON. / but no, I haven't had the teevee plugged in today
  17. ashbury
    Writers are taught to seek a second source if they can. I realize that writing for the sports pages is under deadline and it's not practical to double check everything. Still, it would have been great to see Allen mentioned in one fashion or another. Without it, the article seems a little lazy. I'd have settled for any of these. "Coach Neil Allen confirmed that Santana spotted something important, and he had encouraged the veteran to go talk to the youngster about it." "Coach Neil Allen indicated that he has been preaching the same message since Berrios's first stint with the big club, and was happy the veteran had chosen to speak up." "Coach Neil Allen expressed surprise that this conversation had taken place, but said that players often talk shop between starts." "Coach Neil Allen had no comment when asked." "Coach Neil Allen could not be reached for comment and did not return phone messages." "Coach Neil Allen is being actively searched for by local authorities." "Memorial services were held yesterday for..." / I feel compelled on second reading to state that this is NOT a DUI based comment, and I would have taken the same tack regarding Brunansky had this been two batters.
  18. ashbury

    Dean

    ashbury replied to goulik's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    Be ready to give a guy a mulligan for one out of character bad season - don't get too excited over one out of character breakthrough season - always take age and experience into account when looking at minor league numbers. I don't know why these remain esoteric principles in some quarters. Dean has never profiled as better than cup o' coffee major leaguer. Somehow he's being pushed into a greater role than that.
  19. ashbury

    Dean

    ashbury replied to goulik's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk

    Hard throwing lefties are expensive and hard to acquire. Ergo...
  20. ashbury
    May started his major league career with a succession of absolutely rotten games, then somewhat straightened himself out, with one more absolute clunker in 2014 buried among 5 otherwise decent-to-impressive games. He began 2015 with a rotten game too, and had two more of that caliber among his 16 starts, the rest being again decent to strong. I took a look at some AL starters who were in their age-25 seasons in 2015. Danny Salazar, Jake Odorizzi, Sonny Gray, Mike Montgomery, Jesse Hahn. All were more successful in terms of their overall stats as starters than May. I scanned the "Game Score" column at bb-ref.com to get a feel for their seasons. The qualitative takeaway I got was that, like Trevor May, their seasons were sprinkled with stinker games now and then - even Saint Sonny had a few games where he couldn't stop the hitters. The difference was that they weren't yanked from the rotation. No two pitchers are alike. Pitchers aren't even necessarily the same pitcher a couple years later, due to changes wrought by the stress of being a major league pitcher, and I'm worried May is now not the pitcher we thought we had. I don't claim to know what career trajectory May would be on now, had he remained in the rotation. What I wish was... we had found out. It seems to me the braintrust hit the panic button on him.
  21. ashbury
    The first 162 games for a player will usually overstate things seasonally, since few players play every game. But yeah, his body of work so far is promising. If he tops out like this, he'll be a disappointment to a lot of folks, purely from the ultra high expectations.
  22. ashbury
    My vote is Turner. It's hitter of the day and not runner of the day, so Granite's 2 triples equate to Turner's 2 doubles, while Turner consumed fewer outs having a walk instead. And in a 10-1 rout, Weil's 5 singles somehow turned into only 1 run and 0 RBI. So I'll take Turner's day, TYVM.
  23. ashbury
    If for example Allen took ESan aside and asked him to reinforce the message he'd been trying to impart to Jose, and then let ESan get some credit in print for it, that would be great. It would be an example of the additional info I was referring to in my previous post. If ESan is just spitballing ideas to the prospect, in contradiction to what the coach has been preaching, that would be a different case, also the kind of additional info I want. Want, and no doubt can't have. It's why I am really split on what I read in that article. Now that I read it a second time, Neil Allen's name is conspicuous by its absence. Berardino certainly has access to the Twins coaching staff. The article doesn't push this as a second set of eyes situation.
  24. ashbury
    That was my profession during the Vietnam war.
  25. ashbury
    Speak for yourself. Personally, I hate the competition.
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