They’re all fine. The $800 Surly has better parts and an overall nicer quality frame.
I don’t know what the used bike scene is like in New Orleans or how much time he has to mess around, but this is the kind of bike/price point where used is king. Most quality steel road bikes from the 80s-90s can be made into a quality urban single speed with an hour’s worth of work and $50.
with an hour’s worth of work and $50
this is the handyman version of "the proof is left to the interested reader."
If only Fermat's readers would have had google or a comment section.
Miguel Sano's current OPS (1.077) and OPS+ (192) would be the best in Twins franchise history for a full season, and I'm not talking just Minnesota Twins history.
Sano's 192 OPS+ is 2nd in the AL behind Mike Trout's 230 (!!!!!!)
We should have drafted Prior!
Meanwhile, Mauer's OPS+ has reached 100.
ibid
baby (Jeebus) steps...
The Chairman in April - .225/.271/.275/.546
The Chairman in May - .345/.446/.527/.973
Remember how much fun Sano's rookie season was? He crashed the gate and hit moon shots and was so valuable in that short period of time that he almost won the Rookie of the Year?
He has already FAR eclipsed his WAR totals from that season....in exactly half as many games.
he played DH most of that year, which affected his total for sure
And don't look now, but Kepler is closing in on last year's WAR in only 1/3 the games. I knew Sano would be good (although looking like a destroyer of baseballs is still fun, even if it was expected and the very solid 3B defense is great), but Kepler so far showing that last year was no fluke seems pretty huge.
He's third on the team in rWAR, right ahead of Polanco. Add in Buxton (seventh) and Sano, and that's 63% of the position player rWAR in four players 24 or younger.
I still think Buxton will hit eventually, but right now he makes me think of a center field version of the early Ozzie Smith. Yes, you'd like him to hit, but he's so good on defense that he'll help you even if he doesn't.
Yeah, while I'm hopeful Buxton will have a career OPS+ over 87, he'd still be very valuable at that rate. Hell, he's on pace for a 2 win season this year (which is an average player) with an OPS+ of 47.
I'm mainly worried about health with Buxton. He hits that wall hard!
Yeah, he's going to break something for sure. Though I get it. If you don't feel like your contributing with the bat, you kind of have to go all out in the field to stay in the show. Though I have a feeling even if he starts hitting .300 he'll still play like that. Griffey missed most of the 95 season because of that.
And yes, I am saying Buxton is the next Griffey.
Defensively, yes. Griffey is a big stretch offensively. Right now, I'm thinking Andruw Jones is a good comp.
The kind of young position talent the Twins have right now could be a big factor when free agent pitchers consider offers, which is why performance this year matters. There are a lot of good pitchers hitting the open market in 2018-19. I could see this team building like KC from 2013-2015, but I'm an optimist.
no longer having a paleolithic front office should help, too
Thought maybe this was gonna be about the Thagomizer.
For a moment, I was wondering what stat "FAR" was.
For years skywatchers have been seeing what was called a "proton stream" in the northern latitudes. After scientists decided that protons were not involved in the phenomenon, a group of skywatchers instead decided to call it 'Steve', and so far the name has stuck. Take that, Boaty McBoatface
Of interest to our native Minneapolitans and social science & history buffs - tell me if this map and property descriptions from New Deal-era America compare to contemporary observations of the place from the 1960's through present.
Amazing how housing policy from 80+ years ago can reverberate.
Mapping Inequality updates the study of New Deal America, the federal government, housing, and inequality for the twenty-first century. It offers unprecedented online access to the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced between 1935 and 1940 by one of the New Deal's most important agencies, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation or HOLC (pronounced "holk").
One of the worst colds of my life hit me Friday night. Then it was my nose. Then coughs, aches, really bad chills Monday morning (but no more dripping nose), and I missed work. Kindof feels like the flu, how I've got no energy and get completely winded from small exertion.
I felt good enough Saturday night to go for a short walk in the rain (I stayed warm and dry in my jacket), but maybe I overexerted myself then?
I'm so glad that I didn't go with my son's Boy Scouts to St. Louis County (tents): I might have needed medical evacuation.
Back in the office today (I came in late just to be sure).
Thanks to Zack for recommending "Riverdale". It's now on Netflix and gave me something to do Sunday and Monday. If I had seen it Saturday, I might have skipped that walk.
I'd describe the show as "What if the Archie Comics gang lived in Twin Peaks?"
And I've started the new Twin Peaks. Lynch is on a shorter leash after Inland Empire -- so far I like what it's doing, although sometimes the editing/pacing is tedious.
sometimes the editing/pacing is tedious
That's Lynch!
yes, although it's gotten worse
Twins minor league moves: Tyler Jay and Todd Van Steensel come off the disabled list and go to Chattanooga. Randy LeBlanc goes from Chattanooga to Fort Myers.
For the bikers in the basement, any thoughts as to brand for a single speed, Crmo / steel frame bike that isn't an eight hundred dollar surly?
I asked a friend who is a serious biker, and here's what he said.
One sees a fair number of bargain-basement urban single speeds around here from these brands:
http://www.sebikes.com
https://www.statebicycle.com/
Motobecane
They’re all fine. The $800 Surly has better parts and an overall nicer quality frame.
I don’t know what the used bike scene is like in New Orleans or how much time he has to mess around, but this is the kind of bike/price point where used is king. Most quality steel road bikes from the 80s-90s can be made into a quality urban single speed with an hour’s worth of work and $50.
this is the handyman version of "the proof is left to the interested reader."
If only Fermat's readers would have had google or a comment section.
Miguel Sano's current OPS (1.077) and OPS+ (192) would be the best in Twins franchise history for a full season, and I'm not talking just Minnesota Twins history.
Sano's 192 OPS+ is 2nd in the AL behind Mike Trout's 230 (!!!!!!)
We should have drafted Prior!
Meanwhile, Mauer's OPS+ has reached 100.
ibid
baby (Jeebus) steps...
The Chairman in April - .225/.271/.275/.546
The Chairman in May - .345/.446/.527/.973
Remember how much fun Sano's rookie season was? He crashed the gate and hit moon shots and was so valuable in that short period of time that he almost won the Rookie of the Year?
He has already FAR eclipsed his WAR totals from that season....in exactly half as many games.
he played DH most of that year, which affected his total for sure
And don't look now, but Kepler is closing in on last year's WAR in only 1/3 the games. I knew Sano would be good (although looking like a destroyer of baseballs is still fun, even if it was expected and the very solid 3B defense is great), but Kepler so far showing that last year was no fluke seems pretty huge.
He's third on the team in rWAR, right ahead of Polanco. Add in Buxton (seventh) and Sano, and that's 63% of the position player rWAR in four players 24 or younger.
I still think Buxton will hit eventually, but right now he makes me think of a center field version of the early Ozzie Smith. Yes, you'd like him to hit, but he's so good on defense that he'll help you even if he doesn't.
Yeah, while I'm hopeful Buxton will have a career OPS+ over 87, he'd still be very valuable at that rate. Hell, he's on pace for a 2 win season this year (which is an average player) with an OPS+ of 47.
I'm mainly worried about health with Buxton. He hits that wall hard!
Yeah, he's going to break something for sure. Though I get it. If you don't feel like your contributing with the bat, you kind of have to go all out in the field to stay in the show. Though I have a feeling even if he starts hitting .300 he'll still play like that. Griffey missed most of the 95 season because of that.
And yes, I am saying Buxton is the next Griffey.
Defensively, yes. Griffey is a big stretch offensively. Right now, I'm thinking Andruw Jones is a good comp.
The kind of young position talent the Twins have right now could be a big factor when free agent pitchers consider offers, which is why performance this year matters. There are a lot of good pitchers hitting the open market in 2018-19. I could see this team building like KC from 2013-2015, but I'm an optimist.
no longer having a paleolithic front office should help, too
Thought maybe this was gonna be about the Thagomizer.
For a moment, I was wondering what stat "FAR" was.
For years skywatchers have been seeing what was called a "proton stream" in the northern latitudes. After scientists decided that protons were not involved in the phenomenon, a group of skywatchers instead decided to call it 'Steve', and so far the name has stuck. Take that, Boaty McBoatface
Awesome. Reminds me of the 'Thagomizer.'
Of interest to our native Minneapolitans and social science & history buffs - tell me if this map and property descriptions from New Deal-era America compare to contemporary observations of the place from the 1960's through present.
Amazing how housing policy from 80+ years ago can reverberate.
One of the worst colds of my life hit me Friday night. Then it was my nose. Then coughs, aches, really bad chills Monday morning (but no more dripping nose), and I missed work. Kindof feels like the flu, how I've got no energy and get completely winded from small exertion.
I felt good enough Saturday night to go for a short walk in the rain (I stayed warm and dry in my jacket), but maybe I overexerted myself then?
I'm so glad that I didn't go with my son's Boy Scouts to St. Louis County (tents): I might have needed medical evacuation.
Back in the office today (I came in late just to be sure).
Thanks to Zack for recommending "Riverdale". It's now on Netflix and gave me something to do Sunday and Monday. If I had seen it Saturday, I might have skipped that walk.
I'd describe the show as "What if the Archie Comics gang lived in Twin Peaks?"
And I've started the new Twin Peaks. Lynch is on a shorter leash after Inland Empire -- so far I like what it's doing, although sometimes the editing/pacing is tedious.
sometimes the editing/pacing is tedious
That's Lynch!
yes, although it's gotten worse
Twins minor league moves: Tyler Jay and Todd Van Steensel come off the disabled list and go to Chattanooga. Randy LeBlanc goes from Chattanooga to Fort Myers.