It's a POLL! What was the bestest part of last night?

by duck on May 21, 2008 9:43 AM EDT Comment 30 comments

Yes, it's just May. Yes, it was just one game out of 162. But last night was the kind of win that makes you stay an Orioles fan just a little longer.

Let's relive the glory that was Tuesday and take a vote on the best part of Tuesday's win. Feel free to add in your write-in vote in the comments.

So, vote for your option about what was the BEST part of Tuesday's win!

Poll

What was the BEST part of the Orioles' 12-2 win over the Yankees on Tuesday?

The Orioles' up 7-0 after 1 inning

46 votes

Watching the Yankees' atrocious defense

8 votes

Seeing Jeter glare at Cano after The Cap'n screwed the throw to 1B

14 votes

Daniel Cabrera keeping his cool and earning his 8th Quality Start

37 votes

Joe Girardi looking like a defated pinhead at the end of the game

5 votes

Luke Scott droppin' a F-Bomb on LaTroy Hawkins

9 votes

Luke Scott dropping one into the upper deck the next at-bat

61 votes

ZKnower checking in DURING a play that he was performing in

4 votes

Other - see the comments thread

3 votes

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Other

Jeter getting knocked out of the game for sticking his hand in front of a Daniel Cabrera fastball.

"Whether your name is Gehrig or Ripken, DiMaggio or Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do."

by spike2131 on May 21, 2008 12:41 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Go ahead and vote Other!

"I wasn't here for the losing years. But it feels a little like the days with Earl in charge and John Lowenstein smashing birthday cakes in the middle of the clubhouse with a bat." - John "T-Bone" Shelby

by duck on May 21, 2008 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I went with the first option

But that was a pretty tough decision.

4 hits and 4 RBIs from Jones deserves to be up there, too.

by dkdc on May 21, 2008 12:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I didn't want this to be an 11 option quiz

but you’re right, Jones’ 4 for 5 kinda got lost in the shuffle

by duck on May 21, 2008 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Other

Getting another win.

Close second – the look on Mike Mussina’s face when the 7th run scored. It said “I’ve been beaten by both teams tonight. Maybe I should take up fishing full time.”

Writing is God's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.

by typozzz on May 21, 2008 12:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Other

Moose getting shelled. God, I still hate that guy.

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.

by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on May 21, 2008 1:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Here are some of my possibilities for the best part of last night

-Watching the Yankees fans start to leave in the third inning.

-This totally awesome and way into it (and I think developmentally disabled) Oriole fan sitting below us wearing an old school O’s hat, recreational goggles (a la Chris Sabo), and an Adam Jones jersey who was there with his Yankee fan mom.

-Sarah (brooklynlovesorioles) yelling at some fat financial services-type with a bowl cut sitting a couple sections across from us.

-Having the pain in the ass of going up to the Bronx under the threat of rain actually pay off.

It was pretty fun. I hope more than two participants of this site can make it next time.

by yurizanow on May 21, 2008 1:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

ahhhh....

rec specs…

Improving the ballclub: Not one of Peter Angelos' concerns.-SC Wed Jan 30, 2008

by dayzd toe on May 21, 2008 1:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

what, did jp not show?

by zknower on May 22, 2008 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah...

i really dorta dug luke scott’s bomb, but, yeah: batting around in the first AND knocking out moose was pretty satisfying.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on May 21, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Are we trying

to jinx Danny? I feel like another quality start by him last night takes the cake. However, we probably should watch how often we discuss his success (JINX). If he can manage to finish this season with numbers reflective of how he’s pitched so far, that would be (for me) the highlight of the ‘08 season. Like some others, I’ve been rooting for this kid for a long time.

by Illformula on May 21, 2008 2:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

No way...

Talking him up has been working so far, if you believe in that kinda jinx thing, so I’m going on a limb and saying he finishes with a meaningless W-L record of 23-3. Yeah, that sounds good. Go get ‘em tiger.

Improving the ballclub: Not one of Peter Angelos' concerns.-SC Wed Jan 30, 2008

by dayzd toe on May 21, 2008 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I voted for Scott's tater

Though knocking out Mussina also works.

by pipkin on May 21, 2008 2:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If it wasn't dishonest

I would sign out and vote for all of them.

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on May 21, 2008 2:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Other

Coming in today and saying to my self-satisfied Yankee fan co-worker “Some game last night, eh?”

He says “Don’t remind me.”

I’m heading over now to remind him.

Ronnie's OK, McCarver's the dillweed

by 33 on May 21, 2008 3:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

that sounds so.... satisfying

by PhilR8 on May 21, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

this sucks

I live in freaking KY and don’t know any Yankee’s fans… gloating isn’t just as fun when they’re all Reds fans.

"We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow." - - Earl Weaver

by Gorilla Bird on May 21, 2008 3:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

and the Reds aren't even a real team

"We might as well just win this game." -Adam Jones

by exitfare on May 21, 2008 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I voted for Luke's upper deck shot...

but I also enjoyed Jim Hunter at the end of the postgame show…

“How about those last place Yankees.”

I have some Yankee fans I need to call….

by getxstoked on May 21, 2008 3:40 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Hope they get the game in tonight

I live about an hour north and east of Yankee Stadium and we’re supposed to get thunderstorms here. It’s lightly raining now.

by Lothar on May 21, 2008 3:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I voted for 7-0 in the first.

And it couldn’t happen to a nicer Moose.

Not online last night to see it, but when a NY-based Orioles fan checks in in the middle of a performance, that’s birdland.

Why the Hell Not?

by BrianS on May 21, 2008 4:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I also loved Cap'n Jeter hitting into a Double Play in his first at bat

Right after making that game-changing error.

Nice game, Jetes!

Why the Hell Not?

by BrianS on May 21, 2008 4:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Luke Scott and zknower: Kings of Birdland.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

by 2632 on May 21, 2008 4:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

yeah...

i gotta admit that z checking in during intermission was a pretty slick move.

foghat goes with everything--birdman, 5/16/08

by j.q. higgins on May 21, 2008 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I wanted to vote for Other ("Z's friend stealing WiFi to watch the Yerkees get beat")

figuring the guy was risking jail time for The Cause, but the thing kept saying “Oops, can’t post your comment, try again later”—and then all of CC went dead. DId anybody else have an apocalyptic moment like that yesterday?

Anyway, I agree with 26: Luke and Z definitely ruled that game.

Rah Rah Rasputin / Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that / Really loved Birds. -- Boney M

by Titov on May 21, 2008 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, SB Nation went kerflooey for a little while yesterday

by duck on May 22, 2008 6:50 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah

I was afraid for a second that my work decided to block it. THEN what would I do all day?

"We’re not concerned about what other teams think. I know teams come in here thinking we’re playing the Orioles. And then 9 innings later, they got the loss, they know what we’re about." ~Adam Jones

by Stacey on May 22, 2008 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs