What a terrible idea it was to pay this joker again.

The whole lot of them. Yucking it up to turn a phantom HR into an out at 2B. Pickoffs galore the past few days. Mora is the king of boneheaded base running.

Wasn’t Diamond Dave all about fundamentals and respecting the game? Dave, outs are precious. Carelessly giving them up is an embarrassment. Take yourself (and the team) to the woodshed and you can all beat the snot out of each other.

I refuse to watch a Trax start since I sat through the torture in person last May. I recommend it. How about a rotation of Guthrie, Cabrera, Burress, Albers, Olson? I don’t know that guys like Liz, Penn should make the leap up. Trax can take his veteran presence to the BP.

we know as Roch Kubatko mentioned on his blog something to the effect of “maybe Trachsel “deserves another start because of his veteran presence and blah blah blah bullhsit bullshit bullshit bad joke reference to chick he’d like to bone blah blah blah.” If Roch is turning on him, the end must be coming soon.

Seriously i cant think of a good reason, what does he do that somebody else couldn’t do better in our organization? Nobody will trade for this guy, no matter how well he does, not after what happened to the Cubs last year.

Are you kidding me? What good is a guy who can’t eat innings as a starter going to do when he can’t eat innings as a reliever either? If he is not starting, then he does not belong on this team.

I am for keeping JJ in the pen because he has been so strong there. Albers is the logical choice to step in for Trachsel especially after I looked up how the Tides were doing. Every one in the starting rotation has an ERA over 5. Awesome. Just awesome.

The O’s lose a game by one run, while Ramon goes into his home run jog on a double. Not only that, but the first base coach (who is it?) slaps hands w/ him as he rounds first base! So at least Ramon has some idiot looking out for him! Roberts gets thrown out on the basepaths twice. After getting thrown out at third in the first inning, the O’s go on to get four more hits. Tremblay either has given Roberts the green light or he’s just as clueless as his predecessor was. Little League coaches know when you have a runner in scoring position and your #3 batter at the plate, you give him the chance to drive him in. Just because Markakis proves he is still a youngster by hacking at the first pitch, unable to move Roberts along doesn’t mean you should lose confidence in your #3 batter. Isn’t he there to drive in runs. Tremblay said he’s focusing on fundamentals? Too bad these veterans slept through that lesson! Hernandez-gone! Roberts-gone! Niedermeyer-gone!

There is no way this guy is staying on the rotation. I think I’m paraphrasing someone else here who said better to let one of these young guys develop , improve and lose the game for us than to have Trachsel mess it up with no benefit to the organization. If Toronto can eat Frank Thomas’ salary, and let him go we should do the same with Trachsel. I’m going to go out on a limb and say nobody wants Steve Trachsel in any sort of trade. Maybe Sir Sidney wants back to Baltimore. That was a joke; not as funny as Ramon Hernandez’s base running. What’s with the O’s on the bases lately?

It’s just a matter of time before Old Turtle falls asleep in between pitches.

But I just don’t hate the guy. He did well for us last year and his demeanor hasn’t changed at all. The guy isn’t pitching well this year because he is nearly forty years old, and those guys are supposed to hit the spots and he just can’t do that. I just can’t find the energy to give him slack though, he is trying as hard as he can and isn’t making dumb mistakes like balks or not covering the bag. He walks a ton of guys because he has to nibble the entire batters box as batters are tempted to swing at every 35 mph ball that he throws.

anybody read connolly today? rubbish. the argument is basically that the o’s need trachsel not b/c of veteran leadership, but b/c of stability. w/o citing numbers he says he gave them quality innings most of the time. just looking at game logs for trax from last year, his ratio of quality starts to non q/s is about even. same could be said for burres. cabrera was about 15 qs to 20 non-qs while of every start logged by guts, only 5 were not quality.

i mean, cabrera, burres and guts are not babies. 26, 28 and 29? carbrera’s been up w/ the big club for 4 years? c’mon, dude. trax doesn’t deserve a roster spot.