he’ll get hurt in the third inning after loading the bases three times on walks and not allowing any runs.

dd’s adherence to principles can be irritating, but he’s not a shithead about ‘em. i mean, i think he appreciated what luis squared did last year and wanted to give him every chance to hold down the starting job, but has ultimately come to the realization that he is crap. i would be very surprised if luis squared starts regularly again aside from absolute necessity.

my point is, i think your spot on w/ trax. in spite of his peripherals, he did manage to keep the o’s in a lot of games last year, and i think dd want to give him the benfit of the doubt, but they can only keep in the rotation so long if the youngsters are ready to run circles around him and he’s not producing.

He had 3.141592653589793238462 years of service….

Once bitten, twice shy.

And not in a gay Great White kind of way, but in a wise old adage kind of way.

Hope it continues.

I remember earlier this season when the O’s were down by a lot and SC said “the Orioles are gonna win this game. I can feel it.” And guess what? The Orioles won. He’s not a jinx. He endows the Orioles with awesome powers of winningness.

I kept singing Boom, boom, boom…to the John Lee Hooker tune only to remember about the 8th inning that the lyrics were Bang and not Boom.

p.s. unfortunately I had little to drink but I do like JLH.

Does anyone remember during last years inter-league series verse the Padres the announcers gave Bynum the nickname ‘shoes’ because of his orange shoes. I liked it. Its stuck in my head.

Someone over at orioles.com should update that All Star ballot banner to remove Luis from the SS category. Mybe they should just leave that box blank for now.

that they were almost exterminated in Europe right after the turn of the century but have been reintroduced and I’ve attached a picture of one. Hey, if it’s on Al Gore’s intronets it’s gotta be true.