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Something to keep you interested in the O's this fall.

Oriole1_tiny by zknower on

CCers:

After a bit of trash talking  in a Boston gamethread last week, AMA and I have a bet. To wit:

If the Orioles finish within 15.5 games of the Sox, AMA will not only sponsor some "jabroni ass $5 Oriole" on baseball-reference , WITH an accompanying pro-Oriole message, he will also not visit this site the entire god damn offseason.

Now on the other hand, should the Orioles finish 16 or more games behind the Sox, zknower will sponsor an equivalent Sox jabroni with some kind of pro-Sox message.

It should be fun to watch this one play out. Try to be objective when you choose which side to root for. 

AMA is thinking of having me sponsor Rolando Arrojo if I lose. I'm thinking of saddling him with Bret Barberie or Jim Traber. Your input is welcome. 

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If AMA loses, he should have to sponsor....
  • Bret Barberie
  • JIm Traber
  • Some else (see comment below)
  • Are you a fucking lunatic for making this bet?

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i like the 93-97 scrubs

i guess cause thats when i really started understanding baseball (i was 11-15 years old). others include geronimo berroa, pete incaviglia, leo gomez, jeff reboulet, lenny webster (whom i still havent forgiven for that series vs the indians), Danny Clyburn… i also really liked rich becker beacuse i called him bitch recker.

"Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July." - Earl Weaver

by daveh873 on Jun 17, 2008 12:36 AM EDT   0 recs

Deciding on the player would be too much fun

We should have a poll with a bunch of names to choose from and call it “Which scrub is the most Birdland?” Players from the late ‘80s and early ‘90s would be appropriate since we were generally terrible in those years. I’ll throw a few more out- Craig Worthington, Sam Horn, Jeff Tackett. However, the guy I’d vote for is Rene Gonzales. I was too young at the time to understand the concept of homosexuality, but I vaguely remember random rumors of him and Brady Anderson being lovers.

by Cockeysville Rec Council on Jun 17, 2008 1:24 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Craig Worthington ain't no scrub

And I’m not just saying that because I cornered the market on his rookie card, back in the day.

So far that hasn’t been a great investment. But maybe if more peeps recognize what a great player he was, my fortunes will turn around…

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:47 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I appreciate

your trying to ward off AMA during the offseason. I was unaware he could be bought so cheap. If we’d known about this earlier I would venture we could have raised at least $200-$300 in payoff money to keep him out of here for a few years.

by Jonny Pops on Jun 17, 2008 12:52 AM EDT   0 recs

btw

if you succeed, i shall be your biggest fan. ive never wanted to punch someone in the face more…

"Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July." - Earl Weaver

by daveh873 on Jun 17, 2008 1:09 AM EDT   0 recs

there ya go

I thought that was a fine response, and even mildly humorous. I’ll give it a C, maybe a C+.

If I were you Z, I’d have made the bet that he has to stick to witty put downs and raise his baiting routine up beyond an 8th grade level. An entertaining troll should up the level of discourse, particularly when it comes to talking smack. I prefer a touch of humor and get bored when the discourse degenerates into the same stupid, worn out shit I can hear at the local middle school or high school. That takes no brains. Bonus points if you work in quotes from fine literature into the put downs.

by drj on Jun 17, 2008 10:11 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I love this

This is what I like to see between fans of different teams. Good-spirited wagers and bullshitting.

And as I think I’ve made clear before, I enjoy Mike.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

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Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jun 17, 2008 2:43 AM EDT   0 recs

The Ultimate

www.jimtraber.com

I actually enjoy his radio show most of the time.

I've got two nickels and a paradigm. - RWH

by BPinOK on Jun 17, 2008 10:05 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

awesome...

i mean, barring the possibility of a 9th inning walk off HR by luuuuuuuuukkkke this evening, that may be the best thing i see all day!

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

by j.q. higgins on Jun 17, 2008 10:49 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

YouTube

I can’t access at work but if someone could track down Jim Traber in Japan chasing around a pitcher it is priceless. Should be fairly easy to find.

I've got two nickels and a paradigm. - RWH

by BPinOK on Jun 17, 2008 11:51 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

oh, and

I vote Traber.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

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Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jun 17, 2008 2:43 AM EDT   0 recs

my vote

I immediately thought AMA should sponsor Curt Schilling (former Orioles count right?) and say something like , “Hi, I’m Curt Schilling and I like to primp and preen for the camera.” But alas, somebody is already sponsoring Curt Schilling and the tab is priceless, “Curt never met a buttered roll he didn’t like.” Can multiple people sponsor the same page?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schilcu01.shtml

Wolf, wolf, wolf.

by birdman on Jun 17, 2008 2:56 AM EDT   0 recs

they cannot

Back when I had more disposable money, I sponsored Brian Bob, Loewen and…um, other people I forget for CC. Some a-hole Phillies fan or something got Nick before I could. I was MAD.

Oh, I sponsored Chris Hoiles. Because he’s the shit.

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

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Bad Left Hook

by SC on Jun 17, 2008 3:09 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Also

The Todd.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:48 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

YEEEESSSS?

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:51 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Just to be Debbie Downer....

I thought we had kind of an unspoken agreement to ditch the profanity on anything that appears on the front page.

That said, it’s got to be Larry Sheets. C’mon!

"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 Jun 17, 2008 6:33 AM EDT   0 recs

Agreed.

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 Jun 17, 2008 9:51 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

hmm

well, I didn’t FP this. you gott atalk to da man about that.

by zknower on Jun 17, 2008 6:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Got it

"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 Jun 17, 2008 8:11 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

My vote

Chito Martinez!

"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 Jun 17, 2008 8:58 AM EDT   0 recs

Glen Davis.

"He’s in trouble. Whatever he throws me, I’m going to hit it."
-- Alex Cintron

by BrianS on Jun 17, 2008 9:10 AM EDT   0 recs

We have a winner

"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 Jun 17, 2008 9:38 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

No fucking way

Glenn Davis is just too painful

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 Jun 17, 2008 9:51 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You should spice the wager up...

by throwing in some accompanying side wager w/ consequences regarding Lester vs. Guthrie season end stats.

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 9:16 AM EDT   0 recs

I voted other...

“Bad” Brad Pennington. It’s perfect. He posted the best ERA of his career for the Sawx in 1996: 2.77 in thirteen innings…with a 13/15 K/BB total. Eugh.

by Brotz13 on Jun 17, 2008 9:26 AM EDT   0 recs

Can't visit the site during the offseason

What fun is that? Shouldn’t he have to show up for a week or so and take his shit?

And not to be another Debbie Downer, I don’t see you winning the bet.

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

by BirdFanInPhilly on Jun 17, 2008 9:44 AM EDT   0 recs

For reference

2007: 27 GB
2006: 16 GB of Red Sox, 27 GB of 1st
2005: 21 GB
2004: 20 GB of Red Sox, 23 GB of 1st
2003: 24 GB of Red Sox, 30 GB of 1st

My prediction is Z winning a narrow race. Red Sox will win 96 games and the O’s will win 83.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 9:49 AM EDT   0 recs

OT

Don’t forget to update Cabrera Bowl… z-9, sc-6 now

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:01 AM EDT   0 recs

Something else to keep you interested in the O's this fall.

Yeah. That’s right, I said it.

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:18 AM EDT   0 recs

Sidney Ponson

and what the hell is a jabroni?

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

by exitfare on Jun 17, 2008 10:19 AM EDT   0 recs

Jabroni... per UrbanDictionary.com

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:23 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

sounds kind of white trash

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

by exitfare on Jun 17, 2008 10:29 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hey Z, can we pick the red sox player?

Because once the season wears on, and possibly when the July trade winds blow (so long Danny) and dismantle this team a bit, I’m pretty sure you’ll be on the losing end. I have a good idea for you.

As for sponsoring an Oriole. If it actually happens, I’ll have to give it more thought.

by drj on Jun 17, 2008 10:20 AM EDT   0 recs

Julio Lugo

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

by exitfare on Jun 17, 2008 10:30 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

i like that...

or pokey reese?

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

by j.q. higgins on Jun 17, 2008 10:50 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Cesar Crespo.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 11:55 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

F, I'm late, but Pokey Reese wouldn't be an insult at all.

Hit like crap, ran okay when he got there, fielded like crazy. Pretty much exactly what we could’ve predicted we’d get out of him.

Sox fan, so I shouldn’t have a say, but: Jeremy Giambi.

"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"

by Allen Chace on Jun 29, 2008 3:26 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

we could also mention he is a wife-beater

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

by exitfare on Jun 17, 2008 12:01 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hmm. Then maybe I'll have to sponsor my pick.

As for the bet then, I’m not buying into picking some least favorite player and writing a cheery pro-O’s (or pro-other guys) comment. Hell, I wouldn’t do that myself.

by drj on Jun 17, 2008 9:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

here are my picks

jeff reboulet, rene gonzales, manny alexander

by brek on Jun 17, 2008 10:36 AM EDT   0 recs

Ripken??

Of course not Cal, but what about his brother Billy.

I also like the Manny Alexander suggestion.

A few more: Joe Orsulak, David Segui, Jack Voigt, Jeffery Hammonds.

I guess the list could go on, but those are my favorites.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:47 AM EDT   0 recs

joe orsulak was no jambroni

he was the absolute tits in RF for a year or two

by zknower on Jun 17, 2008 6:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes he was!

Don’t be dissing my man Joe O

"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 Jun 17, 2008 8:12 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

duck, you are saying the same thing

A jambroni is an idiot or a f*ing loser.

by drj on Jun 17, 2008 8:33 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

My guess is

that he was responding to the 2nd line, not the heading.

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Jun 17, 2008 8:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That would be it

I’m not always clear. Sorry.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

What about our old

stumbling bumbling friend Jack Cust?

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:51 AM EDT   0 recs

Actually

One thing the O’s have NOT been this year is uninteresting! Lots more fun following them this year than in a long time.

"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street

by BirdFanLA on Jun 17, 2008 10:53 AM EDT   0 recs

Rocky Coppinger
Jose Mercedes
Bruce Chen
Walter Young
Geronimo Gil
Calvin Pickering

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:54 AM EDT   0 recs

you forgto

Rodrigo Lopez and Sir Sidney the judge puncher.

"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 Jun 17, 2008 10:55 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Steve Kline

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 10:59 AM EDT   0 recs

best suggestion so far

along with Sir Sid

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

by exitfare on Jun 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Steve Reed

Heathcliff Slocumb
Willis Roberts
Terry Mathews
Kent Mercker

CHUCK MCELROY

Jamie Walker T-shirts: http://www.cafepress.com/beltwaysports

by CStoneNo37 on Jun 17, 2008 11:15 AM EDT   0 recs

TERRY CROWLEY

"Chickens are hard to catch." Jennifer Scott (Luuuuuuuke's Mom)

by dayzd toe on Jun 17, 2008 11:16 AM EDT   0 recs

Terry Crowley

is lucky he’s on the f-ing baseball-reference website.

I've got two nickels and a paradigm. - RWH

by BPinOK on Jun 17, 2008 11:18 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

+1

"He’s in trouble. Whatever he throws me, I’m going to hit it."
-- Alex Cintron

by BrianS on Jun 17, 2008 12:05 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Weave

Earl Weaver loves Terry Crowley! They send postcards to each other.

by blawk359 on Jun 19, 2008 1:49 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Old school for my picks

For ZK I’m going with Bobby Sprowl, the rookie who started in the ‘78 Boston Massacre series becuase Don Zimmer was pissed off at Bill Lee.

And for AMA who else but Duck’s perennial all star favourite – Lee May.

You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.

by sluggo 2.0 on Jun 17, 2008 2:47 PM EDT   0 recs

if he loses, can Z sponsor Jim Rice...

with the phrase “No, I don’t belong in the Hall of Fame. the only reason my name is constantly brought up is because of all the self-important formerly racist jerk-off media types in Boston”?

oh, and AMA can sponsor Juan Bell.

by Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball on Jun 17, 2008 3:59 PM EDT   0 recs

Do you

not understand the concept of the bet?

by Awesome Mike Awesome on Jun 17, 2008 5:13 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

i understand

but i like to denigrate Jim Rice and self-serving Boston media types whenever i can.

by Dave at Bottomfeeder Baseball on Jun 17, 2008 5:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Jim Rice was awesome

but probably a little short of HoF awesome, in this Red Sox fan’s opinion.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Jun 17, 2008 6:14 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Perhaps showing my age, but...

My picks would be Kiko Garcia, Benny Ayala and Len Sakata.

by Lothar on Jun 17, 2008 4:20 PM EDT   0 recs

Kiko was no jabroni

"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 Jun 17, 2008 8:13 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You should have him sponsor

John Parrish.

Wait, what?

By the way, 16 games? I know the O’s are improving-and it’s cool that they are-but I’m worried zknower should have got a little larger spread. I’m not trying to be a prick, I’m just saying that, as someone who bet that the Royals would win more games than the Cubs last year, that you shouldn’t listen to me (oops, I seem to have lost my train of thought). I guess zknower is more of an optimist than most.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Jun 17, 2008 6:17 PM EDT   0 recs

more like it's the bet I was offered.

I wanted to bet the O’s vs. Red Sox head-to-head, but AMA was having none of it.

by zknower on Jun 17, 2008 6:44 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oh I know he offered

it, I wasn’t critiquing you. Just sayin’ that he gave you some questionable odds.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Jun 17, 2008 8:21 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

hilarious bet..

i don’t mind having AMA on here though…

by the way, i pick jeff reboulet as well. Him or Pete Inky.. but I liked Incaviglia.

by Y Not on Jun 17, 2008 11:57 PM EDT   0 recs

hey, just came to mind...

what about horseface?

"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 5/17

by daveh873 on Jun 18, 2008 8:35 AM EDT   0 recs

Yeah

That is a good one. But I’m sticking with fish face.

by blawk359 on Jun 19, 2008 1:46 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

wtf!?

just checked out gibbs. $15!? guess thats why he’s unsponsored.

"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17

by daveh873 on Jun 24, 2008 9:39 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I humbly submit Jim Brower for the committee's consideration.

"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 Jun 18, 2008 1:55 PM EDT   0 recs