And I’ll be cheering. He was our best player when he was here, and we got a handful of players for him that are useful now and might be useful in the near future. Sure, he pouted and dogged it when the team stunk, but let’s be honest. It’s been depressing and frustrating to follow the teams that Flanattiequette put on the field…could it be any less frustrating to play with those guys?

Besides, Miggy complained about the front office, but I never heard him rip the fans. I say we take the high road. Save your venom for the asswipes who really deserve it, like Sidney, after he signs with Seattle.

His beef was with the front office. The fans wanted the same thing he did. When it was clear the O’s weren’t getting better, he ultimately got what he wanted – out of a nutball franchise. Hopefully the O’s got a few useful players in return (and have turned the corner on being nutballs).

Polite applause is fine.

But no booing, please. His 150 RBI season was a pleasure to watch. Overall, he played pretty damn well as an Oriole. I have no ill will against Miggy. The losing sapped his spirit. I’d prefer an Adam Jones type of attitude but oh well.

Javy was good for a couple of seasons, and Ramon’s first year was excellent.

we’re going to go hard for Vlad Guerrero

We did go after hard for Guerrero. We had the highest offer on the table. He wanted to live in an area with Hispanic population though.

He was a pain in some ways, but it can’t be denied that he was what the O’s paid for: a top tier SS with a great bat and a shaky glove.

the booing was pretty heavy. i was surprised. the huff furor has totally subsided and he got a pretty sustained round of cheering after his jack.

The Sun-The problem is, he played during the club’s nadir, when fans had become disenchanted and uninterested in the club’s continual fourth-place finishes.

Was that Tejada’s fault?

Absolutely not, he said pre-game. “It had to be unfair [criticism],” Tejada said. “You see what I do every day. I come to the ballpark and play like a champion. And this game is all about pitching.”

Tejada’s not one to rip others – he talked continually about how he loved Baltimore and the fans and his old teammates.

But don’t pin the losing on him. That doesn’t sit well.

“The reason we aren’t winning [in Baltimore] is because we don’t have a team to compete with the Yankees and Boston,” Tejada said. “That’s why [the Orioles] are not winning. ... They have to have a team to compete with those people to be a champion. That’s why we were always in last place. It’s not because of me.”

The next part was the most telling. Tejada posed his own question.

“Are they still in first place now?” Tejada asked about the Orioles. When told they weren’t, that they were in fourth entering last night, Tejada shrugged, as if to say, “Exactly.”

Last I recall, we didn’t pick Miggi up in the 1997 offseason. What happened to actual reporting in the News? I mean who would even pose the question that the losing was his fault? I just don’t get it.

I didn’t get a chance to go the the game, but I would likely have politely applauded and maybe yelled “Thanks Miggi” for the few years of trying to make our club better, but more so for continuing to be decent enough to get us Luke Scott, George Sherrill, Costanzo, Patton, and Albers(right?). So in the end, it worked out well for all involved. Thanks Miggi.