I’ve been meaning to write this post myself for at least a week. Though you threw in much more profanity than I would have used, for which you are to be commended. The most disturbing thing this season has been the regression of Nick Markakis, if you ask me. And he’s the one guy that’s always praising the Crow. Sheesh.

he’s lucky to be in fucking baseball!

Guthrie is pitching against Wakefield. The ACE of the red sox staff (with his 4.70 ERA and 1.39 WHIP). The bats are due for a worse snooze fest than they’ve been in.

Anyhow, I find it interesting that the O’s are willing to jettison managers and pitching coaches for lack of on-field performance, and one could easily argue that they had no talent to work with. The O’s cleaned house in the minor leagues. It’s getting to the point where the two constants throughout all the inept baseball we’ve watched for a decade are Angelos and Crowley.

to get Jim Palmer to quit calling The Crow “good” or “one of the best?” I know he can’t just throw the guy under the bus but he is a little ridiculous. I’m not sure Crowley has ever sniffed mediocre much less good.

The Mets fired him last year and replaced him with Rickey Henderson (and then they handed the division to the Phillies).

I always figured a successful pinch hitter would be better at being a hitting coach than Crowley. The Orioles seem to be a team of Rob Deers and completely unable to not swing at a bad pitch.

Trembley’s new mantra-

That was the plan… let’s work the count and let’s see if we can get ourselves into some good hitting counts… especially early in the game.

but if we’re going to destroy him for the horrible numbers, shouldnt he get some praise for any good ones (such as the o’s being 4th in the AL in HR’s) I’m not saying he’s really any good, but lets give the guy a little credit. I feel bad for him. poor dude.

he needs to be banned from the Majors

Custer needed more Indians. Er, Native Americans.

Ok. Fair enough. Let me show off similar stats, this time with our team pitching over the past years:

2007 5.17 13
2006 5.35 13
2005 4.56 10
2004 4.70 7
2003 4.76 10
2002 4.46 7
2001 4.67 10
2000 5.14 11

That’s throughly terrible to mediocre at best. Are you telling me that it was totally on Mark Wiley, Ray Miller, Leo Mazzone, and Sammy Ellis. These guys (maybe not Ellis…) have tremendous reputations, especially Miller and Mazzone, but they didn’t have the talent here to make it work.

The reasoning is simple, because either the players sucked (Sir Ponson, Jason Johnson, Omar Daal, etc….) or the coaching just didn’t click with the good pitchers (Mazzone and Cabrera, for example) which just messed them up further.

Well, is Rick Down going to come in here and “click” with Boom Boom Bynum and Melvin Mora and Ramon Hernandez and fix their combined -9 VORP? Uh, no. In fact, the Crow does “click” with Nick the Stick and Brian Roberts (and apparently Luke Scott, based on his outstandingness so far), and the judge is still out on Adam Jones (though Jones does give a lot of credit to Crowley).

I don’t know why the Crow hasn’t been fired yet. His production has been just as bad or worse than the pitching staff, which has gone through plenty of coaching changes, and it looks bad that he’s stuck around so long. But a) I’m sick of just saying “He’s lucky to be in fuckin’ baseball” and then b) pointing to our mediocre offense and saying it’s all his fault when the Talent isn’t there.