If not in terms of damage, at least in terms of flat-out brain farts…

But when a player or two give up outs on a nightly basis via poor base running, that’s not fundamental baseball.

When head-to-head matchups are clearly not in your favor, that is not playing the odds, and it is not fundamental baseball. These numbers are available to anyone. You no longer need the Earl Weaver index cards.

I don’t see good teams (unfortunately the red sox are in my local area) make these blunders with such appalling frequency.

Fundamental baseball goes beyond running some good old fashioned infield drills and fungo flys for the outfielders at the start of each series.

Anyhow, always look on the bright side of life… With every bonehead anti-fundamental play they make that leads to a loss, the O’s move up the draft order totem pole. Hope they can draft guys with brains as well as brawn. This team doesn’t seem to have much of either.

At least I’m trying to. But the bullpen decisions, the ridiculous aggressive baserunning mistakes, it’s making it hard. Come on, Dave! I want to believe!

but Jesus Christ. I don’t blame him though.

I’m looking at Samuel and John Shelby As a base coach, your ONLY job is to make sure guys don’t get picked off and run down. I couldn’t manage a major league team, but I could do that. Take away all the baserunning blunders, and Walker can afford to look like an asshole, because he’s got even more insurance.

And Walker does look like an asshole a little too often. he’s been the weak link in the bullpen, and looking a lot like melvin mora, which is to say, sometimes saving runs, sometimes giving them out like candy.