Lot of people don’t care about the sport outside of their team of choice. Me? I watch the postseason no matter who is playing (for the most part – you’ll never catch me watching another NY subway series, though). Sounds like your friend turns off the tv after the Dodgers are eliminated.

In addition to not caring about the rest of baseball, she’s also on the West Coast, and I don’t think they talk about the Orioles too much over there. Probably only exposure to the Orioles is you and ESPN, which usually doesn’t have much nice to say about the Orioles anyway.

You should give her an XM gift sub and tell her that if she wants to continue talking to you, she has to listen to The Show with Dibs and Kennedy. I know you already listen to it, so you know that not only do they try to talk about the entire league and give credit where credit is due, they also love Dave Trembley.

Or you could just delete her email address.

And the NL still stinks in general.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the O’s have a better record than the Dodgers if they played the same schedule.

Also, Ned Colletti is a dum-dum, and Joe Torre’s preference for veterans is hurting him more than it did with the Yanks (the Yanks usually had better veterans than the Dodgers do right now)

when I looked back at last year’s schedule on my office wall to see that on August 10th the O’s were 53-61 while they are only 56-60 this year. It just seems like to me this year’s team has been better. Maybe it’s just that they are moving in the right direction and that makes it easier to watch them. Of course last year’s team only won 19 games over the final two months so that could have something to do with it.

Dodgers: 58-59 in the weak NL West with a $118.5 M payroll, and a free Manny. They may make it to the playoffs but they won’t get far if they do. OPS+ of 88 = really weak offense that shouldn’t be, but is. ERA+ of 121 is the only thing to be jealous of. Juan Pierre. Revolving door at SS.

Orioles: 56-60 with a $67M payroll (including Gibbons and Trax). 2-3 actual MLB level starting pitchers and a revolving door at SS. 104 OPS+ 91 ERA+

I mean, the Orioles are on their way to, what, their 11th losing season in a row, whereas the Dodgers have at least been competitive most of those years.

Sure, the future looks less dire than it usually does, and yeah, they play in a tougher division. But if a frog had wings, it wouldn’t bump its butt on the ground a-hoppin’. Until the O’s actually deliver something better than 4th place (looks like 5th place this year), we aren’t really in a position to complain when fans of other teams look at us with pity.

The Orioles suck, and unfortunately that has yet to change. Sorry if I sound bitter about it, but I was at yesterday’s game….

...who needs the Yankees?

I mean I hear she’s your friend and all, but frankly this person seems a little overly defensive about someone else in her conversation having knowledge of her baseball team. I mean, why react like that? You’re sitting around having a casual chat about the misguided Dodgers and she’s got to pull some sassy bullshit? It’s pretty lame.

Just got traded to the Arizona D-Backs for three players.

They would dominate if they played in the other league—that’s the Japanese Central League, of course.

Holy crap, what kind of dolt is this woman? Has she looked at the interleague, all-star and WS results recently? Does she have a glimmer that she’s watching something that might be called AAA+ baseball , as she condescendingly talks about the “poor Orioles”?

that there was one division all sub .500 and one division all above .500 in the same season?