GameThread: O's (67-83) @ Blue Jays (81-71)
by SC
on Sep 18, 2008 5:04 PM EDT
Baltimore Orioles @ Toronto Blue Jays
| Today's Starting Pitchers | GS | IP | ERA | WHIP | BAA | HR | BB | K | W-L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Garrett Olson - LH | 24 | 121.0 | 6.84 | 1.77 | .315 | 16 | 56 | 78 | 9-8 |
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Jesse Litsch - RH | 25 (26) | 156.0 | 3.75 | 1.28 | .271 | 19 | 33 | 80 | 11-8 |
A couple of days ago, the O's clinched their 11th straight losing season. Only the Pirates, at 16 and running, have a longer streak currently. People have been born and matured into obnoxious teenagers thinking about where they're going to go to college in the time since the Pirates last went over .500. The Royals are saved from this discussion due to that year they went 83-79, when Tony Pena was the savior of the universe in 2003. Early in 2005, after a 58-104 season in 2004, Pena was relieved of his post.
This current streak of Oriole futility has seen countless fringe players, washed-up bums, and flameout prospects come and go. Ray Miller, Mike Hargrove, Lee Mazzilli, Sam Perlozzo and now Dave Trembley have headed up these teams. One year, the team leader in OPS was Jay Gibbons. He sandwiched a couple of years where an aged Jeff Conine paced the squad. ERA leaders have been Mussina for three years before he got the hell out of here, then a back-and-forth for four years between Jason Johnson and Rodrigo Lopez, followed by Bruce Chen, Erik Bedard (two years), and now Jeremy Guthrie.
We've harbored many a busted or suspected performance-enhancing drug user. We've signed big free agents only to squander their services. A number of old chaps have run the front office, though it looks like we've finally found one who knows what he's doing in Andy MacPhail, disturbing last name or not.
Cal Ripken met the end of his line. Mussina skipped town to New York. Brady Anderson became depressingly washed-up, and very quickly. Palmeiro left in his prime, and came back as an old man, wagging his finger at Congress, then embarrassing himself to a massive degree. We traded for a totally washed-up Sammy Sosa. We gave Corey Patterson a chance. The Albert Belle contract happened. Miguel Tejada happened. Javy Lopez happened. Sidney Ponson happened, got traded, and happened again, this time to disastrous results. Leo Mazzone was brought in to replace Ray Miller and fix the pitching staff, then dumped on his keister, meister, when he couldn't shine the turds sufficiently. Now, Rick Kranitz gets rave reviews while producing similarly awful results (the 2008 O's have the second-worst pitching staff in the American League).
And we're still here. Let's go, O's.
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I just found
Some pretty cool pictures of Brian’s Baseball Bash, I wish that I’d gone. I think I’ll make a fanshot.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on Sep 18, 2008 6:34 PM EDT 0 recs
After reading all that...
pass the Xanax, dude.
"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 Sep 18, 2008 6:54 PM EDT 0 recs
Buck: “Brian, will you sign an extension?”
Brian: “We will entertain the offer.”
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on Sep 18, 2008 7:09 PM EDT 0 recs
Hell, there goes a perfectly acceptable day.
Should I just burn my O’s gear now? How in the hell will this team EVER get any good if we can’t even keep our own guys? Might as well trade him this winter…
"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
Sep 18, 2008 7:13 PM EDT
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I can't tell if your being sarcastic.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on
Sep 18, 2008 7:40 PM EDT
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About burning my O's stuff? Yeh.
About trading Roberts? Not in the least. If he doesn’t want to resign, there’s no way he should break ST with us next year…
"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
Sep 18, 2008 7:42 PM EDT
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Unfortunately
I think that he will be here next year; to me the only positive to come out of the Brian Roberts situation is dealing him for prospects. I can’t see him resigning with us unless the O’s offer far and away more money than the Yankees and others, and plus I just don’t see him helping a contending team in 2010/2011.
Don’t get me wrong, Brian is one of my favorite players to watch but I just want this team to have an overwhelming future where they are in the position to contend for years to come.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on
Sep 18, 2008 7:48 PM EDT
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Brian seemed really uncomfortable answering that question.
"You have to discipline yourself so you don't come out with something just to say you made a trade. You have to make sure you come out better than you were before." - Andy MacPhail, 7/31/08
by getxstoked on
Sep 18, 2008 7:14 PM EDT
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While I've got your attention...
Have you been following any of the outrage over the mixing of the new Metallica CD? Apparently, the folks at Guitar Hero III got the pre-mastered mix, and the mix used in the game is vastly superior to the final mix on the CD, which was brick-walled within a inch of its life. Too bad there’s not some sort of program or community where one could, oh, I don’t know, share those types of files with others under the title “Metallica – Death Magnetic (GH3)”…
"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
Sep 18, 2008 7:24 PM EDT
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I just heard about that actually...
I may be searching some places to get the better mix…and I may try and cop the LP of it in the next couple days…
"You have to discipline yourself so you don't come out with something just to say you made a trade. You have to make sure you come out better than you were before." - Andy MacPhail, 7/31/08
by getxstoked on
Sep 18, 2008 9:50 PM EDT
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LP has the same problem
It’s in the master mix. The Guitar Hero guys got a preliminary mix, not the final brickwalled mix.
Go HERE to see it. Use the high quality option. He shows the massive compression on the CD/LP/iTunes version vs the Guitar Hero version as the video as the relevant audio is playing.
"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
Sep 18, 2008 9:57 PM EDT
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Thigpen, Thigpen...
Didn’t he used to play the organ for the Grateful Dead?
by fishoutawata on Sep 18, 2008 7:42 PM EDT 0 recs
Did anyone just hear what Buck Martinez said?
They showed a fair skinned child of asian descent for the “Who Am I?” section and Buck guessed Guillermo Quiroz.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on Sep 18, 2008 7:51 PM EDT 0 recs
so I got HD hooked up today finally
As I’ve just recently gotten an HDTV (nothin’ special, was a necessity as old TV died). I’m watching the White Sox and Yankees on WGN HD. Mussina’s paleness translates poorly. Or well. I don’t know.
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by SC on Sep 18, 2008 7:52 PM EDT 0 recs
both pitchers have settled in.
Come back in the 6th. That’s traditionally when the when the wheels will fall off the Olsen bus
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by typozzz on
Sep 18, 2008 8:15 PM EDT
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*Olson (not Olsen, like Mary-Kate)
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by typozzz on
Sep 18, 2008 8:16 PM EDT
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Litsch is in trouble.
Bags loaded on a walk. Nicky is up.
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by typozzz on Sep 18, 2008 8:28 PM EDT 0 recs
*Cintron up.
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by typozzz on
Sep 18, 2008 8:29 PM EDT
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Woot!
2 -1.
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by typozzz on Sep 18, 2008 8:29 PM EDT 0 recs
another note on this Yankees game
Forgive me, it’s the only ballgame I have in HD right now and this is new for me.
Anyway, there’s a fat guy in the stands in a John Cena shirt and one of those dopey fashion Yankees caps.
World’s biggest dickhead, upper deck at Yankee Stadium.
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by SC on Sep 18, 2008 8:29 PM EDT 0 recs
I have it on WGN HD
And won’t have YES HD unless Extra Innings carries their HD that night. EI needs more HD.
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by SC on
Sep 18, 2008 8:38 PM EDT
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It coulda been better
But DD doesn’t take the bat out of the hands of an imbecile like Santos, who doesn’t get that you take pitches when a guy is having trouble finding the plate.
by fishoutawata on Sep 18, 2008 8:31 PM EDT 0 recs
And now, we give it back
Hitting the first batter is a great way to start, especially if he is a .125 hitter!
by fishoutawata on Sep 18, 2008 8:33 PM EDT 0 recs
OK, nice job, Mary Kate
digging your way out of a hole of your own making. But still.
by fishoutawata on
Sep 18, 2008 8:39 PM EDT
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Good night Mary-Kate.
Will you ever see the end of the 7th inning? We just don’t know.
Writing is God's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.
by typozzz on Sep 18, 2008 8:58 PM EDT 0 recs
Yup, it's time...
The wheels are falling the fuck off. Right on time.
"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 Sep 18, 2008 8:59 PM EDT 0 recs
I BUILT THIS BUS
"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum
by SC on
Sep 18, 2008 9:01 PM EDT
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The depth of your pop culture knowledge
is simply terrifying, I tell ya.
"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
Sep 18, 2008 9:03 PM EDT
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Marco Scutaro
Is the epitome of mediocrity.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on Sep 18, 2008 9:12 PM EDT 0 recs
In other news,
Curt Schilling cannot shut the fuck up.
by zknower on Sep 18, 2008 9:39 PM EDT 0 recs
This just in...
the sun rises in the east. And water’s wet.
"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
Sep 18, 2008 9:39 PM EDT
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This is getting good.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get ahold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -Earl Weaver
by Baltimo on Sep 18, 2008 9:41 PM EDT 0 recs
And then it wasn't
Damn.
"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
Sep 18, 2008 9:45 PM EDT
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