Blue Jays 10, Orioles 1: Goodbye, 2008

by SC on Sep 28, 2008 4:25 PM EDT in Post-Game Comment 20 comments

The "Orioles Magic" fell flat in the final month, and the team went out with the whimper it was expected to play with all season.

Final record: 68-93

The O's managed to play 161 games in a 162-game season.

Ryan Braun just went yard to put the Brewers up 3-1 in the 8th. People are crying. Ugly people. Milwaukee-level ugly. It's crazy.

Mets are blowing it again.

Both the Twins and White Sox are winning.

This is a fun day. Smell ya later, 2008 Orioles. I don't have the time right now.

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I'm not even sad

I’m usually sad when the Orioles quit playing. Can’t even care anymore.

We still have the playoffs. If only the Red Sox weren’t going to be in them. That would be so sweet.

Not like I have the time to watch baseball anyway. Sigh.

by pipkin on Sep 28, 2008 4:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Doesn't matter

the Angels will get rid of them soon enough.

Kevbo: [to George Sherrill] George, you look a lot like Vin Diesel...

Flatbill: Let's get somethin' straight... Vin Diesel looks like me.

-From "The Making of Orioles Magic"

by dayzd toe on Sep 29, 2008 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not a minute too soon.

Yet another “year one of the multi-year rebuilding plan” comes to a close. What does a bona-fide year two look like?

Writing is God's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.

by typozzz on Sep 28, 2008 5:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

and the Mets fucking blow it for real

Brewers in the playoffs. Ha!

"Yesterday I was lying, today I am telling the truth." -- Bob Arum

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by SC on Sep 28, 2008 5:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

That's awesome

Shea Stadium WILL NOT be missed. What a dump.

"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 28, 2008 7:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank gosh

my knee jerk “Brewers for the WS!” statement was starting to look a wee bit doubtful.

A mind without purpose will walk in dark places.

by NHZ on Sep 29, 2008 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's over?

Thank God. Now I can start paying attention to the Orioles again.

by Jonny Pops on Sep 28, 2008 5:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hot stove league baby

trades trades trades

by pipkin on Sep 28, 2008 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Moose wins 20! Congrats to him, and I hope he doesn't retire (which is the prevailing wisdom, apparently)

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.

by Titov on Sep 28, 2008 5:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

he won't retire

i bet he goes for 300

by pipkin on Sep 28, 2008 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

He’d actually be a perfect fit for the Orioles on a one year deal.

by dkdc on Sep 28, 2008 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i dunno if he'd go that far

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Yankees bring him back, anyway. Two year deal or a one year deal with a player option, maybe. Kinda like they did for Andy Pettite.

The Yankees can afford the risks of old players on two year deals, and somebody’s gotta pitch next year, even if they get Sabathia.

by pipkin on Sep 28, 2008 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seriously, congrats

by duck on Sep 28, 2008 7:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Congrats to the Moose!

I’m glad he got it.

[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8

by Stacey on Sep 28, 2008 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dammit!

Way to let me down, Red Sox.

"Whether your name is Gehrig or Ripken, DiMaggio or Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do."

by spike2131 on Sep 28, 2008 9:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was at the suckfest today

And they were selling last year’s programs, apparently hoping no one would notice. No lie.

"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."

by 2632 on Sep 28, 2008 10:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs