Saturday Bird Droppings

by Camden Chat on Oct 17, 2009 9:00 AM EDT in Open Threads

Yankees' Sabathia stops Angels cold in opener, 4-1

CC Sabathia was really good. John Lackey wasn't. Ball game. -duck

The Dodgers won on a bases-loaded walk. Hey, I'll take it. -duck

O's on Deck: Arizona Fall League recap - Oct. 16

Josh Bell went 3 for 4 and some kid named Strasburg started. Never heard of him. -duck

"MASN's Rick Dempsey has agreed to participate in the second annual "Dancing for the Arts" on Nov. 21 at the Residents' Club at Bulle Rock. It's a dancing competition and gala fundraiser that runs from 7 p.m. until midnight, and proceeds raised will help to build a Center for the Arts in Harford County." So many ways to go with this. Do I make fun of Rick Dempsey's dancing, or the idea of a cultural center in Harford County? Which one, which one... -duck

With front office staffed, Nationals turn to manager's job

The Nationals realized they need a manager before Opening Day, and are probably going to name one. Maybe. -duck

FROM THE ARCHIVES - The Globe and Mail
40 YEARS AGO: New York went out of its mind as the once lowly baseball Mets won the World Series from the Baltimore Orioles. An avalanche of ticker tape engulfed Manhattan moments after the Mets took the series by winning the fifth game 5-3. "Bee-oo-tee-ful," was the reaction from Shea Stadium to Staten Island, in an impromptu explosion of acclaim seldom if ever matched in the past. George Washington's statue across from the Stock Exchange suddenly was revealed with a Mets pennant stick in the outstretched right hand. Total strangers embraced, construction workers cheered from on high amid the bare bones of new office buildings, and cars stopped in traffic were rocked by passersby. -zk

Orioles bid concessions at Camden Yards - Baltimore Business Journal:
The Baltimore Orioles are bidding out the food and beverage concessions contract at Oriole Park at Camden Yards for the first time in the ballpark’s 17-year history. Aramark’s 15-year deal with the Orioles ended in 2007 and the two sides have since worked on a year-by-year contract. But the club is now taking bids to see what other options are out there, team spokesman Greg Bader said. -zk

One more loss! One more loss which could've been a win! And you call yourselves professionals. I have never, ever seen a worse group of twenty-five players! You don't think as a team, you don't play as a team, you don't even LOSE as a team! You've all got your heads so far up your Open Thread, you can't even see the light of day!

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Damn

The Desert Dogs must be unstoppable

Ray Rice is so agile. He's a whole new breed for agile you need a new word to describe his agility... UBER-AGILITY!

by BaltimoreSportsFan on Oct 17, 2009 9:27 AM EDT reply actions

Matsui's RBI "single" was as good an argument for the Team Error as you're gonna see. Key-ripes, c'mon...

And this just in:Tim McCarver’s expert commentary remains as good an argument for capital punishment as you’re gonna hear. What an unenlightening, unentertaining, fact-challenged doof (“The Yankees played in Shea Stadium in 1976”).

Why isn’t he paired with, um, You Know Who broadcasting the Venezuelan Central League playoofs? Him ‘n’ Ferd were just made for each other!

"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 Oct 17, 2009 10:06 AM EDT reply actions

Bet my lines & win enough to send your kid to college...

…if you’re happy with the American University of Ciudad Juarez, or perhaps a fine junior college with a strong emphasis on mainstreaming recidivists. But to business:

SC favored by 10.5 at Notre Doof. Take SC, duh. Are you kidding? What? Yes, they beat UW in S. Bend, which beat SC in Seattle. And? Is this your first time? Did you fall asleep during the last class?

’Zona by 4 over Stanford in Tucson. Not an easy call, but I sez Snodfart beats that spread. They pretty much need this for a bowl, which they seem to really want. Welp, get out there and want. A rainstorm would help their match-ups, although the last rainstorm in Tucson may have been in the late ’50s.

Cal by 3.5 over UCLA. Another tough one to handicap, with two quixotic teams. I’d pick Cal in a minute at Bezerkeley, but it’s down south. OK, I still think Cal beats the spread (and wins), but I’m darned nervous about it. Tell your kid that Ciudad Juarez isn’t as bad as it sounds.

Go Angels!

"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 Oct 17, 2009 2:51 PM EDT reply actions