Monday Bird Droppings

I dont think ive seen 2 guys in O’s hats here in the past 6 months and you see 2 in a day. I got back from Baltimore around 7 but unfortunately (maybe fortunately actually…) didnt have tickets or I’d have been there. At least it was an entertaining game for you.

ouch

Yeah Jersey City is pretty bad. The rest of Jersey is ok, espcially as you get more westward – those funny left turn ‘jug-handles’ are crazy, though they make sense…..just different.

you can’t beat the gas price considering they PUMP THE GAS FOR YOU in Jersey! I stopped for gas last night on my way home and almost got out and started pumping it myself before remembering I was in Jersey and that was illegal (or something). Still, that’s pretty cool.

I never thought about that. Looking back I’ve made a lot of rushed U-turns with cars barreling down on me from the other direction… maybe NJ is on to something after all!

My family went to Wildwood/Long Beach Island a few years in a row. We used to go to Rehoboth or Ocean City but we switched to NJ to better accomodate my NY relatives. I was very upset by the switch. And I used to be pissed that we couldn’t afford to go to Cape May and had to go instead to its gross slimy cousin. This year we went back to Ocean City though :)

Can’t say I agree. I haven’t been a fan of any of the towns my friends from college (I went to Penn, so lots of Jersey there) are from. I value diversity and the neighborhoods I’ve visited in NJ have zero.

and it’s really pleasant here. I just moved to Hackettstown (near the Delaware Water Gap) about two years ago from Ithaca, NY. At least I don’t have to shovel the weather, here. Townfolk are ok, but majority are Yankee fans. At least most I’ve met are knowledgeable baseball fans.

…just explaining that in all likelihood, BA would sound blown away by Hobgood if he was taken in the 15-20 range, but won’t sound blown away about him because he was taken at 5.

I think the O’s had a very nice draft, and in Hobgood, Givens, Townsend, Henry, Tolliver, Wirsch, Berry, Cowan, Ohlman, Coffey, Hoppy and Webb we brought in twice as many players with real potential than we did in the 08 draft. Signing Devin Harris would have made a big difference as he would have had the best power potential out of our entire class, but it is interesting to see how the O’s drafted and the prospects they picked up in the Sherrill deal fit into a player development philosophy. There was a big emphasis, in my opinion, in the acquisition of players with strong work ethics and character – Bell, Hobgood, Coffey, and Berry in particular.

My one area of concern is in the bats we are drafting and developing, particularly with regard to power. Of last year’s crop, Avery, Hoes, Miclat and Hudson are all players whose power tools are questionable at best (and nonexistent in the case of Miclat and Hudson). Givens and Webb are also hitters without much power projection but with plus speed, Ohlman’s bat is plus for a catcher but probably not above average elsewhere. Which gives us Townsend as our best power prospect since Rowell (not counting Wieters, of course) and Townsend didn’t show much in Aberdeen. Taken in isolation, none of these things are a cause for concern. But the trend of deemphasizing power in the draft, the failure to sign the power prospects drafted, and the low success rate of power prospects drafted by the O’s in combination gives me a measure of pause. I’m happy with this draft, but I aim to keep an eye on that trend going forward.

LOL
For Redskin fans: Dan Cody was a linebacker out of Oklahoma who shows lots of promise. However by week two of his first three season he became injured. he was never heard form again.

I wondered if you were going to clarify. Luckily I didn’t have to scroll very far.

although it came out up here that he wasnt wearing sweat pants and it was actually jeans, but common belief is still that it was sweats. The fake chinese jerseys are always good for a costume as well. I went as Tony Romo last year using a chinese rip-off, but wore a skirt and carried around a football that I dropped every few minutes. My GF dressed up as Jess Simpson. It was a big hit around these parts.