Friday Bird Droppings: Orioles Links and News
by Camden Chat on Nov 13, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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A Minor Review of ‘09: Baltimore Orioles
FanGraphs gives their opinion on Matt Wieters, Brandon Waring, Billy Rowell, Caleb Joseph, and Brandon Erbe. -Stacey
SAL renews president's contract.
The South Atlantic League Board of Owners and Directors, during their 2009 Fall Meetings in Lexington, Kentucky, voted unanimously to extend the contract of President Eric Krupa for 2 years, through October 2012. Krupa was hired by the league in 2007 to succeed John Henry Moss, the league's founder and leader for 50 years. -duck
Catching up with Gary Cates, ex-Shorebird
Gary Cates holds the record for the most games played with the Shorebirds. You gotta like a guy who lists his third favorite memory of playing for Delmarva as "Squirming around at second base because Willie Harris put Icy Hot in my socks as a prank." -duck
Ripken to be keynote speaker at Red Cross Evening of Stars
Cal gets his charity on. -Stacey
Right Off Russell » Matt Wieters Facts Contest
Right Off Russell is having a contest and the winner gets their very own Matt Wieters Facts t-shirt. Just submit your own MWF and if it's selected as the best, you win! -Stacey
Yankees to inquire about Roy Halladay - SI.com
It is not even a slight exaggeration when I say that if Roy Halladay becomes a Yankee I will vomit. -Stacey
2009 Silver Slugger teams announced
Congrats to Nats 3B Ryan Zimmerman on his first silver slugger. See the link for the full list. -Stacey
Report: John Wetteland Taken to Hospital With 'Mental Issue'
Mariners bullpen coach and former Yankees closer John Wetteland was described in a phone call to the police as "possibly suicidal." No news on his current condition. -Stacey
Riggleman gets Nationals managing job for 2010
Jim Riggleman beat out Bobby Valentine for the Nats managing job. Maybe this is just the thing the team needs to turn itself around. -Stacey
Celizic: MLB needs Cuban to breathe new life into game
That's what baseball needs: Mark Cuban! -duck
Hudson agrees on $28M, 3-year deal with Braves | ajc.com
The Braves have officially signed Tim Hudson. Good for them. -Stacey
Well Clarice -- have the Open Threads stopped screaming?
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Seriously, Gary Cates?
“Favorite MLB team? New York Yankees
Favorite Current/All-time MLB player? Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly "
by NewYorkOriole on Nov 13, 2009 7:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
There's a reason he never made it to the majors
…He’s not that good at baseball.
Oh, and he’s a stinking MFY fan.
Meanwhile, I assume that Stacey meant to switch to the sarcasm font for the blurb on Riggleman. The only thing that I can imagine is that the Nats’ decision makers have confused him with John Riggins and they think he’ll attract diehard Redskins fans to their empty mallpark.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Nov 13, 2009 8:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I assumed y'all would pick up on my tone
You’re smart cookies.
Some Day, Matt Wieters Will Make The Cooperstown Crowd Laugh By Talking About The Time He Batted Behind Melvin Mora And Luke Scott. -Keith Law via Matt Wieters Facts
by Stacey on Nov 13, 2009 8:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Now that I reread it
You’ve got plausible deniability. All you said was “maybe” he would turn the team around. You know, just like “maybe” Luis Matos will be voted into the Orioles Hall of Fame some day. ;)
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Nov 13, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And when you toss yours at the Halladay signing, are we talking chunky style or creamy smooth here?
Actually, free Pepto for the whole media contingent before that press conference might not be a bad idea…
"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 Nov 13, 2009 3:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I thought the quote was funny
and I like promoting stuff from the Shorebirds site ’cause I live down here. So sue me. :)
"I would approve signing a pitcher that ate kitten tacos if he won 20 games a year." -BPinOK
by duck on Nov 13, 2009 8:26 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Billy Rowell
It’s hard for me not to obsess about Billy Rowell. Was he universally regarded as a hot prospect at the time, or was he more of a Matt Hobgood pick, something of a surprise to the baseball world?
by BaltoBen on Nov 13, 2009 10:00 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
"That's what baseball needs: Mark Cuban!"
Yesss! And Mikhail Prokhorov!!! Mutt ‘n’ Jeff, Ren and Stimpy, Captain Mouth-off and New Russian Mega-Sleaze! (I’m not really sure those girls were “students and models”, y’know…)
"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 Nov 13, 2009 11:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
The good news is, with Prokhorov around, Sid won't be terrorizing swimmers with his Jet-Ski any more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7OYLWHtCDk
"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 Nov 13, 2009 11:26 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Boy, I tell you
if the MFY get Halladay, I would very seriously have to consider giving up. It seems like I say that with every player they target, but it’s really starting to build up and wear me down.
"I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars ... and you. What else you need to know?"
by Andrew @ TLC on Nov 13, 2009 11:45 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Halladay might be the one...
that sends me to not caring as much myself.
"I would approve signing a pitcher that ate kitten tacos if he won 20 games a year." -BPinOK
by duck on Nov 13, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What if they get Halladay and Holliday???
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 12:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that'd be quite confusing
I now have a blog: http://justanotherbaltimoresportsblog.blogspot.com/
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Nov 13, 2009 2:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well that would be quite the holiday
and i would just give up. its totally fucking outrageous to buy every good player in baseball.
by twistedlogic on Nov 13, 2009 2:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It's probably not THAT unlikely either. haha
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 3:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah...that's what really worries me
"I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars ... and you. What else you need to know?"
by Andrew @ TLC on Nov 13, 2009 3:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
if that really happens though ti will just be a complete joke.
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 3:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Actually...
it will be that much sweeter when Brian Matusz shuts them out 3 times at New Yankee Workshop next season
"I would approve signing a pitcher that ate kitten tacos if he won 20 games a year." -BPinOK
by duck on Nov 13, 2009 3:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Last night I was talking to someone
About how even if they don’t get Halladay in a trade they’ll probably sign him after 2010 anyway as a FA. I had a flashforward of next year’s offseason where the Yankees sign Joe Mauer and Roy Halladay and it was a horrible feeling.
Some Day, Matt Wieters Will Make The Cooperstown Crowd Laugh By Talking About The Time He Batted Behind Melvin Mora And Luke Scott. -Keith Law via Matt Wieters Facts
by Stacey on Nov 13, 2009 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey everyone! The O's are ready to compete!
Whats that? The Yankees signed Mauer and Halladay? Oh…. nevermind.
by daveh873 on Nov 13, 2009 1:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't Pujols a free agent that year too...
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 1:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
hmm...cant play both tex and pujols at 1b
guess pujols would be DHing
by twistedlogic on Nov 13, 2009 2:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that lineup would win every fantasy baseball league int he world
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 3:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
seriously
just draft the fucking yankees and you’ll lead every fucking category.
by twistedlogic on Nov 13, 2009 9:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
wait...
you’re saying any fantasy baseball player could do Cashman’s job? Whoa…
by daveh873 on Nov 13, 2009 10:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
naw
i was saying that with a yankees lineup featuring a-fraud, tex, pujols, halladay, holliday, and rivera, you should just draft yankees players. you’d be guaranteed to win your league.
by twistedlogic on Nov 14, 2009 8:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I know
I was just inferring that all Cashman really does is pick the best fantasy line-up and sign the checks. Its not that tough. He hasnt really had to piece together a team since the mid 90’s.
by daveh873 on Nov 14, 2009 10:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
its okay
i saw on sportscenter that the yanks will “be more thrifty” in free agency this year. yea…sure….
by twistedlogic on Nov 14, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I believe it
they already bought everyone good. Just getting Lackey and Holliday is more thrifty than getting Tex, AJ, and CC, right?
by daveh873 on Nov 14, 2009 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
haha
i was thinking that myself. sooner or later, they wont have anyone to play as their roster will include ever player in major league baseball
by twistedlogic on Nov 14, 2009 9:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Except Adam Jones!
"I would approve signing a pitcher that ate kitten tacos if he won 20 games a year." -BPinOK
by duck on Nov 15, 2009 8:18 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Thankfully Pujols isn't going to leave the Cardinals
It would be mass hysteria if he did, and by all accounts he loves playing there. And the Cardinals are a competitive team every year so he knows he’ll win. Plus the Cardinals have a very rich history themselves so there isn’t that whole being part of the tradition thing going on. And I’d imagine Albert knows he has a good thing going being the biggest fish in that pond.
But yeah, if the Yankees signed Pujols I’d probably give up on baseball altogether and become a soccer fan.
Some Day, Matt Wieters Will Make The Cooperstown Crowd Laugh By Talking About The Time He Batted Behind Melvin Mora And Luke Scott. -Keith Law via Matt Wieters Facts
by Stacey on Nov 13, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You say that like it's a fact though.
I would say he’s 75% going to stay in STL, but it makes tons of sense for him to say that he’s going to stay in STL up until the last possible minute when the Yankees throw Fort Knox at him.
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I have to say it like that
Because I can’t allow myself to imagine a world where Albert Pujols is a Yankee.
Some Day, Matt Wieters Will Make The Cooperstown Crowd Laugh By Talking About The Time He Batted Behind Melvin Mora And Luke Scott. -Keith Law via Matt Wieters Facts
by Stacey on Nov 13, 2009 3:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Y'know when NASA bombed the moon, they were looking for water..
I now have a blog: http://justanotherbaltimoresportsblog.blogspot.com/
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Nov 13, 2009 2:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
what the hell time does school get out??
by O'sFan21 on Nov 13, 2009 3:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
High School let out at 2:30 back in the day
although probably closer to 2, since they start at like 7:20AM nowadays
by PhilR8 on Nov 13, 2009 4:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Always got out at 2:15pm
And if I’d had an Orioles message board to go post on in 1999 I probably could have been posting by 2:51 too.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Nov 13, 2009 4:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
it was 2:00 for like my first few years
and then they decided we were cheating the system by 20 minutes a day so we went to school ten minutes earlier and got out at 2:10
by Steve. on Nov 13, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We're 3:00
and start at 8:00. What the hell is wrong with my county????
"I would approve signing a pitcher that ate kitten tacos if he won 20 games a year." -BPinOK
by duck on Nov 13, 2009 5:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
my hs used to get out at 4 so consider yourself lucky
cross country practice used to get me home at around 8pm
by twistedlogic on Nov 13, 2009 9:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My sister teaches middle school in Brighton, NY (just east of Rochester). First period: 7:10. That's a.m.
Just how much World History you can impart to 13 yr olds before sunrise is, how you say, a debatable point. Even more curious, p’haps, is the rationale the board uses: they save X money this way on…bus drivers. No sh*t, that’s the deal.
I admit, I have taught Russian at 8 a.m. (undergrads) and 8:25 (h.s.) — but in both cases it was largely on autopilot. The idea of starting a class at 7:10 is laughable.
"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 Nov 14, 2009 12:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
OK, for those of you who made big rubles last week off the sweep -- U R velkom, as my students say. This week: uh, yeah...
I’m not so sure. Maybe halve your bets, double down, lay off a few points somewhere, something: this is a tough week…
- Yeah, starting with the book on Snodfart @ SC, in the Coliseum. The spread has been moving steadily all week— um, the wrong way, from 11.5 to 13 now. And the scary thing is, I don’t know why. Not a clue.
Sure, SC has the best roster, player-for-player/position-by-position, in the country; so what? They’ve played two very sub-par games (losses) and scored one [1 ] OFF TD last week in a major non-thrilluh. A low-end mediocre Stanford team about half as good as this (ranked!) one beat a similarly stacked SC in the colisuem in ‘07 (the greatest upset in point-spread history at -41; and I’m on record as calling that low, “more like 50”) . Anyway, unless you know something I don’t, take Stanford to beat -13 in a game which could easily go 90 pts.
- Somewhat easier to call (well, marginally) is ‘Zona by two over Cal at Bezerkely. Go with Cal (and Best), probably sizeably, although yeah, this is not really an analyzable team, I’ve decided. Their paper selves and field selves have basically a nodding acquaintance, seldom getting together. I happen to think they will this afternoon.
- This week’s Bad Dog at Home: Who really thinks UCLA is 18 better than Wazzoo up there in, what is it, Palouse-ville? This is an awful team which can make you money (and did) by losing by less than 27 to Notre Dump. Hee-hee, bet ’em again, arf-arf!
"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 Nov 14, 2009 1:32 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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