Putting the 2009 Season to Bed

by Stacey on Nov 5, 2009 12:39 AM EST in News Comment 28 comments

The New York Yankees are the World Champions for 2009, their 27th World Series win. Yup, they were the best team money could buy all right. Congrats to Jerry Hairston, Jr. at any rate.

With the 2009 season officially over we can now turn our attention to the Hot Stove and what Andy MacPhail will do to improve the Orioles for the 2010 season. I find the off season to be great and frustrating at the same time. The idea of trades and free agents and building a team is exciting, but sometimes it all seems so slow as we wait for Spring Training.

2010 is going to be a very big year for the Orioles development into a contender. The youngsters will have to show improvement and the front office will have to find ways to fill the holes. Next year is the time for getting better. Much better.

So let's get started! There are just 152 days until Opening Day.

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I love the

off-season and all the rumors. Gives me something to research during these crappy winter months :-(

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by Michael18 on Nov 5, 2009 12:57 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Phase 2

It’ll be interesting to see what “phase 2” actually means. I suppose this means trying to sign free agents, but why would the good ones want to come here?

Librarians are hiding something

by dfa on Nov 5, 2009 1:12 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

All I know

John Lackey’s a free agent and he’s not coming to Baltimore. Despite what Andy’s saying, I see this winter’s hot stove season being alot like last winter’s hot stove season.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Nov 5, 2009 2:44 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

the curse of the moose is over for yankee fans.

Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.

by birdman on Nov 5, 2009 2:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

but not for the Moose.

"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic

by zknower on Nov 5, 2009 3:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

nope, SUCKA!

Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Man in Black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.

by birdman on Nov 5, 2009 3:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Da Woild See-reeze is ovuh-- tank cripes fuh dat!

New flash: The Phuddies are not a very imposing team. Well, they won 10 more games than the ’06 Cardinals, another World Champeen of great whomping anomaly status.

But to reiterate: as long as Pretend Commissioner Bud insists on keeping their the league both weak and isolated, NPL champs should have to qualify for a WS spot by dispensing with the Japanese champion— if they can. That playoff would be a lot more exciting than the intra-NPL nonsense we are annually asked to pretend is a real qualifier.

WS MVP: Nice to see Matsui win this, as a .600 average is, um, actually rather good. Also, he seems like a good candidate for Least Loathable Yerkee (in a very small field). Sorry I didn’t get to hear Suzyn Wombat interview him after the award. Ahahahahahahaha, I’m really not.

Now, on to the ouch-ouch-ouch Hot Stoves!

"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 5, 2009 3:14 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

To the person who got here by searching for: FUCK THE YANKEES

Welcome, friend.

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 5, 2009 3:38 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

Also welcome to the person who searched for

Teixeira is a douche.

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 5, 2009 3:48 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

or John Gibbons

I now have a blog: http://justanotherbaltimoresportsblog.blogspot.com/

by BaltimoreSportsFan on Nov 5, 2009 6:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Haha can you actually track that?

because that would be kinda cool but also creepy

by O Nina on Nov 5, 2009 7:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah

our sitemeter tracks how people got here including their searches. There were a few yesterday that had the words “Teixeira douche” in them, and probably about 25 that were some variation of “Yankees bought the world series.” I check it every now and then when I’m bored. We get a lot of hits that are either “brian roberts wife” or “nick markakis wife” usually.

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 5, 2009 8:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Heh... er...

That may actually be one of the first times I came to CC… when I found out Brian Roberts got married I was, um, kind of upset. I frantically tried to find more information and I think I found SC’s post with her pictures. I didn’t remember that I’d seen her photos on CC until I read it again on your CC 2009 post. But then a month or so later I for reals found CC (maybe linked from the Sun or something? I forget) and began to follow it for its insightful and thorough Orioles commentary, and not merely for finding pics of Mrs. Roberts.

by O Nina on Nov 5, 2009 10:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

ha ha

and here I thought it was just pervy guys ;-)

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 5, 2009 10:15 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Pervy guys and jealous girls!

by O Nina on Nov 5, 2009 3:18 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

among the hits we got

Daniel Cabrera Sucks, You eat other people’s lunches?, and Amber Theoharris

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by BaltimoreSportsFan on Nov 5, 2009 3:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

i'm pretty sure thats how i got here originally

might of been fuck the red sox…..one of the two

by twistedlogic on Nov 5, 2009 8:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

All is right

again with the world of baseball. Thank goodness the Yanks ended their “drought”. Now I can go back to enjoying things like eating and sleeping.

Seriously though, it feels good to be able to properly hate New York again. I had grown tired of insulting the Pinkies. With all of their choking and pathetic efforts, the Yankees had become almost a joke to me.

I forced myself to watch about five minutes of the postgame celebration…just so that I could let the loathing set in. It really worked too! Yep, I am back into full pinstripe hatred.

Join me, Birdland. Join me in my efforts to make them pay!!!!

by sickuvitall on Nov 5, 2009 7:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Oh man

Now we all have to hear about ‘history’, ‘legacy’, and how the ‘ghosts’ have transferred to the new ballpark. BAH! I turned the game off in like the 7th inning….I certainly didn’t want to see any celebration. I loathe the Yankees enough already….

by NewYorkOriole on Nov 5, 2009 7:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Ya know...

I know one sure fire way to add a few (maybe about 25) ghosts to the new stadium.

by daveh873 on Nov 5, 2009 7:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

COUGH COUGH!!!! HELLO

The only good thing about the yankees winning is it mike kick the Orioles in the A** and say HELLO WE NEED TO SPEND MONEY.

I was sickend once again last night to see the orioles win and for Texeria in his post game interview to say how much he loves New York, but i don’t blame him.

by Oriolebird88 on Nov 5, 2009 8:00 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

You’ve got to start spending SMART money, not just money. We’ve seen what spending money on aging high-priced free agents has done to this team. I think this team IS ready to spend money…let’s just see what happens in the off-season.

PS You can tone down the rhetoric here. If you weren’t so inflammatory you might get some more respect……

by NewYorkOriole on Nov 5, 2009 8:24 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

spending money doesn't always work

ask the Mets.

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 5, 2009 8:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs