Saturday Open Thread
by Camden Chat on Dec 26, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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Happy Boxing Day! What is Boxing Day, anyway? Should I not wish people have a happy one when I don't even know what it is? At any rate, Christmas is over and if you're one of those that celebrates it I hope you had a lovely day.
Camden Chat will be going on semi-autopilot over the next week. We'll still have the daily open threads for you to discuss the Orioles and baseball and healthcare or whatever floats your boat, but barring any breaking news (which, between Christmas and New Years? Unlikely) it'll be pretty bare bones. Look at it as a build-your-own Bird Droppings. Feel free to drop in links to news, videos, anything of interest to the community. If I come across anything good I'll try to do the same.
The floor is yours. I'm on vacation this week and will be splitting time between Baltimore and the lovely Garden State so try not to wreck the joint while I'm not around.
Today's picture is from July 1, 2009 otherwise known as "The Day after Birdland Day when the Red Sox came back and gave us a taste of our own medicine." Re-live the misery through the box score, the game thread, and the recap.
-Stacey
ONE BIT OF RELATED NEWS...
Shorebirds' stadium used as staging ground as thousands search for missing girl Christmas morning
"Thousands of volunteers overwhelmed the Arthur W. Perdue Stadium to search for a missing 11-year-old Salisbury girl on Christmas day. More than 1,000 volunteers lined up outside the stadium around 7 a.m., to search for 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell who was reported missing earlier this week, but within a couple hours the number swelled to almost 3,000, according to officials." The search did not have a happy ending, unfortunately. But back to the encouraging part - this community bonded over this search in a way I never thought possible and Perdue Stadium worked well as a staging area for law enforcement efforts. -duck
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Jersey's where its at
Though I wish we would move Reimold to first and sign Matt Holliday to play Left
"I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow...'Cause I Get Better Looking Every Day" Joe Namath
Here I go!
USA Today O’s Review http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/al/orioles/notes.htm?csp=34
Q & A w/ Head grounds Keeper
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091221&content_id=7838216&vkey=news_bal&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal
Can Reimold bat clean-up and other questions with answers by Spencer Fordin
http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091222&content_id=7843224&vkey=news_bal&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Dec 26, 2009 9:04 AM EST reply actions
I think we should let
Osfan21 and daveh have their own open thread. Sort of like a PTI thing, only less joking and more cursing!
No, thank you
It just goes back and forth from saving the environment/animals to why the Giants do or don’t suck. I think i’ve had plenty of it. If we can do that bit they do with the masks though, it might be fun.
Dave, you're Ken Singleton
Why SHOULDN’T you return to a town that loves you and be the new voice os MASN broadcasts? You have 1 minute…
"The moment you stop thinking you're the best, it's time for you to get out the game." -'King' Mo Lawal
I'd be game
if I wasn’t visiting my folks in Florida. They seem to think that I want to do all kinds of Florida sightseeing while I’m here…
Holliday
Just saw this while browsing through MLB trade rumors
•Gammons calls Scott Boras “brilliant,” but questions his wisdom in turning down the five-year $82.5MM offer the Red Sox made Matt Holliday. That could be the best offer he has seen so far.
Just thought it brings a little more info to the “How much would Holliday cost?” question. That offer would amount to 16.5M/yr. I’d imagine if you wanted him on a 4 year deal, it might still be doable under 20M. He obviously values that 5th year, but if no one wants to give it to him, then something like 4 years, 76M would probably sound pretty good. I know that 4yrs/100M figure thrown into the mix in the other thread was balked at (reasonably so), but how would everyone feel about a deal like this?
I don't even really have a problem with the 5th year
Do we really think there’s going to be a dramatic drop off between his 4th and 5th year? Or do we think that our window for competing will be up by the 5th year? What’s the argument against the 5th year if that’s what it takes to get it done?
I am not worried
about a dramatic drop off. I would however be expecting a gradual decline in the last year or two. Is that enough to not warrant a fifth year?…maybe.
IMO, the perfect deal for Holliday would be 4/76 or something near, as mentioned above by dave. It is under 20mil per year, but still sets Holliday up as one of the higher paid players in the league.
Watch at 0:19 what Swisher says when he strikes out
http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6595157
Man is Tillman’s curve nasty in this start
Yeah I remember that.
Swisher also had a funny exchange with Albers. Albers struck him out looking (on a questionable call if I remember correctly) and Swisher stood there for a while. Albers told him to “sit the fuck down”, and Swisher responded by very clearly calling him “fatboy” or “fatass” or something. Pretty hilarious.
Boxing Day
I think boxing day is when the upper class Brits would give gifts to their servants, but I prefer to think of this day as St. Stephen’s Day, as in “Good King Wencelas went out on the Feast of Stephen….”
"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street
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