Burres no longer our problem.
by KenDixonFanClub on Feb 4, 2009 5:58 PM EST
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Been claimed by the Blue Jays according to Roch.
Somewhere, Jim Palmer is clutching an autographed glossy 8 by 10 and crying his eyes out, because he knows Brian didn't mean it when he promised to call every night. He'll have to move on, and that'll be hard; that new Rich Hill is a little too gangly and just doesn't put the same sparkle in Cakes's eyes.
I have no other Jim Palmer jokes for this and it tells me it needs to be longer still.
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first loewenbrau and now BB?
enjoy, canada!
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
by daveh873 on Feb 4, 2009 7:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
They'll be scared of the dark in no time
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 4, 2009 7:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
don’t forget fay-fay
"Hats for bats, keep bats warm." Pedro Cerrano
by wscott on Feb 4, 2009 7:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
and Millar
They offered Kevbo a minor league deal with an ST invite.
Clearly, the Jays are on the road to success!
by Brotz13 on Feb 4, 2009 8:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
si.
picking up the scraps from the O’s 2008 “talent” pool =/= good. Further solidification of the “O’s For Fourth Place” campaign.
by salvotion on Feb 4, 2009 8:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
When you're picking up ORIOLES rejects...
your franchise has pretty much given up.
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by duck on Feb 4, 2009 8:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yup
Its like the Blue Jays are trying to be the Nationals.
"Whether your name is Gehrig or Ripken, DiMaggio or Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do."
by spike2131 on Feb 4, 2009 8:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Then again
The Os just signed Parrish to a minor league deal, so it’s more like we traded Burres for Parrish. …The Os still win…by a lot.
by Dr Orpheus on Feb 5, 2009 12:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Looked at the 1st 3 letters
and thought they were getting Burnett back.
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
by sluggo 2.0 on Feb 5, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Olsen and Burres
I think we should have kept ONE
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Feb 4, 2009 10:14 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
why? when we can get Rich Hill for beans, Brian Burres is just a dude.
Olsen was the better of the two, and he got a great return with Pie.
by math_geek on Feb 4, 2009 11:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
they both suck
And neither has the upside of Hill.
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 5, 2009 2:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'll always have...
my image of him on the mound as I abandoned my LF club seat in disbelief during 30-3.
Ah, those Oriole memories…
Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08
by 33 on Feb 5, 2009 8:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'm going to miss Brian's mom, or sister, aunt
Whoever came to Bri-Bri’s defense here when SC didn’t really slam the guy.
To me, he’s just another face in a long, long line of bad pitching in Baltimore.
by drj on Feb 5, 2009 9:46 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think it was his wife. Or girlfriend. Or fiancee. His significant other. I felt kinda bad about that but I’m not going to lie. He sucks, and her prognostication that he knew how to step it up and be totally great was way off.
Still, I am a man, and I will admit that Brian Burres is better at pitching than, say, me.
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 5, 2009 10:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Jays are also going to sign Kevin Milllar
Hopefully they target Payton and Trachsel next.
Has Greg Aquino been signed yet?
by dkdc on Feb 5, 2009 10:08 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
what about Steve Reed?
Steve Kline? Omar Daal? Calvin Maduro?
by pipkin on Feb 5, 2009 10:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
don't laugh...
chad parronto, tim byrdak and dave borkowski were still gainfully employed as late as last season.
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
--Jerry Reed, on acting
by j.q. higgins on Feb 5, 2009 10:11 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
CHAD PARONTO RULES
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 5, 2009 10:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm gonna be totally honest here
I am a pretty big O’s fan. And I don’t remember that dude.
by pipkin on Feb 6, 2009 1:00 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
he's fat as all hell
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 7, 2009 8:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I hear Albert Belle had hip replacement surgery too.
"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle
by BirdFanInPhilly on Feb 5, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
if thats true
i think he owes us some AB’s
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
by daveh873 on Feb 5, 2009 11:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You can still make the HOF AB!
"fuck the Yankees and fuck the Red Sox and all their players and fans and former players and fans and their loved ones and pets as well!" sickuvitall
by birdman on Feb 5, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
rick helling!
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
--Jerry Reed, on acting
by j.q. higgins on Feb 5, 2009 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Mike DeJean, anyone?
I could do this all day. Where’s Bruce Chen, or Jaret Wright for that matter?
by Brotz13 on Feb 5, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Great Mike DeJean reference!
I had earased him from my mind, man he was useless. And Bruce Chen was the same way, what a useless hump! Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t he an opening day starter at some point, or am i thinking of Rodrigo Lopez? Bruce Chen couldn’t beat a little league team in Williamsport. he looked like he was going to cry all the time, he stunk then and no matter what he’s doing now he probably stinks at it too!
by wiggitywhales on Feb 6, 2009 10:12 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
dude
Harsh talk about Bruce Chen. He was quite serviceable for his first two years, then he fell apart. Plus he was funny.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
by Stacey on Feb 6, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yep
Bruce was 13-10, 3.83 in 2005. And, um, 0-7, 6.93 in 2006. Leo Mazzone: miracle worker!
by Brotz13 on Feb 6, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
zero love for him
he stunk on ice
by wiggitywhales on Feb 6, 2009 10:46 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
his pitching was usually the best joke.
"fuck the Yankees and fuck the Red Sox and all their players and fans and former players and fans and their loved ones and pets as well!" sickuvitall
by birdman on Feb 6, 2009 1:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I dont think Leo
liked Bruce in Atlanta and sure it didnt translate here as well.
by sanders833 on Feb 8, 2009 12:01 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i liked bruce chen for that one good year
that was such a fluke though. he was throwing meatballs up there.
by pipkin on Feb 6, 2009 4:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The Astros just signed Ortiz to a minor-league deal
Astros in a race to the bottom!
by PhilR8 on Feb 5, 2009 6:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
IS there still time
to trade them Danys Baez?
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by duck on Feb 5, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ben Sheets, Damn It!
Assuming his arm, back, foot, ears, or a goatee he grew over the winter hasn’t fallen completely off I would like to see the O’s take a shot at Sheets for a “reasonable” salary. Two years? Fine. Dude pitches as much as Bedard did. Went for damn near 200 innings last year. His price should be falling. His projections (courtesy of foxsports) on IP and ERA are as follows: Bill James – 186/3.39; Choen – 148 / 3.83; marcel – 173/3.59; and ZIPS 161/3.41 with 25 being the low number of starts and 29 being the high number of starts. Kind of sounds like that would be our best pitcher. Or at least one of the top two. His ‘08 salary was 12.125 so assuming we coudl sign him to one yhear with the second performance based I’m all over this.
Always trust your cape. -Guy Clark
by BPinOK on Feb 5, 2009 1:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
His Elbow Fell Off
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090205&content_id=3801488&vkey=hotstove2008&fext=.jsp
MILWAUKEE — Finally, an answer to one of this winter’s most puzzling questions: Why is the National League’s All-Star Game starting pitcher still looking for a job?
The answer is that free agent right-hander Ben Sheets may need surgery to repair the torn flexor tendon in his elbow, and his former employers may be asked to pick up the tab. Brewers assistant general manager Gord Ash said on Thursday that the team has been in discussions this week with Sheets’ agent and officials from Major League Baseball about who would pay for the procedure.
by dkdc on Feb 5, 2009 1:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Good thing
deals are always pending physicals. And I guess good for the Rangers that they discovered the problem before wasting their money. And even better that the Birds stayed away.
by brooksflow on Feb 5, 2009 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Darn
I always had an awkward feeling that this picture with Brian in Toronto meant that he would be in Toronto next season……
We’ll “miss” you Brian
by Timmy L. on Feb 5, 2009 3:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully we'll get to see him work 19 times this year
"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle
by BirdFanInPhilly on Feb 5, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I tried to get Brian’s autograph in Anaheim. Punk ran away.
"fuck the Yankees and fuck the Red Sox and all their players and fans and former players and fans and their loved ones and pets as well!" sickuvitall
by birdman on Feb 5, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I got Olsen's autograph in Anaheim
Best moment of my life
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 5, 2009 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
liar
Always trust your cape. -Guy Clark
by BPinOK on Feb 5, 2009 4:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
about what?
getting his autograph or it being the best moment of my life. I am lying about the last part
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 5, 2009 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
the best
moment of your life :)
Always trust your cape. -Guy Clark
by BPinOK on Feb 5, 2009 8:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You never know
it could have been a highlight!
He was mugging it up with some SoCal slutz
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 5, 2009 10:30 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I got Steve Traschel's autograph, beat that.
"fuck the Yankees and fuck the Red Sox and all their players and fans and former players and fans and their loved ones and pets as well!" sickuvitall
by birdman on Feb 5, 2009 5:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Chris Richard anyone?
anyone remember him?
anyone?
anyone?
by Steve. on Feb 5, 2009 7:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He was the shit
Back when baseball cards were all the rage, I got one of them autographed cards, and it was Chris Richard, yay! He homered in his first ML atbat, didnt he?
by milkman41 on Feb 5, 2009 10:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Luis Matos
I was waiting at the home depot in bowie for one of the guys to cut a board for me. My wife gets bored waiting and heads over to the chick-fil-a for drinks, she comes back a few minutes later with cokes & signed photo. “There was an oriole signing pictures.. He’s gone now.. Is he any good?”
Don’t think the line was long.
by mpire on Feb 5, 2009 8:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Oddly enough
Matos is now working the counter at the same Chick-fil-a
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 5, 2009 10:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
+1
Feel that BURN!
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Feb 5, 2009 11:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was going to play the Omar Daal card,
but someone beat me to it. How about Rocky Coppinger (SP)? He ate himself out of the job.
by wiggitywhales on Feb 6, 2009 10:14 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
hahahahaha...
the omar daal card is, strangely enough, the name of my new band.
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
--Jerry Reed, on acting
by j.q. higgins on Feb 6, 2009 10:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Are you opening for the Deivi Cruz Five?
by Brotz13 on Feb 6, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I imagine the Deivi Cruz five
as a bunch of fat guys stumbling around, waving their guitars in the air at imaginary strikes.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Feb 7, 2009 11:17 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I got Walter Young's autograph.
I submit that Walter Young>Steve Trachsel.
I also have Larry Bigbie’s, Rodrigo Lopez’s, some other scrubs, and BJ Surhoff’s.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Feb 5, 2009 8:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
YES!
Walter Young may be my favorite near-Oriole of all time. The man was the size of a tank. Dude’s didn’t pitch to him. They were terrified.
by Dr Orpheus on Feb 5, 2009 11:01 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Got Arthur Rhodes when I was 12 or 13
at a baseball camp, told me to get an “edumacation”, eye opening experience that changed my life for good
by wiggitywhales on Feb 6, 2009 10:19 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Eugene Kingsale
I also have Dave Newhan, Mike Timlin and Jerry Hairston Jr but i dont think they even touch Eugene.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
by daveh873 on Feb 5, 2009 9:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Buck Martinez's autograph on a glossy picture
:p
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Feb 5, 2009 9:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Went to Spring Training in '07
I have a hat with the following autos: Brandon Fahey, Brian Burres, Kurt Birkins, Freddie Bynum, Jeff Fiorentino, Terry Tiffee. Oh, and Hayden Penn, who looked kinda high.
Check. Mate.
by Brotz13 on Feb 5, 2009 9:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
man, that really is a parade of shit players
bravo sir, bravo.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Feb 5, 2009 10:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's like the Special Olympics
Except for Hayden Penn. I love him.
"This world extends way beyond this little field of dreams we're dancing in and I want to see that world"
by exitfare on Feb 5, 2009 10:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
wow, Terry Tiffee
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 5, 2009 10:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So waddya want for it?
I’ll start the bidding at $6.
ZAUN! ZAAAAAAAUN!
"I understand that it's a big-boy world and I have to move on."
by CoachOfEarl on Feb 5, 2009 11:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sam Horn spelled my name wrong. not my last name. “Brian”
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
by BrianS on Feb 6, 2009 9:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Did you deliberately not let anyone decent sign it?
LOL — no, sorry Brian Roberts, you can’t sign my hat.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
by BrianS on Feb 6, 2009 9:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
and he'd say
“it’s alright, I understand”
B-Rob would totally understand
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Feb 6, 2009 10:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was on one of those all-inclusive Spring Training packages
It included a BBQ lunch/autograph signing with “several Orioles players”. Oh, and a Q&A with Sammy Perlozzo. His John Hancock is also on the hat. I can’t believe I forgot that.
by Brotz13 on Feb 6, 2009 10:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I have a ball that has
nearly all the O’s media personalities. I take it with me to the ESPN Zone and have whatever person that is there with the player sign this particular ball. The illustrious list is as follows:
Jim Hunter
Amber Theohuxtable
Gary Thorne
Fred Manfra
Joe Angel
I wish to offer this into the Hall of Suck.
The blues have always been American, as American as apple pie. The question is...why?
by sickuvitall on Feb 5, 2009 11:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I have Rick Kranitz's autograph!
The dude better do some big work this year
by Timmy L. on Feb 5, 2009 11:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The never ending trade
Burres, Millar, Loewen, Fahey,
for
Parrish, ZAUN
Who did I miss?
ZAUN! ZAAAAAAAUN!
"I understand that it's a big-boy world and I have to move on."
by CoachOfEarl on Feb 5, 2009 11:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Jeff Reboulet was a scrappy guy,
but I couldn’t help making fun of himi all the time, maybe it was the hilarious stache he would rock every year. I’d also like to make fun of Marty Cordova for coming here and sucking it up.
by wiggitywhales on Feb 6, 2009 10:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
rebo
had a TOTALLY sweet stache!
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
--Jerry Reed, on acting
by j.q. higgins on Feb 6, 2009 10:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Plus, he owned Randy Johnson.
I can’t believe the Unit never threw his John Kruk Special at him.
by Brotz13 on Feb 6, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Tony Tarasco. Right field has never been the same.
"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 Feb 6, 2009 10:50 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think he's coming back to coach in Hagerstown this year.
I plan on telling him that some random guy in the stands is Jeffrey Maier.
"You have to discipline yourself so you don't come out with something just to say you made a trade. You have to make sure you come out better than you were before." - Andy MacPhail, 7/31/08
by getxstoked on Feb 6, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The only autograph I have ever gotten
is Tippy Martinez, who just signed my hat “Tippy.”
This would have been around 1979, I believe.
by zknower on Feb 6, 2009 11:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
haha awesome
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 7, 2009 8:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Who are you
and what have you done with our Cobra Commander??
The blues have always been American, as American as apple pie. The question is...why?
by sickuvitall on Feb 7, 2009 1:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Don't be hatin' on Tippy
any pitcher that can walk 3 guys and pick ALL THREE off first base in the same inning deserves some respect. Just sayin’.
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
by duck on Feb 7, 2009 2:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Possibly refering to the new logo
not Tippy
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
by sluggo 2.0 on Feb 7, 2009 3:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
so I changed my profile phot
ya wanna fighdaboudit?
"I was trying to rob him. And he took my gun from me. And the gun was full of blanks. And he shot a blank into my eye. And now I cannot see from this eye ever again, the doctors say."
"Well to be honest it sounds like it's all your fault."
by SC on Feb 10, 2009 8:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
IN PUBLIC!
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by duck on Feb 10, 2009 12:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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