It’s all about finding the bright spots, even in the turdiest of games. If that’s not Birdland, I don’t know what is.

Even though I said in the other thread that maybe we shouldn’t have one every game.

I’m conflicted! It’s because those assholes make me so mad with their stupid swept selves.

i wrote in the other thread that I kinda see it both ways after I thought about it a bit. I dont really care either way I guess. I’m happy.

Sorry, but I no your a fellow grammer natsi and cant tolerate stuf like that.

Z, I agree in principle, but now I’m going to argue with you.

I’m going to use a brief example from the Eagles to illustrate my point. Over and over, Andy Reid stresses “taking it one game at a time.” Fans, on the other hand, can look ahead all season to the big divisional games, the next round of the playoffs, etc. It’s just critical that that mentality doesn’t wash off on the players, but I think it makes it more fun for the fans to be checking playoff scenarios and stuff like that — they can’t help but get ahead of themselves.

With the Orioles FO and coaching staff, I don’t want them to be struggling to find something positive. “Well, Radhames, D-cab would have walked more guys than you” or “Ok, we’re closer to .500 than we were last year. Success!” I want them to be realistic, even if it’s behind closed doors.

But — I think it’s important that we as fans try not to get caught too much up in the negativity. The Orioles suck, the Orioles have sucked for many years, and the Orioles will likely continue to suck for the duration of this year and perhaps the short-term future beyond that (I am optimistic that the organization is being better managed now, though).

I think we as fans of this shipwreck have to latch onto the positives, otherwise it’s just too easy to get really negative. I mean, during one of the boston games, the a good deal of my total of my posting was repeating various forms of the f-word (I’ll try to lighten up the swearing, too.). I think it’s ok to look at an awful game like that and have fans say, “You know, Hendo was pretty good” or “That sucked, but Nick had a really good game” or even “At least they didn’t quit.”. If we don’t find some Birdland in every game, why are watching?

As long as the FO isn’t saying “We’re doing we’ll enough.”

(And I don’t mean to take this seriously on the level of an Athletics Nation subcommittee, it’s just a fun break from work to argue about this for a few minutes, and lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the relationship between fans and teams, since my wife’s writing a paper related to that, as well as people asking me “If the Orioles are so bad/make you so mad, why do you still watch?”)

I like having MBP either way, but it’s not critical to me.

being Birdland sure does involve a lot of rules.

n fact, the only overly protective parents i know who can’t seem to give their children a good strong NO are of the conservative stripe.

We’ll have to agree to disagree.

it’s more the point of view of all the CEOs who feel they should get bonuses because of where they sit, not based on their performance. and i don’t need to tell you how those dudes vote.

They vote for whoever is going to let them KEEP their money after they get it, deserved or not. The view that they should GET bonuses either way has nothing to do with their personal conservative/liberal views. It’s up to the Boards of those Companies to decide whether or not they get bonuses in the first place and whether or not they deserve it.

In short, they don’t want their bonuses because their conservative, they vote conservative because that’s who, traditionally, is going to let them keep more of their bonuses.

There.

the voters said so.