Edwin Jackson is a nasty man.

The whole “never win on Sunday” thing is getting pretty old.

voted no one? What on earth are they thinking?
Berken was about as Birdland as it gets today… especially considering the fact that no one else on the team was doing too much…

but he had a 3.40 FIP this morning, which is top 20 in MLB, ahead of Sabathia, Zambrano, and some guy named Bedard. That’s going to go down. I guess the Tigers have some pretty good pitching.

Berken had a better day than Greinke: 7.0IP 3ER 7K 0BB.

…and I can’t believe Luuuke Scott didn’t have 2 or 3 HRs (what a slacker)
Just no offense today…props to Mr. Jackson.

I brought my five year-old daughter to the game — her first at Camden Yards and second ever anywhere, and only my second in Baltimore in the last couple of years. The atmosphere was great, and it was a fantastic day for baseball. We saw Boog and Buck Martinez at Boog’s, bought (yes) a pink hat for my daughter (she also has a pink Nats hat; she says she’s going to collect one for each team), and walked around a bunch. The team store seemed to be completely out of XL Wieters t-shirts (though I didn’t scrounge as much as I might have if I didn’t have an impatient kid with me).

A pitchers’ duel is not really an ideal game for a five year-old whose favorite thing about baseball is any time everyone gets up and cheers all at once. So the highlight for her today was the seventh-inning stretch. We left in the 8th, after her growing tiredness became apparent, and listened to the final outs on the radio. I’m taking consolation in the facts that Curtis Granderson is on my fantasy team, that Berken held his own, that Baltimore/DC traffic was uncharacteristically bearable, and that the rest of the week was so damn great.

when I stay up that late to see the O’s and they lose I get very cranky

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Me too. meeeee too

Which, why? I don’t know since listening to Steve Phillips and Joe Morgan is pretty much the definition of torture, but Jon Miller just said that there were over 108,000 fans in Baltimore this weekend and talked a bit about Matt Wieters. Then Steve Phillips chimes in to say that people are comparing him to Johnny Bench (which, I haven’t heard that comparison by anyone legitimate). I think he was just baiting Joe Morgan who flipped out and said how you could tell how great Johnny Bench is just by looking at him standing in his catchers gear.

we better take it to the Mariners, my reputation is on the line here.

Just don’t understand how pitching works.

by the youngsters, the decision of who goes back down when Koji! returns is getting more and more difficult. Unless we do something surprising, it has to be out of Berken and Hernandez.

I am of the opinion that if Hernandez has another quality outing, we keep him up due to his greater potential. This sucks considering that Berken has been so darn effective, but I still feel that he is the odd man out barring sucktitude from David.

P.S.-All this talk about moving Koji to the bullpen seems slightly premature. Before his injury, he was easily the most consistent starter (even with the obvious fatigue issues). I am not objected to doing this sometime later in the year or at the beginning of next year when the influx of young pitching is just too great.

I think it’s pretty obvious