Mostly On-Topic Poll: Least Favorite Oriole All-Time

He would have won a gold glove if his offense wasn’t a complete liability. He’d start out terrible and swing at everything and anything. Then he’d have a session or two with Doctor Swing aka Terry Crowley, have a two week period where he’d look like he was getting it together. Then he’d slip back into the same old routine. Horrible OBP. Pop-outs. Horrible strikeouts. He was a talented player that I wanted to succeed but by the end of his stint in Baltimore, I was over it. Now he’s with the Nats with their Triple A affliate. Again, great defense…terrible, terrible streaky offense.
I never liked Chris Sabo much either. Maybe it was the goggles.

Yes he was horribile for the O’s , if i remember i think in hes 3 years his eras were 9, 6, and 7 or something like that..t.but for those of us who also phils fans , i can’t hate on curt..1993, nuf said
and 2. he lived like 3 minutes from me when he was playing for the phils in kennett square and is a very nice guy.
That being said, my all time least favorite Oriole is Sosa. I expected so much, and even bought his jersey that year, which i rarely do, but I was so excited to have him. Boy was that a bust!! Other than the obvious though I also hated Albert Belle from the start. i never liked him in Cleveland, and I kno the old saying hate him on another team, love him when he’s on yours, but thats not true. I HATED him. I know he hit ok, 290 average, but he was not a team player at all.
And finally for me. a less obvious choice, David Newhan, It seemed like he struck ot every at bat. i hear hes out of baseball now after he got cut, no suprise there, he was horrible..

Sidney. Ponson. Eff that guy.

Altogether he didn’t spend that much time with the O’s (or in the big leagues at all, really) but man did I hate that guy.

Strikeout MACHINE. In my clouded childhood memory, he never got a big hit, and when he came up with a runner on and 1 out, you could flip the channel to check cartoons, because you knew he would ground into a double play. 2 outs, it was guaranteed to be a strikeout.

God, he sucked.

The aruban judge puncher himself. I can’t stand Sidney Ponson. I keep trying to think on someone I disliked more on the O’s from when I was younger, but I loved them all back then.

Alan Wiggins. He was terrible, too.

Jaret Wright! Man I hated him too. He gets a dishonorable mention.

I could not stand this guy. He uppercut everything because he thought that he was a power hitter, and even though sammy sosa didn’t really do much for us the day we got rid of hairston was one of the best for me in O’s history.

I also had a strong dislike for Brady Anderson

My first year of as an O’s fan was 1996 and David Wells was fat and shitty. Then he goes to New York and pitches lights out. I hate him.

Poster “child” of the Syd Thrift era.

with the people who said Albert Belle. Bleh

man that guy pissed me off. Mike Timlin is up there as well.

Mike Mussina and David Wells,
1.They both decided to go play for the most historic franchise in the galaxy
2. I have noted before that personally I think Moose is a douche
3. Wells, like said above, was fat and shitty for the O’s but was lights out for the MFY

Did I really get this far down with Jay Payton getting mentioned? It was a heartbreaker, knowing that a percentage of my ticket was going to waste on this POS.

Eff him. Eff him in the ear. I’m glad he fell off the face of the planet this year.

$17M, Jerry Hairston (well…) and Mike Fontenot for 100 games of .670 OPS.

’nuff said.

with a close second tie to Reggie Jackson/Sydney Ponson

Mike DeJean. Another free agent find from the Flanagan/Beattie monster.

One of the all-time worst “No, good god, don’t bring him in!” relievers, another NL pitcher that turned to flaming garbage when he put on an O’s uniform. The Mets kindly took him off of our hands and gave us…

KARIM GARCIA? Why does it always come back to Karim Garcia? Thanks a lot, DeJean. You were the suck that kept on giving.

Camden Yards

for making the place more important than the team and making a shitty teams profitable..why win.

Now I’ll admit that I’m fairly young in my Orioles fandom. So I don’t remember many, many years of gut-wrenching mediocrity (and worse) all that well.
But Sidney Ponson. Jesus. The guy evidently couldn’t even be bothered to stay in shape for his multi-million dollar job as a professional athlete, which is scandalously disrespectful to baseball and to the untold number of guys who would work four times as hard to have the opportunity he got. They’ve got brains but he’s got talent. And his arm is worth a million dollars in the show while all of their limbs put together ain’t worth seven cents a pound. Sidney’s the real-life Nuke LaLoosh, except that he is in no way even remotely charming. Most of the time when a player performs badly, I make it a rule to try not to question his focus or work ethic. With Sidney, I questioned it constantly.
The whole irresponsible-fratboy-drunk shtick is much more loathsome in a grown man with a job where people count on him. If it were “what he needed to do to win,” I would put up with it, grudgingly. But it was just a symptom of the fact that he didn’t give a shit.

Leo Gomez and those goddamn glasses. Roberto Alomar the Hirschbeck incident. Don Aase for his mustache. Larry Sheets for flaming out. Billy Rip for being an offensive black hole. Deivi Cruz…damn that guy sucked.

that popped into my head…kudos to ADLC for making that point for me.

As far as recently goes though, Adam Eaton has got to be on that list for me. That fucking guy was the worst…worst pitcher, worst person, and worst looking human with that pig snout nose of his!

David Wells and Glenn Davis

Stupid batting stance & looked like he never lifted anything heavier than 12 oz. in his entire life. 31HR & a .309 OBP to go along with decidedly un-catlike reflexes at 3B. To further cement his doom, at this time the club decided to put the worst Orioles logo in the history of baseball right on the sleeve – the “fun” bird.

Tony Fatista, swingin’ for the fences, wavin’ at ground balls, and wearing the “fun” bird. Almost enough to make me give up baseball right there.

Jorge Julio.

God I hated that ugly ass blue glove he had.

I’m kidding. It’s Terry Matthews.

I just hated that fucking guy.

Hate is a strong emotion to expend on some ballplayer you watch for the purposes of entertainment.

I’m not sure I can even say there are any Orioles I didn’t like. It’s not as if I ever socialized with any of them and therefore knew if they were great people of total assholes.

I can say there were players I was never a fan of or whom I had wished we had never traded for. For example I got tired of Ponson’s inability to grow up and his sense of entitlement. Trading for Sosa never made any sense to me and I never found any contribution he made that made me believe he was of any value to the team. I was not much of a fan of Kent Benson. At the time I would have kept Maine over him and once he did come over he struck me as a guy that you could never count on to put forth his all for the team.

I don’t like me players who think something is owed to them. The only time I consider them to be at all acceptable is if their constributions are on the order of magnitude that a little selfishness becomes an acceptable price.

shoved down our crab holes and stunk. .177 avg, .951 fielding at 3rd. oh yea, “replaced” Cal.

i can not honestly even bring myself to like this guy…why does he get paid so much…..he’s practically useless…

hands down – ALBERT BELLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and his hip.

i’d say you all pretty much covered it. armando is my worst. low point in oriole history is when he drilled tino martinez (yankees went south when tino left) in the spine with a 98MPH ball. they were killing us and he resorted to that bullshit. that was a loser move that put both teams in danger. nobody wanted to back him up thats for sure.

biggest balls on the team goes to Rhodes and Mills who were always first to mix it up. They were bad asses. When they tag teamed Strawberry in the dugout..They may not have been great but they played a long time…especially Rhodes.

Jason “my arm is dead” Johnson for never making it past about 5 innings (even that was a stretch) and not even being effective during those IP

Buddy Groom (who i used to call Buddy Groove) for grooving every pitch possible. And to think he was our closer!

Todd “IBB” Williams for being probs the only pitcher to ever screw up an IBB

Daniel Cabrera for not ever realizing the point of the game is get people out

Freddy Bynum for just plaining sucking

…and finally Kevin freakin Millar for worshipping the goddamn Red Sox more than the team he was ACTUALLY playing for. That and he was a fat bastard only hitting .240

The O’s would constantly bring him in out of the bullpen and he would immediately give up runs, year after year in the 1980’s. They would send him to Rochester, bring him back up and he would do it all over again. I would scream at my TV saying “’Please just release him for good”!

Seriously, I wonder how many times he would appear— or already appears— on other teams’ Most Hated posts? Frankly, while I understand those guys (especially the Ranger fans), I still think we are the club/fans/franchise with the major rights to Sid-hating. I mean, not only did we have him twice (tying us with the Yerks), but we had most of his minor league career to get jerked around by him plus the most total years of getting ear-f*cked in the bigs. And for a big piece of change— one that may qualify in adjusted dollars as the Least Bang for Buck Returned by an Orioles Organization Investment. Ever.

Dude, am I wrong?

Also, I really, really disliked Albert Belle. And I think I’ll just leave that there, ‘cause I’m starting to hyperventilate.

Ben McDonald and the fact that he missed a start because he cut his fingernails to short.
How many years were we forced to sit on that egg waiting for it to hatch?

…because I now want to break things. Fuck, I hate him.

Also, aside from the obvious Ponson/Geronimo Gil/Jay Gibbons, I never really liked Ray Miller when he managed.

solid 4-11 record…….6.34 ERA