Mostly On-Topic Poll: Least Favorite Oriole All-Time
Everyone is in a terrible mood. The team has been horrible lately. I decided to find an informative, interesting way to vent some of that anger.
Who is your least favorite/most hated O of all-time? As long as they were ever on the Orioles they count. Reggie Jackson, Curt Shilling, Sammy Sosa, Lenny Webster, Jay Gibbons, whatever. It doesn't matter how long they were with the O's or how good/bad they might have been in their time with the organization, just how much you look back at them with disgust and burning hatred.
Personally, I think i'm going Shilling. Name a few though. You might just bring back enough bad memories to change my mind.
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UGh
Terry Matthews. Armando Benitez. Norm Charlton.
Basically the entire bullpen from 1998 makes me throw up in my mouth. Especially Terry Matthews, who waddled around the field like a duck.
Also the lineup from 2003 or so. I really truly hated Geronimo Gil, if only because he had just…just no business at all having a major league job. i was also particularly put off by watching Tony Batista.
Terry Mathews.
I went to the one playoff game we lost to the Mariners in ‘97. It was 2-0, Seattle, heading into the 9th. In waddles Mathews. My entire section groaned. Mathews surrendered 2 runs. My entire section collectively slapped their foreheads in exasperation. Bottom of the 9th, the O’s manage to score 2 runs – which would have tied the game but for Mathews’ incompetence. My entire section cursed The Pear under their breaths.
Except it wasn’t under their breath, it was screamed out loud. With profanity. All the way home.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
I saw that game last year on Orioles Classics
You could tell that the fans knew what they were getting with Humpty Dumpty Mathews. Every pitched that missed its mark, they were on him. It was ugly to watch. I watched that whole replay (without checking the score online) figuring, “Well, they wouldn’t be airing this if we lost.”
Showed me.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
Corey Patterson....by a mile
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.
http://www.mvn.com/oriolecentral
I meant to add that if Patterson succeeded, there'd be no Adam Jones
so all’s well that ends well.
http://www.mvn.com/oriolecentral
How can you hate those goggles?

"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Who was the guy with the Karim/Magic Lakers in the 80s
who wore the goggles?
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
And in keeping with the topic of the thread
Who is Karim Garcia, Alex?
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
James Worthy?
Karim wore them as well. Peronally Horance Grant is my favorite goggle wearing athlete of all time, and I don’t even like the NBA.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Worthy was the guy I was thinking of
but apparently there were several
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
Wow
Can you imagine living across the street from that, ahem, display?
Matt Wieters broke a bat last night. Nobody knows what happened to the ball.
Kurt Rambis
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
It was quite strange last year
when Patterson & Bako both went long vs NYY for the Reds.
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
I love Curt!
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..
Wieters is HERE and The Phils are in First, doesn't get much better:)
just to clarify
I dont hate Shilling because of his time in B’more. I dont even remember his time with the O’s (remember, I was 8 when threw his final pitch for the O’s and I was living in NJ. I didn’t even really know what the O’s were yet). I hate him because I think he’s a giant douche. The fact that he played for the Orioles at one point make him my most hated O of all time.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
fair enough
I certainly understand why people don’t like him. 38 pitches is a bad blog, and bloody sock, damaging a ball/strike machine etc…All I was going on was his time here and the few times I met him around town, of course its been 9 years since he left and I haven’t seen in person since 2001 when he came back to kennett for a charity outing.He still is very active with ALS, thats why he named one of his kids gherig. But I certainly understand why people dislike him.
Wieters is HERE and The Phils are in First, doesn't get much better:)
I'll never be able to forgive Shilling
for stumping for George Bush and John McCain. Another fucking millionaire griping about taxes.
1933 was a bad year
by Senatorrosewater on Jun 9, 2009 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Eh, well,
I wouldn’t say having retrograde political views automatically makes one deserving of hatred -
but being such a moralizing, judgmental, self-righteous prick about it does.
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
Now there is a good reason not to like a ball player.
Thank the lord for like this. No matter what stupid stunt i might pull, I can always take comfort in knowing there is at least one jackass out there that’s a bigger idiot than I am.
hakkaa päälle !
What would be a "good" reason?
Last time I checked reasons for liking/disliking someone are usually defined by personal opinion. Kinda like how you just called someone an idiot for holding an opinion contrary to your own.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Not liking a person because of their politics IS a sign of ....
immaturity if not plain stupidity.
You can disagree with another’s politics, but to let that color how you view them as a person is not the mark of an adult. Some of my closest friends hold opinions and beliefs at opposite ends of the spectrum from me. They are every bit as good a friends as those who agree completely with me.
And no, I did not call someone an idiot for holding an opinion contrary to mine. I called them an idiot for disliking someone based on their political views.
hakkaa päälle !
Like Sluggo said...
I wouldn’t say having retrograde political views automatically makes one deserving of hatred -
but being such a moralizing, judgmental, self-righteous prick about it does.
"We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow." ~ Earl Weaver
by Graham71681 on Jun 15, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions
and the fact that he is a giant douche-nozzle
"We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow." ~ Earl Weaver
by Graham71681 on Jun 15, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions
Two words.
Sidney. Ponson. Eff that guy.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Jun 8, 2009 3:56 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
the scary thing.. hes ROYALITY IN ARUBA!
I’d hate to see who else is knights in that country since he’s one!
Wieters is HERE and The Phils are in First, doesn't get much better:)
actually...
his knightship was revoked.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Jun 8, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
eh?
knightship is not aristocracy?
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Jun 8, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
It is
as the aristocracy denotes a class of people with a high rank than the common man.
"Take on Me" - a-ha
speaking strictly in a European historical context
the aristocracy is more exclusive and more likely to be hereditary and tied to landedness. Sir Sid’s knighthood is (was) a distinction granted him for his achievements, not a hereditary title denoting a higher birth rank.
I was referring to more modern times
but historically speaking, I agree — you’re right there
"Take on Me" - a-ha
How could it take that long to get to Sid?!?
He’s got to be in everyone’s top five.
by fishoutawata on Jun 16, 2009 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Brad Pennington
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.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
I saw him with the Durham Bulls
I went to a game in Scranton-Wilkes Barre in 1998 and they were playing Durham. This was the first year that the Bulls were Tampa Bay’s AAA team. He didn’t get into the game, but I heckled him afterward as he walked from the LF bullpen to the clubhouse. No response, which is just as well since I was some gawky high school kid.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
He fills me with rage
That game where he gave up the home run to Griffey is legend in my family because I was so angry. 15 year old Stacey watching the game and when they bring in Pennington I’m screaming at the TV and my mom is telling me to pipe down. I’m just yelling at the TV, “IT’S KEN GRIFFEY JUNIOR! BRAD PENNINGTON! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING! HE’S GOING TO HIT A GRAND SLAM! A GRAND! SLAM!” Of course he didn’t give up a grand slam because his first pitch was a wild pitch that scored a run. After the wild pitch I turned off the TV and stormed out of the room. My mom was like, “You’re not even going to watch it?” and I was like “I DON’T NEED TO WATCH IT! GRIFFEY IS GONNA HIT A HOME RUN OFF THAT LOSER!!” So I didn’t see the home run until I watched the replay later that night, but man was it a shot.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
I did the same thing, but with Benitez
and it was against Bernie Williams. Game on the line, they bring in Armando. My mom was watching in the living room, me in my bedroom. I come running in shouting “what are they doing!? he’s gonna give up a bomb! this isArmando Benitez!” Sure enough, upper deck. I was maybe 13 at the time. Oh yea, O’s lost.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
I thought he was ok with the Jets
oh, wait…. Never mind.
by fishoutawata on Jun 16, 2009 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Lee May
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.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Sir Sid
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.
Sid the drunk
Sid Pnson was more worried about hanging out down Power Plant Live getting drunk than he was about playing baseball. He is for sure my pick.
by #1Rickydfan on Jun 12, 2009 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Wiggins paid the price
by being (I believe) the first pro athlete to die of AIDS.
yeah...
i don’t think he was terrible. he was sort of the corey patterson of his day, maybe. low obp, but just lethal on the basepaths when he could get on. he had a motherfucker of a drug problem, though, which ultimately ended his career and contributed to his death in a pretty major way.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
Wiggins may have been 1st
but Arthur Ashe died right around the same time as well
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
Ron Kittle
I really liked Phil Bradley, and then they traded him for the remains of Ron Kittle. Glenn Davis and Keith Moreland deserve mentions, too.
OOH! I just remembered!
Jaret Wright! Man I hated him too. He gets a dishonorable mention.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
but...
he’s a good person! YOU LOVE STEROIDS!!!
ah, Rosana… we barely knew thee.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
It's mostly
Rosana’s fault. I really didn’t have any ill will towards him until all the support for him came out recently.
I didn’t like Sosa. And Razor really wore on me last year.
On the fip side…Sal Fasano kicks ass. Maybe not at baseball or anything that helped the team but I really liked that dude. I only wish he would have been allowed to grow the facial hair in BAL.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
Jerry Hairston, Jr.
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
How do ya not like brady?
except for his awfully bad sideburns, he was my favorite player growing up..
Wieters is HERE and The Phils are in First, doesn't get much better:)
I loved Brady
AND his sideburns. Its the reson I grew mine out, and I still have em to this day (not nearly as big as his though). Then again, I also love Hairston Jr
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
I'm not trying to piss anyone off or anything
and I truly want to avoid it but I’ll probably I just didn’t like him because to me his 50 homer season was a fluke. After that, everyone thought he was one of the greatest oriole of all time and I really don’t think that. Sorry if i piss anyone off :)
well...
the 50 homer season notwithstanding, he is one of the greatest o’s of all time. 1st or second in steals, pretty awesone OBP, a plus defender and a very good leadoff guy.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Jun 8, 2009 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions
+1
Not on the “greatest” stuff, but the dude played hard, always hustled.
by fishoutawata on Jun 16, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions
David Wells.
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.
Leslie Brea
Poster “child” of the Syd Thrift era.
by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Jun 8, 2009 8:40 PM EDT reply actions
Good memory, Joe.
Ape vs. robot: ape always wins.
by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Jun 9, 2009 11:19 AM EDT up reply actions
reggie jackson
a locker room anoyance who couldnt wait to follow the trail of money to the big apple,thank god for eddie murray
Dude was traded, would be a free agent at the end of the year
and still held out looking to squeeze all he could from the O’s. In the process, he caused all kinds of dissension.
He was a ego-driven prick who was good at baseball.
Jackson meddled with Quintin Dailey and got the kid to go to USF, where bad vodoo followed. Ray Mullins, Dailey’s HS coach knew the kid needed supevision and had been working with other colleges only to see Jackson jump in persuade the kid to go out West. He was an ass.
by drj on Jun 9, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I don't disagree that he was a ego-driven prick
because he defo was, but if I were in baseball, I’d totally follow the trail of money wherever it led.
"Take on Me" - a-ha
Jesus, where do I begin?
Everybody Syd fuckin’ Thrift traded for (except MelMo); Leslie Brea, Mike Kinkade, Fernando Lunar, Luis Rivera, who I don’t think ever threw a single pitch after we traded for him (way to do the due diligence, Syd!). Jason Lakman, Juan Figueroa, Miguel Felix and most of all, from that year of crappy wheeling and dealing, Brook Fordyce. That guy comes over here and in 40 games puts up a 129 OPS+, and since Syd would’ve never understood the terms “small sample size” or “regression to the mean” he goes and signs that motherfucker to a 3 year deal and we have to watch him crapping around behind and at the plate for the next 3 years (OPS+ never cracks EIGHTY, that’s 80, EIGHT ZERO in those three years, because, guess what, he always sucked except for those 40 games). Sweet Fancy Moses that was a goddamn dark age for Orioles baseball.
And I would be remiss, very remiss if I did not mention this name: Ryan Kohlmeier. Why? Because he comes up in 2000 in the wave of “prospects” and pitches lights out, 197 ERA+, in that ridiculous end of season winning streak that cost us the chance to draft Teixeira.
I also hate Mike Fetters for being a fat bastard and Mike Timlin for thanking God every time he did something good for the Red Sox in 2003, but never once mentioning how his Personal Lord and Savior led him to blow all those goddamn saves for the Orioles.
Okay, my blood pressure is rising here. DaveH, I know you were just providing conversation topics on an offnight and I thank you, but you may have opened up a tide of vitriol from my soul that I cannot truly stem. I’m gonna be thinking about all that bad baseball all night.
Also Deivi Cruz was fat and a bad shortstop who swung at every goddamn pitch that got thrown to him.
Sorry for all the cursing. Stopping now.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Jun 8, 2009 11:03 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
youve entertained me
which was my intention all along. thanks,
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Albert always got a bad rap
It can’t be helped that his body fell apart on him, or that he was overpaid on an OLD team in 1999 & 2000. He still hit the ball pretty well.
Ape vs. robot: ape always wins.
by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Jun 9, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions
And PA didn't end up paying most of that deal
PA took out insurance on the $13+ M Belle signed for, and the O’s were on the hook for only 25% of it.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Its a tie between
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
"We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow." ~ Earl Weaver
Pay-ton
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.
Ape vs. robot: ape always wins.
by Ghost of Floyd Rayford on Jun 9, 2009 11:17 AM EDT reply actions
Sammy Sosa
$17M, Jerry Hairston (well…) and Mike Fontenot for 100 games of .670 OPS.
Matt Wieters broke a bat last night. Nobody knows what happened to the ball.
Glenn Davis
’nuff said.
1933 was a bad year
by Senatorrosewater on Jun 9, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions
Ooh, here's one
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.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
uhhh
David Newhan- Was hot for like two weeks and that supposedly gave him the right to bitch about everything for the next few years
Ryan Freel didn't even have 2 good weeks
before he started bitching….
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Newhan
RAKED for almost an entire year. Then sucked to high heaven. And I don’t remember him bitching that much.
I liked Newhan.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
He bitched quite a bit
and he was a bitter, bitter man.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Newhan was a whiny yotch. He ripped AAA Ottawa for being a crappy ass place to play, which he’s right about but he doesn’t need to whine about it. I think he’s a minor league coach now.
"Your wife told you to play in New York.
Well, my wife told me you look like a dork." Boo Teixeira guys.
I stand corrected
But he STILL raked for more than two weeks.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
that is correct
I actually really liked him for a while. I don’t hate him by any means. Still owns the best story I have of meeting a player though.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Camden Yards
for making the place more important than the team and making a shitty teams profitable..why win.
Camden Yards
also helped keep the team here, and helped to pay for those 96-97 teams that were pretty damn good. It requires some serious contortions of logic to blame OPACY for the team’s failures.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Jun 10, 2009 8:08 AM EDT up reply actions
The Expos played in Olympic stadium
and look how THEY turned out.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Memorial Stadium was a shitheap.
There, I said it.
" I'm happy to announce that we've made Adam Jones our 4th and 5th starting pitcher as well as bench coach and team chaplain" - peter_angelos 8:04 AM May 14th from digsby
"Matt Wieters Adopted Mark Texiera's Parents Because He Felt They Needed A Son To Be Proud Of."
Well, it did serve its purpose....
But aside from nostalgia, I don’t think anyone missed it.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
but it's like
my favorite place.
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 Jun 12, 2009 12:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Gotta be Ponson
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.
"If you had Steve Trachsel's stuff, you wouldn't want to throw it either." -- Joe Angel
by Fear and Trembley on Jun 11, 2009 1:42 AM EDT reply actions
How the heck.....
Did you folks leave off Steve Kline? He threw up a lovely 1.49 Whip after calling out his teammates for not supporting him like the Cardinals did. THE FIRST WEEK OF THE SEASON.
And, not as a player, but I hated the hell out of Tom Trebelhorn. Thought he was the worst 3rd base coach in history. We had more guys thrown out at home under his reign that any other team in baseball. (then again, apparently he may not be to blame for our shitty running game.
Some of these people I like
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.
Librarians are hiding something
Steve Kline was the first
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!
I'm pretty sure
Papelbon has the worst pig nose of all time
actually, alot of Red Sox have that trait, with Pedroia being #2
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Pedroia looks more rodentlike
Like a bat or something.


"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Jun 11, 2009 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
that's hysterical.
1933 was a bad year
by Senatorrosewater on Jun 11, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Tony Fatista.
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.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
On the plus side
He helped convince Tejada to come here, and that worked out well for a few years.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
I'm gonna go ahead and throw in
Jorge Julio.
1933 was a bad year
by Senatorrosewater on Jun 11, 2009 2:05 PM EDT reply actions
He just signed a Minor League deal with the Rays
When will baseball give up on him?
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
Tom Niedenfuer
God I hated that ugly ass blue glove he had.
"Daddy, is Hevan like BIRDLAND?"
"No son, Hevan is BIRDLAND."
Forgot he was even with the Os
His claim to fame will always be that HR he gave up to Ozzie Smith, of all people, in the playoffs
You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever.
Jim Traber.
I’m kidding. It’s Terry Matthews.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
I don't think there is a single player I hated.
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.
hakkaa päälle !
Who ruined the O's
Well, I did. You did. We all did. Every poor sap who bought into the “Ripken Years” saga of idolizing our home town hero forced this franchise into a never ending spiral of defeat. A life time .270 hitter. A shortstop with a two step range. (did you ever see Aparico or Belanger play) and now he’s in the hall of fame. For what? Showing up every day? I could place a rock anywhere on the field of play and I could safely say it would not get an error. Here, I’ll say it. Cal Ripken ruined the O"s. Or, a few owners inability to put winning ball games above putting butts in seats did.. We are all to blame.
good to know.
"Your wife told you to play in New York.
Well, my wife told me you look like a dork." Boo Teixeira guys.
Really?
So a rock would hit 431 HR? Get 3184 hits? Sure. Be a lifetime .336 hitter in the playoffs (I use AVG, even though it sucks as a measure of usefulness, because I imagine it’s the only offensive statistic you understand).
BTW: according to advanced metrics that I won’t frighten you by trying to explain, Cal was a BETTER SS than Aparicio in the field and in his best years, as good as Belanger.
"Might as well just win this game." - Adam Jones, 4/17/2008
Adam Jones is the tits.
by KenDixonFanClub on Jun 13, 2009 1:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Sorry for this personal
attack, but FUCK YOU x’s o’s fan, you don’t know shit bitch!
by sickuvitall on Jun 17, 2009 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
+1,000,000
"We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow." ~ Earl Weaver
by Graham71681 on Jun 17, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm usually not down with just blatant personal bashing...
but Ripken ruined the O’s? Yea, thank god we moved on to guys like Fahey and Hernandez at SS. And is it just me, or were the O’s alot more competitive during Ripken’s tenure then post-Ripken? I don’t even know why i’m spending time on this. Sweet reply, sick.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
After I did it
I prepared an email for SC as to why he should let me back into CC. I thought it might be possible that I went overboard, which I likely did.
I think your comment was fair
maybe a bit colorful, but the point was valid.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
wow
get the hell out of here……………..
and I like Brady Anderson but it was obvious that he took steroids in 1996
by mad_cal_disease8 on Jun 21, 2009 11:16 PM EDT up reply actions
ryan minor
shoved down our crab holes and stunk. .177 avg, .951 fielding at 3rd. oh yea, “replaced” Cal.
But he's become a really good coach at Delmarva
and wants to stay there, since he married a local girl. Ryan Minor didn’t ask to for that spotlight of “replacing” Cal. He just tried to play baseball as best he could, and his best wasn’t good enough for MLB. IT happens.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
melvin mora
i can not honestly even bring myself to like this guy…why does he get paid so much…..he’s practically useless…
by Parkinglotninja on Jun 13, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions
Brandon Fahey
was useless. Melvin’s just grumpy. And old. And can’t really hit any more. What’s not to like?
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
agreed
no way he should be batting 5th
by Parkinglotninja on Jun 13, 2009 8:11 PM EDT up reply actions
And he's apparently whining about not being 2nd or 3rd
when he SHOULD be batting 8th.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Seriously..
No one said Glenn Davis?
Pete Harnish, Curt Schilling and Steve Finley for Glenn Davis and no one dislikes him? Can’t see that sorry…
At least three people said Glenn Davis
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
How do you dislike Davis because team management traded those guys for him?
It wasn’t his decision. It wasn’t his fault injuries derailed his career. Hating Oriole management for the deal is one thing. Hating the player makes no sense.
hakkaa päälle !
Remember what that injury was, though?
He had his jaw broken IN A BAR FIGHT.
Now, if that isn’t his fault, then I don’t know what is.
So, to me, if makes perfect sense to hate Glenn Davis.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Let me put in another workd for Armando Benitez
I got sick every time that idiot came into a tough spot. He was a beast—and not in a good way. Threw 99 fmph, with not more than the vauguest idea of where he was throwing. Didn’t take major league hitters long to figer him out.
PLEASE.................
hands down – ALBERT BELLE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and his hip.
"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
-Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony
I say no...
Albert Belle didn’t cause his hip injury.
Glenn Davis? Broke his jaw in a bar fight.
Sidney Ponson? Alcohol abuse led to most of his problems.
Alan Wiggins? He lived a lifestyle that greatly increased his chances of acquiring AIDS with IV drug use.
Albert Belle didn’t cost us as much money as popularly believed, either. 80% of his contract was covered by insurance.
Now, I’m not to defend the morality of a person who runs over annoying trick-or-treaters with a vehicle. But Albert Belle’s baseball demise was not hastened by any action he took.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
well...
there have been some physicians that have linked steroid use to joint degeneration. Just sayin…
I love me some AB though, don’t get me wrong.
"I’m sure glad he didn’t try to bunt." - DD on Melmo's game winning double, 6/17
Well if you want to bring up the off field stuff ...he's Albert......
corked bat , DUI , the tracking device on the ex-girlfriends car, jail time for stalking, never talked to the Crow, won’t take batting practice with the team, benched for not running out ground balls, melting down on the manager, flipping off O’s fans in the outfield, hurling a beer through a TV in St Pete, throwing baseballs at people on the field, Hanna Storm….etc…etc….
It was controversial because everyone just wants to dwell on my negatives. You’d have thought I was an ax murderer."
- Albert Belle -.March 25, 1996, About the Hannah Storm incident
“I’m not going to waste a spot on somebody who doesn’t want to play”
- Mike Hargrove, Sports Illustrated…July 27, 1998, About Albert’s 1998 All Star snub
“He’s a two-year-old. He changes his mind every five minutes.”
- John Maroon, The Sporting News…July 4, 1994
I’ve talked about Albert Belle until I’m blue in the face. From the club persepctive, we pay him based on productivity and his talent…We’ve suspended him ourselves, we’ve sent him to the minor leagues for not running out balls, we’ve disciplined him, but at the same time Albert has grown into a productive player. We don’t necessarily pay Albert to have a good image."
- John Hart, USA Today…March 1, 1996
"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
-Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony
by breweyboy18 on Jun 18, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
"never talked to the Crow"
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
sorry....
I got carried away in the moment.
"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
-Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony
Albert Flipped Us Off in Eutaw St Seats
I told this story while sitting out in Eutaw St reserve seats last week. In fact, everytime I sit there I’m reminded of the time Sir Albert gave us the bird, acting as if he was scratching the back of his head. I remember thinking, “they pay this guy $12 million a year?”. Good riddance to him and his hip. I’m also reminded of a time Brady Anderson lolligagged after a base hit and then, as if he didn’t care, threw the ball back in to nobody, allowing a run to easily score. Ah, to sit in RF and look at Markakis and Jones – real ballplayers.
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.
Rhodes is still pitching
In Cincinnati. He’s been damned good this year as a LOOGy.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
Where do I start?
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
buddy groom was insanely awesome in 2002
"Your wife told you to play in New York.
Well, my wife told me you look like a dork." Boo Teixeira guys.
yes, yes he was....
then he went on to have two outstanding seasons with ERAs of 5.38 and 4.76 (not to mention his career ERA closes in on 5….)
by twistedlogic on Jun 19, 2009 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
buddy groom had an awesome mustache.
"Your wife told you to play in New York.
Well, my wife told me you look like a dork." Boo Teixeira guys.
Juan Bastista
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”!
The great thing about hating Sid as an Oriole is that you know you have good friends in what, maybe 4 other franchises.
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.
"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.
Least bang for the buck?
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit into evidence…
Adam Loewen and his MLB contract at draft signing.
I rest my case.
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Point taken-- but (a) I *did* say "may qualify"; and (b) it's hard for me to count Loewen as *any* bang; he's kinda off-scale.
I guess I was talking about an entity that may be too hard to articulate— something like “high investment level divided by partially realized potential over wilfull disregard for self and organization plus the square root of abandonment of career equals alcoholic flame out.” Sid’s got that one cornered, far as I’m concerned.
"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.
Billy Ripken
The Roger Clinton of baseball.
At least he gave us that 1989 Fleer card.
" I'm happy to announce that we've made Adam Jones our 4th and 5th starting pitcher as well as bench coach and team chaplain" - peter_angelos 8:04 AM May 14th from digsby
"Matt Wieters Adopted Mark Texiera's Parents Because He Felt They Needed A Son To Be Proud Of."
And just one more......
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?
"I was provided with addtional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
-Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony
Old School hatred
Ken Gerhardt
John Miller
Doyle Alexander
Kiko Garcia
by Brandt name product on Jun 20, 2009 6:05 PM EDT reply actions
Hey, wait a minute!
No hatin’ on Kiko allowed!
"I don't have a hit-and-run sign, and I believe it's the worst play in baseball." - Earl Weaver
Thank you to those who mentioned Steve Kline...
…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.

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