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Orioles 5, Mariners 3. It was poetry, people. Poetry.

Ty Wigginton did one good thing today. He was not alone. Several Mariners decided to help us today, too. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

More photos » by Ted S. Warren - AP

Ty Wigginton did one good thing today. He was not alone. Several Mariners decided to help us today, too. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

The Orioles tried to lose this game,

But the Mariners bullpen proved too lame.

 

Nope, that's not it. Let me try again.

 

Orioles bats wait

until the absolute last

moment, then they strike!

 

Nope. Not gonna do. One more try.

 

There once was a team in Seattle,

Beating the O's 3-0 in battle,

But then their ‘pen sucked,

And the M's were.....out of luck,

And with a win the O's did skedaddle.

Hey, you guys started it.

Poll
Who was the Most Birdland Player for Wednesday, July 8, 2009?
David Hernandez (6.0 IP, 2 R, 5 H, 3 K, 2 BB)
124 votes
Ty Wigginton (1-3, 2 RBI)
33 votes
Melvin Mora (2-4, 2 2B)
18 votes
Oscar Salazar (1-1, 1BB, clutch hit in 9th)
30 votes
Adam Jones (2-5, 1 RBI, 1 R)
16 votes
No one. Seattle beat themselves today. About time someone else did it!
97 votes

318 votes | Poll has closed

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Gotta go with Wiggington...

He hit the tying AND go-ahead run in. Then he kept the inning alive with a Birdland slide that took out the guy at 2nd base…which allowed us to get the insurance run. Hernandez was very good also, but Wigs won the game IMO.

by Johnny_S on Jul 8, 2009 10:00 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Wiggy?

What about the two double plays earlier in the game, including an inning-ending one with the bases loaded?

by dkdc on Jul 8, 2009 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

So?

He did the closest equivalent to hitting a walk-off HR. All sins are forgiven when you knock in the winning run.

by Johnny_S on Jul 8, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I disagree

He had 8 baserunners on for him in the the game and he drove in 2.

He did OK, but he wasn’t birdland.

by dkdc on Jul 8, 2009 10:23 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

So if we were at home

And in the game he left 12 base runners on…then in the 9th they were down by 2, 2 on, he cranks a HR. That’s not birdland? If Wiggs did not hit in those runs we might have lost.

by Johnny_S on Jul 8, 2009 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Sometimes, a moment of Birdland

overcomes a gameful of suck.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Please no more poetry. It's really bad. And very annoying.

Not you Duck, but the people doing it in the thread for the entire game.

by O'sFan21 on Jul 8, 2009 10:07 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

C'mon, you KNEW the recap was gonna have it

But I can see where 250+ comments of attempts at poetry could get bothersome. But it was just one game, a game at the end of a work day, and a game that looked like another phone-it-in loss. Sometimes, you just gotta go with the silly.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I almost appreciate it in the recap :)

I think I was entertained for the first 100 or so…haha

by O'sFan21 on Jul 8, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Chill, dude

You don’t have to read the comments in the thread. A lot of us were having fun and certainly weren’t gonna stop for one person.

by PhilR8 on Jul 8, 2009 10:32 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I really wanted to see him rhyme
What the fuck was that shit?

That would have made me laugh out loud.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I just read the game thread

I thought it was a hoot. Good job guys!

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 8, 2009 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

who said anything about poetry?
i just said the shits were gonna rhyme.

by thewaywardO on Jul 9, 2009 7:24 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

This is the first time I've even been tempted to list No One as MBP in a win.

But reading just how bad Seattle’s defense was in the 9th, I had to make it an option. I voted for Wiggy, but 3 votes were already cast before I could pull the trigger on it.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:08 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I mean as bad as their defense was...

Melmo still had a double, Zaun took a good walk, Salazar had a nice single, Jones had a nice single (not ruled an error), Wiggs had a single, and Luke had a single. So it was not all horrible, I don’t like the “no one” vote.

If the 9th had never happened, you still have to vote for Hernandez at least.

by Johnny_S on Jul 8, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I listed it as an option

but didn’t choose it myself. But I could see where others could. As I read the recap on Th Sun’s website, I couldn’t believe how bad Seattle’s defense must have been in the 9th.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It was dismal...

reminded me of our base running. Yeah, that bad.

by Johnny_S on Jul 8, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Duck when I got here there was no recap

And I just wrote an entire mother fucking thing.

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 8, 2009 10:13 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I don't want to get rid of it because I took all this time

But I guess I will. Dammit.

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 8, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's my own fault

I take a long time to write.

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 8, 2009 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I didn't post until I got home from the carnival and saw there was still nothing.

How the hell long DID you spend on it?

Post it as a comment, at least!

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I posted it as a fanshot.

I don’t know what time I started it. I think like one minute before yours posted.

I like to proofread and check numbers and edit myself. So sue me, duck!

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 8, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You and your pesky "facts"...

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

btw...

anyone else notice how fun it is to say “don wakamatsu”?

i’m actually going w/ memlo for MBP.

"If they pitch to you, make them pay."

--Diamond Dave to the Phenom

by j.q. higgins on Jul 8, 2009 10:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

One write-in vote duly noted.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I forgot I even listed him. Never mind.

"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail

by duck on Jul 8, 2009 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Have you ever noticed

how fun it is to listen to Palmer try to say Wakamatsu?

by O Nina on Jul 9, 2009 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It Was So Painful

I was so tired of the false hope, that all I could muster was a faint smile when we took the lead. We did not deserve to escape SafeCo with a win. Without the defensive errors in the 9th, we still don’t get out with a win. Woodward cuts down the run at the plate, and Markakis grounds into a double play to end it. Jose Lopez for MBP, but I voted nobody. Nobody was clutch, nobody played well, they just played barely well enough to outlast the defense. Wigginton with two double plays? Oscar Salazar throwing the ball into the runner to give up that 3rd run? Jones hitting a tapper that Woodward would normally field, possibly turn two on? The only one who deserves consideration is David Hernandez, and even he was bad. His pitches were all over the place, but he was, as they say, effectively wild. All-in-all, this is a win to be neither proud nor happy about. It’s just a sign of all the holes that we still have in our lineup.

On the first day, Chuck Norris created God. But the day before that, Matt Wieters created Chuck Norris and the calendar.

by oriolesfan151 on Jul 9, 2009 12:41 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

no he really should have turned 2

on the Lopez ball in the 9th.

They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.

by WestcoastO'sFan on Jul 9, 2009 1:38 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yeah

any ball to woodward shouldnt have been a double play. i guess i agree with you then

They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.

by WestcoastO'sFan on Jul 9, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

didn't see it...

but on the radio, they made it sound like a competent 1st baseman would have made a pretty easy play in salazar’s throw. i mean, maybe it would have taken an extra effort to get the out, but they made it sound like the ball going into the camera well was all on huff.

"If they pitch to you, make them pay."

--Diamond Dave to the Phenom

by j.q. higgins on Jul 9, 2009 6:48 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It was

A bad throw of course, but Huff still could have had it. It looked like he blindly whiffed at it.

by Johnny_S on Jul 9, 2009 8:38 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

we win between 65-75 games a year

every win is a win to be happy about.

Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.

by daveh873 on Jul 9, 2009 9:08 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm sorry I missed the poetry shindig

Ok… So I’m not. Sue me!

Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."

by dayzd toe on Jul 9, 2009 1:00 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

who voted for Wiggy

he hit into 2 double plays already. But anyway this was a fun game to be at.

They ain't tough enough, smart enough or fast enough.

by WestcoastO'sFan on Jul 9, 2009 1:27 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

No one has pictures of Huff or B-Rob's moustaches? Really? I'm quite curious.

I don’t like West Coast trips at all. :( Have yet to see a game. But wasn’t this the last WC trip of the year? Or something like that? Hooray!
As for this game, which, I missed, I voted Seattle imploding on themselves because of all the errors. Not that I’m complaining about those errors or anything. Errors are a beautiful thing, unless, of course, WE are committing them.

P.S. Brian can’t possibly look very pleasing to the eye with a stache. But I’ll give it to him because he’s sick. Then again, Aubrey probably looks pretty freaky with a porn stache.

by LenaO on Jul 9, 2009 5:31 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Roberts is more of a shadow

Hopefully he’s just getting ready to be scruffy over the all star break.

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 9, 2009 8:45 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

i had to go mora here

i mean, when do we get a chance to vote for him? plus i have a hard time giving MBP to a pitcher who was losing the game when he left even tho i think his start was fantastic. losing is not birdland

by twistedlogic on Jul 9, 2009 8:54 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

M's gamethreads are birdland lol.

and man they loooove some Garret Olson

“OK OLSON HOVER YOUR FUCKING BALLS OVER MY GOB YOU ARE ABOUT TO GET A FUCKING TEABAGGING” – that was worth 5 recs :)

Word is they’re about to sign cintron too and rumored to be looking at ryan.

by mpire on Jul 9, 2009 9:14 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Ha!

This was my favorite from the LL gamethread:

GOOD THING WE GET TO FACE GEORGE SHERRILL SO THE ERIK BEDARD TRADE CAN REPEATEDLY SHIT ON OUr FACE

by Fuckmikereilly on Jul 8, 2009 4:30 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson

by Brotz13 on Jul 9, 2009 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

teabagging and hot lunches?

man, those westcoasters. crazy bunch.

"If they pitch to you, make them pay."

--Diamond Dave to the Phenom

by j.q. higgins on Jul 10, 2009 7:54 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Not to pick this comment apart

But in the scenario above, wouldn’t Olson be the teabagger, not the teabaggee? Unless I misunderstand my teabagging terminology.

I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry

by Stacey on Jul 9, 2009 10:35 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe it's different in england.

The coment was from “EnglishMariner”. As evidenced by the use of the word Gob.

Even having spent a few years over there I couldn’t confirm or deny that. I find maintaining a plausible deniability in such matters to be the soundest course of action.

by mpire on Jul 9, 2009 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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