Sunday Bird Droppings

by duck on Oct 10, 2010 7:56 AM EDT in Open Threads

IN THE PLAYOFFS

Twinvincible: Yanks sweep Minnesota again | MLB.com: News
"Phil Hughes pitched seven scoreless innings of four-hit ball as the Yankees defeated the Twins, 6-1, in Game 3 on Saturday at Yankee Stadium, popping the corks as they advanced past the first round for the second successive season."

Rays reign, don't go away, rally late at Texas | MLB.com: News
"Hits don't come much bigger than John Jaso's RBI single in the eighth inning early Saturday night. The catcher's hit give the Rays their first lead in three games of the American League Division Series, and they never relinquished it in a 6-3 win over the Rangers in Game 3, keeping Tampa Bay's postseason hopes alive and forcing a Game 4 on Sunday in Arlington." But, but, but, that's TWO game sin a row! They can't be expected to play again in 24 hours, can they? It's inhuman!

IN ORIOLES' NEWS

Steve Melewski: The O's need to keep Izzy at short
"Despite the obvious offensive shortcomings, I think the O's should resign Cesar Izturis at short for two more years." Um, no Steve. Just, no.

School of Roch: Talking free agents and spring training
Buck Showalter on Spring Training: "We'll do something and I'll say, 'Turn the clock off. That ain't good enough.' Forget how long we're supposed to be at this station. That's just raising the bar. It ain't good enough to just say, 'OK, we've done that. Now let's move on to the next drill.' Bull. All this stuff where they blow the horn and the 15-minute period is over? Forget that. We've got nowhere to go."

Orioles Insider: Orioles' news and notes
Mark Hendrickson will be bought out of his last year, Adam Jones probably was benched for not running out the double play against Detroit (Jeff Z doesn't buy "just a day off" for the next-to-last game of the year), and look for shakeups in the minor league system's coaches as well as the big club next week.

AROUND THE LEAGUE

Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn says he has cancer in a salivary gland - baltimoresun.com
"The doctors have told me they feel they caught the cancer early and there was not much of it there," he said in a story published Saturday. "

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All of those comments in Roch's article...

and I don’t think a single one of them mentioned that, oh by the way, Victor Martinez is going to be a Type A free agent. Not that they would have any conception of what exactly Type A FA status entails.

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude

by PBR me ASAP! on Oct 10, 2010 9:48 AM EDT reply actions

mmmmm.....a Georgetown cupcake

for breakfast! I’m a healthy one these days.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on Oct 10, 2010 9:54 AM EDT reply actions

I just made a chicken breast and kohlrabi

I’ll ignore the amount of butter used to cook both and pretend its healthy.

by kba26 on Oct 10, 2010 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions

tell me you had someone fetch that for you...

they’re tasty and all, but those lines are downright foolish. a line a block long for a $5 cupcake? i just don’t get it.

At all hazards, a man must keep up appearances. Dignity, I say. Dignity above all, Governor. Hear, hear!

-Det. William "Bunk" Moreland

by j.q. higgins on Oct 10, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions

yea...def didn't wait on the line.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on Oct 11, 2010 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions

Your uncle Walter's going on and on

Where did you go that you were gone so long?

"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott

by zknower on Oct 10, 2010 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

I'm fresh out of BFF tunes

I only know Rockin’ The Suburbs and Brick

"Walk not down that road, I cannot tell you where it goes. Ask me no more questions - some things you're not meant to know." - The Sword

by duck on Oct 10, 2010 11:19 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I figured we could have a li'l BFF quote every day.

Recommended for you to check out: Fred Jones Part 2, Zak and Sara, Not the Same, The Luckiest, all off of Rockin’ the Suburbs, Army (mentioned yesterday), Your Most Valuable Possession off of The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, and nearly anything off of Whatever & Ever Amen, which I think is his best album.

Maybe I’ll curate a little disc for you. Not seriously, of course, because that would be illegal. Oh, no.

"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott

by zknower on Oct 10, 2010 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Song for the Dumped!

You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990

by Stacey on Oct 10, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

oh, absolutely!

that was the first BF song I ever heard, and I was like, “this dude is definitely different!”

"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott

by zknower on Oct 10, 2010 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions

though for accuracy's sake,

Rockin’ the Suburbs (and Songs Silverman and Way to Normal) aren’t Ben Folds Five albums.

by kba26 on Oct 10, 2010 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions

fair point

"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott

by zknower on Oct 10, 2010 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Not that theres really much of a difference

but anyone who would be looking to acquire said albums could have trouble finding them if they searched for Ben Folds’ Five.

by kba26 on Oct 10, 2010 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions

Cliff Lee

"When you use those words, `mystique’ and `aura,’ those are dancers in a night club. Those are not things we concern ourselves on the ball field." - Curt Schilling on if the Yankees mystique and aura would affect the Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series.

by BaltimoreSportsFan on Oct 10, 2010 11:18 AM EDT reply actions

Did he happen to gain some weight?

"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'" Earl Weaver

by MudDawg on Oct 10, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions

cliff lee's head. Sidney Ponson's body.

by Y Not on Oct 11, 2010 9:17 AM EDT up reply actions

6 of my last 8 posts have had the subject of Cliff Lee.

by BaltimoreSportsFan on Oct 10, 2010 11:34 AM EDT reply actions

Congrats on killing the joke.

You never know when someone is gonna sneak up on ya at the dolphin show! -wrb1990

by Stacey on Oct 10, 2010 3:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

BSF is like the canary of the Camden Chat joke mine

Now we all know to move on.

by kba26 on Oct 10, 2010 8:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Pretty sure you're the only one who is happy about that.

I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck

by twistedlogic on Oct 11, 2010 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions

So Teixeira (during his postgame on-field interview) thinks the AL East is...

“a tough division; with 3 or 4 good teams.”

I guess he didn’t have the time to notice the O’s kicking ass and taking names the last 2 months of the season, since he was too busy taking advanced level coursework at the A-Rod School of Douchbaggery. Seriously Tex, fuck off.

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude

by PBR me ASAP! on Oct 10, 2010 11:39 AM EDT reply actions

Maybe he was leaving out Toronto or Tampa Bay.

It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters

by Eat More Esskay on Oct 10, 2010 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions

I refuse to give him the benefit of the doubt

"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude

by PBR me ASAP! on Oct 10, 2010 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions

2nd that

"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'" Earl Weaver

by MudDawg on Oct 10, 2010 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

A game thread for all of today's mayhem is going up at 12:45.

Since there’s no Orioles baseball, I figured we could combine NFL and MLB today. So don’t worry about a separate thread for football. If you’re watching sports today and want to talk about it on CC, let’s just drop it all in one thread.

It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay. - John Waters

by Eat More Esskay on Oct 10, 2010 12:07 PM EDT reply actions

YES

"On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'" Earl Weaver

by MudDawg on Oct 10, 2010 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions

5 unanimous picks in the CC pick 'em this week

ATL, BAL, IND, NO, SD

And nearly unanimous, with one person going against the grain in each case: CIN, HOU.

Should be a quiet week with that kind of unanimity.

"I put a pepper rub on the scallops so you have a little contrast. You have sweetness from the coconut oil and little acidity from the splash of lemon." – Luke Scott

by zknower on Oct 10, 2010 12:30 PM EDT reply actions