Monday Bird Droppings

As a Christian I love Lent and Easter. We tell the same story every year as well and I always get something new out of it. It’s wonderful.

I heard a quote once that, while written by a Christian historian, it seems applicable to what you’re talking about as well.

“Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, Tradition is the living faith of the dead.”
 - Jaroslav Pelikan.

Even though it’s the “same” every year it’s living and different all at the same time.

Ok enough of the religious soapbox I think. Have a great passover! =)

I love matzah. I’m not Jewish so we never have it but fir some reason I just really like it. am I the only one here?

but I know a lot of people are anti. I’m not a big fan of that first one. That bird has always given me the creeps.

I really dig the B cap but don’t see it on there.

maybe it dates back to the time in third grade when I was Rafael Palmeiro and I had one of those modern grey hats. I think they wore them for just one season in 94 or 95

given the use of the word initially. Makes it sound like once Nolan is 100% things will change.

…gives him the most chances to GIDP. They’re just maximizing his ability.

this year…IMO he’s a better fielder, he’s shows flashes of his potential every once in a blue moon, and reimold might just end up going to first later on down the road anyway. what I’m saying is that this year, while reimold recovers, pie is a good fill in and if he breaks out with a pretty solid season, well then we have the worlds best problem on our hands.

I didn’t realize until three quarters of the way through that this was from 2008.

jokes on him

He acts like the trade was Bedard for Jones straight up (which Seatlle would no doubt do in a heartbeat right now) and then ridicules it on that basis. I mean, nevermind that we also got Sherrill (you know, the guy who served as our closer and brought us back our currently highest ranked position prospect), Tillman (definitely a legit prospect even at the time this article was written), and Mickolio (who was a nice upside player at the time as well). No sense in bringing that part up, right?

Then you have some idiot in the comments saying “Yeah this is a pretty good summary of how we O’s fans feel”. If by “we O’s fans” you mean the other O’s fans like yourself that don’t pay attention to the sport or the team whatsoever and have no idea what the hell they are talking about, then yes. I fully agree.

You’ll definitely be recognizable around town.

Where them with shorts? Tuck your pants into them (please don’t)?

But what the hell. If DH sucks, we bring up Tillman and no biggie. If DH is great, well we just found another starter to add to the collection. Tillman is still young (he’s only 21) and i’m sure there are some things he can still learn at AAA. He wasn’t exactly lights out at the ML level last year. Hernandez is already 24, so if they want to ride the hot hand coming out of spring, whatever. Give him his shot. This does kinda kill my Tillman vote on the Camden Chat contest though.

Tillman basically needs to be the guy IMHO. Tillman’s got more potential and will be better served by being in Baltimore than in Norfolk, and I’ve never been a big fan of Hernandez’ since I saw him in Bowie a couple of times.

But…well, those K numbers are so shiny. And Rob Neyer convinced me by saying “it doesn’t really matter, whoever pitches best will get it soon enough”.

But still, the whole idea of spring training competition makes my mouth taste sour. Are we so quick to forget that one time that Tillman struck out 8 Yankees?

Tillman will obviously get his shot; he’s just 21. Hernandez has shown that he can be lights out in AAA but hasn’t shown it at the majors. He probably deserves another chance. 2010 is still something of an experiment year.

and not just because I want to see Tillman in the rotation. I think he has the potential to have really electric, late inning stuff, especially if he can add a few mph to his fastball with the stress of going 6+ innings removed. For me, the sooner he makes the transition and learns to be a quality reliever the better.

I’d rather see tillman. I hope they know what they are doing.

had a similar looking one