Saturday Bird Droppings

by duck on Apr 24, 2010 7:22 AM EDT in Open Threads

This will be an abbreviated edition, as my computer doesn't want to play nice this morning and my son has a 5K that starts at 9. Sorry.

Wait-and-see approach boosts Sox past Orioles - The Boston Globe
"That it took the notoriously impatient Adrian Beltre to draw a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the worst team in baseball isn’t the point. The Red Sox did what was needed." Yup, we walked the guy who's the worst at taking walks to lose last night's game. That's Orioles baseball, 2010 style. -duck

Did the O's callup Rhyne Hughes? - MASNsports.com
Guess who Steve Melewski cites as his source? That's right, lil' ol' Camden Chat. Thanks, Steve. -duck

Some stats, facts and commentary after a loss at Boston - MASNsports.com
"In a close game, the O's made mistakes that led to another loss. *The bullpen issued three straight walks with two outs and a man on third in the 8th. *Miguel Tejada's error in the 5th led to a run. *Garrett Atkins stranded eight runners on base in his first three at bats..." It goes on from there, but you get the point. -duck

PressBox: Amber wasn't happy with Roch in the booth
"Amber Theoharis showed a flash of temper during the Orioles’ opening week in Tampa. Apparently, Jim Palmer had a throat problem and couldn’t do color commentary for one of the TV games. So MASN blogger and former Baltimore Sun sports writer Roch Kubatko filled in. Theoharis reportedly was not happy about being passed over, and her reaction was "not pretty." Since then, Theoharis has "buried the hatchet." Jests our source: "Yeah, she buried the hatchet in Kubatko’s head." Ha ha ha." -duck

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Kris Benson and Rodrigo Lopez are both starters on the D-Backs.

In one game as a freshman at Miami, Wieters hit a two-run homer in the top of the ninth to put the Yellow Jackets ahead, then pitched the bottom of the ninth for the save. On that day, the God nickname was bestowed. - Sports Illustrated

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by BaltimoreSportsFan on Apr 24, 2010 7:27 AM EDT reply actions

On a team with playoff aspirations

Gotta love the NL. Brian Bass is starting in Pittsburgh and Russ Ortiz is still pitching in that awful league. So, the O’s may be an awful team, but at least they are an awful division 1A team. I’m surprised Sir Sidney hasn’t surfaced in the lesser league.

by uneasy rider on Apr 24, 2010 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions

until we're a .500 team

I don’t want to hear shit about other divisions or the nl or anything like that. We are the worst fucking team in baseball and we’d be the worst fucking team in any fucking division we played in. Awful in a good division and awful in a bad division are all the same. I don’t want to hear it.

cxcxcxcxzzzzzzzzz

by Steve. on Apr 24, 2010 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Amber, dudette! Now that you've got the hatchet out...

Wipe the remains of Kubatko’s (tiny) anterior parietal lobe off on something (Palmer’s jacket, say) and proceed to Petey’s limousine. When he rolls the window down, do the obvious.

If Julio Lugo hasn’t already run away by then, he’s your next stop.

Oh, and please don’t forget Pretend Commissioner Bud, who’s so moronic you might think his brainpan had been removed years ago by Roto-Rooter. Go ahead, put him out of our misery.

Wow, I feel better already!

"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.

by Titov on Apr 24, 2010 7:57 AM EDT reply actions

You kill Bud

We lose the Mac truck. I’m not ready for that to happen yet.

"You accept mediocrity and you get mediocrity." - Adam Jones, Son!

by daveh873 on Apr 24, 2010 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions

how was that roch's fault?

by Y Not on Apr 24, 2010 8:54 AM EDT reply actions

she wasn't happy with "Roch (being) in the booth (instead of her)"

Not she wasn’t happy with Roch

This just in: adorableness on the rise, family copes with child getting schooled. Film at 11. -daveh873

by Stacey on Apr 24, 2010 9:50 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah i mean that's what i thought

but then that “source jests, she burried the hatchet in kubatko’s head” … ok whatever who cares ;)

by Y Not on Apr 24, 2010 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Dude we could have had Amber all game???

We really are the most unlucky team after all

"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law

by Reddrummer9187 on Apr 24, 2010 10:06 AM EDT reply actions

I Know Right

Geaux Eaux's

by NawlinsOriole on Apr 24, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions

I was just thinking the same thing.

I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I wonder how they reached that decision. Amber getting the opportunity to fill in there would have been nice. Roch did alright given the circumstances and struck me as self-deprecating about the whole thing, so that was okay with me.

Still, makes you wonder if that was a sexist thing – not from Roch but whoever told him to sit in the booth.

I'm ready for a straight jacket. - Joe Angel, 4/17/10 (O's record: 1-11)

by Eat More Esskay on Apr 24, 2010 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions

She has much more on-air experience

As I’ve probably mentioned 100 times, she did news in Salisbury and other markets before going to MASN. She should have been the first thought, not an afterthought.

"I strongly suggest watching the O’s play while on a powerful, legal, prescribed narcotic. All the COLORS!!!!! and that Dempsey really makes sense. " - Adam double bubble

by duck on Apr 24, 2010 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions

I'd like to bury my hatchet in Amber.

This series is taking years off of my life.

by Knubles and Bits on Apr 24, 2010 1:08 PM EDT reply actions

yikes...

Rub some $100 bills on it, you sell-out. -duck

by O'sFan21 on Apr 24, 2010 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah....

I just noticed this. That might be a little much for this environment.

This just in: adorableness on the rise, family copes with child getting schooled. Film at 11. -daveh873

by Stacey on Apr 24, 2010 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Delete it then.

This series is taking years off of my life.

by Knubles and Bits on Apr 24, 2010 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Although

I find it no different than what is said every time Amber makes an appearance during a game.

This series is taking years off of my life.

by Knubles and Bits on Apr 24, 2010 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions

You don't see a difference in

“yay Amber” and “Amber looks beautiful tonight” and that? I’m not saying that no one has ever said anything along those lines, but it’s not frequent.

This just in: adorableness on the rise, family copes with child getting schooled. Film at 11. -daveh873

by Stacey on Apr 24, 2010 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

Like I said, feel free to delete it. I would have by now, but I don’t have that authority.

This series is taking years off of my life.

by Knubles and Bits on Apr 24, 2010 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Braves game

top 5th, 2nd and 3rd.. 1 out.
flyout to medium right center, deep enough to score the runner… but the runner on third did NOT tag up. runner on 2nd gets caught in a rundown, and they don’t score.

Penny: "Yes, dinner’s here, and I’m having some. I’ve been having leftovers at the restaurant for four days, and I just wanted something different. So sue me!"
Sheldon: "Forgive me, Penny, but that would be the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit."

~ Big Bang Theory

by Aldoran on Apr 24, 2010 2:32 PM EDT reply actions