Orioles 5, Athletics 7: I mean, honestly, you're kidding me with this BS, right?

by Stacey on May 27, 2010 10:58 PM EDT in Post-Game

An otherwise beautiful evening ruined by Orioles baseball.

This was my 7th Orioles game of the year. The Orioles in that time are 0-7. They have 14 losses at home and I have seen half of them. Wait, that's a lie. One of the losses I witnessed was in DC. But whatever. I hate them.

Look, there is no telling what would have happened if Dave Trembley had left Jason Berken in. All I know is I watched a game go from pretty well in hand to a complete and utter S show in about two minutes. I know that when Dave Trembley emerged from the dugout to remove Berken every single person in the stands wondered aloud what on earth he was doing. Well, what he was doing was overmanaging the Orioles straight into their 33rd loss of the year.

It was a beautiful night in a beautiful ball park, I had great seats, and for 7 plus innings I thought I might see my first win of the year. But in the end all I saw was the Orioles get booed off of their own field.

Brad Bergesen pitched a hell of a game. It's a shame for him.

This team kind of makes me want to vomit.

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I was there too.

With my sister in the upper deck.

Horrible.

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 May 27, 2010 11:12 PM EDT reply actions

looks like there were a lot of suckers there

"This club is not a good club." --Jim Palmer

by Dr. J on May 27, 2010 11:27 PM EDT reply actions

0-7, eh?

Ouch.

I can’t blame Trembley, at least not for putting Hendrickson in. Hendrickson got the results you’d want. Infield singles on bad bounces are just bad luck.

by Bad Horse on May 27, 2010 11:32 PM EDT reply actions

I can

Lefties vs Berken this year? .187

Lefties vs Hendo this year? .333

When you watch the Orioles every night, a beer after dinner turns into a six pack WAY too many times. Stacey

by duck on May 28, 2010 7:01 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I'm beginning to get the feeling...

…that our team is not very good.

by Jonny Pops on May 27, 2010 11:41 PM EDT reply actions

Orioles-Athletics: A Goddamn Tragedy in Three Acts

Two baseball teams, one with no dignity
In fair Baltimore where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new suckity
Where civil sport makes civil fans unclean
From forth the fatal game of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d pitchers take the mound
Whose misadventured manager doesn’t know
Where the stats on platoon splits may be found
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d eighth
And the continuance of their last fans’ rage
Which, but team’s success, nought could remove
Is now the three hours’ traffic of our stage
The which if you with patient eyes attend
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to end.

ACT I: 2nd Inning

BERGESEN: Thou canst not strike my sinkerball!
CUST: I canst not strike his sinkerball!
GEREN: Foul, foul, I say! His foot touch’th not the rubber!
BERGESEN: Nonsense!
PLATE UMPIRE: Your foot touch’th not the rubber.
BERGESEN: Ay, woe unto me. Yea, I shall walketh the next batter, and then…
KENNY MAYNE: (voiceover) YAHTZEE!

ACT II: Middle innings

GIO GONZALEZ: Some call me Cy Young.
IZTURIS: Cheap hit!
LUGO: Cheap hit!
WIGGINTON: Cy Young could throw more strikes!
TEJADA: What ho? Ground into a double play? Why, I shall try!
WIETERS: This is how you hit a baseball.
(scene)

(ominous thunder rumbling throughout)

WIETERS: Thou touch’th my divine toe with thine baseball? I shall take first base!
JONES: Behold my thirteen game hitting streak!
ATKINS: The force of gravity in my teeth pulls balls from the strike zone.
MONTANEZ: Alas! I cannot hit. Deal with it.
(Exeunt)

BERGESEN: Have at me now, Athletics! I place my toe correctly, and obscenity in thy Gatorade!
ROSALES: Ay, I am beaten.
ELLIS: I cannot compete!
DAVIS: Matt Wieters punched me.
(scene)

ACT III: 8th Inning

BERGESEN: My sinker has stopped sinking.
TREMBLEY: Did somebody say bullpen? YES!
BERKEN: I answer thy summons! Take a seat, Davis!
TREMBLEY: That’s enough out of you.
BERKEN: But lefties hitteth .190 off of me!
TREMBLEY: So?
BERKEN: The next batter is a lefty.
TREMBLEY: We’d better get a lefty in here.
MANY ORIOLES FANS (off-stage): Noooooooooooo!

HENDRICKSON: Here, let me get a couple of ground balls.
SUZUKI: Infield single!
FOX: I pity you, Orioles. Here, have a routine ground ball.
INFIELD: I hate you for letting so many people run all over me! Bad bounce!
TREMBLEY: That’s enough out of you.
HENDRICKSON: Nothing’s left the infield.
TREMBLEY: A righty’s coming up.
HENDRICKSON: Righties do worse against me than lefties!
TREMBLEY: We’d better get a righty in here.
KOUZMANOFF: There’s too many people on the bases. Here, let me clear them for you.
TREMBLEY: Well… I guess that’s baseball.

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

by Eat More Esskay on May 27, 2010 11:42 PM EDT reply actions 10 recs

This is the funnies thing I have ever read on a baseball blog!

by flaggthecat on May 27, 2010 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions

The fault, dear Bergy, is not in our stars

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
That is, we have no stars, dear Bergy,
For forsooth, we blow your lead
and we screweth the pooch
and we jumpeth the shark.
Yet the earth Trembleys ’neath our cleats.
For Diamond Dave hath failed us ’gain.

by Fred Sanford on May 28, 2010 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions 7 recs

I hope DDT reads this

by HIO'sFan on May 28, 2010 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Ode to Dave (with craven apologies to WW)

O Trembley, our Trembley! The nauseous game is done,
The team has taken every hack, the prize we sought – not won!
The news is clear, the Reaper’s near, the fans their axes honing,
If fellow drips enjoy your quips, the Orioles are groaning.
O crap! crap! crap!
O the thoughts that come too late!
O what the f#ck was in your head
Out there in inning eight?

"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 May 28, 2010 12:48 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs

Well played, sir.

by zsiv on May 28, 2010 1:20 AM EDT up reply actions

wow

this is art right here

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

by twistedlogic on May 28, 2010 7:10 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm impressed with scored five runs with this lineup.

It’s almost not worth pointing out anymore, but this iss some true sludge. Montanez in right, Atkins as the designated hitter (you can’t make this shit up), backup second baseman getting his stink all over the infield, Corey Patterson (who’s been fine so far—I’m sure Stacy would say very fine—but probably has no future with this or any other team).

And yet they aren’t the reason we lost this game. The even-more-fucked bullpen is the reason we lost it. That and the fact that Trembley has no conception of how to handle high-leverage situations. Two on with a lefty coming to the plate, and no real need to make a pitching change, but if you’re going to make one, go to Ohman. This team does not have a closer, and it really doesn’t need a closer, let alone a pretty good LOOGY who we now can’t use unless it’s the ninth inning.

But even given the bad reasoning process, there’s no need to blame this loss on any one player or managerial decision. The decisive runs were mostly a matter of bad luck, as are a lot of this season’s cringe-worthy, look-through-your-fingers, horror movie results. It’s still my feeling that a good third of the losses, this one included, could have been wins with just a little luck.

The other two-thirds are because the team sucks.

by flaggthecat on May 27, 2010 11:43 PM EDT reply actions

Ah you were in the Pie shirt - I saw you walking out at the end.

What a fucking shitshow. Awful awful team. I hate this shit.

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

by O'sFan21 on May 28, 2010 12:25 AM EDT reply actions

Sure, the pen was why we lost

But I can’t help noticing that we got ten hits and six walks and only scored five runs. In part because we once again didn’t have a single extra base hit.

To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa

by James F on May 28, 2010 12:25 AM EDT reply actions

In part because we once again didn’t have a single extra base hit.

Huh. I did not realize that. Yes, that’s a problem.

by flaggthecat on May 28, 2010 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions

if you score 5 runs it shouldn't matter how you do it. (for one game)

by Delmarvalous Tom on May 28, 2010 12:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Wha?

An extra-base hit or two and we could have had more runs and maybe, you know, not lost the game.

"MONTANEZ: Alas! I cannot hit. Deal with it."
-Eat More Esskay

by flaggthecat on May 28, 2010 12:55 AM EDT up reply actions

The Orioles in that time are 0-7. They have 14 losses at home and I have seen half of them.

You think that is bad? The last time I saw the Orioles win in person was April 29, 1993. That is no joke. Moose pitched a complete game shutout. Glen Davis had a solo shot and 2 rbi nights were enjoyed by Mark McLemore, Jeff Tackett, Mike Devereaux, and Harold Reynolds. O’s won 11-0.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL199304290.shtml

Granted I only went to a handful of games every year up until 2004 when I was away for five years doing various Marine Corps activities, but still that is sad. I’ve been to three so far this year with no luck. I refuse to even spend the money anymore.

Insert something witty here.

by Knubles and Bits on May 28, 2010 1:11 AM EDT reply actions

I saw them win at Wrigley Field against the Cubbies on my honeymoon in 2008. Granted I normally only catch one game a year at Camden Yards but that win at Wrigley was the only one I’ve seen since the 90’s.

by craig3816 on May 28, 2010 7:01 AM EDT up reply actions

I missed this game

because my router and DSL modem were fried by a lightning strike around 6 last night. Maybe it’s for the best.

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -- Earl Weaver

by Vuff on May 28, 2010 7:28 AM EDT reply actions