Thursday Bird Droppings

It’s gotta be down past the harbor, need to make Baltimore look like Monaco as much as possible.

Though if you want the cars to go faster just send em through a dodgy neighborhood or two.

And so long as tickets are resonable I would go.

As a one-time novelty thing, or maybe even every other year or something, I think that would be pretty neat to see. Baltimore Grand Prix just sounds cool.

The article seemed to be written as if it was a done deal except for: "If selected by the Indy Racing League, Baltimore would join Toronto, Long Beach, Calif., and Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Indy Racing sites. "

I would definitely make the drive down to watch them race through the streets.

Sorry. That’s what I get for rushing thorugh the article.

I tend to agree that the difference between Taillon and Whitson isn’t that huge. That said, Taillon is to my mind better. I will be mildly displeased if the Orioles select Whitson with Taillon still on the board, less because of Whitson himself, but more because I won’t like what it says about our organization.

Let’s be clear: neither Sickels or Seiler is saying there that Whitson is as good as Taillon. They think he’s not that much worse for less money. And if the Orioles make that choice for that reason, then it will put paid to the notion that they took Hobgood when Matzek and Turner were available because they really thought Hobgood was better than they were. Meanwhile, the saved money isn’t significantly going to other forms of farm system expansion that set us apart from the rest of the league, an area where we now appear to be lagging behind the Royals of all teams. It will be yet more evidence that we are penny wise and pound dumber than a box of rocks. Not proof of that, mind you, but evidence.

we should jump all over him. Dude is a monster, and he’s been destroying the SEC for 3 years now.

08: 4-3, 4.16, 81:30
09; 8-4, 3.40, 124:37
10: 6-0, 1.85, 104:34

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/32223/mlb-insider-keith-law

Brian (MD): With pick 3 do you see the O’s going pitcher maybe somebody like Pomeraz or Taillon or position player maybe somebody like Machado?

Klaw: Taillon. That’s about as strong a rumor as I’ve heard on any team other than Harper to the Nats.

Dan (Chicago): Seems like most draft commentary I’ve seen has the O’s preferring Taillon to Machado. But given their abundance of pitching and big hole at SS, shouldn’t they at least be giving Machado a hard look?

Klaw: I don’t think they’ve failed to do their due diligence on Machado, but I know several scouts and at least two directors who think Taillon is a special case, an advanced prep arm with present plus stuff who should be treated more like a college guy.

Costing me a lot of money in the process.

Thereby riding the world of a few thousand of the PHN

Huge glasses=super dorky, regular sized glasses=pretty normal.

It’s come back a bit, but still a rough day.

It was right around the time we finally got done paying Albert Belle.