Sunday Bird Droppings
by duck on Sep 12, 2010 8:09 AM EDT
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PrintRecaps of yesterday;s win can be found at Orioles.com, Detroit Free Press, The Sun, and MASNsports (with post-game Buck).
Orioles Insider: Bell to have X-ray on right hand, only blemish of Orioles' 5-3 victory
Josh Bell hurt his hand fielding a grounder last night, had it wrapped in ice after the game and is expected to get an X-ray today.
Snyder surprised, elated by his first appearance | orioles.com: News
"Brandon Snyder had no idea that Baltimore manager Buck Showalter would tap him to be a defensive replacement at first base in the ninth inning of the Orioles' 6-3 victory on Friday night. It marked the first Major League appearance for Snyder, a 13th overall pick in the 2005 First-Year Player Draft."
Orioles: Brian Roberts says his back won't affect his offseason workouts - baltimoresun.com
"Brian Roberts, who is known for having a rigorous offseason program, said he will stay in Baltimore until mid-December, which will allow him to work out with Orioles strength and conditioning coach Joe Hogarty or two of the Orioles' former strength and conditioning coaches, Tim Bishop and Jay Shiner, who still live in the area."
IN THE MINORS
KEYS TITLE BID ENDS IN POTOMAC | Frederick Keys News
"The 2010 Frederick Keys season has come to an end as they fell to the Potomac Nationals, 10-3, in game four of the Northern Division Championship Series."
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On my way from md to Detroit
To watch the orioles sweep the tigers!
Birdland!
It’s the Ric Flair Theory of baseball – To be the man, you gotta beat the man. -duck
by Parkinglotninja on Sep 12, 2010 8:13 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Let us know what you think of Comerica
And enjoy the game!
"People ask, 'Why Baltimore?', and I’m like, 'Why not? What am I missing?'" - Buck Showalter
by duck on Sep 12, 2010 9:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Buck: "Dammit, Bell, NEVER try to field a ground ball NICE! It'll bite your hand every time!!"
Oh well, duck’ll retype it when he gets back from church.
So, Brandon “Moonlight” Snyder can decide to become a doctor now and get ready for his first AB…in about 50 yrs.
Sorry I couldn’t be on yesterday’s game thread— it needed more college football talk, of course.
Go O’s!
"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.
Careful about CFB
Some people :cough:EME and Stacey:cough: don’t like all this college football talk.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions
What, they hate it *more* than the Z-meister does?!?
(Z’s objection may be that it’s tougher to handicap than the NFL — which is probably true overall, and why I try to stick to a single conf I can track — until it expands to 34 teams, anyway…)
"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.
IDK how much zk hates it.
But every time I brought it up last week they basically told to politely STFU about college football. Or at leats that’s how I interperetated (sp?) it.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 9:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Hey open threads are open threads
Talk about whatever you like. That’s the point of an open thread.
And the one time I said something, it was more of a general comment on how college football dominates every media outlet once it starts.
You can't just walk over us. -Brian Matusz
by Stacey on Sep 12, 2010 9:57 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Also,
i’m going to start using “interperetated” in my daily lexicon.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Sep 12, 2010 11:08 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That's why I said (sp?)
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions
I hate it easily as much or more than they do...
…but since I’m never around lately, you can probably talk about it without pissing me off.
But it is still a horrific exploitation of young men for the profit of despicable corporations run by heartless fucks who deserve to be sodomized with power tools. Oh, and it is pretty boring to watch as well.
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
by James F on Sep 12, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, 100% rec'd for EVERYTHING you just said.
Also, did he mention it’s boring?
The bowl system doesn’t work! We need a national playoff! wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
"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
So do you find the NFL to be boring as well?
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Generally no...
….NFL games are typically played competently between reasonably well-matched opponents.
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
I think CFB is more exciting.
There’s so much more variety, in the NFL you’d never see a team operate solely out of Shotgun and pass 50 times a game or run the option, in college you see that. Plus if you’ve gone to a college that plays sports, there’s a connection that’s different from what you feel for the sports teams.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
you’d never see a team operate solely out of Shotgun and pass 50 times a game or run the option, in college you see that.
This is not variety. You’re making our own point for us.
"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
No, i understand his argument
The variety is system to system. Watching a team that operates solely out of the shotgun every single week may be get boring if thats your team, but part of the fun of watching college football is that the odds are you can flip through the channels and find some strange offensive system you’ve never seen before. NFL offenses tend to be much more vanilla.
Ugh, why didn't I see that when I was typing.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions
speaking of ice cream
starbucks signature hot chocolate ice cream is pretty delicious.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 14, 2010 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I think there's a disagreement on what taken as variety
All of the NFlo ffenses are basically the same, the Saints may run the shotgun more then 49ers, but the offenses are fro the most aprt the same. You could channel surf on a fall Saturday and see the flexbone, the run-n-shoot, and the spread, channel surf on a fall Sunday and you see mainly the same offense.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions
also
Plus if you’ve gone to a college that plays sports, there’s a connection that’s different from what you feel for the sports teams.
This is true, but there’s a big difference between following your college’s conference/league and following the national juggernaut of CFB.
"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
Look, I'm not trying to tell you what to like and what not to like
If you like college football, fine. But you have no more chance of persuading me to enjoy college football than you do of getting me to enjoy hobo boxing, particularly when college football’s events are all too often the equivalent of Railyard Pete vs. Floyd Mayweather.
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Wait, there's HOBO BOXING?!? Is their network signal better than MLB.tv? Hmm, prolly ANY signal's better...
I’m IN!
"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.
Put it this way
The mean margin of victory for the top 10 college football teams in week one? 28.3 points.
That’s some compelling stuff.
To be understood is to be a prostitute. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Usually I agree with you
but I did enjoy seeing Maryland demolish Morgan State, mostly just because its been so long since maryland’s had a convincing win like that (even if it was only Morgan State)
The non-conference stuff is for the large part bad.
But it’s like the teams are having their own preseason. I don’t like that Bama is pounding on SJSU and tOSU is destroying Marshall, but they need to get guy their guys warmed up for the more important games vs. Wisconsin and Florida. Once it gets to October, if the top 10 teams are still winning by 28 points, they’re either really, really good or that conference is god awful.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Open thread is always fair game.
Game thread, it’s obnoxious to get constant updates about how Alabama/LSU/whoever is beating the Delaware School for the Blind by 30+ points.
That said, today’s the first real NFL Sunday and I won’t be surprised if a lot of that fills up the game thread. I’m not the final authority on it or anything, but for me, if all or most of your posts in a game thread are about a run-of-the-mill event in another sport and you’re posting constantly, maybe cut back a little. If you’re switching between games and you want to know what happened in the O’s game, I think it’s fine to say, “Man, Drew Brees just threw a great TD pass! I see the O’s are losing now. What did I miss?” If you’re posting the score of a football game every five minutes, that’s annoying.
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 Sep 12, 2010 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes.
also, I am ready for some football.
"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
Do we want to start setting a weekly NFL thread on sundays like we did for the World Cup?
I have no problem keeping the conversations separate if people would prefer that.
great idea
particularly given the CC Fantasy League and Pick ‘Em Pool. I’ll set one up.
"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
yea
i’m in both CC fantasy leagues plus the pick ’em. i need a place to trash talk on you guys as i run away to sweet victory. minus of course week 1 of the pick ’em where i once again put too much faith in cleveland beating even the worst teams in football and atlanta playing for OT.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Sep 14, 2010 9:57 AM EDT up reply actions
C'mon, admit it, you like playing "Find The Typo" each day
"People ask, 'Why Baltimore?', and I’m like, 'Why not? What am I missing?'" - Buck Showalter
by duck on Sep 12, 2010 9:25 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Uh-oh, I've been outed as an English teacher...
"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.
We are tied with Seattle for worst record in the American League.
The Mariners play the Angels today. The Orioles play the Tigers.
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
I love having back the morning ritual
of rolling out of bed hungover on Sunday morning and checking all my fantasy football
teams. Happy Week 1.
by kba26 on Sep 12, 2010 11:24 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I, too, feel normal once again.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
reply fail. Die Hangover. Die.
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." ~ The Dude
by PBR me ASAP! on Sep 12, 2010 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
FOOOTBALLLL
The Ravens playing on Monday makes me much less excited then normally though.
I'm hurt dog! Don't ask if me if I'm alright, hell naw! We said dominate and we not doing it! I put my heart into this s***, let's go man! - Ed Reed
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Sep 12, 2010 11:47 AM EDT reply actions
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