GM scuttlebutt! Saucy Sox! Saucy Alf!

Simon Hearing Delayed The Sauce simmers. Sorry.

Orioles Insider: Dipoto has wealth of baseball experience on and off field - baltimoresun.com A guy with a rich scouting background that loves numbers? Neat-o.

PressBox: Melvin, Builder Of Winners, Fell Through Orioles Cracks Doug Melvin is sort of irrelevant to the post season now, but I thought this was kind of interesting, anyways.

Texas Rangers assistant GM Thad Levine inherited his love of the game from his father in Alexandria - The Washington Post
I didn't realize what fertile ground the Metro area was for front office talent.

Orioles sandbag local kids | HeraldTribune.com
Another PR coup.

Brooks Robinson statue to be unveiled Oct. 22 near Oriole Park - Baltimore Business Journal
What name do you NOT see on the list of anticipated attendees?

Report: Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and John Lackey drank beer in dugout during games | HardballTalk The Sox have subsequently denied this, but...HA!

Happy birthday to a couple Dominicans with Baltimore and Toronto ties, Ozzie Perraza and Jose Bautista (the good one, not the bad one).