Sunday Bird Droppings

I’ve been catching up for the past 6 hours or something!!

Or became an ex-adorable Oriole. No wait: FP adorably became an ex-Oriole. There.

And I hope Sawx fans realize the awful truth about their boy Carl: Pie woulda had that. Ahahahahaha!

In other news, the PAC 12 made everybody paying attention some nice scratch yesterday. OK, it coulda been a little more. But that’s what next wk is for. As usual.

And today’s Consumer Review:

Worst new long-flight "hi-tech" diversion : The Delta In-flight Trivia Challenge

Got 9 hrs to kill? Done the NYT crosswords you saved up? A little tired of your pb novel? Welp, the answer is NOT the DI-FTC, which will annoy the pants off you (to the dismay of your neighbors) with its

—Random word misspellings (ntm standard Britspellings) throughout, as though spell check hadn’t been invented;
—Quotation marks imposed everywhere on questions and answers that aren’t quotations;
—Answers followed by In Case You’re Interested "amplifications" that amplify exactly nothing (Q: "What is the capital of the US state of Oregon?" A: "Salem". In Case You’re Interested: "Salem is the capital of Oregon.");
—Grammar/usage mistakes on a 5th-grade level ("How many players are their on a basketball side?") Their WHAT?;
—Multiple factual errors that’ll set your eyes a-rollin’ ("Where did Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet in 1944 to discuss postwar Europe?" "Correct" answer: "Ukraine" [!])

Consider the low-tech in-flight magazine. At least it had an editor.

“…might need a left fielder, corner infielder, designated hitter and second baseman. They might need a late-inning reliever.”
The way I see it (and I hope to G-d someone in the Warehouse has enough sense to also) is that FA’s won’t help next year or the one after. We need youth and we need to flip vets for prospects.
LF – WHERE’S MOLDY? For heaven’s sake! He was the 6th best hitter on the team while only playing 87 games (71 GS).
DH – Reynolds. ‘nuff said. (If Vlad comes back, I… just don’t know. I’ll be sad(der).)
2B – Why not give Dino/Adams the job if not BriBob?
Late inning reliever(s): JJ + Honey Badger. Or do we have to go get more crap “closers” for multi-year deals?

“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”

Where did this entitlement come from though? I can’t imagine it came from the two imports in Gonzo and Carl Crawford. No one could show up from small market teams and think they are King Shit. That means it came from and comes from some old stalwarts. I’m not getting into more speculation because frankly it’s poison, but I want to know whom.

Maybe it comes from idiot fans and Sawx bloggers, you douchebag.

Since the O’s aren’t going anywhere soon, and hopefully the FO also recognizes this fact, there really isn’t much reason to pick up new SPs. That said, I wouldn’t mind getting Edwin Jackson or Kuroda on a 1-2-year contract. They’re good/ very good but underrated and can probably be had for little.

“The O’s do provide a plot point of sorts — they beat the Athletics in a game that, at least in the movie, triggers Beane to go bonkers.

That’s true in real life as well. Beane admitted he traded Pena and Giambi out of anger and Depodesta tried to talk him out of it.

Or Ricketts could decide that his primary pursuit would be to go after Epstein, or Tampa Bay Rays GM Andrew Friedman. He could offer either a contract that would be enormous, in the baseball operations world — let’s say, five years and $20 million — and it would be a relative pittance compared to what he would need to pay either Fielder or Pujols.

Buster Olney mentions that GM talent may be a great market inefficiency to exploit. If the Os could have sign Friedman for the price of Gregg and Gonzo, I think I just might prefer that. Not that Angelos is ever smart enough to see this.

The only player better against lefties this year was The Bautista.