Rollercoaster!!! Of Looove! Woo, Woo, Woo....

by dayzd toe on Jun 6, 2007 9:25 AM EDT

In yesterday's gameday thread this was brought up. Not only does it seem that way... as 2632 mentioned, it pretty much is that way.

As you can see, we've only been above .500 on two separate occassions. On both occassions we made sure to plummet back to or below .500, and on three occassions we managed to rattle off a few wins to get to .500 and then realize we are at .500 and immediately divebomb as far from .500 as we can. Yay, go o's.

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All I'm sayin'

is Woo-Hoooo!!! I made it big time. Again!!! That and apparently the few games between April 20 and April 23 or 4 is that someone wasn't paying attention. They made to a full 4 games over until someone noticed.

2632 is ALL KNOWING and Omnipresent! PS- I H8 A-Rod

by dayzd toe on Jun 6, 2007 9:53 AM EDT reply actions

Laughing

I was totally laughing last night when Baez was melting down. I mean, the outcome was so obvious that I was just sitting on the couch cracking up!

by RobG on Jun 6, 2007 9:57 AM EDT reply actions

hmmm

interesting.
well im off to safeco!

The amazin' Kakes

by westcoastOfan on Jun 6, 2007 10:32 AM EDT reply actions

I like how it's only June 6

and the Orioles have already had 3 instances where they were under .500, then reached exactly .500 only to go on a 4+ game losing streak.

THREE TIMES IN BARELY OVER TWO MONTHS.

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by CStoneNo37 on Jun 6, 2007 10:34 AM EDT reply actions

Off-thread: RIP Clete Boyer, 1937-2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clete_Boyer

Not exactly a great entry by Wikipedia there, but sufficient unto the day.

The Orioles as a franchise were known for many years, and rightly so, as the home of the best third baseman in MLB. Brooks Robinson never got to see himself play, and Clete Boyer was the one whose work Brooks got to admire-- also rightly so.

Mickey Mantle once said that the third baseman he'd want on his all-star team was Brooks, but the one he wanted to watch play was Clete Boyer. I saw Boyer as a kid, and I can't argue with the Mick on that one.

Root-a-toot tootin' Vladimir Putin Ain't-a got nootin' On Sammy the P.

by Titov on Jun 6, 2007 10:50 AM EDT reply actions

Ya like that?!? Huh?

Yeah, I got more where that came from.

In case you weren't sure what a late inning blow up looks like graphically. It looks like these...

every last one of them.
That's right, count 'em. 11 of them. And all of them should be wins in the books. Hmmm... let's take a minute figure out what our record should be right now and where that would put us in the standings.

Take away 11 losses, and turn them into wins and you get--- 38-21. That's right we just happen to be 11 games out of the East. That puts us tied for first in the AL East but in second by .005 pct points and 5 games up in the wild card. None of this even takes into account the fact that our offense has been largely anemic this season. Damn it. I got yer $42MM right here, BS BP!!

2632 is ALL KNOWING and Omnipresent! PS- I H8 A-Rod

by dayzd toe on Jun 6, 2007 11:01 AM EDT reply actions

dude...

yer insane.

in a good way.

by jq higgins on Jun 6, 2007 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions

And I thought

I had time to kill at work....

I have to admit, those graphs are really depressing. Because it's not like there would be that many charts for come from behind WINS...

by duck on Jun 6, 2007 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions

re:

You are correct.

There are only six, and only two of them are against a good team, the same good team.

2632 is ALL KNOWING and Omnipresent! PS- I H8 A-Rod

by dayzd toe on Jun 6, 2007 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions

That 10 Inning Indian game was great...

I was there in a great seat behind home plate with my 90 year old uncle. Only my second time at Oriole Park -- seems like I am never in Balt. during the season. Great game, great park, great uncle, too, for that matter.

Both of the parks here in LA are nice, but Camden is something else again.

"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street

by BirdFanLA on Jun 6, 2007 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions

one of them is in anaheim

no matter what the owner tries to sell you.

I'm just sayin'.....

by zknower on Jun 6, 2007 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Do you do PowerPoint?

These very impressive (the graphs -- not the losses they represent!)

need to make this into a presentation, and somehow scheme a way to present it to the front office staff.

Of course, you'd be obligated to go crazy and flip over some office furniture or smash a few windows, but you know, take one for the team!

oriolesupdate.blogspot.com

by BrianS on Jun 6, 2007 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions

and i hate to say it...

but maybe the todd has earned back a little trust? i mean, except for a few big time dudes, there does also (as long as we're talking cycles) seem to be a boom-bust career path for relievers. byrdak seems to be doing reasonably well for los tigres, last i saw.

by jq higgins on Jun 6, 2007 11:12 AM EDT reply actions

I kind of agree

I mean the last few times he's come out he's gotten the job done and gotten the ground balls he's needed.

2632 is ALL KNOWING and Omnipresent! PS- I H8 A-Rod

by dayzd toe on Jun 6, 2007 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions

look at his game log...

remember he was used sparingly, freaked out in boston and was then shelved for a week. i wonder if leo spotted something in his delivery, b/c since boston, it's 5.2ip/1h/0hr/0bb/6k. pretty nice.

by jq higgins on Jun 6, 2007 12:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Whoa, your graphics rule, dayzd!

On the other hand, there's something Not Quite Right about being enormously impressed with a convincing series of figurative representations that illustrate why I am depressed. I mean, I knew that.

It's sort of like, I dunno, being just really blown away by the full-color 3-D x-rays of that damn colon polyp you were hoping was indigestion. Well, better we should know, I guess.

And if we can't take pride in brilliant representations of our own colon polyps, then I ask you-- what have we become?!?

Hey, wait a minute: "The Colon Polyps". Vanya, Nika, we may have a winner here...

Root-a-toot tootin' Vladimir Putin Ain't-a got nootin' On Sammy the P.

by Titov on Jun 6, 2007 11:53 AM EDT reply actions

What's the deal...

With the crazy statistic "hold". I looked up the definition and it's completely lame -- enter a game in a save situation and leave with your team still ahead. So Bradford gets both a hold and a loss on Monday and Baez gets a hold for 3 ERs in 1/3 inning. Fuhgeddaboudit!

While we're at it how about a campaign to change the way "inherited" runners are tallied in ERA? Right now, if a runner on base when a pitcher leaves the game scores later, that run is tallied to the original pitcher. How about .5 run to the first pitcher and .5 to the one who lets the run score. I can understand why that complexity was not wanted when stats were figured by hand, but now? Of course year-to-year comparasons would be a little out of whack for a while.

"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street

by BirdFanLA on Jun 6, 2007 12:13 PM EDT reply actions

RE: Holds

I believe that Bradford only gets a Loss for Monday, as he surrendered the lead. If you are the pitcher of record when you leave the game (responsible for either the loss or the win) then you can't get a hold. Although, there are actually two different definitions for hold (STATS version and MLB version).

The stat is bad, but if you think about it, it's really no more arbitrary than Save as a statistic. Essentially, it's the exact same thing, except one guy happened to get the last batter of the game out.

"Hey Yankees... you can take your apology and your trophy and shove 'em straight up your ass!" --Tanner Boyle

by BirdFanInPhilly on Jun 6, 2007 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions