It's about time he got some well-deserved recognition.  I have first dibs on the tv if he doesn't want it!

Vous êtes le meilleur jeteur dans le baseball pour le mois Juillet!

to the man behind the curtain! The unfortunate troll you see standing there looking ignorant, disgruntled, self-righteous and all "I've never enjoyed this"-y is, like, bound to go away to the unfortunate trolls' graveyard sometime soon. We just know it.

And after the merde hits the ventilateur for PA ("accidental" pacemaker battery failure during Harbor Tunnel back-up is still my favorite scenario), there'll be a new dawn of Orioles baseball-- and MLB will have to find another franchise to laugh at. I mean in our league. The NPL is about laughing.

So you should think about Long Term Employment in Bal'mer, n'est-ce pas? All the crap the franchise has been going through the last few years? Ignore it, alors! C'mon, your guy Sartre said it best: Qu'est-ce que c'est l'existensialism? "La merde se passe"-- c'est tout, hein?

So keep on keepin' on! And yeah, it's OK to order pizza in French. We think it's cool. Or we'll even order for you-- any language you want! We've got two Russian guys ready to order you stroganoff pizzas with a Stoly chaser. There, who's gonna beat that offer, mon ami?

to reflect the emotions of Wednesday's game, now...

the Cy Young campaign begins! If the season were to end today, he deserves it.

Again, without the bad start to the year and Dan Haren's complete awesomeness (that trade gets better and better for the Cardinals, doesn't it?), we're talking about the best pitcher in baseball, probably. Bedard is the centerpiece of this franchise.