Gameday Thread: Rangers at Orioles 08/20-POSTPONED

by zknower on Aug 20, 2007 6:37 PM EDT in Gamethreads

Game Time: 7:05 | TV: MASN, FSH

Vincent Padilla, RH Daniel "Nuke" Cabrera, RH (3-8, 6.30) (9-12, 4.93) F. Catalanotto lf B. Roberts 2b I. Kinsler 2b C. Patterson cf M. Young ss N. Markakis rf M. Byrd cf M. Tejada ss B. Wilkerson 1b K. Millar 1b J. Botts dh A. Huff dh D. Murphy rf M. Mora 3b J. Saltalamacchia c R. Hernandez c R. Vazquez 3b J. Payton lf

Clash of the Titans! Vincente Padilla and Daniel Cabrera are both big, hard-throwing, inconsistent right-handers.

Sammy Sosa returns to Camden Yards looking for redemption. He's batting .272 with 16 HRs and a team-leading 72 RBIs in 96 games for the Rangers.

The Orioles return home after a semi-successful road trip against the MFY and Blue Jays. Trying to finish the year at or above .500 means we need to sweep teams like Texas, who are just awful this year.

GO ORIOLES!

UPDATE: This game has been postponed due to rain. It will be made up Wednesday at 5:05 p.m. A true doubleheader! But only WEDNESDAY'S tickets will be honored. You must exchange tonight's ticket for a Wednesday ticket or any non-prime game remaining.

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Beat me by 2 minutes

I had just hit SUMBIT and then saw yours. Man.

Good work, though. I forgot to put the Tim Robbins photo...

"You can tell the City of Baltimore that the old evil owner stepped up and took care of things tonight." - Orioles scouting director Joe Jordan, 08/16/07

by duck on Aug 20, 2007 6:47 PM EDT reply actions

we need to figure this out some days

I was like, "Is duck doing this while I am?" Sorry to have wasted your effort.

by zknower on Aug 20, 2007 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Not wasted effort...

I should have checked again. My bad. You did good.

"You can tell the City of Baltimore that the old evil owner stepped up and took care of things tonight." - Orioles scouting director Joe Jordan, 08/16/07

by duck on Aug 20, 2007 6:52 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah, but

...it takes like ten minutes to get a nicely formatted post together. You don't want to spend nine of them only to find out.... doh!

by zknower on Aug 20, 2007 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I've got it down to 5...

Yahoo Sports, MS Excel--->Paste Special as Text, Notepad, dump it in the entry. Down to a science, man.

"You can tell the City of Baltimore that the old evil owner stepped up and took care of things tonight." - Orioles scouting director Joe Jordan, 08/16/07

by duck on Aug 20, 2007 7:04 PM EDT up reply actions

I just heard...

Bedard and Guthrie have a combined 21 no decisions. If we had won just half of those games we would ALREADY be above .500!

"Beauty is in the eye of the bill-folder." - Buck O'Neill

by Born Under a Bad Moon on Aug 20, 2007 6:48 PM EDT reply actions

TEN games at home

This is the homestand where the O's either make their move or don't. 6-4 won't cut it - we need at least 8-2. 3 against TEX, 4 against MIN and 3 against TB. GOTTA win these games, guys!

"You can tell the City of Baltimore that the old evil owner stepped up and took care of things tonight." - Orioles scouting director Joe Jordan, 08/16/07

by duck on Aug 20, 2007 6:49 PM EDT reply actions

nickname

daniel "nuke" cabrera is absolutely awesome.

by birdman on Aug 20, 2007 6:50 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks.

I keep waiting for him to hit the bird mascot.

by zknower on Aug 20, 2007 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions

rain delay

How much rain is coming down?

by birdman on Aug 20, 2007 7:10 PM EDT reply actions

I'm out in howard county tonight

and it has stopped raining.

We all love Kevin Millar. Let's all stop acting like everyone here doesn't know that Millar is the shit. He is. He is the shit. Millar is our boy. -SC

by Stacey on Aug 20, 2007 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions

yahoo is reporting that the game is canceled.

by birdman on Aug 20, 2007 7:22 PM EDT reply actions

MLB.com

is reporting the same thing. What the hey? Someone wrote in the other thread the rain was only 45 minutes long.

by zknower on Aug 20, 2007 7:32 PM EDT reply actions

Hey, good for Pete!

He's giving the fans an old school, 2 for 1 doubleheader on Wed. No separate admission bullshit!

OK, it's not much. But he gets called out so often for moves no one likes (as he should), that some mention of him doing something right is deserved.

"You can't fix stupid. Stupid is forever." - Ron White

by Sluggo @ Camden Chat on Aug 20, 2007 8:08 PM EDT reply actions

I agree, though it's hard to admit:

Petey has done two [2] things worh prolonging his stay of execution for in the past week. If he manages to refrain from some great public statement to this effect (along the lines of "How wonderful an owner am I, huh, all you pathetic whiners?"), I will deign to extend the man's life for, oh, several months, I think. Have to check with the other Comrade Judges.

Way to sign 'em, Mac and Petey! Your execution has been postponed!

by Titov on Aug 21, 2007 2:25 AM EDT up reply actions