also, yoon's AAA debut: 2.1 IP, 11 H, 1 BB, 0 K, 9 ER
(shrieks)
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10760769/adam-jones-baltimore-orioles-not-buying-hype-surrounding-masahiro-tanaka-new-york-yankees
― Andy K, Thursday, 10 April 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
my first game of the season. rasmus' homer landed about five seats to the left of me so i'm just watching my disappointment on mlb.com over and over again. i saw the ball coming at me and thought "goddammit" before i began to react to the ball coming at me. <3 bleacher seats
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 13 April 2014 04:47 (ten years ago) link
http://s11.postimg.org/6atn7834z/Ugh.jpg
i hate this shit
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 18 April 2014 07:14 (ten years ago) link
davis oblique strain everything is pain all is terror
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
yoon w/ norfolk: 0-3, 6.75, 17.1 IP, 33 H, 7 BB, 9 K
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:06 (ten years ago) link
Not sure why Buck left Bud on the mound after Bud gave up a two-run HR on pitch 111. Pitch 113 drilled Torii Hunter in the ribs and got Bud ejected. Torii to Bud: "I'm-a whoop yo ass."
― Andy K, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:10 (nine years ago) link
Perhaps Tommy Hunter isn't the shutdown closer we've all dreamed of.
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:14 (nine years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 14 May 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
pittsburgh is not as ameniable as kc
CTillman - 5/16 9.0IP 5H 0R 0ER 1BB 3K
5/21 1.0IP 6H 8R 6ER 3BB 1K
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 22 May 2014 00:37 (nine years ago) link
nellie cruz is mashing, but his last 7 homers have all been solo shots
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 29 May 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
Baltimore - Bottom of 10thN Markakis singled to right center,M Machado sacrificed to first, N Markakis to second.N Cruz intentionally walked.A Jones singled to right, N Markakis thrown out at home, N Cruz to second, N Cruz to third advancing on throw.A Jones to second on fielder's indifference.N Cruz caught stealing home, pitcher to catcher.
― Andy K, Saturday, 7 June 2014 02:45 (nine years ago) link
even for such slow guys both of the plays were close and made some sense -- understand that they were doing the full shift against davis and cruz wasn't being covered at all. he honestly could've gained 5 more steps before the pitch. none of this would've mattered if buck pinch ran anyone else for markakis though.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 7 June 2014 05:27 (nine years ago) link
*throws bat*
― Andy K, Sunday, 8 June 2014 21:38 (nine years ago) link
@susanslusserNorris said not only did Machado not check on him after hitting him w/ two backswings today, he saw him smiling after second one.
― Andy K, Sunday, 8 June 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Just saw Machado's hammer throw. If spitting at an umpire gets you five games, hope Machado gets 20.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 June 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
worried about his sudden temper and hoping he isn't about to develop a reputation, these things never go away
a smaller part of me thinks if a pitcher's trying to aim a fastball right at your person twice in a row you should be able to try to throw a bat at them, "unwritten rules" be damned. how is a bat-toss worse than throwing at a guy
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Bats are harder and the pitcher's not wearing a helmet?
― WilliamC, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link
bats are also thrown much slower and aren't hard to dodge or deflect?
but are you actually defending throwing at someone tho? neither of abad's throws were aimed at manny's head; they still could have broken bones. the first was right at the knee he just spent 8 months rehabbing.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
Given the choice between a ball and a bat from that distance, I'd happily take my chances against the latter.
― Andy K, Monday, 9 June 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
i'm not defending him, he seems to have started this shit friday -- he's frustrated and acting out like he never has before. i'm mostly just pissed at jaso and the As acting like the butthurt defenders of baseball's honor by throwing at him
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 9 June 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah, don't throw at the knees. just don't.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 9 June 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
five-game suspension. curious to see what his argument is for appealing it. abad was fined an undisclosed amount
i'm mostly just pissed at jaso and the As acting like the butthurt defenders of baseball's honor by throwing at him
you may recall that the first plunking in this series of events was that of donaldson, in his first at-bat after tagging manny 'too hard'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
i'd be more annoyed at the guy hitting people with a bat, as opposed to a ball.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
you say that like he was beating someone on the ground with it
and yeah i forgot about chen
don't think they'll appeal but i don't think they expect to win it, buck just wants to delay the suspension to be more beneficial to the team business as usual
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 03:42 (nine years ago) link
er, don't think they'll appeal but if they did they didn't expect to win it*
i also didn't realize machado had hit a's catcher derek norris with his backswing twice on sunday, the second time knocking him out of the game
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
uh... i did?
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Not as bad as Bert Campaneris in the '72 ALCS (10 games), I'll give you that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2pRNQuKS40
But a little more dangerous than spitting (5 games), I'd say, unless they thought Alomar was rabid.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
he made like 4 separate apologies this is the only thing orioles fans have talked about for the past three days i'm done
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 04:19 (nine years ago) link
i'm sorry, but as a fan it is yr sworn duty to support and defend everything they do
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
i don't even do that though, i wasn't defending him against o's fans who actually do that, this place is always just behind on everything and i'm the only o's fan here so i feel like this whole thread is my duty to maintain at all times
but yes i do really think it's fucking stupid that a bat toss is seen as worse than an aimed fastball at the knees, he apologized several times and promised to apologize personally when oakland is back, and i will defend his being 21 years old, frustrated and emotional and he doesn't deserve to have the "bad seed" label ball fans love to stick on kids that don't act like mantle acted, because i am a fan and i'm invested in liking my team and its best young player.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
For what it's worth--if you believe Ball Four (I do)--Mantle's behaviour was terrible in a lot of ways.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
that's why i say "acted"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 23:51 (nine years ago) link
@mlbplatemusicWe just updated Bud Norris's walk up song to Nightcall! Check it out here - http://mlbplatemusic.com/player/Bud-Norris …
My impression of Bud Norris was rather inaccurate.
― Andy K, Monday, 23 June 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
now in first :')
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 5 July 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11181948/buck-showalter-baltimore-orioles-john-lackey-boston-red-sox-careful-ped-barbs
Cruz went 5-for-5 Saturday night in the second game of a doubleheader, helping the Orioles beat Lackey and the Red Sox to gain a split of the two games. Cruz had three of his hits off Lackey, including a home run, single and double. After the game, when asked to comment on Cruz's big game, Lackey made a not-so-veiled comment on the Orioles slugger's past suspension for performance-enhancing drugs."I'm not going to comment on him," Lackey said. "I've got nothing to say about him. There are some things I'd like to say, but I'm not going to. You guys forget pretty conveniently about stuff."
After the game, when asked to comment on Cruz's big game, Lackey made a not-so-veiled comment on the Orioles slugger's past suspension for performance-enhancing drugs.
"I'm not going to comment on him," Lackey said. "I've got nothing to say about him. There are some things I'd like to say, but I'm not going to. You guys forget pretty conveniently about stuff."
"There's so many insinuations, quite frankly, about people in every club. You usually don't hear those comments after a shutout or something," Showalter said."I mean [Lackey's] doing really well. He's up throwing 93, 95 again and he's got one of the top ERAs in the American League, which with the DH means all of baseball. He's a good pitcher, so God bless him. He was good yesterday."
"I mean [Lackey's] doing really well. He's up throwing 93, 95 again and he's got one of the top ERAs in the American League, which with the DH means all of baseball. He's a good pitcher, so God bless him. He was good yesterday."
that 'again' is crafty
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Sunday, 6 July 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/24/baltimore-orioles-david-simon-my-town-my-team2
― Andy K, Friday, 25 July 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
u kno season 6 of the wire was gonna be 100% about the inner-city struggles of the baltimore orioles
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 25 July 2014 19:42 (nine years ago) link
This team is a great story; why is this thread never updated? No real stars, a lot of unknown scrubs, and somehow they're leading the AL East by a fair bit, and have spent the last two weeks winning series against good teams.
And yet, when they lose, like tonight, you look at the personnel and say to yourself, why did I think this was a good team? Who's ON this team?
Mainly I didn't want zachlyon to feel they were the only O's fan on here.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 August 2014 03:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah tonight sucked. we can take down aces but pitchers like hutchison just make us look horrible and totally outmatched. three times this year.
i mean this is a team playing way over its head like most of the time which is all part of the #ORIOLESMAGICBABYAAAAHH but it means that every loss seems like it'll all come tumbling down.
dave cameron's chat today had a bunch of victimized O's fans accusing him of personal hatred, like all fans do eventually, and his increasingly annoyed responses were cute because he is a robot. but this is one of the winningest teams in the majors over the past 3 years and at a certain point you just have to go who cares? get into the playoffs it isn't hard to win the world series, and i think a lot of people would hate that.
fyi the orioles are at 26 total WAR which is right in line with pretty much every other playoff contender, it's not like the performance doesn't line up with the record
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 August 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I get that, I just look at the team and feel like I don't understand how it adds up to that much.
Fangraphs has the team at 17 WAR, but negative runs above replacement from the offense -- according to them, basically the entire aggregate value of the position players on the team is contained in their defense! But maybe I'm not understanding those numbers. b-ref has 14.9 wins from batting, 5.3 from defense. Totally different story.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 August 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah i'm trying to figure out it works out on FG, bbref is too foreign for me to ever understand
it's weird, but if you look here it adds up. it helps to only look at AL teams cause the league and positional adjustments is so huge. offense and defense scores are treated equally (incl positional adjustement so offense is still counted more than actual defense, obv) and each team gets the same basic league/replacement addition.
i think bbref just adds things up differently, idk
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 7 August 2014 05:41 (nine years ago) link
Delmon w/ the economical 1/5
T2 Lined out to leftT4 Grounded out to shortstopT6 Grounded out to thirdT8 Ball, Singled to right centerT10 Ball, Fouled out to first
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 16 August 2014 03:30 (nine years ago) link
ugh. that cubs series, while likely of little consequence, smarted nonetheless.
― j.q higgins, Monday, 25 August 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
too late to blow it? pref Balt to who's been winning that division lately, but still, Showalter.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 August 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
prob too late to blow it, tho still 7 h2h games vs nyy
― johnny crunch, Monday, 25 August 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
i still don't understand this team.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 25 August 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
i've followed the o's for 30 years and even i'm confused.
― j.q higgins, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
9.5 game lead and i still can't stop thinking we'll blow it. it'd be worse than the 2011 red sox but still.
i don't know how to be a fan right now. it's so weird seeing other o's fans old enough to act like this is normal. it's totally exceptional to me. totally unexpected. for years i've wondered what it's like to be, like, a brewers fan, and go into the season thinking "hey maybe we'll get to the playoffs this year. wouldn't be strange." like no matter what the brewers always have a chance and there's enough random variance for them to either win the division or finish 15 games out. while my whole life AL East ball has been a gargantuan hill. not for boston or ny but even for them it's always been a battle. our only hope has ever been the wild card. it's as far as my hope has gone. i'd ruled out the division before the season began and figured at best, we'd compete for the top spot until the last few weeks. now the rest of the East has retreated for the first time in my memory as a baseball fan and we're (possibly) easing our way to winning the entire division and i don't know how to exist. it's bizarre. i don't understand how everyone else isn't responding like they're alice in wonderland or something. i don't know how to think. my entire brain is toast. i am dead. how am i supposed to act or think. it's so weird we'll (possibly) be in the playoffs and i won't have to worry about the play-in game.
also if the yankees are eliminated it'll be the first year since the strike (and the year before) that neither they nor the red sox qualify for the postseason.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 8 September 2014 00:55 (nine years ago) link
I like the Orioles--I'd as soon they win it all as anyone. They're the shock of the year for me, even more than KC. I evidently missed something; never in a million years would I have guessed they'd win 95-100 games and lap the division. It was only a few weeks ago when I saw them at the Skydome and they were all of 3-1/2 games up on the Jays.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d9e28b9f8cb58a1e25e7cd4ab8af54a28dacf8f7/c=330-110-1422-931&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/DetroitFreePress/DetroitFreePress/2014/09/17/1410980752000-AP-Twins-Orioles-Baseball-OT.jpg
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
i might root for the Orioles depending on matchups, but Showalter is p much an obstacle.
how did Steve Pearce get on the bWAR leaderboards, btw?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
wtf is your deal with showalter
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
pearce is a great mystery, but i love it. at least w/ fWAR you can (maybe) point to noise in defensive metrics goosing his number a bit...
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
he's an oldschool prick xp
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
i searched the archives and 100% of the posts mentioning showalter over the past 14 years is just you going "fuck that guy"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
i am consistent
1) used to manage the Stankees
2) blasted Ken Griffey Jr for wearing his hat backwards PRE-GAME
3) was full of candyass Jeter-worship quotes in last Sunday's Times
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
after years of listening to his interviews and pressers i'm pretty sure #2 can be attributed to reckless youth, he'd never say something like that today. every time i read about buck in the 90s he sounds radically different than he does today. he seems weathered now
and everyone's worshiping jeter, come on. if it makes you feel any better the orioles literally gave him crabs.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
it's just baseball, hating is fun
really from the AL side I want the WS to either be Oakland's happy ending or a showcase for Trout.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
i want the A's to collapse completely bc a job should never be halfassed and also it'd be hilarious given beane's late season trading strategy also because of sean doolittle's gnome beard
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't like that comedian named Showalter either.
If you don't believe in halfassed World Series champs, may i introduce you to TOURNAMENT BASEBALL and the 2006 Cardinals in particular.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
in case you missed it i hate the cardinals
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
and you conveniently ignored my point about sean doolittle's fucking gnome beard
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
hey he's Australian, that's bad enough
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
if by australian you mean south dakotan...
― j.q higgins, Friday, 19 September 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
ok they do still hv an australian or was that last year
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
balfour
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
orioles are on a small run of inexplicably getting value out of shitty former pirates
gorkys hernandez should give them a call
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
the mclouth effect
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 22 September 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
13 wins against the yankees this year, most since '76
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
i have a brief opportunity to buy tickets to the ALDS! i hope i obtain some!
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
i mean, without paying 6x as much on stubhub
too soon for a hot stove thread? jj hardy just signed a 3 yr extension
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
weird timing on that (see the cautionary tale of Roger Peckinpaugh)
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/9/6952859/jj-hardy-contract-extension-orioles-alcs-2014-world-series-1925
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Chris Cotillo @ChrisCotilloFollow#Orioles aren't done after signing Hardy. Latest on extension talks with Nelson Cruz and Nick Markakis: http://sbnation.com/e/6716684 3:00 PM - 9 Oct 2014
lol ok
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
sentimental me wants to keep nick around knowing he won't be worth it
cruz would be a terrible move tho, just give him a QO and let someone else deal with the inevitable disappointment
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
aaaand markakis denies any extension talk.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/a-partially-annotated-list-of-baltimore-orioles-promoti-1693563998?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
every child's dream has clearly been to inherit a buck showalter garden gnome
although it does sort of make sense he is def comparable to a potentially murderous occult creature
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
makes more sense than the Mets' deGrom gnome
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
“What is the purpose?” Showalter asked later. “Do people get up in the morning and they go, ‘Honey, are we going to the game today? …They’ve got that gnome tonight. Pack up the kids. We’re going?’”…Really?!”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/11/orioles-manager-buck-showalter-is-not-looking-forward-to-his-garden-gnome-giveaway-night/
― JoeStork, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
hah
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
can that be the 2015 orioles thread title plz
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link