Moose Milligan

Ugggggghhhhhhhhhh

Walking the 9th place hitter!!!!!

Nothings easy!

Here we go. Kimbrel’s been rested.

Awesome double play. Need another run or six.

Dammit. Oh well. Gotta win a tight one, looks like.

Adley’s quiet excellence continues.

Cano wasting no time

I think he is.

The FIRESTONE

Great bunt. Gotta get em home now.

Well you bring the best out in me. What can I say?

We can agree to disagree. I'd rather watch Cowser, as awful as he's been because there's upside there and he represents the future. You know as well as I do that Hays isn't long for this team and he's at his peak or he's already hit it. If my leftfielder is going to put up a .114/.262/.171 slash line, I at least want to know that he's on the upswing of his career. Hays has been bad to borderline terrible for over half a season now and I don't believe he's going to get much better. Might have a hot streak but those hot streaks are seemingly less and less these days. More nicks and injuries and more prolonged slumps.

I don't think I recall saying that, but if that's the conclusion you're jumping to....I mean, that's part of what you do, take things people say, twist them around and then take them and run. Or play a semantics game. So I'm assuming that's what you'll do here. But, just to be difficult, yeah, I'd rather watch McKenna. Hays has been harder to watch going back to the 2nd half of last year. First of all, I'm not a McKenna fan but I think he gets a lot of unwarranted flak around here. Like, he's a perfectly fine 4th or 5th outfielder. Yeah, he's a bit of a doofus but it's not a big deal. It's as if people are still holding a grudge against the dropped flyball in Fenway last year and it's just absurd. He's not great, but he's not completely awful, either. No, I don't want to watch Hays. I'd rather see Cowser in LF, Mullins in CF and Santander/Kjerstad in RF. And if that means McKenna gets a little bit more playing time, so be it.

I think I can honestly say I've been watching Orioles games for the past week and a half and never not once thought "Man, I sure do wish Austin Hays was playing right now."