I’m blacked out of the TV feed, so I am sitting in my yard, listening to the radio, and drinking beer. But it’s 100 degrees in Corvallis today, and my phone is overheating. I have a transistor radio somewhere…
Pitching is fickle in all sorts of ways. The dudes that get you through the post season are often not the same exact ones that got you there. I just, like, roll with it.
Matt Wieters always seemed to rejuvenate on the late summer west coast trips…and he was from the southeast. Hopefully Adley gets a boost from the low humidity as well as from friends and family.
The mutual hate between MLB and the Angelos clan certainly throws a wrench into the normally well oiled protection racket MLB runs...so yeah the O's aren't moving anywhere as long as an Angelos is in charge. But other cities, in even smaller media markets, aren't so lucky. Manfred went to Milwaukee earlier this year and made the classic threat without actually threatening:
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/real-estate/commercial/2023/05/25/brewers-ballpark-funding-draws-concerns-from-mlb-commissioner-manfred/70253613007/