SilentJames

Sending Jackson down does nothing, there is nothing left to prove down there. He is taking good ABs, he is working counts, he looks fine in the field etc. I have used the Cowser comp, not to say he should be sent down, in the sense that Cowser looked particularly lost at times during his callup last year. Jackson is facing some professional adversity for the first time as a professional keep running him out there. The fortunate thing is he isn't hurting the team in a significant way right now, and when it finally does click the Orioles will be just that much better.

I'm old enough to remember the days of arguing about :::swoon::: Kasey Kotchman, so I don't begrudge a lot of people "missing," on O'Hearn. Especially because it was totally reasonable to think that he wouldn't have been the impact player he has become.

The other thing we have to note is that this Twins series is the first series the Orioles have opened up against a currently sub 500 team. The National League is putting up some absolutely gaudy offensive numbers right now and the Brewers and Pirates lead their league in RA and the Royals lead all of the MLB with only 48 RA so far on the season. The Orioles have had a pretty tough schedule to open the year, all things being equal.

Not worried at all, we are still les than 20 games in and stats can look real weird. Like, there is no way that both Hays and Holliday have sub 100 BAs for the rest of the year. Things tend to even out. They aren't chasing, they aren't K'ing so this is an anomaly.

We are going to lose games like that probably more times than not, then again it was nice to get one after losing two winnable games in Pittsburgh.

I am very happy that the guys have common goals and interests. Religion and I have never been much of a thing, but to those things are great for them.

Against Detmers they had a lot of loud outs as I remember many batted balls over 100 mph that resulted in outs. The approach was fine, the hits didn't fall.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand or Dig, Lazarus, Dig! They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng Dave Matthews Band - Warehouse Dragonforce - Fury of the Storm The Specials - Ghost Town

My father passed away earlier this month. I am on spring break so yesterday I had to drive to the eastern Shore first to get an original copy of his will from his lawyer, then go to Worcester County court house and open the estate, then stop at his bank in Millsboro, DE to settle his accounts there and setup his estate account. Starting at 6am I made a loop from Baltimore-Ocean City-Snow Hill-Millsboro-Baltimore. I made it home just as Burnes was finishing the first inning. My Dad loved baseball, it was one of those things that we could actually talk about in that completely stereotypical father-son way. Part of me wants to believe that one was for him.

Comcast has been doing this with all the regional sports networks around the country. They know that live sports are the major drivers of subscriptions for bloated packages that most people don't consume in any meaningful way. I share my MIL Xfinity login so I can stream from the MASN app. The app is certainly NOT the best, but any port in a storm. Hopefully new ownership means we can have a direct streaming option sooner than later. I swear, make a deal with one of the local broadcast affiliates to put the game on one of the alternate areial channels. I know some people might be upset with reruns of the Rifleman being pre-empted during the summer but dang just do it. All that said, I am old enough to remember the HTS days, when it was a "premium," channel so watching the Orioles on TV was a luxury that I did not have a lot growing up. The more things change...

I assume they want Holliday to get more work in at second-base in actual game situations, etc etc. Its annoying, but I look forward to a massive sell-out crowd on a random Tuesday when he make his debut.

Nope. Hell no.

Booo, on a side note - my God the A's Elephant is wearing sunglasses

agreed.

Stowers, Cowser, and Kjerstad all have "something to prove," this spring none of them really set the world on fire with their ML at bats last year. Heston at least held his own at the plate for his 30 ABs, Cowser to me looked particularly lost at both the plate and in the field. I agree that Stowers is the guy most likely to be moved, because there just isn't a place for him, though I think he will need to have a good spring training to garner significant interest.

Its not a high bar - but its one that most ownership groups do not even attempt to cross. Give credit where credit is due is all Im saying.

I guess we will never really know: I voted no but I'm on the fence really. The Orioles have made big, positive, trades in the Angelos era. But this is the first I can think of where elite controlled players were traded for a clear pro-active move. Bedard we were going to lose in FA, maybe Hoey for Hardy is somewhat comparable here? But Im not sure if we expected to get from Hardy what we got at the time.

If there is one thing that we can say about John Angelos is that he is leaving the team in a much better position than it was in when he became the point person. I know that became official in 2020 - but he was COO and an EVP all the way back to 99, I figure he was probably functionally leading things for a bit longer than the official 2020 transfer.

I think that is reasonable for him to expect. I think the Orioles would be foolish to give it to him. However, lets say they do but it is significantly front-loaded (something like 70% of the value is in the first four years) maybe that would be a thing? Still, this might be one year of Burnes, so be it. Maybe he experiences the immaculate vibes of the team and clubhouse and says, "I want to ride with this for a bit." and takes a four year deal with two mutual options? The important thing is the team is in the position to HAVE this conversation because they made the move.

This was the type of move the Orioles needed to start making. I love Hall, but he is still all potential at this point. Ortiz is blocked, barring injuries and whatnot, so him languishing in the minors doesn't help him or the Orioles he always seemed to be the most likely trade piece to me. 6 years of Hall vs 1 year of Burnes - yeah I get that, but sometimes i think you do the short-term move if it genuinely moves the needle and a guy like Burnes does that. The Orioles are in the thick of it now and sometimes you need to trade the potential for the right now.

I remember it being that too that Angelos wanted Oriole Park, and Jacobs wanted "Camden Yards," as the reference to the neighborhood and history of the area.

Defector did a "better hate an owner," article on Angelos and the vibe of it was that Angelos seemed like a decent enough guy that was on the right side of a lot of history. One steelworker quoted in an article said something along the lines of: "Peter Angelos was the only one standing up for us." That is a lot of good intentions that led to terrible executions.

Someone just pointed out that it seemed to be a somewhat diverse group and that it to them it was a positive. Why even bother doing this?

MASN predates the switch to digital broadcasting so that might not be an issue like it was. Otherwise Baltimore’s market just gets crushed if that happens.

Oh man, I am down for the more cream/ off white jersey.