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yeoledugger

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  1. I am starting to having a difficult time imagining, short of a public mea culpa from JA (improbable), that Kevin Brown will ever do another Oriole play-by-play broadcast. I know Brittany reported an August 11 return, but how can Brown retain his dignity without a JA statement absolving Kevin of any wrongdoing?

  2. Mike Boddicker just dazzled the opposition hitters with his off-speed pitching and control during the post season. He won the Orioles’ first game in both the Chicago series and the Philadelphia series. He was truly magnificent and turned around the momentum established by the Sox and Phillies with each winning the first game of their respective series.

  3. All of us must be on the alert of a scenario possibly developing on a cold night this coming January at the airport, whereby an obviously inebriated John Angelos blares out to local reporters that:

    “I haven't any intention of moving the goddamn team”.

    Past is prologue.

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  4. As defined by MLB tradition, a “perfect game” is a team accolade, not just necessarily a pitcher accolade.  

    According to Wikipedia (not the final word): To achieve a perfect game, a team must not allow any opposing player to reach base by any means: no hits, walks, hit batsmen, uncaught third strikes, catcher's or fielder's interference, or fielding errors.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game_(baseball)

    I think it is somewhat a misstatement to say in a contracted form that a pitcher “pitched a no-hit, perfect game”.  A more correct phrasing would be that the “team played a perfect game behind the no-hit pitching of the pitcher”.

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  5. I just watched the Belanger documentary - worth viewing.  I learned that Belanger was an equally gifted H. S. basketball player who respected Bob Cousy’s playing style. Belanger was planning to attend Boston College under the tutelage of Cousy as head coach. But Cousy delayed his NBA retirement one more year and Belanger chose instead to sign with the O’s. Such is fate. One criticism - I found that the background music was too loud and made it difficult at times to follow some of the commentary.

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  6. It really is disheartening to read about the feelings expressed in this thread from diehard, baseball aficionados. As an O’s fan since 1954, who lived through those lean early years of rebuilding a new franchise, I would be dismayed to think that baseball might be entering a slow dissolve phase, due to lack of interest by the masses and greed by owners/players. Baseball has such a long and storied history filled with stats and memories. I remember those bygone days of Paul Richards, masterminding the signing and development of the “bonus babies”, which helped toward winning the first modern era World Series for the Baltimore metropolitan area. Of course the trade later for Frank Robinson certainly enhanced the achievement of that accomplishment. 

    Let us hope that “America’s favorite pastime” has a long and prosperous life ahead of us.

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