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True. I'd just be curious about comps that match up better from both perspectives. Drungo, as usual, came through.

You summed your post up in the first sentence. Never gonna happen.

How did we ever survive without GIFs and Memes, lol? I like Means, he's had a nice year. I hope he can sustain it next season and beyond, but we'll see. Comparing him to Verlander just isn't a good comp, as has been pointed out. I'm trying to think of comps for him and I'm struggling. Jamie Moyer, maybe? Although Moyer didn't start to pitch really well into his mid-30's.

Williams in CF and Hays and Santander at the corners is at least an interesting OF to watch for the last 3 weeks.

Well he proved me wrong, never thought he'd appear in another game as an Oriole. So now we get a month of Trumbo playing out the string. I'll try to get excited.

This.

Over/Under on how many days or games it takes before he's shut down again?

I'm not a fan of the new rules. This is a perfect example.

Ee-hee-hee-eaaaasy now. He's had all of two MLB appearances. And still has quite the injury history. His FB is hot, no doubt, but he looks like a guy who doesn't know where the ball is going a lot of the time. You can only get away with that for so long before big league hitters figure you out and start tattooing you.

There may be some truth to that, but if he's telling them to pitch in, pitch in, pitch in, and they won't or can't do it, not sure how that's his fault. I was just surprised at the transparency of his comments and lack of "coach speak." Good job by Roch getting those comments out of him, IMO.

Do you think that was all or part of the issue with Sisco's real or imagined defensive deficiencies?

Wow is right! That sounded to me like an indictment of not only some on the pitching staff, but also the catchers.

Huh. Well would you look at that.

Exactly, it's a BS story. Complete and utter nonsense. Hot garbage put out by a fringe newspaper that has zero credibility IMO. Nothing to see here, move along. But then I come here, and see posts about "Nashville Notes." SMH.

There's going to be some unfair expectations put on Means by some fans (and perhaps media) because he's the best pitcher on a very bad staff. Look, for the amount of expectations that people had for him going into the season (or rather, lack of them), if he can turn into a .500 starting pitcher who can consistently get them into or through 6 innings allowing less than 5 runs, I'll take it. Anything more than that is gravy.

I can't believe we're still talking about this ridiculous non-story on a site that regularly throws around the term "Hangout Worthy." This garbage rumor is the very definition of not being "Hangout Worthy."

I was surprised to see that he was the worst player on the team by WAR, even worse than Davis. But shoot, keep running him out there for the rest of the season. Nothing to lose at this point. He should probably be at Norfolk next year, though.

I said the article was clickbait. Although I do think that the title of the thread and the text in the first post arguably left Tony's opinion to the veracity of the article in doubt until his later posts clarified it. That's really neither here nor there. The main thing is that the article is garbage, IMO.

Using a meme of Skip Bayless to scold me for calling something for what it is....clickbait. The irony.

Sorry that was June 2018. So just over a year ago. Nothing has really changed other than the source of the rumors, now it's a fringe newspaper instead of some loudmouth lawyer the Bruce Cunningham inexplicably put on the air.

Btw, we just did this not even two months ago:

*Facepalm* at this thread. The linked article is clickbait, pure and simple. Not. Gonna. Happen. Smh.

But why? LOL just giving you a hard time.....I'm sure US Cellular isn't that bad.....but still, not exactly a destination ballpark. We skipped it in 2014.

Go to Wrigley. Trust me. We went in 2014 and it was amazing. You won't regret it.

You're always going to have the people on social media (and some on here, but more so on the former) that want instant gratification and aren't going to be happy unless they see lots of wins from the team on the field. They're not looking at the signs that the team has a solid long-term plan and has put it into motion, they're not looking at the Orioles no longer being referred to as clueless or behind the times, they're not looking at the international strides, they're not looking at the developmental changes. They just see a lot of L's, so they're going to think that it's the same old, same old. I agree with your post that this team is headed in the right direction. How long it takes and whether they can achieve the ultimate goal is obviously not a foregone conclusion, but I like what I've seen since Elias' hiring.