ExileAngelos
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ESPN playoff chances algorithm certainly hasn't counted out! 2.2% wooooo
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Ball was dead middle of the plate.
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Wow Watkins is getting knocked around like a pinball machine.
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Mine showed Tor/Cle game. I have Xfinity. Maybe the OP did too. Guessing it was their issue.
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18 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:
Did anyone do any hard drugs here? Was he caught doing blow off a strippers ass in Vegas? Did he Len Bias?
Was he speeding in a car and killed a passenger or a pedestrian?
Did anyone die?
Was he whipping his junk out at 25 different massage therapists?
Yeah, this is a nothingburger. He’s hurt all the time anyway, I’m sure the Padres have played an 80 game stretch without him before. And his reputation is only tarnished in the eyes of those who think these guys aren’t pumping themselves of PEDs.
It's a (relatively speaking) life nothing burger. But it's a double whopper with cheese baseball burger.
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On 8/12/2022 at 7:36 AM, glenn__davis said:
As Drungo mentioned, winning in the postseason in baseball is as much about luck as it is anything else. If you build a team that can win 90+ games you've got about as good a shot as anyone.
Which is why it is an absolute travesty they expanded the playoffs.
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1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:
I think it’s funny you’re talking about wisdom and painting with broad strokes, something a wise person wouldn’t do.
But since we’re propping up one player as a cautionary tale, I’ll prop up Acuna as evidence that you can give someone in their early 20s a lot of money and they can handle it.
Or a lot of NFL and NBA players.
This Tatis thing is a nothingburger.
80 game suspension. Padres just cleared out their farm system for a shot at three postseasons with Soto. Tatis is now not going to participate in one of them. Reputation tarnished forever. And now the question if he was truly this good or were the roids giving him an assist. Ya, no big deal.
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On 8/10/2022 at 12:35 PM, DrungoHazewood said:
Yes and no. Before wildcards you could be the 1980 Orioles, win 100 games, second best record in baseball, and just go home after 162. While three teams with worse records get to go to the playoffs.
Or even better in the pre-division era you could be the 1963 Orioles, win 86 games, finish 10 over .500, and your season is essentially over in late July when you find yourself 10 games out. Every year you'd have 50, 60, 70% of the league going through the motions not long after the All Star break.
Pennant races were fun when you were the Yanks or Dodger or Giants or the 1966-1983 Orioles. But no so much if you're the Phillies or the Senators or something and you knew in January that it would take divine intervention to catch the big teams.
If we were still in the pre-1968 setup the only time since 1980 the O's would have played a postseason game was 1997. Even the 1983 Orioles had a worse record than the White Sox.
Some fair points but I stand by my main one. 162 game season no longer means much with so many teams making the playoffs. There will be (probably sooner than later) a .500 or worse team knock off a 100 win team in a short series. Baseball is too random to allow this many teams into the postseason. Sorry I am not trying to hijack the thread lol.
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12 hours ago, linedrive said:
Fun thread. Very enjoyable.
I was a Junior in college and kept track of the O's season by going to the library every day and reading the Baltimore Sun. Man, I still love that team! And Gregg Olson. I thought for sure we'd go from Worst to First. What a fun season with so many beloved players and memories. Needless to say, that ending though... heartbreaking...
Funny thing, one of my best friends in college was a Blue Jays fan. So annoying. But I've never known any other Blue Jays fan since.
Worst to first meant something back then. Making the postseason was special. Playing 162 games served a purpose. Those were the days.
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On 8/5/2022 at 9:51 PM, Chaka Garcia said:
My favorite O’s pitcher all time, can’t say anything bad about him. Wished he won at least one Cy Young during his time here - looking back seemed like he was robbed.
Mine too. Which is why him leaving for the MFY's is one of the most depressing things that I have ever experienced as a sports fan in my lifetime.
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7 hours ago, DrungoHazewood said:
I was a freshman in college at Virginia Tech, and I had to "watch" the Olson curveball game on Headline News because it wasn't on Blacksburg cable and I couldn't pick up an Orioles radio station there.
LOL do you remember getting the scores every half hour on ESPN? I think it was 28 and 58 on the clock.
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I was 18 for the Why Not season. Nothing compares to it. Was a different time. It was my first year at college. Freshmen had to park about a mile from campus. There was no internet and no way to watch on TV. I would make that walk to my car to barely pull in WTOP and hang on Jon Miller's every third word or so I could make out lol. I came home for the Toronto weekend and watched that Gregg Olson curveball hit the dirt. That 18 year old fell to the ground and cried.
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With this joke of playoff expansion half of the league are World Series contenders.
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I would sign both of them. Easy call.
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They could actually expand the regular season to create more revenue by playing a bunch or separate gate 7 inning double headers. Could also apply these double headers to the postseason to fit in more games and more playoff teams and more revenue. If the game is tied after 9 innings the winner is determined a 10 minute per side home run derby.
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My two favorite teams. The O's and whoever has a .500 or lower winning pct in the playoffs. Hope MLB gets embarrassed.
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Expanding the playoffs significantly reduces the importance of the regular season. So sad they are on the verge of ruining what made this sport special and different than the others. There is absolutely no reason to play 162 games now.
I hope the added revenue from expanded playoffs is worth it. I don't think they have any idea what damage they are doing to the sport. Anything can happen in a short series. A sub .500 playoff team WILL defeat the best team in the regular season in a playoff series at some point and probably sooner than later. What a joke.
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I guess this article written by Stadium Talk just a month ago is full of misinformation on this topic...
There are multiple things that coaches can teach young athletes. They can teach swings in sports like baseball and golf. They can teach shooting motions in sports like basketball. Or, they can refine footwork for sports like football and soccer. But one thing that coaches can’t teach is genetics.
Many of the kids of pro athletes go on to be athletes themselves, and they have a leg up on their competition due to the genetics that were passed onto them. Often, these second-generation athletes even surpass their famous fathers or mothers and become even better at their sport, or even other sports.
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10 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
Yes that’s what I’m saying. There are more examples of failures than hits.
There is zero evidence that suggests what you are saying has any truth behind it. Yea, it’s nice that they can learn from their dads but it doesn’t mean they will have their abilities and talents.
If you take Druw Jones, which as of now is the guy I think they should take, it’s because you feel he’s the best player with the highest ceiling. You don’t take him because of his dad. That makes no sense.
So when Arch Manning enters the NFL Draft in a couple of years I'm SURE his bloodline will not influence what teams think of his potential.
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8 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
Why? Did it raise Ryan Ripkens floor? Or Pete Rose Jr?
I think there are PLENTY of examples in recent years. Just look at the Jays roster. Are you seriously saying that Andrew Jones being his dad doesn't impact whether he will hit as a prospect?
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21 hours ago, Sports Guy said:
Jones over Johnson. Right now, that’s a pretty easy decision for me.
3. Elijah Green, CF, IMG Academy HS (FL), Miami commit
Green has the most eye-popping tools we've seen in some time: 70 raw power, speed and arm strength on the right day, all at 6-foot-3, 225 pounds. That's in a conversation with Jasson Dominguez, Justin Upton and other lofty names in terms of raw tools on an amateur player.
He has had some off-and-on contact issues but has come out hot this spring. He hit a home run with 109 mph exit velocity in an early-season tourney and has shown a simplified swing that should help solve that contact problem.
Take the guy with the bloodline. The fact that he is Andrew Jones' son raises his floor.
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24 minutes ago, deward said:
So....my gut reaction is to hate everything about this. Partly due to the hideously ugly aesthetics of the new configuration, maybe partly a sentimental reaction to such a drastic change to the park I grew up with. I can think of at least a dozen memorable moments that don't happen with this configuration. Cal's home run the night of 2130 becomes a routine fly ball. I'm not sure the one he hit the next night would be out in this configuration either. Some of the key home runs that Reynolds and Jones hit during the wild card run in 2012 would have been fly ball outs. I'd really like to know what free agent pitcher turned down top dollar to sign elsewhere due to the park. I can't think of one off the top of my head that we've heard about. I'd also like to know what the home run figures in the park would have looked like the past few years with a pitching staff that even approached being competent. When (if?) they finally build a better pitching staff, the results will improve, not because they screwed with the dimensions of the field.
Come on dude. 364 power alley was a joke. That was obvious the day the park opened. Routine deep fly balls to that area will now be caught or off that 13 foot wall. I absolutely love it.
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2 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:
The game is a lot more boring now and despite what Manfred might think more home run does not equal more excitement. Strikeout, walk or home run has gotten real old for me.
Would love to see a team like the 80's Cardinals make a comeback, but I also understand at the same time it's not going to happen. Analytics won't allow it and the astroturf fields that rewarded speed are gone now. Maybe expanding the dimensions of ballparks would eventually encourage teams to value hitters who put the ball in play.
That Delmon Young hit is not nearly as exciting if it were hit out of the park. Ball was IN PLAY and we all watched with exhilaration as JJ Hardy rounded third and slid into home plate just ahead of the throw.
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Friday Night Sept 16: O's start huge series in Toronto, tonight exclusively on AppleTV
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