Moose Milligan

Palmer. Will go 7-9 strong.

Looking for a series win, homie.

Yeah. But I don't like Fangraphs.

Also, I am not a conspiracy theory guy but I find it very odd that they have over 202k followers on Twitter and have practically zero engagement on their twitter feed. Their posts get a lot of views, hardly ever any comments, retweets or likes. I wouldn't be surprised.

I don't think you're necessarily wrong. The Baltimore Inferiority Complex is a very real thing. A city that might be best known around the country for The Wire...tucked between Washington DC (you know, where things allegedly get done, the nerve center of the free world, Nation's Attic) Philly (Rocky) and NYC (cultural center of...well, everything) and there's an inferiority complex that people from the area have. Rightly or wrongly, it exists. But I also don't think you're necessarily correct here, either. As others have pointed out, Fangraphs has been down on the Orioles the entire season and the Orioles have been consistent throughout the entire season. I mean, you have to be to win 101 games, be one of two teams, IIRC, that didn't have a losing month and haven't been swept in a series since 2022. And yet, they continue to be down on the Orioles. They can say "our projections" all they want and that's fine. But maybe at some point they should stop patting themselves on the back and acting like the smartest baseball people on the internet because they've been consistently wrong about this team. Moreover, they seem to want to double down on it. There's nothing they can do or say to convince me that the Diamondbacks or Phillies or Dodgers have better World Series odds than us when you take into consideration that all of those teams probably have to go through the team that they think has the highest odds to win it all. I'm going to come right out and say it; I just don't think they know how to project for a team full of younger players and younger players that are having breakout years (Gunnar, Bradish, G-Rod, O'Hearn, Cano, etc) so instead of being high on us, they're going to be low on us until their precious projection system has enough data to predict accurately for our players. They don't know how to project/predict for a team that won 52 games two years ago to winning 101 games this year because no team in history has done that before. That's a diplomatic way of saying that they're not going to be nice to a team full of players who aren't household names yet. There's no other reason to have us ranked so low here, it's ridiculous. And I'm writing this as a poster here who has long made fun of other posters on here for being up in arms about anti-Orioles biases in the media. If you're reading between the lines, you'll understand that I don't think that they really have a projection system when it comes to their season projections and their playoff predictions and World Series predictions. Sure, they have lots of fancy stats for individual players (their WAR stats are nice and tidy) but I think they're talking out of their ass when they're making their "projections" for entire teams. They don't know. And they won't admit that they don't know. But it's safer to look at a team of guys that aren't big names yet and give them the lowest odds. Is that the pesky Baltimore Inferiority Complex rearing its ugly head? Maybe. But there's no way anyone can logically explain to me why they have our World Series odds so low after the season we just had other than they just don't know what to make of us.

Weird, I've got no problem thinking about the Expos when it comes to the Nationals but I never think about any previous iterations of the A's other than Oakland.

8/9 today, 143 score. The A's 200 hits got me. It's not Rickey.

What makes CJ Nitkowski anti-Orioles? I've always thought of our team as a team that no one really pays attention to. Yankees haters? Sure. Sox haters? Definitely. Dodgers? Absolutely. But we're not in any of their classes. We're mostly always bad to mediocre, sometimes we're pretty good. Therefore, I've never really thought of anyone "hating" the Orioles very much.

Good.

I thought caring about how your division/league/conference does is purely a college thing. Does anyone think any less of the AL East because of this?

Glad we don’t have to face Arozarena in the playoffs.

Eh, that wouldn’t have been my favorite move but I wouldn’t fault them for going for it. deGrom is a walking TJ surgery waiting to happen but that contract shouldn’t cripple a franchise.

Happy to see the Jays fold like the losers they are.

It’s weird. The fans on here cry about Angelos NOT spending money. They want the Orioles to spend money…they just don’t appear to want anyone else to spend money.

I didn’t expect the Rays to bend over the way they did. C’mon.

I need to rearrange some priorities then.

She sounds insufferable. Primarily because she knows you, of course. The Jays/Rays thing is just added on top.

I always thought horse racing was what they showed when they didn’t have anything else to show. Degenerate gamblers aside, does anyone watch that?

Calmer than you are.

Well if it takes a genius to know that and you want your high cost, prime-time national ad shown in front of a Dodgers or Braves game, you put those games on in the evening. Smart people, eh?

It can be as simple as they want it to be. Look, it's not rocket science. MLB, Fox, TBS, TNT has known for awhile now who'd be hosting division games and the possibilities of what the matchups are. There's no matchup in the divisional round that'll surpass the interest of college football on Saturday and the NFL and Sunday. It's just not going to happen. So if they're really sitting back and saying "Well, we might get 10,000 more viewers for Rays vs. Orioles versus Rangers vs. Orioles, therefore we should televise the game at 4pm instead of 1pm," it's silly. The Billy Joel hurdle has been here for awhile. This isn't some last minute concert that was scheduled. Like I said, it's as simple as they want it to be. They're just shuffling around deck chairs to figure out which lineups get more viewers and that's obnoxious. Especially when people are trying to make travel plans to come into town for the game.

What a bunch of idiots. Seriously, how can the game be three days away and they haven’t confirmed a time?

Whatever.

The best sound you can get.

Also hysterical is the neg rep coming from posters that never post here.