Moose Milligan

What are those kabobs? I saw them talking about them last night but wasn't paying attention and I was on a work call and the game was on mute when they had them in the booth.

I HAVE SPOKEN

Happy to see Gunnar smiling like that. Hopefully this is what gets him on track.

Gunnar bomb!!

Do it again, Tony!

I think G-Rod is transforming into that ace before our very eyes.

NEED MOOOOOOOOARRRR RUNS

That's AWESOME

Whoa, Tony Taters living up to that nickname! And drink! Yes, Kevin Brown, they were almost all former teammates of Lyles last year!

Wow, we got a break.

You guys wanna get wasted? Take a drink every time Kevin Brown references Jordan Lyles being on the Orioles last year.

Sounds like he was doing a great job of working on walking and hitting batters.

As soon as I posted that, the Joe Posnanski substack that I subscribe to hit my inbox and I agree 100% with everything that he wrote:

I don't understand what you don't understand. I mean, the twitter post was obvious, that the old stodgy baseball establishment will be upset by what Franco with that flip and how he stunted on the homer he hit the next inning. What I wrote was pretty straightforward. MLB has a marketing problem and they're having a hard time getting young kids interested in the game. Soccer and lacrosse are swelling in popularity, football remains #1 and probably will be for quite some time and basketball is global. Baseball trails and the gap is widening. And there's a rock and a hard place of wanting these guys to be able to express themselves and have fun, but something like this is over the edge? So I don't think some kid playing XBox who hates baseball is going to magically come around on the game because of what Wander Franco did, that's a safe bet. But that kid isn't who's being targeted on social media with replays of that clip. One clip isn't going to change someone's impression and through your sarcasm I know you know that to be true. But if more kids see that MLB players are having fun and showing some flair on a repeated basis, that doesn't hurt anyone. Like what @Moshagge3said, that clip gets eyes on the game, on a level where Curry and Mahomes are. That flip, to me, was like Mahomes making one of his crazy no look passes. Risky? Absolutely. Did it work? Sure did. Do fans love it? Well, the NFL fans seemed to eat it up with a knife and spoon...MLB fans seem pretty split on what Franco did. But what's not said about that clip is that the Rays were up by a significant margin when he did that. I don't think Franco does that in a late and close game. So I'm with you on pitching a fit if an Orioles player did that and botched it, but less so if we're up 7 or 8 runs in the game, the calendar just turned to May and we're already over 100 runs better in run differential.

Yeah, but he didn't drop it. Would have been bad if he did but that's not the reality.

I liked Lyles last year. He's gonna want to shove it this afternoon though. I hope our guys don't go up there hacking like they did last night or else we could be looking at a series loss.

Raise your hand if you had Dariel Alvarez as having one of the fastest statcast assists. I still don’t believe we have the worst defense in the majors. I don’t think it’s great or even good, but I don’t watch this team every night and I’m think that I’m watching the worst defense in MLB. That said, the outfield defense was terrible in the first series, Gunnar is having issues, I feel that Mateo has recently made a couple errors on plays he should routinely make and every time I see a ball hit to right field, I wonder if Santander can get there. These have all been individual moments (except for wondering every night about Santander) but I don’t head into every game dreading our defense.

Baseball fans: WE NEED NEW WAYS TO ATTRACT FANS AND GET PEOPLE EXCITED ABOUT BASEBALL AGAIN THE YOUNGSTERS AREN'T INTERESTED!!!!!111 *Wander Franco* Baseball fans: NOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT THERE'S NO ROOM IN THE GRAND OLD GAME FOR THAT!!

They looked completely flat tonight. They were terrible at the plate, flailing away at everything. Completely different approach from last night, it seemed. Gotta win tomorrow before the gauntlet starts.

Goodnight. Hope we can beat Lyles tomorrow.

UGGGGGGHHHHH

Tony with the hit. Let's get it cookin. We got to Chapman last year, IIRC. He can be had.

Well that's the ballgame at this rate.

Kinda love seeing Chapman slummin it in KC.

Witt is so damn fast.