Moose Milligan

The MD inferiority complex manifests itself in all levels, in all ways. I get that people who live in Maryland want to have relevancy in a lot of areas, especially college sports but sometimes it just ain't meant to be.

Didn't know anyone cared about UMD college sports at all. Basketball has been irrelevant for years, football never has been relevant despite people trying really hard to make it so. But at least they have cool Under Armour gear!

I don't understand the Lyles signing being viewed as a sign of a salary floor. Lyles contract was signed under the former CBA...I'm not sure what the floor would be moving forward under the new CBA, but it seems stupid that they'd throw some extra cash at a guy like Lyles in the 11th hour of the old CBA just to get a head start on a salary floor that may or may not come to pass in the new one. Then again, this is the Orioles and they are stupid.

Lol how convenient. They've been ready to do so, eh? I've been ready for them to be a winner for a few years now.

Awesome!

It did with Iglesias, although I would make the convenient "small sample size" argument in his particular case. In regards to Villar, maybe. Although, coming from someone who thinks the Orioles practically don't do anything right, I'd be more inclined to chalk those two cases up to dumb luck rather than thinking we had amazing coaches who did an amazing job. Over the past 48 hours I've gone from initially pissed off to accepting that this is the type of off-season it'll be. Scrap heap and reclamation projects. Sure enough, they signed Jordan Lyles a day or two later.

Of course not. But it would be awesome if they did.

About what I'd expect. "We can fix this guy."

i disagree with you, too. I mean, who'd really want a Harley Davidson?

You should, for awhile there I was worried about you.

It's hard separating the differences between Dale Earnhardt and Carl Lewis and the sports they play.

Nothing is wrong except the technical differences, which, you know, make them all completely different sports. Thats like saying NASCAR and the 400 meter hurdles are the same thing. Both involve humans going around in a circle and seeing who finishes first.

In hockey, they should just stop playing and go play a better sport.

Sure, you can say that, but you also can't deny the lack of popularity compared to other sports. That's not to say what is popular is great, but to a certain extent it's correct. Hockey is distant in popularity and for a reason. Okay, from a 35,000 foot view. But none of this is actually true.

I'm not wrong, I'm just not as haughty as you. And yes, hockey is terrible.

We can agree to disagree.

This is true, MLB can't figure out how to capture a younger audience.

I get it, too, but they're still dumb. Does anyone ever go to MLB.com?

MLB and MLB Players are apparently resorting to tactics you might find amongst high schoolers. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/32771388/what-do-shadows-locked-players-play-mlb-scrubbed-pages

I can see this and I can not see this happening. First of all, baseball has slipped behind the NFL and the NBA, no doubt about it. If anything, depending on how bad this lockout is, it could let hockey surpass it, which would be terrible because hockey is terrible. E-sports...I dunno. I hate watching people play video games. Even if it were video games I could relate to like 8 bit NES, I'd still have a hard time watching. I don't know what these kids are playing, but judging by the characters in the background I've got no interest in finding out. I think E-Sports winds up like NASCAR....which has an incredibly massive following but still resides on the fringes of the mainstream. Where E-Sports fails, IMO, is that there's no frame of reference to these games for a widespread part of the population. Part of growing up in the USA, IMO, is being exposed to the NFL...it's so ubiquitous. I can't say the same for whatever video game these kids are playing.

Ladderball.

I thought Selig was fine. People just attacked him all the time because he was...well, folksy. Goofy. But over his time as MLB commissioner, there hadn't been a work stoppage since the 1994 strike. Baseball prospered. We can banter back and forth about how he turned a blind eye to PEDs, but after the work stoppage in '94 what would any of us have done? The game got back on track, homers surged, there was a lot of interest. I can't fault him for that. People thought he was an idiot because he was folksy and goofy, I don't believe he was. So what if he flubbed an All-Star game and it ended in a tie? I don't think anyone was surprised. That doesn't mean we can't comment on how terrible it was.

He made it sound like the MLBPA had no interest in negotiating and meeting halfway. I can't imagine the MLB owners, who he stumps for, are coming to the table in an agreeable way.

Give me folksy Bud Selig any day.

Manfreds email was a steaming pile of ****.