Moose Milligan

Tanner Scott still makes me nervous, too.

For sure. Especially after Hyde said yesterday how happy he was that the walks are down. Castro is killing us lately.

Ozzie Guillen never hit .300. Get it together, Ben.

Off to a good start here.

Hess is terrible. I'm sure Shepherd is, too.

Like I said after, a trade chip and a dumb trade partner.

This game is at 5 today, right?

I'd be ok with Eshelman replacing LeBlanc. Not thrilled, just ok.

I think they can but you are correct, it's a thin margin of error. Tampa's done it, been doing it for years. It can be done, it's just really hard. But even if we have a top 10 system, I'm not really convinced. IIRC, the years when we had "The Cavalry", we were a top 10 system and look how well that worked out for us.

Pretty sure every year during a rebuild is important, hippie. I understand your gripe but who's to say we're not a top 10 system this time next year?

You know as well as I do that the prior group whiffed pretty hard on those trades. Diaz and Kremer are the best gets and they're certainly not blue chip prospects. Your gripe can chill because you also know as well as I do that 2020 was supposed to be a big season for our prospects to hopefully grow and advance and they didn't get that opportunity.

Let me rephrase: Did the Orioles have a player like Cano or Diaz and a perennial sucker in a trade partner like the Mets? To your point about 1-1 and 1-2, is your main gripe about draft picks?

Has Elias had trade chips like Robinson Cano and 57 save Edwin Diaz?

How long has Elias been here?

Jim Hunter hasn't been broadcasting this year and the Orioles are winning. Coincidence? I think not.

Ugh, great. Was looking forward to this all day.

I think so, too. I will say I like the offense, I think that has reasonably improved. With Mancini, I think we could have a solid (not spectacular) lineup.

Ok, fine. I'll grant you the assumption that this is a good team and that they can make the playoffs this year. But to think that this franchise is all of a sudden on the upswing because some players who were below average got marginally better or are enjoying career years and outplayed their peripherals is silly. It's very simple, the 1988 Orioles went 54-107. The 1989 team, as everyone knows, went 87-57 and went down to the final weekend in the playoff hunt. 1990, they were 76-85. And in 1991, they slid back even further to 67-95. While that 1989 team was great and a lot of fun, looking back on it, it's obvious that guys like Bob Milacki, Dave Johnson and Jeff Ballard weren't made for the long haul, that they each had career years. On a similar note, I'm not a believer that Milone, Wojo and LeBlanc are guys that are all of a sudden having career renaissances and will be good pitchers for years to come. So sure, wildcard, they might have a sneaky good year in a season that will allow for a lot of wacky stuff to occur. Does that mean they can do it again in 2021 over the course of 162 games with the same cast of characters?

He's been missing calls left and right.

Umpire with the late strike 3. F that guy. Made up for the blown call on Harper but I can't blame Realmuto for being pissed right there.

There was nothing 50-50 about that. I don't really like to whine about umpires and officiating in sports in general but this umpire blows dead bear.

THAT WAS A F'ING STRIKE!!!!!!!

Harper seems pretty dialed in this year. This scares me.

Eh, someone called him Cold Slushy, thought that was pretty good.

Coleslaw in the pen.