Malike

Man, the ball is loud as hell off the bat of Mounty.

Hopefully, the Cards hold on and beat Tampa.

He really hasn't been bad at all. Yes, Tucker got him, but most of the hits are ground balls finding holes.

Death by a bunch of seeing-eye singles.

I'm digging O'Hearn, but he seems to hit the ball just hard enough to make you think it's going to be HR then falls short.

Because it's hard to backtrack once you've gone all in. It's not a great look.

Dave Johnson.

We're going to touch this guy up soon'ish.

Astros are sponsored by Oxy. Pretty funny. Would have been more appropriate for the old Football team there.

Unfortunately, it's not just you.

Eh, you can fix that. When the majority of your game thread looks like this, it's actually quite a lovely place to be.

They'd still have a job, computers can't call fair/foul and safe/out. Just take the inability of a human to accurately call the strike zone away.

What name will you be trolling under in October? johnwayne?

I know it's cool to pile on, but it's no more outrageous than things our beloved Kevin Brown would say in a hyperbolic fashion. She laughed when she said it then said 41 degrees which was the correct angle.

You didn't expect more from Mr. Splash - AKA johnrambo did you? He'll be getting banned again I'm sure.

TBS showed it fine, there was nothing to see out there on any replay I saw.

No, I made that up in the game thread. It's just shoddy camera work.

Sure, I'm just pointing out that a guy who never really gets murdered has been murdered twice by the same team.

Yeah but Cowser isn't getting ABs, so he's on the bench and the team is still winning. He's been up over a month and has 56 ABs. Averaging about 2 AB's per game. Frazier hasn't been a negative for us with the bat, though his defense hasn't been great. Compared to other 2B he's not killing the team.

I'd rather see Cowser playing the majority of the time, but I'm also in the minority in thinking the O's are not going to win the world series this year and I'd rather get Cowser the time he needs to show he's going to be a real piece next season. I'm not concerned about the wins/losses.

Yeah, Webb has no options so I think they are going to give him enough time to either sink or swim. We'll see how it plays out, they are fishing right now to salvage the pen.

He certainly may be better than Hicks in the future, but I have infinitely more trust in a good AB from Hicks than I do Cowser at this point in both of their careers.

They aren't getting rid of Irvin or Baumann, I'd say almost 0 chance on Irvin and absolutely no chance on Baumann going down. Webb will be given a real chance to fail and Perez has been coming around a bit.

I don't think it's going to be as easy as it sounds. His last PA's were August 5th. He's not better than Mullins/Hays/Santander/Hicks, I doubt they DH him, I just don't see where the ABs are going to come from. He's had 7 PA's the entire month of August so far, if this is how they are going to use him he needs to be in AAA playing every day both at the plate and in the field.

If Cowser isn't going to play every day up here, then he should go down. He's not going to get better getting very limited ABs up here.