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Strike zone seems about as wide as I-95.

I suspect this is more about stadium leases, bulk state financial handouts and megalomaniacal inner city renovation schemes than public relations per se.

As long as the lineup order stays within common sense I can see a small benefit coming from everybody not getting dull out of habit or thinking that lineup order requires a change in approach. I also think the same holds true for all the position changes from day to day although there are other benefits to position flexibility. In other words whatever to keep everybody on their toes over the course of a long season. Just a pet theory with no scientific evidence…

I call it eXtwitter and wish everybody else would too just to irritate Elon Musk who I think is a complete douchebag.

Playing time.

I have no idea whether the record would be better or not. My comment was directed at the notion that the O's front office is not stupid enough to resign Hicks. I would hope that they don't for all the reasons that have been discussed ad nauseum on here this season about prospects not getting a fair shot etc., etc., and personally I don't think Elias and the rest are stupid. Now if it's a FO article of faith that all rookies not named Adley or Gunnar need to earn their way on the team, well the rookies need an obstacle to get over. The Frazier contract and Mateo's continued presence on the team don't make sense to me outside of that context and the same goes for the prospect of Hicks returning for 2024.

They were stupid enough to sign Adam Frazier for $8 million and carry Jorge Mateo long after he demonstrated his actual value this season. Their taste for middling vets is both evident and baffling. IMO it's too early to get complacent about Hicks not returning.

It's great to beat the Red Sox, but there's something particularly enjoyable about dominating them. Great win tonight.

Hat #1 would bring a whole new sense of adventure to sliding into second base.

They fed it the wrong movies before asking it to do the design. Shoulda lightened up on the Quentin Tarantino.

I second dystopia's advice. Also clear your cache and cookies for mlb.tv. A separate browser configured to clear all data on shut down is very useful so you don't erase cookies that you want to keep. Use a different browser for those apps.

I don't believe John Angelos will approve an extension for any player before at least the end of the 2024 season if we're talking about buying out arb and early FA years. And maybe not ever. I can see ML pitchers like Means and Gibson being re-signed to short multi-year contracts for 2024 and beyond.

No great surprise here. I'm still a believer in Cowser, but he didn't exactly make the decision difficult.

I speculate that whatever year-end bonus he was in line to receive has been cut in half as a result of this little adventure.

Never apologize, never explain. Often attributed to Winston Churchill or Henry Ford, I suspect John Angelos has taken this advice to heart.

My point (which I didn't phrase very well) is that if JA decided to enforce a non-compete then Brown would have no choice but to eat what's put in front of him, because any recourse he might have would be mooted by his contract running out long before anybody could hear his complaint. Angelos wouldn't have to settle, just let process take its course.

And which party to this contract owns the law firm? I would also check the court docket to see how long it would take the suit to come to a hearing much less a trial. You are probably right that Brown could terminate his employment at will, but the real issue is future employment and when. There is also the question of how desirable a litigious announcer would be to a prospective employer.

But John Angelos owns him - at least for the duration of his contract. Brown could've found himself parked and invisible until the contract expired. John Angelos strikes me a capable of doing something like that.

Yeah, me too. Time for him to change gears though.

Me too. Especially given that the O’s lost 19 straight games as recently as August, 2021. Nice to be regularly reminded that the O’s are no longer doormats.

I was addressing your post only indirectly. If I had to pick, I would pick Flaherty as well, although Flaherty vs. Lorenzen was never a choice Elias had to make as far as I can tell, so I don't see comparisons between the two as particularly useful. Philadelphia acquired Lorenzen for a Hi A middle infielder roughly equivalent to Issac de Leon. This is a price the O's could easily have beaten without interfering with the Flaherty trade. Bottom line is I don't believe the Orioles have enough pitching even with Flaherty - that's the context that I think matters and I remain convinced this was a missed opportunity.

Lorenzen: 2 GS, 17 IP, 6H, 2ER since the trade deadline. Not chopped liver and all for the price of a middling A+ IF. Flaherty was not an either/or proposition. I'm a big Elias fan but this was a whiff.

McKenna and Cowser will be sent down to make room, that seems pretty safe to say at this point. Mateo will not be DFA'd. In fact he will stay on the roster for all of 2023, then finish his career as an Oriole. Afterward his number will be retired and when he dies he will be buried between 2nd and 3rd because clearly that is preferable to giving Joey Ortiz a feakin' chance.

The current top search result when you google "John Angelos net worth": John P. Angelos - Wikipedia John P. Angelos (born May 14, 1967) is the communist leader of the Baltimore Orioles, a position he has held since 2020, leading the club's front office and overseeing day-to-day business operations. The rabble seems restless. Could revolution be in the air?