Remember The Alomar

No matter what happens, Abraham Toro is a great name.

Is giving up a leadoff double in a one-run game bad?

I say this as a compliment, but if I got as stressed about the Birds as you did on a night-to-night basis, I would have sworn them off years ago.

Seeing Mark Kotsay in 2024 makes me feel ancient.

Maybe I've just missed it, but that wind graphic was really cool.

I can take being made fun of for perhaps being too passionate about manipulated media—especially since nothing will top the mockery I received for saying the Orioles ruined Chris Waters career for letting him throw 104 pitches in his debut. Thankfully, I think that one was lost to time.

I thought it was funny, honestly. The best part of this place is when some random guy you've been posting with since you were 18 yells at you.

Exactly. He was a very good photog.

Yeah I'm just coming from a place of working at myriad publications--both hard news and not--where publishing edited content without a disclaimer would get you fired.

If this is true, that is wild malpractice. Not that the MLB.com is a journalistic institution, but folks read/watch their production as the record of what actually happened in any given baseball game.

So you're saying he's a TORah guy?

Yes, but remember when you dared to have the temerity to say that a $1.4 million AAA DH with horrific career numbles was perhaps a questionable signing?

lol yes agreed. I feel like every six years there is a desire to reinvent big breaking sliders into a new pitch. I always wonder how often announcers just call pitches off whatever Gameday equivalent they have in the booth

Gameday has it as a sweeper, but I'd be curious how he describes it. Very nasty either way.

Ump has a reservation at the Prime Rib.

The six-seven-eight of Cowser-Westburg-Holliday just shows that good things come to those who wait. The kid will be fine.

Totally--and like I said, defer to those actually watching. Just trying to understand the "hope he's not hurt" stuff. Just seems like a guy with electric stuff not having a truly dominant start.

I defer to everyone watching the game, but if I didn't have gameday open, I'd assume Grayson was sitting at 91-92; had given up five runs in six innings; and had allowed 10 hits. Six innings of two run ball with a 2-1 K/BB ration while pumping 98 seems like...a pretty good performance.

I'm watching on gameday, but other than being a bit wild, why are we worried Grayson is hurt? His velo looks fine.

I'm sorry your childhood memory was so short lived. Blame Cow Town.

Weather in the area has been bad this spring, to be fair. Literally hailed today, at least in D.C.

You're not wrong that in-booth chemistry is real, and it doesn't take working together everyday to have that. I just know that, when you spend every day with a dude, you're going to try to get under each other's skin if you actually have a real-world relationship.

I have a lot of coworkers I've worked with for years that I mess with subtly all the time. And they know I'm just f'ing with them. Later, they'll do the same to me. I think that's more of a sign of being tight than some massive disconnect.

Hollidays ABs are much better thus far.

I had this written out in anticipation of a Westburg SO, so you're all welcome.