[Orioles trade Davies for Parra. Your verdict?]

Thanks, DD. I was really hoping the team would finish 83-79 instead of 79-83. That makes a huge difference to me. Orioles fans will remember your brilliance and dedication for years to come for helping make a third-place AL East finish 4 games out of the WC happen in 2015. There will be highlight videos, T-shirts, and even rap songs celebrating this trade for decades. In fact I think I'm going to get Parra '15 tattooed on my arm.

Parra will be worth 4 wins over 2 months?

[Orioles trade Davies for Parra. Your verdict?]

Who do we give up in that trade though?

Nobody. Tigers are just trying to maintain an already weak market.

[Orioles trade Davies for Parra. Your verdict?]

I would imagine they were not trading Gausman, Bundy, or Harvey in a potential Cespedes deal. And dealing Wright/Walker/Wilson plus Lough/Snider, or whatever it would take, does not equate to a decade of losing.

But hyperbole is fun.

A decade of losing would be what, Manny, Schoop, and Gausman for Cespedes?

[Orioles trade Davies for Parra. Your verdict?]

Doesn't move the needle. Best case, Parra helps get the O's to the 50/50 game, and that would be after they play +.600 ball the rest of the way. This trade doesn't realistically do anything.

[Pat Connaughton]

You'd lose. 18 of 22 athletic programs at ND compiled graduation rates of 100 percent and none had less than 93 percent.

Where did you go to school?

This obviously isn't the case everywhere, but can't we all agree that citing graduation rates as a sign of "educating student-athletes" is kind of like citing pitcher wins to argue how good/bad a pitcher is?

[Orioles in 1st place]

It feels just nice and snug to be back at 20 games over .500

Yep. 20 over is the warm, happy place. You're almost always going to make the playoffs with 91 wins.

[Orioles in 1st place]

Orioles have the same record as the Red Sox did last year through 125 games.

Now 1/2 game behind the A's and 2 games behind the Angels for best record in baseball.

Remarkable. Jeep winning.

[Orioles in 1st place]

O's are 3 up on the Tigers for the 2nd seed, BUT the Tigers are now only 1.5 games up on the Royals in the Central. How nuts would it be if they and the A's/Angels had to play a one-game playoff?

[Just Keep on Winning the Series]

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14-3-1 over their last 18 series after taking 2 out 3 from the Blue Jays.

Haven't lost an AL East road series on the year, with 6 wins and 1 split.

[Orioles in 1st place]

Yes it will! Conceding defeat.

White flag trades are always fun.

[Orioles in 1st place]

Zobrist the nail in the coffin.

The David Price trade will be the final nail in the coffin.I see a possible Kasmir-like move coming if they're still in striking distance.

[Orioles in 1st place]

Enjoy it now cause it wont last much longer.

It's going to be back-and-forth between the O's and Red Sox all season.

[Everybody Dancing Now!]

Haha! That's probably a worthy celebration after the crazy sci-fi stuff they just pulled off.

[A picture is worth a thousand words.]

This thread is full of win.