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That’s just ignorant. Of course Catholics are Christian. Do you think that’s Muhammad or somebody else on the crucifixes hanging in Catholic Churches? People can have all the ill informed opinions they want on religion, but Catholics are Christian is a fact. Basically all of the Protestant Christian sects are directly derived from Catholicism. I mean come on.

They are not mutually exclusive.

I empathize. But he's a hell of a ball player.

It’s voodoo.

Ligaments are weird.

I think it takes that much time to heal/grow.

They got folks to click on the link and they have you posting about it and making others aware of it. Their purpose was served.

I also recently moved to Colorado. It’s pretty darn nice.

Agree! Thank you Chuck.

Who starts at second has more to do with what hand the starting pitcher uses to throw the ball. Hyde and company are maximizing left-right match ups.

All of this.

Austin Hays is shockingly bad according to this analysis. Like wow, he’s way, way down that list.

Can the Orioles trade Hicks? His situation is still a little unclear to me. If so, then I think the O's will keep Hicks into spring training as you suggest. If he looks decent in spring training, then he might return a middle reliever or a player of similar value if a contending team loses an outfielder to injury, etc. If they have to cut Hicks at the end of spring, then no big loss.

One consolation: The Boston fans must have went nuclear.

Me too. I scared the crap out of my wife’s cat.

His ERA in August was zero. He was looking better for a while.

Obviously agree with your point, but just want to remind some that Mussina pitched in a very different offensive era. Mussina’s performance relative to his peers was significantly higher than Bradish’s performance relative to his peers.

And thanks for highlighting this interesting factoid. I look at WAA once or twice a month, but never noticed this.

You may want to edit your post and change WAR to WAA

Although I agree that it is unrealistic to expect Means to pitch at his best, I think the rest of your post is pretty off base. First, Means' career ERA+ is 121. That ain't average. Second, Bradish is having a fantastic year. Excellent enough that Bradish's name comes up when journalists are writing about pitching awards. Bradish having a lower ERA this season than any of Means' seasons says nothing about Means. And even Bradish's results this year are closer than you may think. In Means' best year to date he had an ERA+ of 131. That isn't far behind Bradish's 2023 ERA+ of 139. Means' ERA+ in 2021 was 123 and it was 122 in 2022.

Neat! That April 18 game was my first Major League Baseball game. I wasn’t even much of a baseball fan until that game. The ticket was a birthday gift and going to the game sounded like fun. Little did I know it would make the Orioles a part of my daily life for 30+ years.

I hear you, but this one stands out to me for two reasons. First, when I can't watch, listen, or follow the game online, I check the score relatively late at night. For most of this season, I have assumed/am confident that the O's won the game before I look at the score. I didn't feel like that last year. In many, many past years, I would steel myself for the losing score I was pretty certain I was about to see. Second, the way the team is being built seems so special. The Orioles have had a bad to mediocre minor league system for most of my fandom (really, probably for all of it!). This season has felt special to me partly because it does not feel like a one off. It feels like it's just the beginning.

Fun read. What a fun season. Definitely one of, if not the most enjoyable season I have had as a fan (since 1991).

Pretty wild. It’s a good time to be an Os fan.