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Just bought it on kindle and hope to read it at some point, but not sure when I’ll have the time. I’m mid 30s and have two kids one of whom is 4 months so I don’t have a ton of down time but looking forward to it. I was 11 in 97 but went to a few playoff games with my dad. love this photo as I just got one with Bordick at the Bowie game Sunday .

It's only a decrease in 24 games against the division and 32% of the schedule vs currently it being 47%. I love it as it gets boring to play so many games against the same opponents and it'll be cool to be able to play every NL team each year. Every one in the division is playing the exact same schedule +/- a game per non AL-East opponent and +/- a game or so against one NL opponent. The only downside is it eliminates the ability to do a trip and see multiple NL opponents. For example back in 2013-2015 one of those years my parents went with my aunt/uncle on a trip to CA/AZ and saw the Padres, Giants, and Diamondbacks as the O's had a long west coast trip. Though I'm not sure how often the scheduling folks are that kind anyway.

Took my 4.5 year old daughter to her first pro baseball game today at Bowie, didn’t stay past the the third inning which is good because they got clobbered. However I was very impressed with Cowser. Had a great eye to draw a walk on four pitches to lead off, a laser of a single and stole a base. He looks to be the real deal and am excited to hopefully see him in Baltimore in mid-late 2023.

It’s a crappy change in the new CBA. I get it theoretically prevents games with service time manipulation but in this case there was none this year and he’s performed very well, why should they be penalized? why should top 2 get the service time but not third finisher? Why do only top two get pick not #3? IMO the way it should have worked was if you spend more than 30 or 45 days in majors no matter when it occurs during the first year you get a year of service time. So September callups retain eligibility for ROY and don’t count towards service time, even having a week or two during the year doesn’t matter. If the owners balked at this just change it to 7 years to FA with four arb years where year one counts no matter what. currently a guy comes up OD or in April and he gets full year so only six years til FA, but anyone brought up post April or whatnot has 6.75 years to FA with the exception of the lucky two top finishers. So part of 7 seasons is pretty much what everyone gets anyway. He certainly deserves the accolades based on his performance just seems bogus to not get a pick when he was hurt to start the year. I wonder and hope this pushes them to start contract extension talks to lock him up through 2030.

I was wondering about Young and Showalter mostly but also the other guys.

Can we expect to see the rest of the draft class this year? If so when?

don’t forget Schoop and Brach were also offloaded and these guys are all they have to show for it. I made a post a week or so ago about quantity over quality producing pretty poor results for the O’s since 2000. Wish they had tried to get one or two guys in some of those deals instead of 3-5.

But how does this affect his service time?

Was he DFAd? Did the Os try to get him off 40 man roster thus needed to pass through waivers? not a huge loss, just curious how they scooped him up

Was just thinking ugh I hope we don’t need to deal with Duquette and Toronto all over again. I knew he grew up in the area Alexandria VA and I believe he grew up as an O’s fan, can anyone attest to that? If so that’d seem to be a leg up on keeping him here so long as he was paid well and any significant competitor offer was met. I can’t see anything else being more appealing if he was an O’s fan growing up, the big city nature of going to a NY or LA team just doesn’t seem like it’s his cup of tea. I can’t get over the fact that he’s only 39.

How are season tickets or mini season packages handled? I loved getting my book of bound tickets when I got 13 game packages from 2013-2018 and loved it as a kid when my dad got full season packages and I’d help him divvy it up for his 10 other plan co holders.

When should Elias start extension talks? After one year or two years of service time? Seems like this is imperative to do with him and something they really botched with Manny, probably due to his knees.

We need to start a petition to bring back Gary Thorne!

even though Orioles Hangout is the longest running known website (founded in 1996) to cover a major professional team in any sport in the United States @Tony-OH WOW I was only 11 in 96 and while I’d attend games with my dad I had no idea about OH until mid 2000s . That fact is amazing! Congrats! Also when is the 105.7 segment you referred to?

It was super fun going through baseball reference and seeing all the trades made over the years!