Norfolk orioles

Can someone figure us a way out of this that stops short of hiring jeff gillooly?

That throw from manny b@lls deep in the hole was as impressive as any I've seen in years. Better than any jeter made where he had to jump up in the air for no reason, that's for sure.

This is the sad, sad truth.

This is the type of garbage that gets Buck fired. This is precisely why he loses the team and the faith of management. He ignores all statistical evidence when it comes to his "guys". Ubaldo still being in the rotation is example A. Smith, Davis and Trumbo all playing tonight and no pinch hitting are all supporting evidence. I've long defended Buck and gave him full credit for turning us around but I now believe both he and Dan are detriments to the long term health of the franchise. Neither is interested in a desperately needed rebuild and so the only logical conclusion is that they both must go.

Literally ANYTHING. He may had a clutch hit or two a few months ago but I'll be damned if I remember them.

There is absolutely zero reason for Ubaldo to still be on this team. Awful managing and GM decisions have allowed him to soak us for 4 straight seasons.

One of the few bright spots of Dan's off-season acquisitions.

Well at least we have some good news!

Every once in a while this team has to do something smart like trade a guy at his peak value. We haven't done that at all under Dan.

Mancini should be at first, manny should have Davis's money and Davis should have brought us a first round pick. UGH. Back on topic though, I really like Santander, he seems to have that swagger of, yeah I know I can play. Manny and Schoop both have it too. I am not saying he's either one of those guys, but he looks like a player.

No way I'd option Bleier before Hart.

I honestly wouldn't be upset to see Hardy stay on the DL with Beckham playing the way he is. Can he have a parking lot accident too? I honestly don't care what happens just so long as they don't screw up and send back Santander. The kid looks like a stud and if this year has taught us anything, it's that you can live with mediocre defense in the outfield if a guy is raking, you just can't have him play Trumbo-esq defense. If he can be Mancini defensively and contribute with his bat as a lefty, we HAVE to ditch Tejada or Gentry for him.

Manny sucks right now but so does everyone else on the team. The only guy having intelligent at bats is Kim and he can't get into the lineup. The approach appears to be swing for a home run every at bat, every pitch regardless of situation. No bunting for basehits against shifts even when it could score a run and the guy at the plate is batting near the Mendoza line. When it's teamwide, it's on Buck and Coolbaugh for not changing anyone's approaches. I honestly think something is rotten in Denmark. This is the least fun I've ever seen a team have playing ball in the Buck era. I have zero optimism right now, someone talk me down off the ledge.

He could also try bunting since they are giving him a free base hit literally every time he comes up to bat. Make the defense adjust or hit over .400 like you are Ted Williams. Or just keep striking out like you don't even care, whatever.

Just kidding........sort of.

I finally made the jump and joined the big leagues!

Clutch outs tonight. Hart and Givens were very encouraging. Brach, not so much. He hasn't been good since the all star break.

It really is getting harder and harder to defend them. Our pitching staff is abysmal, we traded away Bob Gibson and we took our number 1 prospects best pitch away from him. At one point do we start asking outselves some hard questions?

What a total joke that is. B.tching out and asking the umps to come save your overpriced closer because he's struggling? They could have stopped it at the top of the inning and delayed it but girardi said nothing and thought he could get the win. The second his guy starts struggling, he comes out and asks them to stop the game, which they do for some odd reason despite the conditions being exactly the same as the previous 4 innings. Screw the yanks and girardi, whiny little babies.

Koji on instead of kimbrel? Interesting. Blow it koji!

Completely sickening. My kingdom for a Rangers walk off.

Let's go rangers!

Wow that is really looking on the bright side! I blame Rick Adair.

Just saw this on Twitter. Could miss quite a bit of time. I swear we are snakebit. Someone wrap bundy is bubble wrap quick.

Being in first place in the al east by 9 games is made even more impressive when one considers the fact that we've been missing machado and wieters for a large chunk of the season, Davis went from a MVP candidate to a guy who will struggle to break the Mendoza line this year and finally, our single largest offseason acquisition has been an abject failure. Just imagine how far ahead we'd be if we'd stayed healthy and made a more intelligent offseason acquisition than ubaldo. Impressive stuff, I think you have to give Buck the credit over Dan IMHO, he has this team operating with a laser like focus game after game after game. My admiration for Buck has grown immeasurably this year.