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1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:
It's on the upswing.
It would definitely appear as if the changes Manfred and his team have enacted, and the pretty substantial marketing campaign the league has bought into, has had the desired effect. Good on them.
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31 minutes ago, Uli2001 said:
I think that given the way the Orioles are playing right now, and the somewhat soft schedule left, they can do better than .500. The chance of getting to 100 is real, which would be something else.
Expecting .500 to still win the division would be bold, anyway. Tampa’s still only 3 back and have a similar remaining schedule, including obviously the 4 in Baltimore.
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4 minutes ago, Billy F-Face3 said:
There's legitimate cause for concern about attendance as football gets going and school starts back up. It seems Americans care more about the NFL than they do MLB baseball these days, so given the choice between Ravens football or Orioles baseball, you have to wonder how many sports fans would choose baseball if they can't go to both. E
Which would be a shame because this could be a once in a lifetime Championship season and you wouldn't want to miss it!
Americans have favored the NFL over MLB for decades now.
I’ve said it before, and this is not a slight against the Ravens at all, as it’s of course not remotely their fault or their problem, but a football team returning the Baltimore was the worst thing that could have ever happened to the Orioles. Far worse than the arrival of the Nationals. The Ravens coming to town made the Orioles a second-class sporting event.
Yes, the franchise compounded that problem with a lot of losing not very long after football’s return, but it was an inevitable shift either way. Football is just that much more popular.
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Just now, OsFanSinceThe80s said:
Brett Hollander one of the Orioles announcers doing the play-by-play on MASN tonight and misjudging nearly every fly ball calling the game from center field tonight.
The guy just wants more dingers.
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1 minute ago, mrbig1 said:
Is Cano and mountain pitching tonight.
I imagine both are available.
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Just now, 86this said:
While we're in between innings...it's what's happening in CLE.
Tim Anderson was the first to square up… and got himself planted right away. Tough look. Tough night.
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4 minutes ago, oriolediehard said:
It would be awesome if Means comes back effective.
He remains a big if. Guy hasn’t pitched in over a year, is going to need time to get built up. It’s already August. Time isn’t a resource there’s much of.
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Just now, Gurgi said:
Game sadly getting close again.
It’s the fourth inning. You guys are something else.
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3 minutes ago, Malike said:
You'd think but statcast says it wouldn't have been a HR, I dunno.
The in-game Homer stuff is just running the math on what it has… velo, angle, distance, park wall, right?. Does it actually crunch environmental factors? That doesn’t seem likely since it can’t do wind, etc.
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4 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:
If Ohtani wants the best possible situation to win then it is with us. How much of our “market” could we win back to Ohtani signs here? The Nats are real down. Boston and Nee York are down too. All of the bandwagon fans.
Let’s say Ohtani made 18 starts at home in OPACY. How many would be sellouts? 10? 15?
There is no universe where the Baltimore Orioles sign Shohei Ohtani.
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15 hours ago, Bahama O's Fan said:
Hicks might want to play for a championship here.
Cool. Don't let him.
Hicks was a stopgap that had one good month. He has no future value.
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14 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:
It's good, but my superstitious side doesn't like tempting the baseball gods. Just keep winning series and beat up on a Mets team that's given up on this season.
If people chatting on message boards or Twitter could truly jinx anything, no team in the league would actually ever win the World Series. It'd just somehow have to get canceled every year. Or won by late-arriving extraterrestrials.
And to answer the question... as others have noted, since we don't have anyone that's head and shoulders above the rest, our "top" playoff pitcher will very much be whoever is dealing the best at that time. And truthfully I'd say it could be any of the five guys in the current rotation, with Kremer having the worst odds.
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Just now, SteveA said:
I think a 3 run lead is the absolute perfect time.
This is the game thread, where people ring their hands and worry over 9-run leads, let alone 3-run leads.
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34 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:
Truthfully, Olney only going after the O's on this - despite Mussina's equally long stretch with the Yankees, including even more postseason starts - is him kind of telling on himself. Dude has a grudge with Baltimore ownership and has for a long, long time.
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3 hours ago, Hallas said:
I just find this weird considering Cooperstown ultimately decides whose team appears on the cap when they get inducted.
I mean, I guess Mussina could have lobbied harder for an O's cap, but it still feels like a petty excuse.
The Hall reserves the right, yes, but has always, always admitted they speak to the player in question about what they’d like on the cap. If Mussina had a specific stance, it would have been recognized.
Greg Maddux, for example, was directly involved in selecting a blank cap for his plaque because he felt he owed it to both Chicago and Atlanta.
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1 minute ago, dystopia said:
I mean they did trade Adam Jones, George Sherrill, and Chris Tillman for Erik Bedard…
Ancient history. But those are still the kinds of trades it takes to get controllable starting pitchers. Especially ones that flash that kind of stuff. People forget that Bedard still had control left, had been healthy for several seasons, and was an ace.
Seattle caught the bad side of the coin and the guy was never healthy for them. Tough sledding.
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Just now, 86this said:
Saw Westburg on the line after the win.
I mean, even if he was traded midgame it's not like he'd just go pack his bags and disappear from the stadium before the final out. Sheesh.
That said, I'm not committing to the idea of a trade, yet.
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4 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:
If a defensive sub is warranted in the 4th inning then why even fill the lineup card out with that defensive alignment?
Because we're stuff happens when you've got a big league. Or maybe the guy stubbed his toe. Or got uncontrollable diarrhea. I have no idea. We'll find out when we find out.
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2 minutes ago, dystopia said:
If Westburg was traded we’d probably know by now wouldn’t we?
Maybe? Teams certainly don't want these things to leak mid-game if they can avoid it, and we know the Orioles are very good at keeping things quiet.
Even discounting the fact that maybe Hyde just wanted to make some changes...Guys could be randomly pulled because their names are being discussed, but a trade hasn't been finalized yet, etc.
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3 minutes ago, HakunaSakata said:
Don't like the idea of paying for E-Rod's sub 3.00 ERA when it's more likely to be 4.00 going forward. I'd rather see them go big or target a cheaper version of E-Rod.
To be fair, who is a cheaper version of E-Rod?
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3 hours ago, Bemorewins said:
I think that there will be a serious cost to not doing anything in terms of alienating a big segment of their potential customer/fanbase.
Mostly everyone already has suspensions about John Angelos. And the Orioles do not enjoy the best reputation in the community.
For some people who have put up with a lot of awfulness by this org, to get this close and then decide to pass/punt because of pure cheapness, it may do serious damage to a brand that was still trying to repair itself.
I think the average fan will shrug no matter what happens the next 48 hours. They'll either say man I wish we got a guy, or well I hope the guy we got is good. There's no slam dunk move out there that's changing the fate of the franchise.
An incredibly, incredibly small number of fans are sitting at home saying John Angelos, you'd better make a move or I'm out!
And really that number should be zero, but some folks are gonna be weird.
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2 minutes ago, Uli2001 said:
Kremer went away from the cutter, which was not working at all, and recovered nicely.
Amazing how times change. Not too long ago, everyone was upset that the Orioles wouldn't let their guys throw cutters. Now the cutter is basically out of style and the pitch that gets everyone in trouble.
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5 minutes ago, Emory Eagle said:
Have been paying attention for the last three decades? Never underestimate the Orioles ability to lose to the Yankees.
Ah, yes, because we're playing the Yankees we must berate the team for anything they do until it is 100-0. There will be no enjoyment.
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1 minute ago, Uli2001 said:
Orioles bats predictably going silent after a big inning. Missed a few meatballs too.
There it is! Perfection. Team scores 7 runs in the first and the game thread is still disappointed no more than 12 minute slater.
The 2023 attendance thread
in Orioles Talk
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The first four cities on your list dwarf Baltimore in terms of population and market size. St. Louis admittedly has clung to baseball very closely, which is due in part to their incredible history of success but also, I think, to the fact that they at best were only ever borrowing the Rams.
There are no shortage of gripes that can be dumped on the Angelos family, but there were periods where they spent, too. Just not always wisely.
The Baltimore Orioles are second fiddle to the Baltimore Ravens and that was happening no matter what.