VaBird1
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The Nationals can’t be pleased with this, right?
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On 5/6/2019 at 8:03 PM, tntoriole said:
A lot of Virginia. particularly near the Western MD border and all the way down the Shenandoah and sw Virginia are many more Oriole fans...not Nationals. And Norfolk area with AAA Orioles have more Oriole fans...If Charlotte ever gets an expansion, Nats will get whacked.
Even the inner suburbs still have a lot of Orioles fans. The TV ratings for the different areas with MASN would be interesting to see.
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Just trying to clarify for me... Isn't MASN owned by the Nationals and the owners of the Orioles (not the Orioles). Also, doesn't this mean 60-70 million of additional money coming to Orioles for the same time period?
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11 hours ago, milbest77 said:
See, what really scares me is many people seem to think this is “plug and play” situation, where we will turn into Houston East just because we hired Elias and Sig. I am almost finished reading Astroball and what struck me was the statistics in downtown Houston growth by 2017. There were 18 Houston-based companies in the Fortune 500 in 2017. Does Baltimore have any? Plus, the population was booming, whereas I believe Baltimore’s is rapidly shrinking.
I don’t want to believe Baltimore will lose the Orioles in 2023 to Vegas or Nashville or Portland, but it is becoming more and more difficult not to think about that very scenario playing out.
Houston is also the 4th largest city in the country and Texas only has two teams.
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12 hours ago, atomic said:
I don’t understand why people would buy those tickets. The Orioles need to work on pricing. If you have all the terrible seats sold but the good ones empty you are doing something wrong.
I like to be under the cover (not in the sun and not in the rain).
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6 hours ago, Diehard_O's_Fan said:
I absolutely love the thought of having a DH in the National League. That sure would make inter league play more fair for American League teams. It is also a safety thing when you have a pitcher batting for the first time in a year. There have been countless pitchers that have got hurt during inter league play.
If everyone has the DH, there is no point in a separate AL and NL.
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37 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Imagine having 10 top 100 prospects, and a pretty good major league team, like Atlanta.
And they are defending division champs!
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50 minutes ago, interloper said:
I like his curveball. Interested to see how he does. The fact that he seemed to adjust is promising and pretty much what he's done at every level, no?
Ceiling is a Bud Norris good year.
I had started to type the same thing!
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17 minutes ago, Frobby said:
Random topic for a slow day. David Hess looked pretty good at times in 2018, pretty bad at other times.
First 5 games: 3.07 ERA, 1.19 WHIP
Next 7 games: 10.50 ERA, 1.96 WHIP
Final 9 games: 3.24 ERA, 1.22 WHIP
Overall: 4.88 ERA, 1.38 WHIP
My sense is, his overall stat line is pretty indicative of who he is. Not horrible for a back-end starter, but not likely to progress far beyond that.
Am I being too harsh here? Too generous?
Best ERA of any Oriole starter last season!
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1 minute ago, interloper said:
Remains to be seen I think. He did mention getting involved in Chris Davis' offseason work. I take that to mean he is going to get with his data people and scouts and determine how to rebuild the goofus' swing, if he'll listen/stick with it (doubtful). I could see him doing the same thing with Tate - delegating his team and then making a call. Something like that?
The guys like Tate and Beckham that have the tools but haven’t reached their potential might be the ones that benefit most from an analytists based front office.
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7 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:
Interesting because his dWAR was -0.7.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/markani01.shtml
Maybe it was to make up for 2008.
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3 hours ago, NattyO's said:
All this talk about the O's leaving is getting me sick in the stomach.
Can’t imagine watching another mlb game if they did.
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1 hour ago, thezeroes said:
It's the Red Soxs and Dodgers, I could care less. So to me ,your failure was the first 16 innings also.
To be fair all of MLB failed everyone.
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13 minutes ago, Frobby said:
It pains me to see Manny acting out to this degree. He had occasional episodes in Baltimore, but he’s had about as many with the Dodgers in the last 10 days as in did in six years in Baltimore. I will always like him as a player and wish he was still an Oriole, but his recent behavior is very bush league.
For all of his faults, Showalter did seem to be able to reduce these sort of behaviors. I wonder how much of an impact older players like Jones etc had keeping Machado on the right track as well.
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He had a great at bat.
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1 hour ago, mdbdotcom said:
I was hoping to see Manny go deep off Gausman once or twice. Maybe tomorrow.
Interesting, I would rather see Gausman win that contest.
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10 hours ago, Tx Oriole said:
Thanks Weams. I didn't realize that. I guess he'll his money if he never plays another inning. Is he even at the stadium?
You can google “sports illustrated Chris Davis” and it will come up.
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4 hours ago, weams said:
Oakland is moving.
I thought San Fran blocked the move to San Jose.
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17 hours ago, O's are Legends said:
Smallest September Camden Yards crowd in history.
To watch the worst team in Orioles history. Makes sense.
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5 minutes ago, LA2 said:
Yes it was the WC game, but I always call it the Play-in anyway because, if it's baseball, it irks me to consider a single-game "series" as part of the post-season. I would rather they shortened the season (back to 154 games) and make the WC at least a 2-of-3 series. Or go back to the old WC set-up.
I understand. I’d rather not see a second place team in the playoffs. They clearly aren’t the best team in the league.
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2 hours ago, LA2 said:
KC wd have never won the play-in game against Oakland that year without unleashing their running game in the 8th inning down 7-3 against Jon Lester and a catcher with a poor throw-out percentage (Derek Norris, 17% that year). Four stolen bases that inning (7 for the game!) were absolutely necessary to KC tying the score and knocking Lester out. Intelligent speed, stolen bases, wild pitches, walks, and sacrifice bunts stole the game from the A's.
A play-in game is to determine a regular season division champ. They played in the Wild Card game which is a post season game.
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5 hours ago, LA2 said:
Next year we might have three guys with more than 20!
Or one with 60 (The Villain), one with 30 (The Entertainer), and another with 20 (A Gentry/Andreoli/Peterson/Steward/Diaz type or combo)!
I love that it is even a possibility.
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46 minutes ago, LA2 said:
At one point last night, we had three speedsters (The Villain, The Gentry, and Mario Andretti) in the lineup at the same time, and none of them were mere pinchrunners. The O's break-through inning was reminiscent of the havoc the Royals wreaked upon the A's in their famous come-from-behind play-in victory in 2014. Add Mullins in somehow and John GIbbons's head would have been spinning.
The Orioles will have three guys with 10 stolen bases this year!
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17 minutes ago, atomic said:
Soccer is more fun to play than baseball.
Even if you are great at baseball and play shortstop most of the time you are just sitting or standing around.
In soccer you get punished for being faster than everyone else.
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