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Throw 8 straight pitches in the same area of the zone and just about anyone will burn you eventually. You're not gonna get away with that with Adley. He was gonna line one up eventually. Bad pitching approach there.

I love that stealing bases seems to be making a comeback. It's only seven games into the season, but I feel like I've seen more in those seven games than I saw in a whole month last time I was watching baseball regularly.

Haven't thought about him in awhile. I just saw that he signed with a KBO team in 2013 and was cut from the team for calling the coach a liar and a coward. Apparently, this was due to him being put on the reserve team as a result of him dealing with plantar fasciitis and not being happy with this decision.

Had a 4.56 ERA with the Twins last year. Biggest difference seems to be that his BB/9 has gone up around 4 the last three years. Had surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome in mid 2020 following the worst season of his career in 2019. Has had other little issues since then. May be a 4.50ish guy unless he can have a renaissance. Depends how bad your needs are I guess.

I'm probably just seeing Gunnar at a bad time, but the three games I've at least seen parts of now, he's made a few throwing errors and mishandled a couple balls hit to him at third. He's better than this defensively right?

Adley is gonna have a real short career doing all this running.

First thing I thought while watching the highlights for his 4-hit game and him trying to take all these extra bases and sliding around was that he's not going to have a very long career as a full time catcher playing like that. There's only so much life in those knees/legs.

Hmm... so admittedly I'm behind on the thoughts here generally about the team this year, but.... man, we have two people here predicting this is a .500 team in 2023 when the O's were supposed to be, under Elias's grand plan, ready to start seriously competing for a deep playoff run and maybe even a championship. This seems to indicate the plan hasn't gone so well, but I know how passionate people are and how "up-and-down" the emotions can be, but is this an accurate gauge on how people generally feel about this team right now? In 2023, we're still not expecting better than a .500 team? Perhaps this is just frustration due to the rough start?

Few things. Good to hear Palmer is still doing telecasts, who's the other guy? Is that Kevin Brown? At first I thought it was Joe Buck. I also didn't expect Hyde to last this long. Is everyone more or less satisfied with him or no?

Yeah I guess. i was out of line. Carry on. :P

First game I've watched a significant amount of in awhile and.. um.. isn't this the year the team was supposed to be legitimate contenders? I saw the score last game too, they're still giving up a lot of runs. Some pretty bad errors in this game too weren't there? Also, yeah.. trash fanbase. How dare they enjoy themselves at a baseball game on a sunny Sunday afternoon when their team is winning! Trash!

I see the O's have the #1 farm system in the league? That's pretty rad.

Hey guys, long time no see. The site looks great. I always come back here every now and then hoping to see that progress has happened and talk is starting to shift towards winning, but now I see the Orioles are having another sell off and winning in 2022 isn't important... which I guess means winning in 2023 isn't either. I think that was the goal at the beginning of the Elias era, but it seems there's just been a lot of wheel spinning? I keep hoping I'll come back to check in and feel bad about having lost my fire for baseball and just end up disappointed. I just read that another strike seems likely, too. It's hard to believe this team was actually a playoff team for a few years only to be back to this again. I feel for you guys and really hope the Orioles return to relevance again before another four decades pass by.

People who ask to be choked want to be choked past that point. This is all about playing on the edge. Loss of consciousness is part of it because they want it to continue to that point. It's not irrelevant, it's part of the whole fetish.

The consent came before the encounter started. Clearly in the texts, she wanted to be choked, hit in the face and made to feel pain. She wanted it rough. The consent is there. When you're dealing with this kind of rough trade, things can go too far easily. Look at how many people die of accidental asphyxiation during sex with these kinds of things in play. You're asking to be hurt and in fact become aroused by it and ask for more and more. I just don't find any fault with Bauer here. It's easy to get carried away in the moment. It's different if he just does this, but she already consented to it. I don't know this from personal experience, but I've known a few people and heard enough anecdotally to know how easily this kind of sex can go bad through no fault of anyone involved. I don't know, I expect charges to be dropped and nothing to come of this. When you ask to be hit in the face, choked and be made to feel pain in the throws of passionate sex, you're rolling the dice. People die from this all the time.

So, over the last year or so, other things have been taking up my time and interests. I've only occasionally been dropping in here to see what people are talking about and I gotta say, it's disappointing. Maybe (probably) I'm not getting the whole picture here, but I'm still seeing the same stuff being said that was being said after the 2019 season. Basically, we still have a whole lot of question marks, a whole lot of suckage and a lot of optimism about things that are coming that should be good. Hays and Harvey have turned out as expected; great when healthy, but hurt too much to be reliable or counted on. Mostly bad pitching, bad offense, a lot of losing... I mean, shouldn't things be better than this going into 2021? It's disheartening to see people saying the same things they were two years ago. I thought the projection was 2022 for competing, but here we are in 2021 and still not really trying to win on an organizational level? I get that the players are trying to win, but have so many of the players that gave people optimism two years ago not turned out to be what was expected? Please tell me it's not as bad as this.

The sad part about that is the outrage over his comments about Iwakuma and Rodriguez's english skills being poor. Is this really considered highly offensive in 2021? Am I missing something? He's being called all sorts of names and having labels slapped on him over his comments none of which I find remotely appropriate. What am I missing?

Yeah.. that's exactly the type of stuff I'm referring to. He must not care that much about his performance (or the team for that matter) if that's his attitude. I won't believe he doesn't have Covid until he takes that ninth test, though. I would suggest that the fact he's being paid $21M to be in the discussion for worst player in the league for any year much less two in a row is enough to say he's worse than all those guys. He's that bad plus he's pulling down elite player paychecks. He was so bad that he was setting records, right? For $21M a year? If he's making Austin Hays money, no one cares and he's probably not even on the team right now. I see your point, though. I just think that massive salary he's pulling down has to factor into the discussion at some point.

I just don't think he's a team player at all. He made no real effort to make changes in his approach or work on other parts of his game. He won't bunt or work on bunting because it's "not his game" because hitting under .200 while cashing undeserved paychecks is his game. He's just been on cruise control for years now. He got his career payday, so who cares? That's what I feel from him. Even if making changes wouldn't have yielded any results, at least showing you're making an effort and actually care about and are aware of the quality of your performance would help a lot. Sometimes, guys just flame out early and there's not much you can do about it. Such potential futures and risks go with the territory of being an athlete. It's more his attitude and unwillingness to acknowledge or even try, to any serious degree, to find something that works even if it means a complete reinvention of himself as a player. Instead, we get something resembling apathy. I don't know (or care to know) anything about him personally nor is that even necessary to make valid criticisms of him. The good news is he's not really holding us back or hurting us in any meaningful way. He's an anchor on the Titanic; this boat sunk years ago and is in no danger of resurfacing anytime soon. He'll be long gone by the time that happens.

I would guess because bunting is only half the equation. Have to have some wheels to beat it out which I doubt Darling had. Wasn't a power threat, defense had no incentive at all to give him any room to bunt for a single.

The NHL and USHL have suspended their seasons. MLB still hasn't which is par for the course with Manfred. Always a day late and a dollar short. I doubt it will put an end to spitting, though. The flu is an ongoing pandemic that kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year and mutates fast enough to make prevention practically impossible. This Chinese Coronavirus is the same and is here to stay unfortunately. It's still the right thing to suspend the season for now.

Before getting bombed, his line was very good: 8 IP, 4H (2HR), 2ER, 6K, 1BB Being prone to the big inning is his biggest problem which he may or may not be able to overcome. It's not like he never pitches well, he does at times which is why he's still here. It's just a question of can he find a way to settle himself down when he gets into these situations. He shouldn't be throwing anything straight, that's for sure.

It's too early, but considering he was a 1-1, I expected better to this point. We'll see. I wasn't crazy about the pick and was probably the only one on here that wouldn't have been disappointed if we took Vaughn. After the season, we'll have a better idea on AR. As a 1-1, I expect big things from him out of the gate though.

"Cheaters" win all the time. The HOF is full of players using such methods which is probably true of every major sport. If it didn't pay to cheat, people wouldn't do it. It works. You only need to be able to get away with it long enough to achieve your goal. I'm not saying anyone should do it that way or anything, but let's not pretend it doesn't pay to cheat. It does... unfortunately. I don't think most folks really care about asterisks. Cheating or not, winning is hard and is a great accomplishment at this level any way it's done. Even if you set records or win championships, you still get to keep them. They're still yours forever unless you're Lance Armstrong. He had to give his medals back, but people still love him anyway and he'll always be remembered for what he did on the bike and not all the repeated and persistent denials and lies he made right to the face of all the people who supported him for many years nor the methods he used to accomplish it all. The thing that bothered me about the Astros situation is that it went all the way to the top and so did the denials. It also bothers me how much flack Fiers gets for saying something about it. I don't get why "whistleblowers" get more hate than the crimes they are exposing. I find the whole "shoot the messenger" stuff to be disturbing generally. Fiers didn't do anything wrong by ousting it and it's not hard to see why a player wouldn't oust it while being a member of that team. Would I be ok with a championship via cheating? If it was something as blatant as what the Astros did? I think I wouldn't feel good about it. Every time I heard that trash can banging from the O's dugout, it wouldn't feel good. I think I'd rather lose than get a dagger in the back afterwards knowing our new GM was complicit in this. If it was PEDs? Wouldn't care. A little pine tar on the fingertips? Nope. Using technology to steal signs and then signal the batter from the dugout what pitch is coming is too far IMO. Unfortunately, there will likely be more of this as more technology comes into the sport. It is and always will be a double edged sword that may be sharper on the undesirable side of the blade. Also, life is not so black and white that "right is right and wrong is wrong".. what is right or wrong can change dramatically based on circumstance. What I feel is right or wrong sitting at home on my couch leading a comfortable life would be much different than if I was on the front lines of a battlefield or starving to death with my family on the streets in poverty. Is it wrong to steal food if you and your family are starving to death or is it wrong to stop them? Black and white morality arguments don't work for me. A little off topic there, sorry.

Late to the party, but congrats Luke! What an amazing opportunity. Good luck with everything!