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Are you all big Tides fans or something? The guy is tearing it up and the Orioles are desperate for help in the outfield...

But don't you DARE bring up a guy that might hit for a few weeks!!!

Look, I know he isn't a long-term answer, and that all of you have much better solutions, but until you get hold of Duquette's ear and convince him to adopt one, or all of your plans, can we please bring this dude up so we are less likely to lose 5, or 12, games that we don't need to in the coming weeks???

Seriously, it's great we got this 29 year old from then Yankees system, but he's no spring chicken either, and he's NEVER done it at the big league level...where Ford HAS...and by IT I mean been a .300 hitter, or at least what I would consider serviceable...

defense is terrible, so I get that, but at this point, offense is terrible too...Ford just might be able to assist with that for a few weeks...while we find a defensive guy that might be able to pick up a baseball bat and not get yelled at for disrespecting the tree that it was made out of...

If he comes up and is horrendous, then we will know we don't need him taking a spot for younger guys at AAA...

Nobody thinks Ford is going to be the World Series MVP...but he might get some of these game winning hits that he's had at Norfolk for Baltimore instead...then when reality hits and he comes back to Earth, we may have picked up or signed or healed a guy that can take over for the long term...

why not bring this dude up...at the very least so we can POTENTIALLY play .500 baseball for the next two weeks or so...

sometimes pitching that is struggling tends to continue to struggle just because the offense isn't helping them out...a few hits might provide some skip in the pitching staff's step and get them all jacked up about winning again...

because that's the kind of team we have right now...they have to be jacked up about playing every night to compete...they gotta play out of their minds...and they don't have that skip in their step right now on either side of the ball...

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are you really going to make me go dig up the posts that have been showing up every time that someone mentions bringing him up?
Well, if it's a big enough issue that you're going to make a thread just to address them, it'd be nice. Or a link to relevant threads would suffice.
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Well, if it's a big enough issue that you're going to make a thread just to address them, it'd be nice. Or a link to relevant threads would suffice.

I did a quick search, can't seem to find it...I could have sworn that there were several on here that when deciding between sending Avery down or deciding who would replace Markakis and come up to fill in for the lackluster replacements for Reimold that several people were anti-Lew Ford...saying that he was old and that these younger guys are the future...

but my point was related to thinking about this year and salvaging a few wins here and there with a guy that can get a few key hits or at least keep an inning going...

I am either dreaming it up, or I don't use the forum often enough to be able to easily find some of these posts...I guess I just look foolish about now though...such is life I guess...there goes the minimal/non-existent rep that I have in here...

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I did a quick search, can't seem to find it...I could have sworn that there were several on here that when deciding between sending Avery down or deciding who would replace Markakis and come up to fill in for the lackluster replacements for Reimold that several people were anti-Lew Ford...saying that he was old and that these younger guys are the future...

but my point was related to thinking about this year and salvaging a few wins here and there with a guy that can get a few key hits or at least keep an inning going...

I am either dreaming it up, or I don't use the forum often enough to be able to easily find some of these posts...I guess I just look foolish about now though...such is life I guess...there goes the minimal/non-existent rep that I have in here...

I can't speak for others but it takes a lot more then that for me to red light someone. I think most of us just got a chuckle out of the idea that anyone cares enough about Lew Ford to bother hating him.

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I did a quick search, can't seem to find it...I could have sworn that there were several on here that when deciding between sending Avery down or deciding who would replace Markakis and come up to fill in for the lackluster replacements for Reimold that several people were anti-Lew Ford...saying that he was old and that these younger guys are the future...

but my point was related to thinking about this year and salvaging a few wins here and there with a guy that can get a few key hits or at least keep an inning going...

I am either dreaming it up, or I don't use the forum often enough to be able to easily find some of these posts...I guess I just look foolish about now though...such is life I guess...there goes the minimal/non-existent rep that I have in here...

Somebody rep this guy.

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