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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Orioles&src=hash">#Orioles</a> EVP Dan Duquette will take questions live in <a href="http://t.co/vik50cMx3E">http://t.co/vik50cMx3E</a>'s chatting cage tmrw. Details here: <a href="http://t.co/rkUiWMkQD1">http://t.co/rkUiWMkQD1</a></p>— Brittany Ghiroli (@Britt_Ghiroli) <a href="

">September 11, 2013</a></blockquote>

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How is your relationship with Buck Showalter? It is painfully obvious he doesn't play some of your pieces (Casilla, Morse)-are you okay with this? How could the relationship improve?

I could never ask DD those questions. Maybe you could but I am just more shy.

I believe it is just an assumption that they don't get along. IMO

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Masahiro Tanaka is 24 and is currently holding a 24 game winning streak (20-0 on the season). Rumor has it he will be posted in the offseason. Should I bother paying the least bit of attention to news concerning him or are the O's going to continue to avoid players involved in the posting process?

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Masahiro Tanaka is 24 and is currently holding a 24 game winning streak (20-0 on the season). Rumor has it he will be posted in the offseason. Should I bother paying the least bit of attention to news concerning him or are the O's going to continue to avoid players involved in the posting process?

Amen....it would be nice to make a big step forward in the international signing market.

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I would ask what do you plan to do to address the lack of OBP on this team

He will probably say no comment:) That is one interesting point that JTrea has brought up. Buck's guy has done a good job no doubt, but goes against what DD is all about-OBP. That is odd to me and a decent point.

But to answer your question:Shin-Soo Choo! (It won't happen)

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