Regretting Not Signing Andrew Miller?

[weams]

Judging from his post, it seemed logical.

Where did he go? I wanted to ask him some tout questions...

[Can_of_corn]

Judging from his post, it seemed logical.

I didn't notice anything plus about his post.

[weams]

I didn't notice anything plus about his post.

Have a take. And shout it loud. Twice.

[mdbdotcom]

I didn't notice anything plus about his post.

Two negatives do equal a positive.

[Can_of_corn]

Two negatives do equal a positive.

Three lefts make a right.

[mdbdotcom]

Three lefts make a right.

But not two wrongs.

[islandecho]

You guys can joke all you want about things that are not only totally unimportant, but also that you are wrong about. But the fact is this team had a great opp this year to win it all, and they let it slide right through their fingers.

[Can_of_corn]

You guys can joke all you want about things that are not only totally unimportant, but also that you are wrong about. But the fact is this team had a great opp this year to win it all, and they let it slide right through their fingers.

Miller and Cruz are not going to help the starting pitching.

If the starting pitching doesn't get fixed the team is going nowhere with or without Miller and Cruz.

[DrungoHazewood]

You guys can joke all you want about things that are not only totally unimportant, but also that you are wrong about. But the fact is this team had a great opp this year to win it all, and they let it slide right through their fingers.

Yes, teams that go all in never have 7-10 stretches in a season. And teams that are three back with 145 to play always fade away to nothing.

How can a baseball fan who's lived through more than a handful of seasons see tragedy and apocalypse in every minor three week slump? How can someone who's watched the 2012-15 Orioles be so dead certain that the team Duquette and Showalter has assembled is destined for failure? You glass-half-full-is-really-an-illusion-because-the-glass-was-totally-destroyed-six-months-ago guys are unbelievably depressing. A tiny bit of adversity and you get vindictive and suicidal.

[islandecho]

Yes, teams that go all in never have 7-10 stretches in a season. And teams that are three back with 145 to play always fade away to nothing.

How can a baseball fan who's lived through more than a handful of seasons see tragedy and apocalypse in every minor three week slump? How can someone who's watched the 2012-15 Orioles be so dead certain that the team Duquette and Showalter has assembled is destined for failure? You glass-half-full-is-really-an-illusion-because-the-glass-was-totally-destroyed-six-months-ago guys are unbelievably depressing. A tiny bit of adversity and you get vindictive and suicidal.

I am a realist first, fan second. Any objective person can see this is not a very talented baseball team.

[mdbdotcom]

I am a realist first, fan second. Any objective person can see this is not a very talented baseball team.

Objectively speaking, I think your assessment will be proved wrong.

[weams]

Yes, teams that go all in never have 7-10 stretches in a season. And teams that are three back with 145 to play always fade away to nothing.

How can a baseball fan who's lived through more than a handful of seasons see tragedy and apocalypse in every minor three week slump? How can someone who's watched the 2012-15 Orioles be so dead certain that the team Duquette and Showalter has assembled is destined for failure? You glass-half-full-is-really-an-illusion-because-the-glass-was-totally-destroyed-six-months-ago guys are unbelievably depressing. A tiny bit of adversity and you get vindictive and suicidal.

Last season, the Orioles had a stretch of 7-14 in May.

[weams]

I am a realist first, fan second. Any objective person can see this is not a very talented baseball team.

Just because you say it three times does not make it so. You are reacting. And when the good times roll, will stay silent. I feel bad that you aren't a fan then. There is no "realist" hangout.

[DrungoHazewood]

I am a realist first, fan second. Any objective person can see this is not a very talented baseball team.

If there's one thing I've learned in 15 years of Orioles Hangout it's that soul-crushingly bitter pessimists always, always, always frame themselves as realists.

[Crazysilver03]

Can we just combine the two threads since it is the same arguments in both?