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Ha! Very true. That bugs me no end. Just say you stunk it up and be done with it.

Clemens was the king of this. Honestly, I wonder if the attitude often correlates with good pitching. It's a lot easier to brush off a bad start mentally when it had nothing to do with how you pitched.

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:laughlol: YEP lots of others on that list too.

Just once I would like to see one of them say "YA know, felt great, threw my best stuff, but I stunk up the joint"

But, look at real life.

How many, write a software program that is poorly written or takes way too many instructions then is needed.

Yet, they don't usually, "yeah, I really sucked it up, with that program."

It's human nature.

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Last year, when Ubaldo pitched poorly, Buck put him into the pen (which was actually the best thing that could have happened to him). So why not the same treatment for Norris? It might actually help him out.

He didn't put him in the pen after 6 starts though. Ublado was bad for about 20 starts. Norris though the numbers are terrible and even worse in the minors was not as bad as people seem to thing this year in the majors. He was horrible in the two starts against the Jays and 3 so so starts before his last start where he was believed to be nursing any injury.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Norris will start Tuesday at Norfolk. Buck said he believes it will be his last rehab start. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/orioles?src=hash">#orioles</a></p>— Eduardo A. Encina (@EddieInTheYard) <a href="
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But, look at real life.

How many, write a software program that is poorly written or takes way too many instructions then is needed.

Yet, they don't usually, "yeah, I really sucked it up, with that program."

It's human nature.

I write software and I have on fact done that.

Basically I said that the way I designed a database interface 7 years ago was done poorly and a partial contributor to some problems we are having now. If I had it to do all over again there are a ton of ways I would do it differently.

Of course I said that in a meeting with about 8 people and not to a media person who would broadcast it to thousands of fans.

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I write software and I have on fact done that.

Basically I said that the way I designed a database interface 7 years ago was done poorly and a partial contributor to some problems we are having now. If I had it to do all over again there are a ton of ways I would do it differently.

Of course I said that in a meeting with about 8 people and not to a media person who would broadcast it to thousands of fans.

I'd second that. I'm a programmer too, and we always look at the past as a team to see what worked and what didn't work. I'd imagine many professions are that way.

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He didn't put him in the pen after 6 starts though. Ublado was bad for about 20 starts. Norris though the numbers are terrible and even worse in the minors was not as bad as people seem to thing this year in the majors. He was horrible in the two starts against the Jays and 3 so so starts before his last start where he was believed to be nursing any injury.

I still hope that:

A. Norris' failures in spring training, April, and early May were due to the back injury he was pitching through.

B. The stint on the DL allowed the back to heal completely for the first time by not being stressed by pitching.

C. The awful first minor league start was due to trying to pitch when weakened by an illness that caused him to drop 14 pounds in a week.

D. The mediocre 2nd start, where he looked very good for three innings and then struggled, was due to the fact that he was still building his stamina up after an injury.

E. Therefore, in conclusion, we will see a healthy, ready to go, full strength Bid Norris in an Oriole uniform Sunday.

Hey, I'm an optimist. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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