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Especially after some very frustrating losses. Compare them to the Nats tonight: 9th inning at home, down by only one run, with the Mets having already lost--nonetheless, somehow you could feel that they had no life left in them. (Although I guess O'Day had something to do with that.)

I'm just now watching the replay. In the 3rd or 4th inning Harper hit a sharp bouncer to JJ. He fields it easily and takes a stutter step. Then he takes another stutter step. I'm like wth is he doing? An easy throw to Crush and then you see Harper. BARELY jogging to 1st. It was pathetic!

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I'm just now watching the replay. In the 3rd or 4th inning Harper hit a sharp bouncer to JJ. He fields it easily and takes a stutter step. Then he takes another stutter step. I'm like wth is he doing? An easy throw to Crush and then you see Harper. BARELY jogging to 1st. It was pathetic!

Unlike how Crush, Adam, Reimold, Paredes, Parra, et al run their grounders out.

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I'm just now watching the replay. In the 3rd or 4th inning Harper hit a sharp bouncer to JJ. He fields it easily and takes a stutter step. Then he takes another stutter step. I'm like wth is he doing? An easy throw to Crush and then you see Harper. BARELY jogging to 1st. It was pathetic!

Tea, Scott. You forgot to mention the tea.

In addition to the 2 stutter steps, Hardy also had a cup of caffeine-free tea with lemon and honey.

THEN, he fired the ball to Davis at 1st base to beat Harper by about 6 steps.

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Tea, Scott. You forgot to mention the tea.

In addition to the 2 stutter steps, Hardy also had a cup of caffeine-free tea with lemon and honey.

THEN, he fired the ball to Davis at 1st base to beat Harper by about 6 steps.

Seriously, it's like it surprised JJ how lazy a player could be.

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Even if the team misses the playoffs, it would be nice to see them keep the streak of winning seasons alive. The Orioles had such a streak from 1968 to 1985, which is absurd. I don't remember any of them.

Yep. Even if the playoffs are a longshot, I would at least like to see the team finish over .500.

Also, while the playoffs may be a longshot, the only way that longshot has an even remote chance of coming through is if we keep winning. So here's to the birds keeping on keeping on! :beerchug1:

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Ma----o

It's a thing people do

Except there's no "M" in front of Andino

We dubbed him the Mandino for being such a Red Sox Killer. I remember the Boston announcers admitting how dangerous he was everytime he came to the plate with runners on.

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If there was one team ahead of us I might hold out hope. We have to jump 3 teams.

But... none of the 3 teams play each other the rest of the way.

Yesterday we had to jump 4 teams. And two of the four played each other 6 times remaining. Which made things a lot more problematic for us because there were 6 times when a team ahead of us was guaranteed to win.

So the outlook is a lot sunnier today. I'll bet that 0.4% playoff odds someone quoted a while back has skyrocketed up to 0.9% or maybe even 1.5% by now!

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