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*GASP* Millar goes to Boston for game two!!!

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Stacey Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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But don't you see the potential conflict of interest here? I doubt Millar got tickets by himself. He is being paid by the Orioles and yet he's hanging out and possibly accepting gifts in this case (the invite to the Celtics game) from a rival organization and/or it's players.

Ah whatever, I just don't think it's kosher. But obviously I'm in the minority...

Say I work for T. Rowe Price and after a few years I move on to Legg Mason, which is TRP's competitor. Do I no longer get to associate with the friends I made there because I now work for the rival? Would you think that isn't kosher? Because it's the same. Unless it came out that I was passing on company secrets or not going after accounts because I want them to go to T. Rowe (or whatever the baseball equivalent would be), nothing is wrong.

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This thread is absolutely ridiculous.

You're absolutely right. I was among those who were far too serious before. My apologies. Let's me give it another shot...

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Oh come off of Millar... he's got enough to worry about:

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Can someone please tell me if it is worth it to me to spend even an iota's worth of time reading the first five pages of this thread?

Depends entirely on your level of interest in Moose's ability to yank JTrea's chain ;-)

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Just a thought, JT, but how do you even know if any other Orioles were there besides Millar? The blogger listed a bunch of Boston sports celebrities who were there, not every single person in attendance who was even a little bit famous. He never said all those people were sitting together either. Maybe Millar was just spotted in the crowd. I mean, if you're a baseball player with an off day in a road city and you don't want to get arrested or divorced for what you do there, going to a playoff basketball game seems like a pretty good way to pass the time. For all we know Millar could have been sitting between Luke Scott and Aubrey Huff at the game and they just weren't mentioned because nobody in Boston cared that they were there.

&%$@#^$ THE HORROR!

Millar the MOLE! I get it now...The Sox have planted him in Baltimore to infiltrate our system. I KNEW when I saw him talking to Sox players with Adam Jones he was indoctrinating him to their evil ways. Soon Adam Jones will leave us a flee to Boston!

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I would not support a polygraph for this suspected, and nearly proven sympathizer, but the organization needs to think long and hard about a loyalty oath for Millar before we give this potential fifth columnist the game signs the next time we play Boston. Precious bodily fluids and all that.

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What if he was attending a Knicks game with Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi the day before the O's played the Yanks. How would people feel then?

Anyone remember that Seinfeld episode when Jerry and his girlfriend are making out during Schindler's List and Newman is in the back row watching them and he has this look on his face like he is going to tear Jerry's head off?

I can imagine JTrea with that same look on his face as he stares into his TV screen everytime an opposing batter gets a hit and as he returns to the first base bag and makes small talk with Millar.

How dare he fratenize with the other team!

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Here's the thing: it's apparent that some of us have more vehement feelings towards the Red Sox than others do. It just rubs me the wrong way, and it's ONLY because it's the Red Sox. I hate everyhting about them, and I'll go out on a limb and say that every member of that team and fanbase is possessed by the Devil. I've never hated any group of players and/or fans more than I hate them. And all this type of thing does is give Red Sox fans yet another thing to hang over us. I'm sorry, but logic just ain't gonna do it, not on this topic.

And herein lay the ironic satire of this whole thread.....it had nothing to do with the Red Sox....Millar was at a CELTICS BASKETBALL GAME!! Hell, I'm an Orioles fan and I'm rooting for the Celtics because I dislike the Lakers. Does that make me disloyal, too?

I was the 4th post on this thread and was laughing my butt off at Moose's post. It's mind boggling to me that anyone took it seriously.

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&%$@#^$ THE HORROR!

Millar the MOLE! I get it now...The Sox have planted him in Baltimore to infiltrate our system. I KNEW when I saw him talking to Sox players with Adam Jones he was indoctrinating him to their evil ways. Soon Adam Jones will leave us a flee to Boston!

OMIGOD I think you're RIGHT! The whole time he's been with the O's he's been teaching them obnoxious Boston accents, making them eat lobster and baked beans and use "wicked" as an adjective and listen to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Dropkick Murphys. Not only that, but when they're in slumps he lends them his pink Red Sox thong. How do you think Nick got so hot last week? Yup, you guessed it. Wearing the evil Millar thong! You don't... think he's gotten to BRIAN, do you?! :eektf:

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Oh come off of Millar... he's got enough to worry about:

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There are people who don't like this guy? Seriously?

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