The MASN graphic that says it all

[interloper]

lol

[MDtransplant757]

First step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

[Camden_yardbird]

DD:  "We need to prioritize pitching more but we are not going to hand out 4+ year deals."

Addict: "I need to stop doing heroin but I still need my oxy prescription."

The problem is still there.  Saying you need to fix the problem but not accepting the means to fix it and you can fill those three spots with longshots and hailmarys.  If they hit you have a contender, if they get hit you finish last like this year.

[MDtransplant757]

4 hours ago, Camden_yardbird said:

DD:  "We need to prioritize pitching more but we are not going to hand out 4+ year deals."

Addict: "I need to stop doing heroin but I still need my oxy prescription."

The problem is still there.  Saying you need to fix the problem but not accepting the means to fix it and you can fill those three spots with longshots and hailmarys.  If they hit you have a contender, if they get hit you finish last like this year.

See post above

[foxfield]

6 minutes ago, MDtransplant757 said:

See post above

Only 11 steps to go...

[theocean]

The big question is if the O's literally printed out a piece of paper with a question mark on it and placed it on the mound - would it outperform whoever they eventually sign?

[Frobby]

20 minutes ago, theocean said:

The big question is if the O's literally printed out a piece of paper with a question mark on it and placed it on the mound - would it outperform whoever they eventually sign?

My dad played offensive line in high school, and before his first season a local newspaper referred to him as “a 190 pound question mark.”    So if a question mark can play offensive line, why not pitcher?   

[foxfield]

33 minutes ago, theocean said:

The big question is if the O's literally printed out a piece of paper with a question mark on it and placed it on the mound - would it outperform whoever they eventually sign?

I am going to go with no, but in a related question, I DO believe that said question mark would out perform Ubaldo Miley and Tillman from 2017.  Close to be honest, but outperform....yep.

[Number5]

I didn't know that he played baseball, too.

 

 

[spiritof66]

I heard this line about a thousand times in the late 50s and early 60s. 

There supposedly was an old baseball saying about the limitations of the strategy of poorer teams (like the Phillies) selling players to richer teams (like the Dodgers, Giants and Cardinals): "You can't play a check in left field." The Phillies disproved that adage when they acquired Czechoslovakia-born Elmer Valo and indeed, on occasion, played a Czech in left field.