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wildbillhiccup Hangout Grand Counsel

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1 minute ago, Yardball85 said:

Yeah.  Unfortunately, forward thinking and creativity are not part of the Orioles MO.

It's a bit hard to think long term when your GM and manager are one year deals. I'm sure all they care about is this season and upping their value for potential suitors next year. And it's hard to blame them. 

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7 minutes ago, wildbillhiccup said:

It's a bit hard to think long term when your GM and manager are one year deals. I'm sure all they care about is this season and upping their value for potential suitors next year. And it's hard to blame them. 

True on their part; stupid on ownership's part.

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I've been an Orioles fan since the early 1960's. Seen the great teams and the really bad ones. But right now I've never felt less connected to this team. We make one stupid decision after another. Right now apparently we're looking for Kmart blue light specials in the free agent market. We botched the whole Machado and Britton situation. Could have gotten a king's ransom for them last year. We have two starting pitchers right now. Neither of them are proven top of the rotation guys. 

I could go on and on. This organization is a mess. Color me disgusted.

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The brewers recognized when to rebuild, and jump started that rebuild by selling off veterans.  My biggest complaint about Dan, is he didn't recognize the Orioles didn't have it when he traded for Parra to fill a RF hole THAT STILL EXISTS.  And he doesn't (or maybe ownership doesn't) recognize it's time for a rebuild now, at least not if he doesn't trade Manny. 

If it's not rebuild time then we need to fill some gaps in this roster Dan.

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The sad thing about this whole affair is that they aren't even signing pitchers to minor league deals with opt outs.  Who is going to start for the team?  We don't even have potential starters.  You either trade away all the veterans or you sign some guys who can help the team.  I have no idea why we a looking for a right fielder.  Put Hays in right.  Put Sisco behind the plate.  Trade Brach and any other short reliever that can get us anything in return.  

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5 minutes ago, Camden_yardbird said:

The brewers recognized when to rebuild, and jump started that rebuild by selling off veterans.  My biggest complaint about Dan, is he didn't recognize the Orioles didn't have it when he traded for Parra to fill a RF hole THAT STILL EXISTS.  And he doesn't (or maybe ownership doesn't) recognize it's time for a rebuild now, at least not if he doesn't trade Manny. 

If it's not rebuild time then we need to fill some gaps in this roster Dan.

By biggest gripe about Parra  trade is if we signed Markakis we would have not made that deal. 

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On 1/25/2018 at 8:42 AM, weams said:

What I really think is that there will be some signings or trades over the next 72 hours. But I've been wrong before. Stay tuned though.

Ima just say, you were early on the should we sit in front of computers today.  But you seemed to anticipate the general state of things quite well.  

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5 hours ago, wildbillhiccup said:

It's a bit hard to think long term when your GM and manager are one year deals. I'm sure all they care about is this season and upping their value for potential suitors next year. And it's hard to blame them. 

Maybe so. 

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