Time to Make the Coaches Wear Skirts

[mdbdotcom]

I figure this is as good an idea as all the other cockamamie suggestions people have been posting. What do you think? 

Got a crazy idea to fix the O's? Post it here!

[Can_of_corn]

So the plan is to cover up how bad the team is by having protesters at the game?

[Dark Helmet]

May as well.  This team is confused on whether or not they are a major league team. So hey...whatever.

[Chavez Ravine]

It’s not really skirt weather yet.

[Can_of_corn]

52 minutes ago, Chavez Ravine said:

It’s not really skirt weather yet.

It's 49 right now in the Highlands, so it's Kilt weather.

[Ohfan67]

It’s time to bring back, “give that fan a contract”, but really give them a one day contract and insert them into the game. 

[allquixotic]

2 minutes ago, Ohfan67 said:

It’s time to bring back, “give that fan a contract”, but really give them a one day contract and insert them into the game. 

Well there is precedent for inserting fans in games. Jeffrey Maier for instance, whom the umpires brought in in relief for the Yankees as a fourth outfielder.

Not sure if they gave him a contract though.

[Ohfan67]

And didn’t they give him a minor league contract years later?

[OsEatAlEast]

Oh I know! Get an air cannon and fire whiffle balls out of it. That would be a way to get reaction time up! If you could hit that you could hit anything!

[bobmc]

54 minutes ago, Ohfan67 said:

And didn’t they give him (Maier) a minor league contract years later?

I thought so but not true.  Maier did have a nice D 3 college career and did some interesting things around baseball though.

"Maier grew up in Old Tappan, New Jersey, and played baseball there at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan.^[7] He then played college ball at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was a first-team all-NESCAC selection. He also played briefly for the Pittsfield Dukes in the New England Collegiate Baseball League in the summer of 2005.

In 2006, he became Wesleyan's career hits leader and was featured on ESPN. The New York Times reported that Maier hoped for a career in baseball. That spring, the Washington Post and MLB.com reported that, ironically, the Baltimore Orioles might draft him—though the team denied ever having an interest in him.^[8] Maier was also invited to a try out for the New York Yankees. However, he was not selected by any team in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft.

Maier worked in the summer of 2006 as a scout in the Cape Cod League for ESPN's Peter Gammons and also as an instructor for Frozen Ropes Baseball Training Center. Maier later become a special consultant for the New Haven County Cutters^[9] and had several internships, including with the YES Network. In addition, he served as an extra and assisted with baseball skills training for the actors in ESPN's miniseries about the 1977 Yankees, The Bronx Is Burning.^[10]"

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Maier}

[NashLumber]

2 hours ago, Ohfan67 said:

It’s time to bring back, “give that fan a contract”, but really give them a one day contract and insert them into the game. 

Speaking of fans being inserted into games, my wife always said that Baroto Colon looks like he just put down a beer vendor’s tray and was put in to pitch. I told her it’s more like a guy who wandered onto the field from the beer garden and they gave him a uniform. Of course, he showed us. At times, a pretty damned good pitcher. Like his last start.