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3 hours ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

Why are so many of the ST games not on TV?

John Angelos implied that televising more ST games would negatively affect MASN's regular season coverage. Not a good excuse, in my opinion.  

Fortunately, the Pirates, Phillies & Blue Jays will be televising some of their home ST games against us.

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7 minutes ago, rm5678 said:

John Angelos implied that televising more ST games would negatively affect MASN's regular season coverage. Not a good excuse, in my opinion.  

Fortunately, the Pirates, Phillies & Blue Jays will be televising some of their home ST games against us.

It would be interesting to know the cost of a spring training broadcast.  He basically said that not many people watch ST broadcasts because most games are during the day, so they’d rather spend the money on regular season broadcasts.  Fine, but their regular season broadcasts aren’t exactly top of the line.  

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Watching spring training games is like watching clothes dry. I'm asleep after one inning and it's afternoon. I can generally make two or three during the regular season. 😀 Last year I was better though! Plus, I get jealous of all those people sitting in the sun when it's -5 up here and snowing.

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1 hour ago, rm5678 said:

John Angelos implied that televising more ST games would negatively affect MASN's regular season coverage. Not a good excuse, in my opinion.  

Fortunately, the Pirates, Phillies & Blue Jays will be televising some of their home ST games against us.

John Angelos really meant it would negatively effect his bank account shelling out money to broadcast spring training games. If anything broadcasting spring training games would allow the Orioles announcers to get familiar with the players on the team faster.

I take it the Orioles announcing team watches some of the spring training games, but it's not the same as calling the game on every pitch.

 

 

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 No game today, so I'm going down some rabbit holes on YouTube for baseball related videos.

If you remember the '94 Orioles, you remember exactly how great Mark Eichhorn was.  And this video is about Mark Eichhorn.  This might have been some @DrungoHazewoodprime meat, but unfortunately Eichhorn didn't pitch in the Federal League.

 

 

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52 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

 No game today, so I'm going down some rabbit holes on YouTube for baseball related videos.

If you remember the '94 Orioles, you remember exactly how great Mark Eichhorn was.  And this video is about Mark Eichhorn.  This might have been some @DrungoHazewoodprime meat, but unfortunately Eichhorn didn't pitch in the Federal League.

 

 

Gotta love Mark Eichhorn, even if most of his best years were in Toronto. Submariner, pitched for the Orioles. His 1986 rookie season is astonishing. 157 innings in relief(!) to a 1.72 ERA. By bb-ref he had a 7.2 WAR season, third-highest total for any reliever, ever.  Since that year nobody has gotten within 30 relief innings of Eichhorn's total. 2nd-highest? Eichhorn the next year.

And despite being smack in the middle of that bizarre era where the voters handed out Cy Youngs to relievers all over the place he got all of two votes, far behind Dave Righetti.  He was monumentally better than Righetti, but only had 10 saves to Righetti's 46.

Even more of a head-scratcher was the ROY voting. This was one of the deepest rookie classes of all time, but Eichhorn finished behind Jose Canseco (.240/.318/.457 with 33 homers) and Wally Joyner (.290/.348/.457 with 22 homers). WAR didn't exist back then, but he totaled more than any other two vote-getters combined.

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1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

 No game today, so I'm going down some rabbit holes on YouTube for baseball related videos.

If you remember the '94 Orioles, you remember exactly how great Mark Eichhorn was.  And this video is about Mark Eichhorn.  This might have been some @DrungoHazewoodprime meat, but unfortunately Eichhorn didn't pitch in the Federal League.

 

 

Mark Eichhorn was really good for the Orioles in 1994 too bad it was the strike year and it was Eichorn's last effective season as an MLB pitcher.

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1 hour ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Mark Eichhorn was really good for the Orioles in 1994 too bad it was the strike year and it was Eichorn's last effective season as an MLB pitcher.

Yeah, I remember watching him in '94 and thinking he was great.  I didn't realize that he was injured in '95 and that's why he didn't play, but he's one of my favorite "short stay" Orioles that we've ever had.  

I knew he was good, but I didn't know he was THAT good in the beginning of his career with the Jays.  Great story, too.

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