The 'Piling On' Department

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

11 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

"Baltimore is the toughest city to play anywhere I ever played for 24 years in the major leagues. You have to prepare yourself differently here. If you don't prepare yourself more than other teams prepare on the west coast or such this...you leave yourself open to a lot of injuries.  You go down to Spring training you have to deal with the hot humid and most spring trainings are very much so. Once every five or six years you get a cool one like we did….you start to get yourself into game condition and all of the sudden you come to Baltimore and it’s very raw, and very cold. The muscles start to to tighten up and it’s very simple you break out of the batter’s box and you get the soft dirt up here from the winter time you can pull a muscle, strain a hamstring, strain a quad, pull a hip or whatever they do and it’s very simple to do from home to first or first to third or something like that. And then all of the sudden, there is no transition period here in Baltimore, when you go from cold all of the sudden in the course of one or two days, it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s not even summertime. Now you have to deal with it again, your body loses the salt, and your muscles start to cramp up again" - Meteorologist Rick Dempsey, June 2010

Couldn’t you say this about any city in the mid Atlantic and northeast?

[foxfield]

34 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

"Baltimore is the toughest city to play anywhere I ever played for 24 years in the major leagues. You have to prepare yourself differently here. If you don't prepare yourself more than other teams prepare on the west coast or such this...you leave yourself open to a lot of injuries.  You go down to Spring training you have to deal with the hot humid and most spring trainings are very much so. Once every five or six years you get a cool one like we did….you start to get yourself into game condition and all of the sudden you come to Baltimore and it’s very raw, and very cold. The muscles start to to tighten up and it’s very simple you break out of the batter’s box and you get the soft dirt up here from the winter time you can pull a muscle, strain a hamstring, strain a quad, pull a hip or whatever they do and it’s very simple to do from home to first or first to third or something like that. And then all of the sudden, there is no transition period here in Baltimore, when you go from cold all of the sudden in the course of one or two days, it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s not even summertime. Now you have to deal with it again, your body loses the salt, and your muscles start to cramp up again" - Meteorologist Rick Dempsey, June 2010

Right there is your rebuild architect gentlemen...lol

[drjohnnyfeva]

51 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

"Baltimore is the toughest city to play anywhere I ever played for 24 years in the major leagues. You have to prepare yourself differently here. If you don't prepare yourself more than other teams prepare on the west coast or such this...you leave yourself open to a lot of injuries.  You go down to Spring training you have to deal with the hot humid and most spring trainings are very much so. Once every five or six years you get a cool one like we did….you start to get yourself into game condition and all of the sudden you come to Baltimore and it’s very raw, and very cold. The muscles start to to tighten up and it’s very simple you break out of the batter’s box and you get the soft dirt up here from the winter time you can pull a muscle, strain a hamstring, strain a quad, pull a hip or whatever they do and it’s very simple to do from home to first or first to third or something like that. And then all of the sudden, there is no transition period here in Baltimore, when you go from cold all of the sudden in the course of one or two days, it’s hot, it’s humid, it’s not even summertime. Now you have to deal with it again, your body loses the salt, and your muscles start to cramp up again" - Meteorologist Rick Dempsey, June 2010

David Welles said essentially the same thing.  He called his stint the toughest of his career.  If you recall, his jersey was soaked thru before ever hitting the field.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

1 minute ago, drjohnnyfeva said:

David Welles said essentially the same thing.  He called his stint the toughest of his career.  If you recall, his jersey was soaked thru before ever hitting the field.

Yeah because that had nothing to do with his conditioning.  

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Camden_yardbird said:

The real question is, if there was actually a balanced schedule...

Meh, who really cares?   We are 22-51 (.301) inside the division, 23-59 (.280) outside the division.   We stink no matter who we play.   And the games back record is largely a function of how good Boston is this year, rather than our schedule.

[drjohnnyfeva]

1 hour ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Yeah because that had nothing to do with his conditioning.  

There is that aspect of him... yet, it is corroboration that Baltimore is a hard place to play. 

[TonySoprano]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

Meh, who really cares?   We are 22-51 (.301) inside the division, 23-59 (.280) outside the division.   We stink no matter who we play.   And the games back record is largely a function of how good Boston is this year, rather than our schedule.

The Orioles are 53 GB Houston, so that would be a record also.  42 GB Cleveland and in last place, 8.5 GB  KC.

[drjohnnyfeva]

33 minutes ago, TonySoprano said:

The Orioles are 53 GB Houston, so that would be a record also.  42 GB Cleveland and in last place, 8.5 GB  KC.

Clearly, we don't pass the smell test.

[Frobby]

3 hours ago, TonySoprano said:

The Orioles are 53 GB Houston, so that would be a record also.  42 GB Cleveland and in last place, 8.5 GB  KC.

True about Houston, which will probably win 102+ games also.    Many years there is no team that good.   

[TonySoprano]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

True about Houston, which will probably win 102+ games also.    Many years there is no team that good.   

103 would set a new franchise record, which they're on pace to do against the Orioles.  Boston set their franchise record tonight.  Two teams making franchise history against the same team in the same week, let alone the same season.  BTW, loss #111 ties the O's with the '39 Browns for most losses in franchise history.