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6 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

I get it, and you're not wrong. Im just saying I'd like to see the best prospects up soon..this team is colorless and punchless....I can't even watch this pummeling every night and day.

Hey I get it, too. This season is going to be ugly. But part of the plan is retaining control of our best prospects. I would much rather have an extra year of Hays and Diaz than push them up early when they don't even have the best minor league resumes and the games are basically meaningless.

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1 minute ago, Roy Firestone said:

I get it, and you're not wrong. Im just saying I'd like to see the best prospects up soon..this team is colorless and punchless....I can't even watch this pummeling every night and day.

And as long as you come on here and say things like that you can't expect anyone to bid on a Trey Mancini jersey. Trey is in the lineup today. Since you don't think this lineup is worth watching, you must not think he is worth watching. But you wonder why no one has bid on his jersey. You can't hammer the team mercilessly and relentlessly in one stroke and successfully auction off its memorabilia in another. You could be saying, "That's not an impressive lineup, but with Trey in there anything could happen." It might not reflect your feelings, but it is true, right?

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1 minute ago, LTO's said:

I had fun watching them on Thursday. I knew they were going to lose mostly because the team they were playing might win 110 games this year but they did some nice things. Defense was solid, Smith Jr. and Mancini put a charge into some balls and Hess' stuff looks like it'll play up from the pen. It's game two on the road against the best team in the AL people. They'd lose this series with an 80 win roster. Bring something new to the table besides "this team stinks." It's as boring and lazy a take as it is obvious.

Exactly. It's like watching your kid's little league game. (Hopefully) it's not all about winning. Baseball can just be fun to watch. As bad as the O's are, they are still in the top .001% of human beings at what they do.

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36 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

With respect. I have an opinion as do you. I have no obligation to be nice. Or mean.Its just MY opinion,and I'm not in the PR business.Thank you.

 With respect? How about originality, Roy? There’s plenty of posters here who are negative day in and day out. You’ve never seemed like one of them, but lately it’s a lot of “the team isn’t interesting” or “it’s pointless”, etc. 

 Sure, you have a right to an opinion like everybody else, just try to mix it up every now and then.

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4 minutes ago, mdbdotcom said:

And as long as you come on here and say things like that you can't expect anyone to bid on a Trey Mancini jersey. Trey is in the lineup today. Since you don't think this lineup is worth watching, you must not think he is worth watching. But you wonder why no one has bid on his jersey. You can't hammer the team mercilessly and relentlessly in one stroke and successfully auction off its memorabilia in another. You could be saying, "That's not an impressive lineup, but with Trey in there anything could happen." It might not reflect your feelings, but it is true, right?

I think Trey at first is the best position for him. 

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13 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

The lack of civility and respect here is stunning to me. I won't be around here if it continues.You folks don't need me.I don't need this either.Ill decide when/if I continue.

I hope you stick around. This season is bringing out the worst of everyone. I do hope the more clean it up, as I have had to put some people on ignore so that I am not tempted to engage.

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41 minutes ago, LTO's said:

I had fun watching them on Thursday. I knew they were going to lose mostly because the team they were playing might win 110 games this year but they did some nice things. Defense was solid, Smith Jr. and Mancini put a charge into some balls and Hess' stuff looks like it'll play up from the pen. It's game two on the road against the best team in the AL people. They'd lose this series with an 80 win roster. Bring something new to the table besides "this team stinks." It's as boring and lazy a take as it is obvious.

No it's not! It's the Red Sox.

 

No it's the Yankees!

 

Red Sox!!!

 

Yankees!!!!111

 

Shut up you're stupid!

 

Eat ....

 

 

 

 

 

They're BOTH REALLY good! We'll probably lose 30 games this year against the 2. Just the way it is this year.

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