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[OriolesMagic83]

5 hours ago, SteveA said:

Top 10 Orioles who are now just remembered as an Oriole for basically just ONE thing:

1) Robert Andino

2) Tito Landrum

3) Delmon Young

4) Ryan Minor

5) Brad Pennington

6) Jamie Quirk

7) Steve Bechler  

8 ) Tom Gastall

9) Tony Tarasco

10) Jack Cust

 

 

You forgot Pie and his chase after the errant batting helmet. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

What about Steve Kline for trashing the Orioles and their fans?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2005-04-14-0504140210-story,amp.html

[Justinlstn]

6 hours ago, SteveA said:

Top 10 Orioles who are now just remembered as an Oriole for basically just ONE thing:

1) Robert Andino

2) Tito Landrum

3) Delmon Young

4) Ryan Minor

5) Brad Pennington

6) Jamie Quirk

7) Steve Bechler  

8 ) Tom Gastall

9) Tony Tarasco

10) Jack Cust

 

 

Jeff Reboulet known for owning Randy Johnson

[spiritof66]

4 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

What about Steve Kline for trashing the Orioles and their fans?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2005-04-14-0504140210-story,amp.html

Kline was not the only one who regretted that Kline signed with the Orioles. 

[Can_of_corn]

13 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

You forgot Pie and his chase after the errant batting helmet. 

Pie hit for the cycle.

He also had banana chips thrown at him from Luke Scott.

That's all the Felix Pie facts I have prepared.

[Jagwar]

18 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

@SteveA that one he hit off Pennington, I was surprised THAT didn't hit the Warehouse.

If it hasn't been hit in a game yet, I don't think anyone ever will.

 

 

Adley Rutschman - "Challenge accepted." 

[Jammer7]

22 hours ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

You forgot Pie and his chase after the errant batting helmet. 

You beat me to it!

What an interesting off beat character.

[Jammer7]

To hit the warehouse, you would need to pull the ball. Rob Neustrom hit a reported 480 foot home run at Hartford this year. It was completely out of their stadium. That ball was straight away to RF. That would get it done. If he gets a mistake on the inner half, he could do it. He may not become a star, but he can hit the ball a long way. 

I would have thought a guy like Davis would have done, except he did not hit the inside pitch well.

https://twitter.com/BowieBaysox/status/1400307857036398593?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1400307857036398593|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.orioleshangout.com%2Fforums%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FBowieBaysox%2Fstatus%2F1400307857036398593

[emmett16]

480 then you have to get it through the wind.  Wind comes into the stadium and swirls as it hits the warehouse.  It’s like surfing next to a jetty.  The warehouse asks like a jetty and picks up wind swell from all directions and bumps wind back towards the field.  It would take a monster blast, dead summer (for highest humidity & fewer oxygen molecules) and absolutely zero wind for a ball to even have a fighting chance.  IE. Day of homerun derby conditions and the leagues most elite left handed power hitter.

[Can_of_corn]

It's only going to happen when they are using the super ball in the home run derby.  Since the O's might not ever host the game again, we might just have that one time.

[Just Regular]

17 minutes ago, emmett16 said:

480 then you have to get it through the wind.  Wind comes into the stadium and swirls as it hits the warehouse.  It’s like surfing next to a jetty.  The warehouse asks like a jetty and picks up wind swell from all directions and bumps wind back towards the field.  It would take a monster blast, dead summer (for highest humidity & fewer oxygen molecules) and absolutely zero wind for a ball to even have a fighting chance.  IE. Day of homerun derby conditions and the leagues most elite left handed power hitter.

Awesome description.   I'd never had the wind bumper dynamic explained before, but intuitively it makes perfect sense.

I also don't get it when anyone says X number of feet, because to me ground distance is somewhat meaningless with the target meaningfully higher than the plate.

Even if the X measurement is the hypotenuse, the Griffey guy should get credit of marginal feet ~450-500 that same bumper would stop.

Moving forward from the long held Correa dream, it did hit me yesterday with Elias' taste for strike zone control and left handed power that Joey Gallo is a 2023 free agent, and I believe grew up in Vegas with Bryce.

The August 1, 2023 99th percentile wish might be like:

CF Mullins, RF Harper*, 1B Mountcastle, DH Gallo, C Rutschman, LF Cowser, 3B Westburg, SS Henderson, 2B Urias

Grayson, John...can you make that work?   I believe Frobby has signed off on dealing Austin Hays for pitching, maybe one of Kim Ng's.

*Despite the 13-year, no trade grandstanding, I feel in a couple more summers that could become a feature, not a bug.   Dombrowski has to fail one of these days, right?

[Morgan423]

On 10/1/2021 at 8:18 PM, Justinlstn said:

Jeff Reboulet known for owning Randy Johnson

Or on the flip side of the pitcher/batter equation, Brian Matutz owning David Ortiz.

[Gofannon]

On 10/1/2021 at 1:17 PM, SteveA said:

Top 10 Orioles who are now just remembered as an Oriole for basically just ONE thing:

1) Robert Andino

2) Tito Landrum

3) Delmon Young

4) Ryan Minor

5) Brad Pennington

6) Jamie Quirk

7) Steve Bechler  

8 ) Tom Gastall

9) Tony Tarasco

10) Jack Cust

 

 

If we're going to go back to Jamie Quirk and Tom Gastall, it's worth including John Stefero (back-to-back game winning hits in September of 1983).  

Here's a fun 5 minute read on him.

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/john-stefero/

[NashLumber]

Recent, but you have to add Stevie Wilkerson to that list. First position player to earn a save. Give it up for Dr. Poo Poo. 

 

And for this:

 

 

 

[UMDTerrapins]

Here's a new YouTube video about hitting the warehouse. 

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