All Star Game/Festivities Interest

[86this]

Tonight's Mastercard's Stand Up to Cancer showed Manny Machado holding up a sign for Wayne Kirby.  Here's to a speedy and healthy recovery Wayne.  You're missed in birdland.

[CynBeth]

Unfortunately I dozed and missed our guy pitching woke up just as he was walking off the mound.  I then dozed again and missed the SUTC prayers for Wayne.  I do not mind the players being mic’ed up just wish it had not been some of the horrid players from the Yankees.  I liked the ump and catcher cams as well.  

[Can_of_corn]

Too cool a picture not to share.

[waroriole]

It’s like there’s a huge dent in the ball

[Babkins]

On 7/18/2022 at 10:21 PM, CynBeth said:

I will be happy with whichever one of them wins.  Was glad when Alonso got out he is so cocky and obnoxious.

That guy is the absolute worst. I’ll never forget the preening and chest-thumping at the Derby last year when he eked out the narrowest of victories over stage-3 cancer survivor Trey Mancini. Just a total jerk.

I watched the Futures Game this year, but with minimal Orioles representation  at the other events this year, I didn’t tune in at all. I did check the box score just now to see how Lopez did—no complaints about a scoreless two-thirds on three pitches! He got into the game and wasn’t overworked in doing so. Good stuff.

[DrungoHazewood]

I watched 2-3 innings.  But we went to bed around 10 and it was, what, the 4th inning? I don't usually stay up to the end of Orioles games I care about, there's no way I giving up 2+ hours of sleep for an exhibition with a bunch of mic'd up Yankees and Red Sox.

[Frobby]

The mic’s were kind of interesting, but to me they conveyed that nobody was taking this game remotely seriously.  I only watched a couple of batters anyway, after watching something else.

Anyway that’s 9 in a row for the AL, and 25 of the last 28.   Yawn.  
 

[milbest77]

I watched the first inning and thought they well had done away with the mic’d up players. Boy was I wrong. Turned it off after that bizarre Manoah outing. 

[Pushmonkey]

How did Lopez do?

[sportsfan8703]

Didn't watch live, but saw the highlights.  Good moment for Lopez, and two Ks.  

[SteveA]

39 minutes ago, Pushmonkey said:

How did Lopez do?

2 outs on 3 pitches.   He was being removed from the game before the announcers had a chance to talk about him.   

[LA2]

5 hours ago, CynBeth said:

Unfortunately I dozed and missed our guy pitching woke up just as he was walking off the mound.  I then dozed again and missed the SUTC prayers for Wayne.  I do not mind the players being mic’ed up just wish it had not been some of the horrid players from the Yankees.  I liked the ump and catcher cams as well.  

Yeah those close-in cam shots were fantastic.

[LA2]

41 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Didn't watch live, but saw the highlights.  Good moment for Lopez, and two Ks.  

Actually they were both groundouts (Schwarber, Cronenworth), not Ks.

[LA2]

30 minutes ago, SteveA said:

2 outs on 3 pitches.   He was being removed from the game before the announcers had a chance to talk about him.   

They did manage to squeeze in an admiring comment about the O's ten-game winning streak. Jorge looked truly delighted to be in the game. Kudos to him.

[DrungoHazewood]

3 hours ago, Frobby said:

The mic’s were kind of interesting, but to me they conveyed that nobody was taking this game remotely seriously.

Hold on.  I thought after Bud made home field advantage in the Series for the winner everyone went back to being all 1970 Pete Rose and would spike an opponent from shoulder to ankle if it gave them an advantage.  Is that not true?

Also, the mics emphasized (possibly not in a good way) that you can carry on a conversation with 2/3rds of the outfield for five minutes and it's probably not going to have any impact on the game whatsoever.