Tuesday, July 26: Orioles vs Rays

[Tony-OH]

Can Odor go away now?

[mrbig1]

Starting to rain.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Can Odor go away now?

Sure he's a replacement level player Tony, but the intangibles!

[mrbig1]

Rays have 7 hits already.

[O's84]

Good Lord Watkins is awful.

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, mrbig1 said:

Starting to rain.

A long enough rain delay could change McClanahan-vs-Watkins to not-McClanahan-vs-Akin.

I wouldn't mind that too much.   Especially if the delay is long enough for me to watch last night's Better Call Saul before the game resumes.

But I'm less than 10 miles from OPACY as the crow flies and it isn't raininghere.

[Just Regular]

The tough part is the batting talent of this lineup is probably Oakland bad.

[tntoriole]

A rotation with Voth and Watkins in it is not a playoff rotation 

[mrbig1]

Dude, Watkins is done.

[dtk9119]

How many regulars does Tampa have out? They shouldn't be scoring more than 1 or 2 runs per game.

Inexcusable to not take at least 3 out of 4

[LA2]

15 minutes ago, SteveA said:

SVP in the house

What is SVP?

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, LA2 said:

What is SVP?

[seak05]

Rays lineup is triple-A bad

[O's84]

Just now, LA2 said:

What is SVP?

Scott Van Pelt.  ESPN Sportscenter anchor.  O's fan, Maryland basketball fan, is in to golf.

[Just Regular]

https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?year_ID=1980&draft_round=1&draft_type=jansec&query_type=year_round

I was poking around McClanahan, and a few clicks through University of South Florida is this treasure of a round.

Apparently in 1980 there was something in January called the draft "secondary phase".

Tim Hulett was ahead of McClanahan as highest draft pick in school history, but that hit me odd as when Hulett was a decent utilityman for a little while he really didn't seem like a 3rd overall pick in the draft type of guy, but here he was.

It was also the affiliation moment for Mike Young and Tom Dodd.