Friday, August 26: Orioles begin 6 game road trip vs division leaders in Houston

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, eddie83 said:

I really don’t understand this. $25M?

He's coming back from TJ and under contract for 2023.  They extended him for 2024 and are going to pay him 25M.

[justD]

Of course this all happened while I was quickly checking the Minor League stadium fireworks I can see from the back deck. What a nice surprise to come I back to!

[LA2]

6 minutes ago, Remember The Alomar said:

Somewhere, there is a joke to be made about Enron Field and the absolute power outage we're seeing from both teams thus far. 

Speaking of which, my broadcast blacked out during Urias' homer. It must have drawn too much current!

[eddie83]

Just now, yark14 said:

I hate how restrictive MLB is about blackouts.  I live in Austin, a 3 hour drive from Houston.  I have the MLB.tv subscription and the game is blacked out.  All the games today are supposed to be free.  Even after creating a non-subscription burner account and my VPN set to Chicago, they still seem to know I live in Texas and black it out.  

Who is your local team? Rangers?

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Remember The Alomar said:

My man, Urias just took a choo choo train to the moon. Let us enjoy that before bringing rational and realistic thoughts into the game thread. 

Sorry, I was typing it up as he got the hit.

Kinda big news I thought.

[eddie83]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

He's coming back from TJ and under contract for 2023.  They extended him for 2024 and are going to pay him 25M.

Right. I just don’t get giving him that much. I mean good for both of them but that seems a little odd. 

[PHRESH]

Did they say the distance on that HR? 

[LA2]

What's going on with Odor: 4 walks in his last 4 starts!

[eddie83]

Just now, PHRESH said:

Did they say the distance on that HR? 

389.  

[Il BuonO]

1 minute ago, yark14 said:

I hate how restrictive MLB is about blackouts.  I live in Austin, a 3 hour drive from Houston.  I have the MLB.tv subscription and the game is blacked out.  All the games today are supposed to be free.  Even after creating a non-subscription burner account and my VPN set to Chicago, they still seem to know I live in Texas and black it out.  

Yup….I was all set to go to a bar. I signed up for a free trial of Fubo to watch the series. I might actually keep it and then go to the single team MLB.tv option. 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

2 minutes ago, LA2 said:

Speaking of which, my broadcast blacked out during Urias' homer. It must have drawn too much current!

 

[bpilktree]

3 minutes ago, yark14 said:

I hate how restrictive MLB is about blackouts.  I live in Austin, a 3 hour drive from Houston.  I have the MLB.tv subscription and the game is blacked out.  All the games today are supposed to be free.  Even after creating a non-subscription burner account and my VPN set to Chicago, they still seem to know I live in Texas and black it out.  

Stream east xyz. 

[Remember The Alomar]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Sorry, I was typing it up as he got the hit.

Kinda big news I thought.

Nah I was just joking. That is wild, though. The Orioles continue to have less and less excuses to not spend this offseason. Thanks for passing along the info. 

[LA2]

6 minutes ago, Yossarian said:

Urias has some pop.  Great hit. 

Yeah, wasn't even anywhere near his hardest swing.

[Il BuonO]

2 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

Who is your local team? Rangers?

In Texas both teams are blacked out.