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Pushing hard for Baldelli (but were unsuccessful)

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WietersOvechkin Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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How about these for PC thread titles?

"O's win Silver Medal in race for Baldelli!"

"O's sign Baldelli (if not for the Red Sox)!"

"O's succeed in keeping payroll down by not adding Baldelli."

"O's nearly pull off miraculous Baldelli signing!"

I like your positive spin on things. Rep to you my friend!!

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Dipper9 Hangout Grand Counsel

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How about these for PC thread titles?

"O's win Silver Medal in race for Baldelli!"

"O's sign Baldelli (if not for the Red Sox)!"

"O's succeed in keeping payroll down by not adding Baldelli."

"O's nearly pull off miraculous Baldelli signing!"

Or how about a not-so-pc one...

Bigbird's "source" is the ONLY thing we have linking Baldelli with the Orioles, yet Hangouters go crazy saying the GM failed again.

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amateurfan Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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How about these for PC thread titles?

"O's win Silver Medal in race for Baldelli!"

"O's sign Baldelli (if not for the Red Sox)!"

"O's succeed in keeping payroll down by not adding Baldelli."

"O's nearly pull off miraculous Baldelli signing!"

Those are good. How about these"

"O's succeed at not signing a player who will not contribute to being a contender."

"O's succeed in not increasing their insurance premium."

"O's succeed at not increasing the number of players on the 60 day."

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Well, we don't know that. For example, the O's may have been offering less money, a minor league deal, not enough money (as in going above and beyond), etc. - if that's the case, yes, they failed.

But you don't know if that is the case. That's the point. You apparently decided they failed. I'd like to see some proof that we were ever really going hard after him. I saw in some reports that we were among other teams potentially interested in him. When someone sees the thread topic for the first time, they would think "wow, we went all out for Baldelli and couldn't get him" Very misleading. No one here has any idea of what our interest level was.

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Those are good. How about these"

"O's succeed at not signing a player who will not contribute to being a contender."

"O's succeed in not increasing their insurance premium."

"O's succeed at not increasing the number of players on the 60 day."

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How about this, more realistic headline:

"Orioles continually fail to improve team."

MSK

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It was a change that was made to enhance the accuracy of the post. It was not intended to be editorial.

They failed. It's now a fact. What is editorial about that?

'Fail' is a word with a negative connotation because it indicates a 'lack of success'. I didn't invent the language, I just use it...

Then why don't you go back and "fix" the hundreds of of other thread titles which no longer apply?

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Or how about a not-so-pc one...

Bigbird's "source" is the ONLY thing we have linking Baldelli with the Orioles, yet Hangouters go crazy saying the GM failed again.

Bingo.

I would not be at all surprised that AM spoke with Baldelli's reps at some point during the off season. But there has not been one other shread of evidence that the O's were going "hard" after him now. It would actually go very much contrary to the way that this team and ownership has handled players with serious health or injury questions and Rocco has had both throughout his career. Baldelli is not a free agent that I would want to overpay in order to convince him not to go to Boston. If that's what it would have taken to change his mind, great, I'm glad we didn't do that.

Make the title, Orioles Successfully Avoid Overpaying Over-rated Free Agent Reserve Outfielder.

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