Saturday, May 27: Ryan Mountcastle Bobblehead day vs Rangers

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

Every single ball the Orioles hit is getting caught by the Rangers. They’ve only struck out three times today. 

[spiritof66]

1 minute ago, HandsomeQuack said:

The team should really take the hint and mothball these forever. But they won't

I read somewhere they have to wear them nine times, but I forget where.

I just think having MLB mandate uniforms is offensive and not helpful in any way. I've been waiting for an American League team to say, "Nothing against Jackie Robinson, but he was  a National Leaguer, and we're an AL team. We'll wear Larry Doby's number next Jackie Robinson Day."

[HandsomeQuack]

5 minutes ago, Aristotelian said:

Sure they will. Then they will do City Connect 2.0 next year, rinse and repeat.

So far since the program started in 2021, no one has gotten new CCs. But some teams (Colorado, LA Dodgers) have ditched the dark pants, so there is some hope the O's will do that.

[HandsomeQuack]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

I read somewhere they have to wear them nine times, but I forget where.

I just think having MLB mandate uniforms is offensive and not helpful in any way. I've been waiting for an American League team to say, "Nothing against Jackie Robinson, but he was  a National Leaguer, and we're an AL team. We'll wear Larry Doby's number next Jackie Robinson Day."

Yeah, sadly the merch train dictates on-field attire and not the other way around. Considering they put out the schedule in advance there must a minimum number of times they wear them.

[dtk9119]

Well at least we'll burn out their closer. Mountcastle just missed HR

[ArtVanDelay]

The pitching coach should slap Will Smith in the face 

[seak05]

17 minutes ago, Malike said:

It's easy to address. Look at the population percentages 73% of MLB players are white, 6% black. If you want to find race in everything and look hard enough you will find it. If you are shocked that a population that represents 6% of the league doesn't have 50% of the jobs, then you simply don't understand math. There also has to be a mutual interest in the said player becoming an announcer. You're taking something statistically in line and trying to skew it to feign racism. That's all I'll say about it. 77% of sports announcers are white, 10% Latino, 5.5% Black, 4.4% Asian, etc. 

Clearly the bigger discrepancy is 90% men and 10% women.

I'm not even sure what to say here. Sports that aren't baseball have play by play announcers. Play by play announcers tend not to have played the sport at a high (college or above) level. And groups other then Black/White exist. White, not Hispanics, makes up 59% of the population. MLB has a very small % of Black athletes compared to other professional sports, the WNBA/NBA has the largest, the NFL is majority Black. Even MLS has more Black players then MLB.

[seak05]

double double double 

[dtk9119]

Tying run to the plate. Little drama at least 

[Moshagge3]

Why isn't Santander pinch hitting?

[baltfan]

What an awful last at-bat

 

[Gurgi]

McCann looked fairly awful

[ArtVanDelay]

2 minutes ago, seak05 said:

I'm not even sure what to say here. Sports that aren't baseball have play by play announcers. Play by play announcers tend not to have played the sport at a high (college or above) level. And groups other then Black/White exist. White, not Hispanics, makes up 59% of the population. MLB has a very small % of Black athletes compared to other professional sports, the WNBA/NBA has the largest, the NFL is majority Black. Even MLS has more Black players then MLB.

[O's84]

McCann, sigh.

[dtk9119]

PH options limited but McCann wasn't even competitive. 

Miserable weekend