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Friday, June 30: Orioles vs Twins with Floppy Hats, Smog, and Shaq

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Money.

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Were you the fan who just yelled soft contact? Could hear it on TV

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They start over from the beginning each time. It's completely absurd.

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Just now, Tony-OH said:

Nope, he shat his pants as well. Seems to be the thing to do of late for Orioles starters. Embarrassing effort. This team is so bad need of starting pitching and it was just a matter of time until that was apparent. Well, it's apparent and we knew this coming into this year but Elias passed on acquiring a good starter this offseason.

Yep, he did nothing to upgrade the rotation and stuck with the status quo.  He doesn't get off the hook because of JA (as you know), he still has a stacked farm system he could of traded for pitching but he stood pat.  I'm afraid as a result were going to see more of these types of performances.  I hope I'm wrong.

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This is a fun team but you really dont think we a built to go very far in the playoffs.  Other teams that might be worse will have three better starting pitchers and overwhelm us with all  the days off in October between playoff games.  Most everyone will have better starters than us.  

This might be the start of a serious slide.  

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      By Wavetrapper · Posted

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      The Achilles heel for this team is the bullpen

      By Sanfran327 · Posted

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      The Achilles heel for this team is the bullpen

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      By LookitsPuck · Posted

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