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49 minutes ago, interloper said:

I can't recall another Opening Day that was such an easy rout of a team. It was really something to behold. The Angels are really bad and we are really good, and it played out exactly like it should have. Super fun to just bask in it. Good ABs, good pitching, timely hitting, solid defense, good base running. Kevin, Ben, and Jim on the mic. Packed house. Weather held up. Home runs. 

Hyde even pushed the right buttons. Didn't push Burnes too far in a blowout, used his B-squad bullpen effectively, and is 1-for-1 on pinch hitting moves. 

And somehow we were still outdone by the Diamondbacks. 

Not to sound bitter or anything. 😆

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The O’s are 21-9 on Opening Day over the last 30 years,,and they’ve had a lot of great ones.  They’ve won by larger victory margins than today (twice by 10 runs).   They’ve had a number of Opening Day

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My father passed away earlier this month. I am on spring break so yesterday I had to drive to the eastern Shore first to get an original copy of his will from his lawyer, then go to Worcester County c

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Splurged and bought club level seats for opening day. Right after the last out my fiancee and I were attempting to leave and got stuck in fan traffic as Rubenstein himself was walking back into his su

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49 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

I just can't even imagine this team once Mayo and Holliday get going. 

We aren’t near as talented as we are going to be.

Bring Holliday, Norby, Mayo, Basallo, McDermott and Kjerstad into this picture..and perhaps EBJ as well.

Get the Mountain back. 
 

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Will be interesting to follow the evolution of this team as well as its performance on the field. Man, do we know how lucky we are? Baltimore now has two major franchises we can have pride in top to bottom. For some reason, when I see Camden Yards full and rocking, it gives me great joy. I've rewatched parts of yesterday over and over. It's great medicine for an old Oriole fan. It was special.

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5 hours ago, Gilbutson said:

Awesome day. Literally couldn’t have gone any better. Absolutely love this pic…Rubenstein meeting my favorite usher of all time. That guy is full energy and personality and seems to have been at the park forever. 
Dang, new to posting after over a decade lurking around here, but it’s the bottom left picture of the four posted to the game recap. 

 

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36 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

We aren’t near as talented as we are going to be.

Bring Holliday, Norby, Mayo, Basallo, McDermott and Kjerstad into this picture..and perhaps EBJ as well.

Get the Mountain back. 
 

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Yup. Only real step back will be when Burnes leaves, but so much talent will be joining above and beyond that probable loss.

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9 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

Yup. Only real step back will be when Burnes leaves, but so much talent will be joining above and beyond that probable loss.

Yep. That will suck but maybe they trade for another guy…maybe GRod takes a massive leap this year. 

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Splurged and bought club level seats for opening day. Right after the last out my fiancee and I were attempting to leave and got stuck in fan traffic as Rubenstein himself was walking back into his suite. I ended up making a comment to a then random gentleman about how cool the last 24 hours have been with new ownership taking over. As it turns out, the man is the father of Rubenstein's son-in-law. He invited us into the suite for a picture, and Rubenstein, who was understandably drained, still took a few moments to chat. I'd say opening day went about as well as it could have. 

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52 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

We aren’t near as talented as we are going to be.

Bring Holliday, Norby, Mayo, Basallo, McDermott and Kjerstad into this picture..and perhaps EBJ as well.

Get the Mountain back. 
 

Stupid.

The assumption that all these guys will be better than the players they are replacing is pretty optimistic.  

You puzzle me sometimes.  I’ve seen you say multiple times that not all highly ranked prospects pan out.  But then you’ll write posts like this that seem to assume they will.
 

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10 minutes ago, Frobby said:

The assumption that all these guys will be better than the players they are replacing is pretty optimistic.  

You puzzle me sometimes.  I’ve seen you say multiple times that not all highly ranked prospects pan out.  But then you’ll write posts like this that seem to assume they will.
 

Did you actually read what I wrote or did you just decide to go all CNN on me and make stuff up?  :)

I didn’t say the production would be better.  I said the talent is better. Talent doesn’t always equate to production but there is no doubt the talent level will be raised.

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Did you actually read what I wrote or did you just decide to go all CNN on me and make stuff up?  :)

I didn’t say the production would be better.  I said the talent is better. Talent doesn’t always equate to production but there is no doubt the talent level will be raised.

There's little doubt that the talent will be improved. I don't take for granted that Burnes, Santander, Mullins, Hays and Mountcastle will be easily replaced if/when they leave, but if any team can do it mostly from internal additions, it's this one.

I've felt like 2025 and 2026, when all of Holliday, Basallo and Mayo are well-established, will be our best years. This year could surprise us though. 

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25 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

There's little doubt that the talent will be improved. I don't take for granted that Burnes, Santander, Mullins, Hays and Mountcastle will be easily replaced if/when they leave, but if any team can do it mostly from internal additions, it's this one.

I've felt like 2025 and 2026, when all of Holliday, Basallo and Mayo are well-established, will be our best years. This year could surprise us though. 

Yea I think the on field talent in those years will be high level.

There are still plenty of guys on this team right now that we could probably drop and not even know they are gone.  Not sure we see much of that going forward.

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15 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Yea I think the on field in those years will be high level.

There are still plenty of guys on this team right now that we could probably drop and not even know they are gone.  Not sure we see much of that going forward.

It's going to be unbelievable. I truly expect Gunnar, Adley, Holliday, Mayo and Basallo to be silver slugger types. All at the same time. And the rest of the lineup will be good too. 

I sometimes wonder if we take the current "old" guys for granted. Santander in particular. Even so, we'll have the opportunity to keep the ones we want/need to, so it's almost like the worst case scenario is that we have today's lineup plus whatever awesome dudes force themselves in as upgrades. 

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