Holliday called up!

[emmett16]

8 hours ago, spleen1015 said:

Just because he hasn't gotten a hit and had some fun defensive plays doesn't mean he's pressing, nervous, any of that mental BS some of you like to put on these guys.

He's adjusting to playing Major League Baseball.

This. 

[Just Regular]

3 runs scored without a hit is kind of a neat trick.

[DrungoHazewood]

48 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

And this is the Grand Poobah of Belgian brews

Last year I went to a meeting for work in Luxembourg, and flew in/out of Brussels. The last night I had a Chimay and a Lindemans' Kriek with some Flemish carbonnade at dinner, then a Cantillon Gueuze later on. Can't really go wrong with any of that. I love German beer, but the Belgians are doing a lot right.

[Tony-OH]

14 hours ago, justD said:

I did the math, and I guess you were 8 when he was fired in 1992.  So you couldn't know first-hand what his presence in the development of Orioles players meant.  You would then have been a teenager when he passed, when tributes would've been made to remind everyone who he was to the organization, and you were maybe not paying much attention to what was becoming a losing club for years to come. 

But surely you've heard of his influence on Cal and Eddie (and Bill), and even though it wasn't called that at the time, his contribution to what became "The Oriole Way" that we always talked about, even in the lean years of the '00s and '10s.  The work done in his name by the Cal Sr. Foundation to bring the basics of baseball to kids who otherwise would fall through the cracks all around the country (including my Harrisburg Boys & Girls Club RBI teams) reflects the teachings he tried to pass on, really basic stuff that I thought we all considered fundamental to how Orioles baseball was played. 

So yeah, a lot of people were feeling sentimental about it unofficially being a "retired" number in his honor.  Matt Holliday was even aware enough of this to talk to Cal last year about it, from what I've now heard.  The reason(s) that the Orioles organization never retired the number is for someone else to speculate about, but it was still a special number for Os fans regardless. 

Great post. We sometimes forget that we now have a newer generation that doesn't really remember what Cal Ripken Sr. brought to this organization. 

I don't necessarily think his number should have been retired (that should be for Orioles who were inducted into the HoF as Orioles), but he did have a lasting affect on the Orioles winning ways in the 70s and early 80s.

[Tony-OH]

By the way, let's move active Holliday discussion into his 2024 thread. Thanks.

 

[Jagwar]

10 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

By the way, let's move active Holliday discussion into his 2024 thread. Thanks.

 

But can I still talk about Belgian ale?