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Look, the Yankee hitters are heating up, the Bombers scored 15 runs in consecutive games this weekend. Soto is on fire and Judge always kills us at home. He missed 56 games last year. Stanton is healthy too and Volpe is a good hitting shortstop.Their pitching is very good even without Cole for now. I dont think the Orioles have played a great team so far this year. Sure, some teams played well and have good records, but I think the Yankees have more talent top to bottom than any team in the AL.I am very concerned about GROD, he pitched horribly last time out, he gave up 7 runs and 11 hits in about 4  innings and that was a light hitting Angel team... and maybe he can bounce back, but he gives up home runs and the Yankees are a HR hitting team. The Orioles will have to work with a very fatigued bullpen and the Yankees will make our pitchers work even harder. Yes, the Orioles have one of the best offenses in baseball, but they haven't faced great pitching and often failed against mediocre pitching. I know people will call me negative here but I see a very very tough series given where the pitching is...Id be happy to split, but I think the Yankees sweep us or we scratch out one win. Sorry, thats how I feel.

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I'd rather read a thousand reverse lock posts from Roy Firestone than a single truth nugget post from you. 

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Ah thanks...hey, I just write a bunch o stuff in the midst of my emotion..its not any kind of reverse jinx...Im just trying to put my anxiety somewhere....but I dont mind being ridiculed as long as we

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I've posted here for something like 20 years and don't remember 1 post from Roy that picks a fight with another poster like yours does here. Make the reverse lock point. Calm down. Enjoy the vict

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LOL. Zero regular season sweeps for two years but suddenly we’re going to lose four straight at home. OK Roy.  And then when we win tonight you’ll claim reverse jinx victory. 
 

Whatever gets you through the series I suppose. 

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The Orioles offense (along with LAD and ATL) is on a different level than the Yankees and every other team so far this year. That doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous or that they won’t “destroy us”, but the Orioles are flat out better. Maybe they’re the ones who should be worried. 

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2 minutes ago, LGOrioles said:

The Orioles offense (along with LAD and ATL) is on a different level than the Yankees and every other team so far this year. That doesn’t mean they’re not dangerous or that they won’t “destroy us”, but the Orioles are flat out better. Maybe they’re the ones who should be worried. 

If Westburg's tummy still hurts, we will have Urias and Mateo at the bottom of the order again tonight.

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They pitch much better than us, and their offensive numbers went from middling to pretty good thanks to MIL having to use retreads and position players on the mound during that series. I expect Soto to do Soto things, but they aren't the terrifying Yankee team with the bats.

I am concerned for the pen if they blow Rodriguez out after seeing his last two starts. I'm not sure why his fastball is so terrible right now.

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43 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

Look, the Yankee hitters are heating up, the Bombers scored 15 runs in consecutive games this weekend. Soto is on fire and Judge always kills us at home. He missed 56 games last year. Stanton is healthy too and Volpe is a good hitting shortstop.Their pitching is very good even without Cole for now. I dont think the Orioles have played a great team so far this year. Sure, some teams played well and have good records, but I think the Yankees have more talent top to bottom than any team in the AL.I am very concerned about GROD, he pitched horribly last time out, he gave up 7 runs and 11 hits in about 4  innings and that was a light hitting Angel team... and maybe he can bounce back, but he gives up home runs and the Yankees are a HR hitting team. The Orioles will have to work with a very fatigued bullpen and the Yankees will make our pitchers work even harder. Yes, the Orioles have one of the best offenses in baseball, but they haven't faced great pitching and often failed against mediocre pitching. I know people will call me negative here but I see a very very tough series given where the pitching is...Id be happy to split, but I think the Yankees sweep us or we scratch out one win. Sorry, thats how I feel.

Well, that's great, because the Yankees don't have great pitching so we'll be fine. Last time I checked Judge was awful. I'm sure he'll snap out of it, but we thought that about Chris Davis too. Orioles take 3 of 4.

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8 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Aaron Judge has started to wake up offensively with a 1.091 OPS and 3 home runs the last 7 games. Here's hoping Wall-timore robs Judge of a couple cheap home runs and we get to hear him whine to the media again.

The quality of pitching has a lot to do with that. MIL was awful and throwing retreads and position players out there this past series.

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1 minute ago, BirdCakes22 said:

Well, that's great, because the Yankees don't have great pitching so we'll be fine. Last time I checked Judge was awful. I'm sure he'll snap out of it, but we thought that about Chris Davis too. Orioles take 3 of 4.

Wait...the Yankees have the 2nd best pitching MLB. We are middle of the pack in the teens. What is great pitching in your estimation?

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