Sunday May 19: O's vs Mariners

[brooks1083]

And here we go again…

[spiritof66]

7 minutes ago, Philip said:

I like  Kevin brown a bit more now. Anybody who recites Ogden Nash is ok by me. And I didn’t even know that poem. 
well done, Kev!

I've enjoyed Ogden Nash since a fourth (I think) grade teacher taught us his poem about pelicans:

A wonderful bird is the pelican.

His bill can hold more than his pelican.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

Nash lived most of his life in Baltimore, and he wrote, "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."

Maybe Brown mentioned this,  but if so I missed it: Nash was a big baseball fan, and the poem that mentions Willie Keeler calls out to stars of the 1890s Orioles who are preparing for the return of MLB to Baltimore in 1954:

Wee Willie Keeler
Runs through the town,
All along Charles Street,
In his nightgown.
Belling like a hound dog,
Gathering the pack:
Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
The Orioles are back!
Hey, Hughie Jennings!
Hey, John McGraw!
I got fire in my eye
And tobacco in my jaw!
Hughie, hold my halo.
I'm sick of being a saint:
Got to teach youngsters
To hit 'em where they ain't.

Some of you will enjoy Nash's baseball poem Line-Up for Yesterday:
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml

 

[Roy Firestone]

this bullpen scares me late in every game..its unbelievable...and I know the stats say otherwise..

[Morgan423]

Come on bullpen, get it together. 

[Billy F-Face3]

2 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

I'd let him throw another inning. Geez... if we're really looking at a 6-man rotation he can't go over 100 pitches?

Keep thinking long term. We need him healthy in the playoffs so it's not good to risk it or push it. 

Eye on the prize. The prize is a World Series.

[oriolediehard]

Will Hyde take Webb out when the score is 5-5?

[Roy Firestone]

Just now, spiritof66 said:

I've enjoyed Ogden Nash since a fourth (I think) grade teacher taught us his poem about pelicans:

A wonderful bird is the pelican.

His bill can hold more than his pelican.

He can hold in his beak

Enough food for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

Nash lived most of his life in Baltimore, and he wrote, "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."

Maybe Brown mentioned this,  but if so I missed it: Nash was a big baseball fan, and the poem that mentions Willie Keeler calls out to stars of the 1890s Orioles who are preparing for the return of MLB to Baltimore in 1954:

Wee Willie Keeler
Runs through the town,
All along Charles Street,
In his nightgown.
Belling like a hound dog,
Gathering the pack:
Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
The Orioles are back!
Hey, Hughie Jennings!
Hey, John McGraw!
I got fire in my eye
And tobacco in my jaw!
Hughie, hold my halo.
I'm sick of being a saint:
Got to teach youngsters
To hit 'em where they ain't.

Some of you will enjoy Nash's baseball poem Line-Up for Yesterday:
https://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_line.shtml

 

Ogden Nash famously wrote poems about the Baltimore Colts too..

[SteveA]

Just now, oriolediehard said:

Will Hyde take Webb out when the score is 5-5?

No, he won't let it get that far.

[Just Regular]

Now I don't like Irvin vs. Akin in an authentic reliever scenario.

Irvin if Hyde wanted him should have had the half-inning to warm up and come in clean.

[Roy Firestone]

Webb craps the bed...like Perez and Cano did last night...a blast and the game is tied...

Edited May 19 by Roy Firestone

[Mooreisbetter27]

Oh ffs Webb

[dystopia]

Wow this bullpen is trash suddenly. 

[Billy F-Face3]

Webb is showing signs of season fatigue from being called to work too frequently.

[Aristotelian]

2 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

Webb is sucking lately...

Was thinking the same. 

[O's84]

Pitching 4 times in 5 days is probably too much.