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SteveA
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How the hell did Kevin Brown miss that?   He's got to be kicking himself.   He could talk a whole inning about something like that.

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Ha, somebody had a pic of Rivera.  Pretty much this is me towards this team right now!   

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Sir, it’s been pouring for months

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I have never done any real research on the subject, but I always thought that two players the Orioles just threw away were Christian Walker  and Mike Yastrzemski.

In 2018, the team was so bad, yet buck Showalter refused to call up Mike for the final series of the year against the Red Sox.

And yet he’s had a very good career as a giant.

 

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By the way, for some reason, I thought it was an away game so when I saw that one to nothing score, I said, “finally, they scored in the first inning.” But then I turned on my MLB app and realized that it was the other way around.

Bitter….bitter…

“…But I like it, because it is bitter, and because it is my heart.”

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1 minute ago, HowAboutThat said:

I have never done any real research on the subject, but I always thought that two players the Orioles just threw away were Christian Walker  and Mike Yastrzemski.

In 2018, the team was so bad, yet buck Showalter refused to call up Mike for the final series of the year against the Red Sox.

And yet he’s had a very good career as a giant.

 

Why do you think that was Buck?

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Fiver6565 Perennial All-Star

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These guys just cannot hit anymore. Better hope the Tigers lose 6 because we’re going to have a hard time cutting into that magic number ourselves. 
 

And what’s messed up, if you sun Adley in for McCann, and Westburg in for a Rivera, the lineup would be basically what we hoped for. It’s just that everybody sucks all at once. 

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