Still think this team didn't choke under pressure?

[Tony-OH]

Where are you now?

Where are the posters who laughed when we said how boring this team was?
Where are the posters who scoffed at the idea that this team is full of players who can't perfrom under pressure?
Where are the posters that bring up that the Orioles offense scored the second most runs?
Where are the posters that go into the game thread and tell people they are overreacting when it's clear this team is choking time and time again?
Where were the posters who just think it's baseball that this core group choked once again?

Every single coach should be fired. Hyde should be fired. Elias gets one more offseason with an owner that may actually spend.

Santander, Mountcastle and O'Hearn should have played their last games as Orioles.

Rutschman needs to go to fat boy camp and lose about 15 pounds while putting on muscle. Maybe go to a hitting school that teach 2-0 is a great pitch to swing on. 

At the end of the day, this is EXACTLY what this team deserved. They have played like scared little school children since late June. Don't give me injuries, because this team's offense was in tact and they scored one freakin' run in two games. One. 

They were swept by a 85-win team that has struggled down the stretch. They collected two hits off a bullpen in 8 innings of work. They are an absolute and utter embarrassment. This team is more of an embarrassment than the team that lost 110+ games. 

Everyone involved in this season have stained their reputation. EVERYONE. Gunnar hits 37 home runs and craps his pants. Cowser thinks he's rookie of the year and dude swings at ball that hit him with the bases loaded. What kind of ridiculous unprofessional at bat was that? 

Adley? Are you kidding me. If they traded him this offseason I wouldn't shed a tear. 

The only thing good in any of this is now my calendar has been freed up. Never again will I ever trust a Hyde-led, Elias developed team led by his core. He needs to go out and find guys that don't poop their pants the second pressure is involved.

Thank you Burnes for being a professional and doing your job. You deserved better than being in a clubhouse full of choke artists. 

If Elias brings back this coaching staff he gets one more year to win a World Series than he's on the chopping block too. If he wants to ride with these losers, then go down with these losers.

[fansince71]

Jesus, unhinged. Go have a beer.

[Gurgi]

This was a very bad team.  The most frustrating winning team of my life.  They never missed a chance to come up small.  

[casadeozo]

Well said Tony and certainty hard to disagree.

curious what changes you would make ie what players to target and manager to bring in?

I saw we doing it this week and target Schumacher

[bub668]

trade Henderson,Ruttschman,holiday and Mayo for Witt

[RavensNOsGuy]

This team sucks and has no future, they are no closer a World Series than they were in 2021. F Hyde, F Elias, screw all of them,

[milbest77]

Nothing will change. We’ll get the injury excuses and they won’t sign anyone of note.

I think they just assumed they would repeat 2023’s performance, but so many things went right last year. They should have struck while the iron was hot, but instead made a bunch of “meh” moves ( excluding the Burnes trade) giving off the illusion they were “going for it.”

Anyone who thinks Hyde is getting fired is delusional. Like the Harbaugh Ravens, continuity is the name of the game!

[Wavetrapper]

The window has closed.  Oh, they will scuff around .500 and “be competitive “ but like their football neighbors, they will never be elite and will fold when the pressure is on.   The “can’t miss” prospects may be serviceable players but I don’t see them as difference makers.  Way overrated.  

[Beysbol]

I had them in the Wild Card spot before the season, but also said they would get further in the playoffs. Oh, well. Sucks that the season is over. 

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, milbest77 said:

Nothing will change. We’ll get the injury excuses and they won’t sign anyone of note.

I think they just assumed they would repeat 2023’s performance, but so many things went right last year. They should have struck while the iron was hot, but instead made a bunch of “meh” moves ( excluding the Burnes trade) giving off the illusion they were “going for it.”

Anyone who thinks Hyde is getting fired is delusional. Like the Harbaugh Ravens, continuity is the name of the game!

Yeah, this concerns me. I'm a huge fire Harbaugh guy and have been since 2019, and I fear Elias will do the same. Hyde failed. Pure and simple. He was never able to right the ship.

[allquixotic]

These bums don't deserve the support they got from fans all this year. We were impressed by their free-swinging, easy-winning ways early in the season. We were happy when they got into first place for a few weeks and it looked like they'd be able to hold on because the Yankees also had a big slump. But then the Yankees pulled on their grown-up pants and had a good run down the stretch. The O's need to go back to tee-ball.

THE VERY LEAST that must happen in this offseason is to fire our hitting coaches. That is the bare minimum. There are arguments for why we could keep Hyde. There are arguments for why we could keep this core of players. But I swear to everything, if there isn't a new group of hitting coaches on the roster for opening day, I am not spending a single cent on any Orioles or MLB products for the entire season.

[webbrick2010]

Hmmm things keep getting closer to my thread that Elias needs to go

Give him another year, fine, unless they spend big money they are just a .500 team next year

Pitching and defense win championships, Elias has ignored both.

We draft a 1-1 SS and lo and behold he maybe has the arm strength for 2B. We draft OF'ers who can't be trusted to play in Camden yards LF, we hold onto guys like Coby Mayo (should have been trade for pitching) and lo and behold there is no position on the field that he can be trusted to play.

Just like the Orioles for the past 20 years we don't have anyone who can make consistent contact and post a high OBP

The playoff run  for this abomination of a roster is over, and without a single game won.

[waroriole]

You nailed it. A bunch of losers, whose manager allowed them to do whatever they wanted all season. Swing out of your shoes on every AB, go for it. The approach of the coaching staff, and front office, just doesn’t work. If I owned the team, I’d change the coaching staff completely and make sure Elias understands he has one season to change the approach. 

[baltfan]

We are going the way of the Blue Jays.  Remember what they looked like they were going to become a few years ago.  Changes need to be made.  Hyde needs to be gone. Guys need to spend the offseason working on their weaknesses. They won’t do this if Hyde is the manager and they know they have a spot secured.  

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, Beysbol said:

I had them in the Wild Card spot before the season, but also said they would get further in the playoffs. Oh, well. Sucks that the season is over. 

It does, but it doesn't suck that the season is over. This team has sucked the joy out of any Orioles fan who isn't a pollyanna, nothing is wrong, fan.

I for one am glad to not have to be subjected to their unprofessional at bats, choking with RISP, and generally doing what it takes to destroy any fun that it is to watch a baseball game.