6/29: Red Sox at Orioles, Game 1

[Great 2BA FL Gator]

Good thing my bro and I are planning on coming up to OPACY for a series against the Sux.. I can't wait!

[Mike B]

This is exactly correct. So why is the game thread a nonstop b*tch-fest?

It's page after page of people complaining about one thing or another.

Do you guys really enjoy watching baseball this way? I have no desire to ruin somebody else's fun, but it doesn't seem to me that you're having any fun. All it does is chase away folks or else eventually get others to join into the b*tching. The Oriole hitters had some very good AB's against Lester but when the guy's on, there's not much anybody can do.

I agree.....I mentioned earlier that the game is a lot easier on TV. Tonight, Lester isjust better than the O's. To be fair, he owns us. We should organize an OH soft ball game. I am sure it would border on perfection. I am an old guy but I can coach...so the next morning, I could get fired in 6 threads.

[RShack]

Because fans of the Orioles on OriolesHangout.com don't particularly like getting beat by the Boston Red Sox.

Really not that hard at all to figure out RShack.

It's been the whole dang thread, since way before there was reason to think the O's would lose. It was the usual ringleaders of complaining, and then it caught on.

Never mind, I'll shut up... have at it.

If I wanna watch the game with other folks, I should move back to Baltimore. Thinking I can do that from afar is just stupid on my part. G'night...

[isestrex]

The time is now Wieters.

[JTrea81]

I'm tellin' ya, we need that bench clearing brawl vs. the Red Sox like Tampa had. It was the thing that unified them against the Sux and they got a chip on their shoulders vs. them. The Orioles need that chip...

[Mike B]

On a lighter note...congrats to MASN for getting a great shot of papelbohn adjusting his cup in Hi D.

[JTrea81]

I know a HR wouldn't do much, but it would sure be nice to see...

[Mike B]

I know a HR wouldn't do much, but it would sure be nice to see...

My Roto team could use the HR.

[JTrea81]

Ooooh the Pap is in.

Now it would be extra special to see Wieters take him deep...

[catjuggler]

For some reason I thought Papelbon was a lot younger than he is...turns 29 in November.

[JTrea81]

Damn, not in the cards.

Well the good news is Francona used 4 relievers in 2 innings for no reason...

[Great 2BA FL Gator]

I'm tellin' ya, we need that bench clearing brawl vs. the Red Sox like Tampa had. It was the thing that unified them against the Sux and they got a chip on their shoulders vs. them. The Orioles need that chip...

Tampa also had reason to think they could compete with the sox.. If we did that, I think we'd look like soar losers more than anything. In a few years though, I would love to see that

[Hank Scorpio]

It's been the whole dang thread, since way before there was reason to think the O's would lose. It was the usual ringleaders of complaining, and then it caught on.

Never mind, I'll shut up... have at it.

If I wanna watch the game with other folks, I should move back to Baltimore. Thinking I can do that from afar is just stupid on my part. G'night...

If you don't get it, you just won't get it I guess.

Two batters into the game, we were losing.

What's our record against Boston the past, oh, I dunno, 5 years? It's not like we can hand the Red Sox free bases inning after inning and expect to win the baseball game, which, last I checked, is the objective of playing a baseball game.

Look, if you don't get frustrated watching us lose at home in front of 30,000 Red Sox fans, God bless you. I am unbelievably jealous of your ability to not care.

Trust me, over the last 11, 12 however many years it's been, I wish I didn't care either.

[crowmst3k!]

Hunter?

Buck?

Joe Angel?

The Corpse of Harry Caray?

Pretty much anyone.

Joe Angel for me. He's great. I like his voice, his enthusiasm, his accuracy, his delivery. He is a good announcer.

[RShack]

If you don't get it, you just won't get it I guess.

Two batters into the game, we were losing.

What's our record against Boston the past, oh, I dunno, 5 years? It's not like we can hand the Red Sox free bases inning after inning and expect to win the baseball game, which, last I checked, is the objective of playing a baseball game.

Look, if you don't get frustrated watching us lose at home in front of 30,000 Red Sox fans, God bless you. I am unbelievably jealous of your ability to not care.

Trust me, over the last 11, 12 however many years it's been, I wish I didn't care either.

Who said I don't get frustrated? And if you're implying I don't care, you better rethink that.

Here's my problem (and I agree up front that it is *my* problem): It's bad enough to deal with the frustrating parts. That's the kind of thing where I like to watch games with others who actually *like* the team. It helps make it better, or at least not so bad. For me personally, having to watch the frustrating parts *and* listen to you b*tch and moan non-stop just makes it worse. When 1 in every 5 posts in the thread is you spewing negativity, that sorta ruins the ballgame-watching experience. Maybe it makes it better for you. But it makes it worse for me. I tend to stay out of game threads when you're in them, because what you mainly do is just crap indiscriminately all over the place. How you think that makes watching a ballgame fun is completely beyond me.

Now, maybe you just wanna vent, and I agree that board rules give you every right to do that. But, for myself, being a fan of this team is plenty job enough without also getting stuck being the captive audience for your personal anger-therapy schtick. It's not anger-therapy at all. It doesn't improve anything. It's just spreading negative crap all over everybody else's computer screen. So, either your crap gets dumped on everybody else, including me, or else they leave. For me, that's not exactly a great choice. In fact, it doesn't really give me very much choice at all. When you threaten to leave the thread I get hopeful. Sadly, most of the time you don't do it, you stick around and keep crapping all over the thread. When you do leave, or when you skip one, IMO the tenor of the thread improves.

Please know that I don't think you're in any way a bad guy. AFAIK, you're a fine person. I've got absolutely nothing against you personally. I just wish you'd quit crapping all over the game threads, that's all. And I bet if you spent game after game listening to me having nonstop tirades, you'd probably wish I'd quit it too. In fact, you're probably plenty sick of me mentioning this, and the number of posts in which I do is just a tiny fraction of 1% of the posts in which you spew negative crap. So, if you're sick of me mentioning it, just imagine how weary I am of trying to watch a ballgame while you're doing a non-stop rant.