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JTrea81 Hangout Grand Counsel

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And don't bring up the "wins and losses matter this year" bullcrap. Anybody with half a brain knew we weren't going to magically jump to the top of the standings. With Wieters, Reimold, Matusz, Hernandez, Tillman, and even Pie among other who are having their first full MLB seasons, if you thought the win loss turn-around was going to be huge I think you're being naive.

This would be fine except he said wins and losses would matter before the offseason and then tried to pass off what he did as upgrading the team so that Trembley had all the weapons he needed to do just that. Had he actually gone out and got some difference making players instead of trying to pass off what little he did get as making a difference, he wouldn't look as bad as he does now.

I knew the offense needed a major upgrade just for the reasons you state.

The bottom line is that MacPhail said wins and losses matter this season. And he didn't back it up and hasn't yet.

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I just hope he doesn't do it like Tiger Woods's press conference that one day where he stares straight into the camera and every little mannerism he does is thought-out and scripted. That would just make me mad.

But I do hope he does something like the Michael Scott Apology Video, where he has a paper american flag in the background and gives an ultimatum at the end. That would be nice.

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And don't bring up the "wins and losses matter this year" bullcrap. Anybody with half a brain knew we weren't going to magically jump to the top of the standings. With Wieters, Reimold, Matusz, Hernandez, Tillman, and even Pie among other who are having their first full MLB seasons, if you thought the win loss turn-around was going to be huge I think you're being naive.

Bulls--t.

MacPhail was the one who said wins and losses matter this year. Not JTrea...not any other fan. It was MacPhail.

The O's won 64 games last year. A big turnaround would still put them at .500 or under. That is what the majority of people on these boards were saying they thought would happen before the season started.

Face it. This season has gone completely wrong. This was the year we were supposed to take a step forward, even if it was just one step. So far we've taken about a dozen steps back.

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MacPhail is going to release the video from "The Ring", so that any O's fan who watches will be dead in 7 days.

Then he is free to create a new, non-disgruntled, less demanding fanbase.

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This would be fine except he said wins and losses would matter before the offseason and then tried to pass off what he did as upgrading the team so that Trembley had all the weapons he needed to do just that. Had he actually gone out and got some difference making players instead of trying to pass off what little he did get as making a difference, he wouldn't look as bad as he does now.

I knew the offense needed a major upgrade just for the reasons you state.

The bottom line is that MacPhail said wins and losses matter this season. And he didn't back it up and hasn't yet.

Bulls--t.

MacPhail was the one who said wins and losses matter this year. Not JTrea...not any other fan. It was MacPhail.

The O's won 64 games last year. A big turnaround would still put them at .500 or under. That is what the majority of people on these boards were saying they thought would happen before the season started.

Face it. This season has gone completely wrong. This was the year we were supposed to take a step forward, even if it was just one step. So far we've taken about a dozen steps back.

As I have said as early as April 14th in this thread, AM saying that this year was about wins and losses was his biggest mistake so far as the O's GM... bigger than Atkin, Gonzalez or any other move he has made so far.

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As I have said as early as April 14th in this thread, AM saying that this year was about wins and losses was his biggest mistake so far as the O's GM... bigger than Atkin, Gonzalez or any other move he has made so far.

What else was he going to say? Before the season started, most people on this board thought that this team was capable of playing around .500 ball this season. AM probably thought the same thing. He had every reason to think that this team should win some games, and now that they aren't he has every reason to follow through with the implied threat to make some major changes.

How is he worse off having said what everyone who cares about the team agreed with? It's not like he's in a corner and has to scrap the rebuild just to "save the season"...if he fires Trembley and the coaches, he'll have enough credibility to enable him to continue the rebuild by trading Millwood, Tejada and so on later this summer.

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As I have said as early as April 14th in this thread, AM saying that this year was about wins and losses was his biggest mistake so far as the O's GM... bigger than Atkin, Gonzalez or any other move he has made so far.

But why? It is logical to think that the team is ready to make strides after 2 full seasons of rebuilding.

And really, AM had no clue this team would start the season so horrendously. We could still be a bad team and have 12-13 wins, but feel a lot better about where we are headed.

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As I have said as early as April 14th in this thread, AM saying that this year was about wins and losses was his biggest mistake so far as the O's GM... bigger than Atkin, Gonzalez or any other move he has made so far.

He needed to say it because it was time for wins and losses to matter.

The mistake was not backing it up with actions.

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Back to the video, if he is going to spout the same old stuff he has been saying since the beginning of the season about how he is sure more now than ever about "the plan", then he can just give some quotes to a reporter and call it a day.

If he is releasing a video, he better have something actually substantial to say.

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