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Ridiculous quote from Rick Dempsey on 105.7 this morning

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Wow, that is crazy. Drink Gatorade when you're hot and active and it replentishes your electrolytes.

I do believe that it's got to be jarring when you spend a month in the Florida sun with temps at 70-90 degrees each day and then come to Baltimore and play a few night games in April (and other cold weather cities) where temps are in the 40's.

I don't think it should make a team start 2-16 though.

It's definitely jarring, but there are a dozen other teams who make a similar transition (and the teams that play those teams at home for the first series or more) who don't seem to have a problem with it.

What's scary is that it's a declaration that has just enough "hey, that's a decent point to it" that anybody who thinks Dempsey is a solid candidate can jump on it as more proof that he's the guy.

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Of course, obviously Dempsey miss-spoke or exaggerated in making his statement that the Orioles have it worse than every other team. So what? It sure isn't that big of a deal to me.

You didn't hear the interview so you have absolutely no way of making that determination. You're uninformed, so you should probably stop pretending like you know what Dempsey MUST have meant and that he was SURELY exaggerating.

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WOW! This is almost as bad as that guy who thought our homer Jim Hunter was actually Catfish Hunter.....astounding

Hahahaha, I always somehow forget about that. It's no wonder O5F likes Dempsey so much. They're kindred spirits (and brains).

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Did you listen to the entire interview? Of course you didn't. He didn't mis-speak. He made the statement and then elaborated on it.

The entire interview was chock-full of foolish statements like the one I paraphrased.

By the way...a nutritional supplement was determined to have had more to do with the above-referenced player's passing than the heat.

Also, and I'm sure it's not intentional that you missed it, but every team in Major League Baseball has Spring Training in either the tropical climate of Florida or the blazing desert heat in Arizona.

If you hijack my thread I will kick you out. Seriously.

:drek::drek:

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Scottie...did you get the impression that he was just trying to make excuses for the sorry play? That was another ploy to get into the managers seat?

I'm obviously not Scottie (I just play him on TV) but my impression was that he was throwing out his "profound knowledge and understanding" and just forgot the "profound" and "understanding" part...

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Scottie...did you get the impression that he was just trying to make excuses for the sorry play? That was another ploy to get into the managers seat?

He's openly campaigning for the manager's job. He was in-studio on the Ed Norris Show this morning to share with Ed and Ken why he's the right man for the job.

He used the "salt" comment to set up how much better-conditioned he'll make the players if he were the manager, how he's experienced going from Florida to Baltimore in April, so he can do that. LOL

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I'm obviously not Scottie (I just play him on TV) but my impression was that he was throwing out his "profound knowledge and understanding" and just forgot the "profound" and "understanding" part...

Sounds like he forgot the knowledge part to me. :D

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He's openly campaigning for the manager's job. He was in-studio on the Ed Norris Show this morning to share with Ed and Ken why he's the right man for the job.

He used the "salt" comment to set up how much better-conditioned he'll make the players if he were the manager, how he's experienced going from Florida to Baltimore in April, so he can do that. LOL

Gotcha...Figured it was more campaigning...This is really getting pathetic.

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Is Florida's heat/humidity really that much worse than Baltimore's in July and August?

Absolutely not. The O's and other teams with spring training in Florida are there doing a relatively cool time as I'm sure you know.

I'm sick of all the excuses from Dempsey and the others. We stink because the other teams have better players. The heat argument holds absolutely no water.

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I've lost any of the respect I ever had for Dempsey, listening to his nonsense this morning was just the final straw (probably didn't help that I got pulled over while listening, stupid expired emissions, but I digress). I'll be absolutely furious if Dempsey is our manager next year. I'd honestly rather have Garrett Atkins at 1B next year than Dempsey in the manager's chair.

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