Everyone knows it's been a while for the Orioles. This is really amazing, though: when they clinch the division about 10 minutes from now, it'll be the first time they've done so at home since 1969. (According to Buck Martinez, anyway, so that may or may not be true.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
=DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
i was 9 the last time this happened
Un-freaking-believable
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
Adam Jones pies fans
https://vine.co/v/OWm659gY9M6
https://vine.co/v/OWmwFBLVIXv
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 03:43 (nine years ago) link
I like the Orioles--I'd as soon they win it all as anyone. They're the shock of the year for me, even more than KC. I evidently missed something; never in a million years would I have guessed they'd win 95-100 games and lap the division. It was only a few weeks ago when I saw them at the Skydome and they were all of 3-1/2 games up on the Jays.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/d9e28b9f8cb58a1e25e7cd4ab8af54a28dacf8f7/c=330-110-1422-931&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/DetroitFreePress/DetroitFreePress/2014/09/17/1410980752000-AP-Twins-Orioles-Baseball-OT.jpg
― Andy K, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:57 (nine years ago) link
i might root for the Orioles depending on matchups, but Showalter is p much an obstacle.
how did Steve Pearce get on the bWAR leaderboards, btw?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 September 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
wtf is your deal with showalter
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
pearce is a great mystery, but i love it. at least w/ fWAR you can (maybe) point to noise in defensive metrics goosing his number a bit...
― j.q higgins, Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
he's an oldschool prick xp
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
i searched the archives and 100% of the posts mentioning showalter over the past 14 years is just you going "fuck that guy"
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
i am consistent
1) used to manage the Stankees
2) blasted Ken Griffey Jr for wearing his hat backwards PRE-GAME
3) was full of candyass Jeter-worship quotes in last Sunday's Times
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
after years of listening to his interviews and pressers i'm pretty sure #2 can be attributed to reckless youth, he'd never say something like that today. every time i read about buck in the 90s he sounds radically different than he does today. he seems weathered now
and everyone's worshiping jeter, come on. if it makes you feel any better the orioles literally gave him crabs.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
it's just baseball, hating is fun
really from the AL side I want the WS to either be Oakland's happy ending or a showcase for Trout.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
i want the A's to collapse completely bc a job should never be halfassed and also it'd be hilarious given beane's late season trading strategy also because of sean doolittle's gnome beard
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't like that comedian named Showalter either.
If you don't believe in halfassed World Series champs, may i introduce you to TOURNAMENT BASEBALL and the 2006 Cardinals in particular.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 00:08 (nine years ago) link
in case you missed it i hate the cardinals
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
and you conveniently ignored my point about sean doolittle's fucking gnome beard
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
hey he's Australian, that's bad enough
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
if by australian you mean south dakotan...
― j.q higgins, Friday, 19 September 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
ok they do still hv an australian or was that last year
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link
balfour
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 19 September 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
orioles are on a small run of inexplicably getting value out of shitty former pirates
gorkys hernandez should give them a call
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 September 2014 02:37 (nine years ago) link
the mclouth effect
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 22 September 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
13 wins against the yankees this year, most since '76
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
i have a brief opportunity to buy tickets to the ALDS! i hope i obtain some!
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 September 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
i mean, without paying 6x as much on stubhub
too soon for a hot stove thread? jj hardy just signed a 3 yr extension
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
weird timing on that (see the cautionary tale of Roger Peckinpaugh)
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/10/9/6952859/jj-hardy-contract-extension-orioles-alcs-2014-world-series-1925
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Chris Cotillo @ChrisCotilloFollow#Orioles aren't done after signing Hardy. Latest on extension talks with Nelson Cruz and Nick Markakis: http://sbnation.com/e/6716684 3:00 PM - 9 Oct 2014
lol ok
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
sentimental me wants to keep nick around knowing he won't be worth it
cruz would be a terrible move tho, just give him a QO and let someone else deal with the inevitable disappointment
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
aaaand markakis denies any extension talk.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 9 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/a-partially-annotated-list-of-baltimore-orioles-promoti-1693563998?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
every child's dream has clearly been to inherit a buck showalter garden gnome
although it does sort of make sense he is def comparable to a potentially murderous occult creature
― are... are you saying you fucked a gazelle? (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
makes more sense than the Mets' deGrom gnome
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 18:48 (nine years ago) link
“What is the purpose?” Showalter asked later. “Do people get up in the morning and they go, ‘Honey, are we going to the game today? …They’ve got that gnome tonight. Pack up the kids. We’re going?’”…Really?!”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/11/orioles-manager-buck-showalter-is-not-looking-forward-to-his-garden-gnome-giveaway-night/
― JoeStork, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
hah
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
can that be the 2015 orioles thread title plz
― johnny crunch, Friday, 27 March 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link