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Sherrill…on the DL
20. August 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
Sherrill is on the disabled list?! (Hope I didn’t give you a fright worrying that Sherrill was on the down low. I don’t even want to think about that.)
And none of you bothered to tell me? I wondered why he didn’t pitch last night, but I thought Trembley was trying to mix things up or give him a rest.
So should we just write him off now? Do we ever have a pitcher who returns from the DL?
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Matusz
16. August 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
Hot off the press, this just in:
The Orioles on Friday announced that they have come to terms with LHP Brian Matusz, their first-round pick (fourth overall selection) in the 2008 First Year Player Draft.
Isn’t “coming to terms with” something you do when you resign yourself to bad news? Like, “I’ve come to terms with the fact that the Orioles will definitely not be going to the World Series this year, unless a new one is invented for those of us at the bottom of the standings.” Or, as someone put it to me yesterday, “I’ve come to terms with the fact that the Orioles ‘have fallen on hard times.’”
Here’s how freedictionary dot.com describes the idiom, “to start to accept and deal with a difficult situation.”
Still, despite how the wording was phrased to suggest the Matusz will be another dismal addition to our pitching staff, if you rearrange the letters in his name, you can spell Utz, and that’s gotta be good news. If not, I at least hope HBP will share some of his special techniques to make next season interesting, if not good.
Interesting. Yes, I’ve come to terms with “interesting” being the most I should hope for.
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Definition of a Friend
17. July 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
I’ve been deservedly damned to hell. A friend of mine and I were talking on the phone a couple nights ago. As we were talking I was watching the start of the All Star Game. I assumed he was too. “Oh, there’s Frank” I exclaimed. “Are you watching the game?” “No,” he replied, “I wasn’t planning on it.”
But no self-respecting Orioles fan could hear that Frank was on the TV and not turn it on. So he did. A few minutes later the camera showed Earl. We shared our delight. After chatting for half an hour, including our usual argument over some piece of Orioles trivia, this time over whether Dempsey did (he did, I saw it!) or did not ever perform his rain delay home run act at Memorial Stadium, we hung up and went about our nights. For my part, I turned off the All Star game in the fifth inning to read and went to bed at a fairly reasonable hour. Somewhere in a small city in Ohio, my friend was sucked into watching a game he never intended to watch that lasted fifteen innings until 2:00 a.m. on a work night.
I chuckle with self-satisfaction. That’s what a real friend is. A real friend helps you overcome your baseball apathy even at the cost of your job performance. (Plus, that’s what he gets for not trusting my Orioles authority.)
SGG bringing positive change to the world. Just one more service I provide.
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Nanny Nanny Boo Boo
3. July 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
I have a dear friend from Baltimore who now lives in another state. We’ve been close since the 9th grade, and as much as I love him, he has a really annoying habit. He likes to argue every fine point about the Orioles with me, even though, a) I watch every game and he lives in a desolate place without MASN and b) Hello!
At the beginning of this season, he made some snide remark when Olson was brought up to the Os, “Isn’t he the one you hated last season?” “One of the ones I hated,” I corrected. In another conversation last year I was complaining about Hernandez’s lack of success in throwing out base stealers, “I miss Dempsey. No one stole a base on his watch.” My annoying friend promptly looked up statistics to prove to me that Dempsey was just average. Average my tushy.
This is how some people go wrong. They think they know the game or can predict a team’s success just by looking at the numbers. I’ll say it again, numbers only paint part of the picture. There’s much, much more to the game. For example, statistics don’t tell you when a play that was scored as a hit could have been a double play if your fielder had been a little faster, or when a reliever prevented the runners he inherited from scoring. (Well, I’m sure there is some statistic like that, it is baseball after all, but hopefully you know what I’m saying.)
Anyway, the whole point of this post is to point everyone to this wonderful post at Roar from 34, in which my whole point about Dempsey is confirmed by someone who is smarter and less biased than I.
In my usual mature way, I virtually stick out my tongue to my know-it-all friend. 
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Grrrrrrres
14. June 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
It is the second inning and I’m digging the uniforms, but not digging Burres. Does he understand that we have to beat the Pirates? Does he understand how important this is?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been looking forward to this Series since I saw it on the schedule. I really wanted to be there this weekend, and am really kicking myself for not following through. I’m stuck though because my husband is not all about planning our vacations around baseball so I have to play my baseball vacation cards, if you will, wisely. How I curse myself right now for moving so far away.
Anyway, the point is, we have to win. I don’t have a grudge about the ‘71 series, but I for sure do about the ‘79 series. If someone could urgently communicate to Burres that we have to win, I would greatly appreciate it. He doesn’t seem to know. If we lose, I will cry again. I will. Don’t think I won’t.
Also, just to throw this in…Sunday is the golf umbrella giveaway at Camden Yards. It’s a lovely Orioles umbrella and it’s not available for sale. The only golf umbrella that is for sale is $80 and not as nice, and even for me, that’s way too much money for an umbrella. Are they crazy? If my family loved me, they would get me the specific umbrella they’re giving away on Sunday. And the Wild Bill Hagy t-shirt on Tuesday. (Did you get the hint, Mom?)
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God is Cold
28. May 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
First, thanks to Mindpinball who seems to have fixed the whole “no winning” situation for us. Great work! I hope you didn’t have to rough up too many Ys fans at the game.
I’m in the Tucson airport waiting for my flight. Happy for the MLB audio subscription, for the first time in the last week, I’m listening to the game. I’ve been listening since the bottom of the seventh inning, but will I be able to hear the outcome of the game? It’s not looking good. A rain delay has eaten up the last twenty minutes and now my flight has started boarding. The tarp has just been removed. “Hurry up! Hurry up and play!” No one hears my cries.
Sigh.
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Best Baseball Players
9. May 2008 by Orioles Fanatic.
A friend of mine shared this “article” from Sports Illustrated about the best baseball players by number. It stops at number 22 for some reason. I found two of “the greatest” to be an outrage. Pul-lease!
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