Austin Hays just verified this report from earlier today. There’s been some shit brewing in this locker room and we’ve been witnessing bleed onto the field.
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You think you do but you don’t really want the Orioles on Sunday Night Baseball. Give me Kevin Brown and Jim Palmer on a broadcast 10 times out of 10.
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Remember today after Mike Elias becomes tired of working for a rodeo clown and replaces Brian Cashman as Yankees GM and then eventually signs Gunnar Henderson as a Free Agent to play in pinstripes.
The first rookie in
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history to record 20+ doubles, 5+ triples, 20+ homers and 10+ stolen bases in a season. 🤯 Congratulations, Gunnar Henderson on being named the 2023
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AL Outstanding Rookie!
Burnes is now down to a 2.26 ERA and 1.02 WHIP but Orioles fans’ discourse would have you think he’s at like 3.56 and 1.22. He’s damn good and pitching like it.
La Canfora is not an Orioles fan, he’s not a Red Sox fan. He’s a paid professional stooge performing a character while covering a team in the market he works in. If he took a radio job in Milwaukee he’d paint himself blue and gold on day one.
Jorge Mateo is the biggest survivor on the 2024 roster. A twice failed prospect who was only supposed to be a bridge during the rebuild to keeping a number one prospect at bay while earning an everyday job when he was only projected to be a utility man off the bench.
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Two rival execs now believe the White Sox will wind up keeping Dylan Cease into the regular season. “There is no pressure on them to lower their asking price,” one said. “They’ll get what they want at the (trade) deadline.”
No joke.. I just had a non baseball/Orioles fan at work ask me if I saw Travis Kelce’s response to Elon Musk, which is both hilarious and troubling at the same time
I keep seeing people reference the 2023 Rangers as a reason not to give up but the glaring differences between the 2023 Rangers and the 2024 Orioles are that the Rangers never quit, had a HOF manager and could actually hit the ball
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The Orioles calling up Coby Mayo after making us watch Trevor Rogers pitch is like when your parents take you to Chuck E. Cheese but they tell you they’re getting a divorce
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Blaming the trade deadline after 100+ wins and nearly 4 months after the fact is like drunk dialing an ex girlfriend and asking how your old dog is doing
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I guess the good news for one night anyway is the fans came together long enough to stop arguing about future call ups and Frazier, McKenna, Mateo being in the lineup.
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Looked up Mason Miller’s 2023 stats, trying to figure out why everyone is obsessed with him. Had a 3.47 FIP in 33.1 innings. So he’s basically had a good 1.5 months (i.e. 2024) and now the O’s absolutely need to have him, according to some people. Insane.
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I do find it curious, they report on more mundane shit all day every day, then a new player shows up and they’re like “Hey piss pigs! This jack off will be wearing number 63”
Remember a month ago when the biggest controversy surrounding the Orioles was some doofus asking Felix about being called “King”? That was fun.
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Anybody who watched Tides games this season knew this was in the script but until you see it with your own eyes you weren’t going to believe just how dire Mayo’s defense is at 3rd base.
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Austin Hays on joining the Phillies:
“There's not very many teams you could feel like you're upgrading from where you were when your team was in 1st place. … I feel like I'm coming to a place where we have an even better chance of winning a World Series”
Might not be a coincidence that tonight’s game was 1-0… Brooks Robinson holds the record for number of times driving in the only run in a 1-0 victory.
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Everyone talks down about the yanks but they wanna be us. It’s a privilege to wear pinstripes. Every year we are in contention. I’m blessed to be able to compete for a playoff spot and always be contenders at the end.
DL Hall has been awesome story since his recall. His season was on the brink at one point. Can’t wait to see him over the course of a full season. There were times I didn’t think he was going to put it together.
Gunnar was the ROY. Grayson had a 2.58 ERA in the second half. Adley was an All-Star and 9th in MVP voting. Holliday is the best prospect in baseball.
Merry Christmas!
Adley Rutschman was selected ahead of Bobby Witt despite being 3 years older. That's gonna haunt The Warehouse for a long time. Along with Orioles fans
LOL. I don’t criticize Hyde much but Crawford is WAY better against lefties than righties. And Akin is slightly *worse* against lefties than righties. Why did they do this?
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Almost went with something to this effect as the caption. Now we have to wonder if some behind the scenes stuff led to the quick hook. I’m sure Hyde doesn’t appreciate being shown up like that.
Not sure why some people didn’t like the Kimbrel signing. The Phillies overused him last season because they knew he wasn’t coming back and he kept taking the ball because he’s a pro. Unlike Josh Hader who refused and is getting what he deserves in Houston.
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Ryan O'Hearn: “I believe in this group. I think there’s so much talent in here and so many just good baseball players that I’m just shocked and it sucks. Little bit embarrassing, honestly. I feel like we let the fans down.”
At this point you just have to hope this doesn’t bleed into next season. We all believed our own bullshit, the team included, when the reality is they’ve proven nothing and they no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt
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This season had been going so well that I forgot what it truly felt like to be an O’s fan. The drama of the last 24 hours is a reminder of what it’s usually like.
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After tonight Craig Kimbrel has 14 saves, he hasn’t had more than 24 in a season since 2018 when he had 42 while helping Boston win the World Series.
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