Pete,

We need to get Hendrickson out of the rotation. Based on his numbers he gives up runs in the 4th inning every time out. Tells me the second time around is his problem!

Need to get Wieters up now! Zaun can't hit or throw. Not really impressed with the SS either in the field or at the bat and Pie just isn't working out. I still think it was a good chance to take and would do it again, but as the song goes "you got to know when to hold e'm and you got to know when to fold e'm"! Time to move on!

There is no way they can ignore Reimold much longer.

I wonder who would be more effective in the rotation right now: Mark Hendrickson or Chris Tillman? If the answer is Tillman (and it surely is) why isn't he there? Help me understand how a pitcher can be rushed too quickly and never recover? Is it strictly a mental thing? What's wrong with learning at the major league level?

is the strike zone as horribly variable in real time as it is on mlb gameday?

The O's 2009..a season to dismember. Please sever Eaton, Hendrickson, Zaun, Pie and Freel. We might not win but at least Bergesen, Weiters, Reimold, Tillman and Hernandez are interesting to watch. April accomplished nothing! The paint by numbers approach McPhail and you Mr. Schmuck promoted results in a velvet Elvis painting everytime.

Pete it only took this team 24 games to wind up where there belong and that is in last place.And that is where they are going to stay the rest of the year.This team is life less after only 24 games and that clearly falls on the manager and the manager alone. Now what are the fans suppose to do pete, there were only 11,000 fans going to the games when they were winning , so how many do you think will be there now.Everybody can talk all they want about the future but when a team has a losing attitude for all this years it's very tough to all of sudden learn how to win. You can make 66,000,00 or 40,000,00 million like nick and brian , but when you lose it's hard to go through this year after year.They say dave t is the right manager for this team because he has patience, i say dave t is the wrong manager for this team for the same reason. They need a manager with some fire to light this guys up and stop going through the motions after just 24 games.

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Pete's reply. Nothing that has happened was not totally predictable. They are who we thought they were. Why is everyone acting surprised. Did you think after the 6-2 start they were going to be a .750 team?

Pete unfortunately rick maese, and david steele lost there jobs, and now there is only you, jeff, and mike preston to report on the orioles. By the way the sunpapers were a joke this morning with only 5 sports pages and two articles on the orioles that i already read on the internet.Back to what i was saying rick and david are far more critical of the orioles then you and i don't mean that to be critical, like you answering my email with THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE. That might be true pete but what i was trying to point out is this team is already showing signs of playing without any emotion and instead of you picking up on that because i was critical of trembley you choose just to take the easy way out and and say did you expect anything more. yes i expect this team to give a 100% effort every game and by having a laid back manager like dave i don't see that right now after 24 games. See the orioles and the ravens really get a break by the lay offs at the sun beacuse outside of mike preston they will get the ultimate break from the rest of you.

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Pete's reply: You're right. I never criticize anyone just to be criticizing them. Teams that lost 12 of 15 games generally look flat. When you see one that doesn't, let me know because I've been covering baseball for 30 years and I haven't seen one. We are one month into the season with a team that has won almost exactly the number of games I thought it would at this point, so I'm supposed to say they aren't living up to expectations? I'm going to try and be consistent. I'm there pretty much every day, and I don't see anybody failing to hustle. The only guy who seems lost is Pie, and that's a different issue.