Regardless of tonight's #1 Web Gem, Pete, I'm giving you the #1 Web Jab.

Nice.

Peter,
Is the MASN commercial with the kid and dad at the game the queerest thing you have ever seen?

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Pete's reply: I don't know, but it's a statement on the advertising economy that MASN has to run the same commercials so many times that they start to grate on you. Overall, I think their commercials have improved a lot over the past year, but you can only watch them so many times...That would go for any commercial for any product, except, of course, the Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man Alive" commercials, which I enjoy every time I see them.

And there's our nightly baserunning blunder... more reliable than any member of the bullpen.

Yeah, ESPN is a local joke-l station for everything Boston, isn't it?

Woohoo, Moeller knocked in a run while I'm typing.

GregB, what are the Orioles going to promote? How winning 90 games used to be an off year? (The geezerly couple wishing their kids well only to find out "their kids" are pics of Orioles players is as lightweight as Liberace's gold lamé.)

Moeller was safe.......the ump felt obliged to give him the call on effort.

Pete, if you could change your last name to one thing, would it be Manship?

I really should be drinking to enjoy the Minnesota reliever's name as much as I am right now.

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Pete's reply: That's an option, but I'm a Schmuck for life.

GrebB

Those MASN commercials are all really disturbing. You got that creepy one of the two chicks trying to hook up with the Oriole bird. The one with the fat man with an orioles heart condition then that kid with his Dad. First off kids hate the Orioles B) if any kid were to rant off like that to an older Oriole fan the older Oriole fan could easily say that the Orioles won when he was a kid and all that stuff now is BS. Also watch the pathetic MASN opening game sequence where it says this is our community and has some over the top corny @ss montage like Angelos wasn’t ever trying to sell the Orioles mainly to DC and NOVA and now he has to settle hahahah

The MASN commercials sucked last year but this year they are way out of control. You should see the Nats one they have on sometimes when some strange looking pedo is talking trash about the Mets. It’s so awful its flipping hilarious.

Well way for Dave Trembley and Juan to finally rip the team preaching accountability. LOL Maybe they should have tried this approach earlier this season.

Hey what happened to all the Pie bashing? Hahah LOSERS!!!

great to see guthrie put 2 nice efforts back-to-back

can't help but notice the 14-5 groundball to flyball That'll help him keep the ball in the yard

Manship is probably the coolest name ever.

Pete--Felix has played a fine game tonight, drawing two walks, scoring two runs (including going from first to home on Chad's double to left), and going one for two, including a home run.

All this dumping on him about "instincts" and his failures keeps bringing me back to the game he won for the Orioles on the bases earlier this season. Remember when Dave earned our praise with his insertion of Felix into the game as a pinch runner at second and Felix flew into third getting his pie onto the bag in time to be safe?

That was a remarkable play. Brian had made a rare bunt and it was pretty hard down the third base line. But Felix beat it out.

I think that night, on August 14th (Earl Weaver's 79th birthday when Pie hit for the cycle) and again tonight, we saw "Felix being Felix."

Barry, you are absolutely right. This guy has enough tools that Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus ranked him a top prospect. He didn't get any help from Lou Piniella, who is notoriously hard on rookies. Plus, the Cubs are/were in a different position than the Orioles. But take a look at the two teams now, which one would you rather have?

Being from Chicago and having seen Pie play in the minors, I had no doubt he had the tools, but would he get the chance? Whenever I pointed out Pie's virtues, especially on this blog, I was called everything from Peter Angelos' illegitimate son to the anti-Christ.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and say that Pie has made it, some of his baseball decisions are downright scary, but there is no doubt of this guy tremendous upside and potential. And if he turns out to be half the player he could be, then the Orioles got a real bargain.

It is number one on Sportscenter's top ten.

Please excuse me for repeating myself........but Felix Pie should model his game after Juan Pierre of the Dodgers. Speed, base stealer, doubles hitter, good fielder, occasional home run power, great attitude, and hustles his ass off and never complains.

Pie has a ways to go to be compared to Pierre, but Pie has exactly the same tools, only with a better throwing arm, more power.....his major problem is he has the base running I.Q. of a tomato.

Hopefully he will continue to improve over the off season, and take some base running classes from Ricky Henderson.

For all the people complaining about Felix Pie just think about this....would you rather have Pie with his flashes of great ability and .290 average since the All-Star break or be suffering through or Garret Olson and another season of 6 ERA. I know lots of you will hate to admit this but despite his mental errors at times Pie for Olson is looking like it could end up a nice trade for us.

Micah:

Could not agree with your more. Pie was a cheap pickup and a safe decision to leave on the roster all year. He is at worst, a 4th outfielder/pinch runner, at best he gives us another starter allowing, us to trade someone, or move in if someone gets injured.

Pie will be in this game a lot longer than the manager and third base coach. I love how he credits Crowley so much for his turnaround at the plate. I see a truly dynamic player, perhaps more power than Juan Pierre, but good analogy nonetheless. I'd rather have a rook making aggressive mistakes than afraid to push the envelope. I think its remarkable how he kept his head up after getting buried the first time this year.

Trembley is disgusting, but not worth the time it takes to post this

Pete's reply: That's an option, but I'm a Schmuck for life.

Rupert Pupkin's rebuttal: Better to be a king for a day than a Schmuck for a lifetime.