fire trembley

They should have made Trembley wear a girdle!

Yep we seriously need a salary cap to win against these equally burdened small market teams! I mean in order for us to draft well and keep guys for longer than 4 years we need that cap. We just need that cap to be smart again and to try hard. Everything is cap dependant!

This is great now tomorrow we get embarrassed on Fox nationally. Awesome!

Wayne,
Do everyone a favor and go away.

I believe Pete told you to go away
You question Pete's integrity...you are so overwhelmingly negative it's quite irritating

you constantly berate AM and never mention he won 2 world series with the twins.

You really don't know baseball but you like to pretend you do

The Rangers are so lucky. They are now 2.5 games behind the BoSox and have to play the Orioles 2 more times than they play a series with the Cleveland Indians. That alone could get them in front on the Wild Card.

Pete,
I really don't get Dave Trembley.
I agree with being creative with the lineup,.However why mess with THE ONE THING THAT'S BEEN WORKING ALL YEAR.

Roberts is as natural a leadoff hitter as there is in baseball.

I think Pie batting second would make good sense, but he keeps hitting Izturis there the last couple games which makes no sense.

Again it's great to think outside the box, but Roberts anywhere other than batting first seems to make no sense.

It just seems like a desperate move with no real thought to it.

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Pete's reply: I don't know why he did that, but with the way they're playing, I guess it's not crazy to try to shake things up.

Texas may not even need the wild card I think they could overtake the Angels.

Finally, Aubrey in the starting lineup. I thought he was called up for a reason. Rotate Scott and Aubrey in the DH/1st base rotation to see how it works out.

Hey, at least we LEAD the AL in fewest Wild Pitches with 27! See, our pitching staff can lead in something positive!! Of course, that could be because the WP's are getting hit out of the park instead of getting past the catcher....!

bill frederick

I think we should give Trembley a break on that one. I wanted to see that move made for awhile and well Brob did nail in the only run of the game. Pie does needs more work though before he can be a leadoff guy but this season is lost anyway so we might as well switch some things up and get guys practice for next season.

Pete--I really can't imagine these guys like playing for Dave Trembley. I have had bosses like him and was happy to quit those jobs when the first opportunity arose.

He singles out Pie for criticism all the time while staying silent about similar failures by his favorites. He constantly blames everyone else but himself for poor results. He gets ticked off that everyone else isn't appropriately ticked off following a loss the other day but tonight is a grinning fool at the end of the press conference when the topic of the gloves comes up.

Who wants a boss like that? Not me, and I don't make the kind of money these guys do. Can you imagine having a lousy boss that you know you could buy and sell 2 or 3 times over? Would you listen to such a person?

Probably explains why despite all his pleading for fundamentals it hasn't sunk in all year. They tuned this guy out real early.

Southern Dave

Thats why hes getting fired soon.

Hey Wayne,

Wow baseball has changed so much that if you've won 2 world series 2 decades ago, that was because baseball was so different then...not
You are just a real Idiot for saying that...

Macphail got the cubs closer to the World Series than anyone else for the past 100 years.... That is something, isn't it?

Oh so you worship youth....only things that happened in this decade are important....that is pretty stupid also

did you go to public schools by chance....did you vote for Obama??

ahhh..... that may explain some things such as worshipping youth and all that

Okay I am the fire trembley guy. Don’t confuse me with the bigoted Anonymous that just ranted off. I love everyone and went to a combination of private and public schools.

PS fire trembley

This blog gets weirder and weirder as the Orioles lose more games…

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Pete's reply: Yeah, isn't it great.

yeah wayne I think he sent that live from a klan meeting on his Blackberry

Sat, Sep 5 Texas 4:10 PM Matusz (3-2) Millwood (10-8)
Sun, Sep 6 Texas 1:35 PM Guthrie (9-13) Holland (7-9)
Tue, Sep 8 @ Boston 7:10 PM Hernandez (4-6) Buchholz (4-3)
Wed, Sep 9 @ Boston 7:10 PM Berken (4-11) Byrd (1-0)
Fri, Sep 11 @ NY Yankees 7:05 PM
Sat, Sep 12 @ NY Yankees 1:05 PM
Sun, Sep 13 @ NY Yankees 1:05 PM
Mon, Sep 14 Tampa Bay 7:05 PM
Tue, Sep 15 Tampa Bay 7:05 PM
Wed, Sep 16 Tampa Bay 7:05 PM
Thu, Sep 17 Tampa Bay 7:05 PM
Fri, Sep 18 Boston 7:05 PM
Sat, Sep 19 Boston 7:05 PM
Sun, Sep 20 Boston 1:35 PM
Mon, Sep 21 @ Toronto 7:07 PM
Tue, Sep 22 @ Toronto 7:07 PM
Wed, Sep 23 @ Toronto 7:07 PM
Fri, Sep 25 @ Cleveland 7:05 PM
Sat, Sep 26 @ Cleveland 7:05 PM
Sun, Sep 27 @ Cleveland 1:05 PM
Mon, Sep 28 @ Tampa Bay 7:08 PM
Tue, Sep 29 @ Tampa Bay 7:08 PM
Wed, Sep 30 @ Tampa Bay 7:08 PM
Thu, Oct 1 @ Tampa Bay 7:08 PM
Fri, Oct 2 Toronto 7:05 PM
Sat, Oct 3 Toronto 7:05 PM
Sun, Oct 4 Toronto 1:35 PM

Monday Oct 5 TREMBLEY FIRED

Tuesday Oct 6 Davey returns!

Let me first say how funny that is about the gloves. Not the sarcastic funny, but funny because of what Angel/Manfra were talking about when Feldman has to switch gloves. They were talking about how Meredith had a similar glove color and how he never had a problem with it before.

Wayne,

Speaking of what decade is it can you pleeeeeeeeease tell all these Davey Johnson freaks the same thing? Please? Since they all think he's God's gift to coaching, but hasn't done squat in how long?

Though I will stand up for you on the public school and Obama thing. That was kind of out there.

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Pete's reply: You don't have to answer Wayne anymore. He's decided to move to another blog, with my blessing.

Pete, I have a two part question. One, how difficult will it be to bring in free agents (the good ones) to a team that will most likely lose 100+ games? Two, in some so sick way, will this terrible season and the losing culture that has developed around here, perhaps force Andy, to be creative with trades and perhaps sign some aging albeit productive free agents, to serve as mentors to the young players?

My feeling, is that you have to a good mix of young guys with some scrappy vets that know how to take pitches, win games and be vocal leaders.

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Pete's reply: Two things are working against the O's in the free agent market -- they have not made the late-season improvement that was suppose to make the franchise more attractive to outside players...and the market isn't exactly bursting wtih the kind of impact players they need. I'm waiting to see if MacPhail is going to try and trade for a big bat, since there aren't a lot of free agents that are a great fit.

No doubt Pete, this isn't a great free agent class. I am hopeful that one of the young starting pitchers, a young reliever coupled with Scott, could bring a 1B or 3B, but the most interesting thing to me, is if the Alex Rios salary dump (yes, it's not worked out for the Sox), will be something that other teams do to shed payroll. A lot of teams will need to revamp like the Cubs and Astros, who have older players that have big bats at positions of need for the O's so my take, is this will be an interesting winter, but like you said, the big free agents, can't like what they see in Baltimore enough to sign on the dotted line so they will have to really overpay or hope someone falls in their lap.

Well if the Orioles have to trade for a run producer, you know what everyone would want. I have no idea yet who is going to be available in the free agent market, I guess we will see. Huff will be available! But lets be real, a 40 homerun guy does not get you that many wins. Look at Adam Dunn!

no no I am the real fire trembley guy!
no wait I am the real bigoted guy!
oh I need some health care and Quick!!!
maybe there will be something in the Obama care for us folks perhaps something like the Russians have...like sending folks off to siberia that disagree with our "divine" leaders

tire frembley.......

"I love everyone and went to a combination of private and public schools." anonylous
9-4-09 11:18 P.M.

you forgot to mention you love everyone except people you consider "bigoted" and of course Trembley

"oh consistency, thou art rare"

Fire Anonymous!

Pete, Haven't heard Troy Patton's name lately. If I recall he was probably the biggest piece in the Tejada deal, but then he had the shoulder injury. I know he was knocked around a bit in AAA--has he slid down on the totem pole?

I'm a big Brian Roberts fan and consider him one of the very best second basemen in all of baseball. However his comment to the effect that it doesn't matter how many games you lose if you can't win the championship is a perfect example of what ails the O's. The unvarnished honesty in Brian's comment is all the proof you need that losing is easily tolerated by this team. This loser's culture can only be changed by a very demanding chief executive of baseball operations and AM makes the problem worse not better. It doesn't matter a bit whether AM or his predecessor was responsible for the Twins success 25 years ago. It doesn't matter whether AM did good or bad with the Cubs and why he was dumped. What matters is what he's doing to eliminate the O's losers culture. On this standard, AM is a total failure. He publicly announces low expectations and sets minimal goals for improvement from year to year. He dumps an all-star closer for nothing and gives away the clean-up hitter. He shuts down pitchers rather than pushing them to get better and tougher. If this is the best he can do, AM should be fired. No wonder Brian Roberts feels the way he does.

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Pete's reply: Oh, another post on "expectation management." You're going to take one comment by Roberts and expand it into the entire organizational philosophy and then fire MacPhail, who didn't actually say it. You really do want to go back to the Angelos/Thrift era, don't you. They said every year they were going to compete. I don't recall that translating into any actual achievement, but it sounded good every year. It's about talent, not phony self-esteem.

I love everyone even Dave Trembley I just don’t think he’s good at his job that’s all. I got nothing against bigots either they are entitled to their opinions as much as anyone else I just wish they would mellow out.

PS fire trembley

Regarding your reply to my post, you seem to be equating high expectations with phony self-esteem. Your logic would suggest that low expectations equate to success. The fact is that AM has established low expectations with his "LONG TERM" PLAN; his JUST DO BETTER THAN LAST YEAR'S COLLAPSE STANDARD FOR SUCCESS; and his CODDLING OF THE PLAYERS which will almost guarantee more medicre results in the years ahead. Your inability to reply to my post other than to suggest AM is better than Thrift is testimony to the fact you don't have a serious response.

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Pete's reply: No, actually, what I'm saying is that you're mantra about high expectations -- which we've all heard a hundred times here because you apparently have nothing else to add -- presupposes that what Andy says has anything to do with how players perform on the field...and, at it's most ridiculous extreme, implies that MacPhail's stated expectations somehow have brainwashed the team and turned them all into losers -- as if they all hang on his every word. I think you're just a little naive about professional athletes and how they are actually motivated. Sounds like you took a psychology class in junior college -- or worse -- went to one of those positive thinking seminars and took it all a bit too seriously. It just doesn't apply here. Nobody knows better than the players themselves how good or bad a team is. They don't need anybody blowing phony smoke up their rear ends and wouldn't respond to it.

Pete,

I expect you to make more money next season.

There, now let's see if it works just because I said I'm expecting it.

I also expect the economy to turn around and universal health care (ever public option there is) that works, but won't cost anyone any extra money. Oh, and a pony.