I love a lively debate, but...
Maybe everybody got cabin fever during a whole day of being snowed in, but that isn't any excuse to turn the blog into an attempt to determine who has the most testosterone. We're discussing baseball (mostly) here, which is a form of entertainment not to be taken so seriously that anyone has to challenge anyone to throw down in the M&T Bank Stadium parking lot before today's Ravens game. Save all that energy for the Bears.
I'm doing my best not to censor the comments section, but if I have to start taking down threatening comments, I'm going to block those URL's from further participation. I doubt that will be much of a deterent, since there are thousands of blogs out there that will accept whatever anybody wants to put into words, but we've had a great group of people conversing here for the past 16 months and I really like the tenor of 99 percent of the conversation.
It doesn't matter if you think I don't know squat about baseball or you agree with everything I write. The fun is in the debate, as long as nobody's trading addresses or using gross profanity. Let's try to stay in that spirit. And, for the record, I definitely know squat, but I don't like his OPS.






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Comments
Maybe the state of the Orioles is making people mad after 12 years of total disgrace!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 20, 2009 12:37 PM
CHAOS REIGNS!!!!
Posted by: fox | December 20, 2009 12:38 PM
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE
Posted by: pAT baTeMAN | December 20, 2009 12:41 PM
Public Broadcasting's news team will be in LOT O at 3p sharp...NO COMMERCIALS! NO MERCY!
Whose bringing the trident?
Posted by: cush | December 20, 2009 12:56 PM
I come here to find hope.
Posted by: ken | December 20, 2009 1:09 PM
Pete's reply: [...] By the way, another great thinker -- me -- once said this: "Beware comparing something as sacred as the civil rights movement with baseball."
Thanks, Pete. I know these are complicated times for O's fan, and I think baseball is sacred in its way, but the Rev. Dr. King still doesn't need to be trotted out as an analyst of our rebuilding project.
Posted by: Birdfan from Birth | December 20, 2009 2:24 PM
Reminds me of one of the best sports movies ever:
"Oh good you can count."
"And you can count...on ME waiting for you in the parking lot."
Posted by: James C | December 20, 2009 2:26 PM
Oriole fans!!! Stop fighting each other and start fighting Angeloser!!!!! FREAK OUT!! Start a gorilla movement of demonstrations on blogs and at the warehouse!! Make tees and posters!! This is the warehouse’s plan. A bad team in the AL East that draws controversy and has people talking still will keep the team in the black. They will never contend as long as PA owns the team they will just get by…. Comfortably…
Posted by: Che | December 20, 2009 3:00 PM
Guerrilla: A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment.
Gorilla: The largest of the anthropoid apes native to the forests of equatorial Africa.
Posted by: not brooks | December 20, 2009 5:17 PM
Damn, I just bought the King Kong suit on Craigslist and everything....
Posted by: James C | December 20, 2009 8:28 PM
James C- Guns don't kill people... I KILL PEOPLE!!!!
hahaha!!! happy gilmore...
they don't sell that shirt anywhere.
Posted by: SHAMROCK | December 20, 2009 8:30 PM
Actually that quote appeared a long time ago in a Weird Al Yankovic movie called UHF.
"Guns don't kill people, I do."
Will that gorilla movement also include that elephant that paints? Maybe it can do the protest signs.
Is Koko going to be the leader of this gorilla movement? After all, she knows how to sign so many words and has appeared on the internet via online chats.
Just think if we had all those pitchers on this club named:
Bergensen
Bergeson
Matsuez
Mateusz
Matzis
I mean, we'd have a 5 man rotation right there, not including Bergesen and Matusz.
Posted by: The Mythical One | December 20, 2009 11:43 PM
"Guns don't kill people, postal workers do."
Posted by: Egghead | December 21, 2009 10:07 AM
The quote was on the big guys shirt in the movie. Tried to find it that year for Christma... err... Winter Solstice Gift Exchange Day...
Posted by: SHAMROCK | December 21, 2009 11:38 AM
James - awesome movie, I totally agree!
"I believe that's Mr. Gilmore's!!!"
Posted by: jeffChill | December 21, 2009 1:37 PM
Another amazing movie. We got it all on UHF!
Posted by: James C | December 21, 2009 6:55 PM
Here I thought this was a baseball blogger's site. What has all the name calling and rabble-rousing got to do with the present state of the O's Union? They're in trouble and getting no better despite what our Cal State leader says.
By the way, speaking of Pete, say Pete, what's the status of ANY contact with Bedard's agent or are the GM's "prospects" enough to carry us through baseball this year and next and...
I'm also still praying (no, you don't use prayer to get ball players) still hoping that the O's MAKE THAT DEAL with the Padres for Gonzales. Two or even three "prospects from the basket of ten that the O's GM has acquired together with a Scott or Aubrey wouldn't devistate the O's future plans would it? I'd even be satisfied with Atkins at 3B if AG were at first. Don't you think that the entire pitching staff would be more relaxed with a line-up of Roberts, Jones, Markakis, Gonzales, Weiters, Reimold, Atkins, Pie/Scott and Itzuris? Giving up 3-4 runs wouldn't automatically assure them of an "L" for the game as it did last year.
Might even give Trembly some job assurance. I wasn't too enamored of the job he did last year but he just might grow into it a lot more this coming year if he's given the players that he needs. Bedard and Gonzales would certainly help. If they, or players close to their ability, aren't added then Dave will be the fall guy next year no matter what he does. GMs don't fire themselves.
Posted by: jayceeO's | December 21, 2009 10:36 PM