If Duncan can't help him out then Hill might as well pack his bag and go home.

Well oriole fans it's a beautiful day here in towson wth the exception of a liitle wind. Just took my English Springer Spaniel Quincy for a nice walk. Less then two weeks left before the start of the regular season and outside of nick and brian m and a few relief pitchers this team still has many many question marks. I am still waiting for miguel and Johnny bench oh excuse me matt weiters to start hitting.In addition to bench yesterday i heard many of the kool aid drinkers comparing him to joe mauer, you know when you don't have a winning team and all you have is hope i quess you can continue to dream about things like that. Unless they correct his long and i mean long swing he will be lucky to be half the player they project him to be. Brian keeps swining from both sides ofthe plate and dave t still say's he will be ready for opening day. Ourj 10,000,00 ,illion dollar experiment from japan was quoted in today's paper has being 100% certain he can take the ball on opening day.In yesterday's game there were at least 3 balls that should have been caught that dropped in , oh well dave said things were going to be better defensively this year. I quess that phase of teh game will also be ready for opening day as well. Oh well i quess i have had my say for today so back to my yard work.

Matusz is by far the brightest light in in ST so far, I hope he continues to do well. Maybe the O's will catch a break with Hill and score some runs today, they might even pick up a walk or two, that would be a nice change.

Hey, blancione, you know that little tag under the name of this blog? The one that says it is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt?

Pete says he disagrees. I, however, think you should agree.

Hey Blancione don't forget Pie. He's 6 - 13 this spring w/ two blasts and a triple off the wall.

However the 13 ab's worries me. He had a shoulder issue but has been fine for a week and still can't get in the lineup. It looks like the same old lame ass Trembley to me. Luke Scott has played, what, every day??

Thing one: Your day can't be more beautiful than ours today! The kind of day that makes you think about the ball park. (Okay, in a sweatshirt.)

Thing two: I'm excited about seeing this team start the season. I can understand that fans who can only enjoy baseball in terms of winning championships are frustrated and likely to remain that way, but I'm not one of those. One of the things I most want to see this year is Matusz's performance over the course of a whole season. I appreciate your prediction of Rookie of the Year for him. That's tough to get as a pitcher, but the last one for the O's was Greg Olson, who just had a monster year and could not be denied.

Hey ken i quess you didn't have anything to add to the discussion on the orioles you are like the many others that just try and pick apart somebody else. But once again i am glad i made your day

orioles just need to get a better pitching coach..

Hey Blancione,
You really should stick to the yard work-getting real tired...
Cheer for the yankees and let us watch the youngsters develop and the veterens do their thing in relative peace!

once again guys like newfieguy can't stand some one telling the truth about there beloved orioles. You will go to opening day and pretend to be the loyal fan that your writing projects then after the all str break you will be waiting for the ravens summer camp to open. I love it when these kool aid drinkers tell you to go cheer for the yankee's when you say something negative about the home town team.I live and die with the oriole but i refuse to be satisfied with a lame duck manager who was only brought back to baby sit players instead of leading them.

Oh, Bob, you poor, misguided, soul. There's plenty I could add, but what's the point?

I will tell you one thing. There's no way on God's green earth I will abandon the Orioles at the All-Star break or any break and go wait for Raven's training camp. I'm a baseball guy through and through and I really couldn't care less about the Ravens. Being from Chicago, the only football I follow is the Bears.

But, Bob, be prepared to sit down because I do agree with you about Trembley. Now is the time to play to win, not to play to see what you've got. Last season was like one long spring training. This year, serious progress needs to be made and I have serious doubts about whether Mr. Trembley is the right guy. No more Romper Room we need a manager who is going to hold the players accountable.

I'd love a guy like Leyland or Davey Johnson, someone who is not going to excuse the mistakes. I hear Bobby Valentine is available.

Enjoy the yard work!

Pete, OriolesHangout.com is reporting a rumor of an impending front office change (sounds like an addition). Have you heard anything?

blancione, still haven't firgure out the difference between the truth and your opinion?

Hey, blancione I thought you were going back out to do yard work? Here's a run on sentence back at you... Well blancione fans it's a beautiful day in Baltimore he did some yard work and stepped on a rake and hit himself on the face and got his clothes all wet with the sprinkler and stepped in dog crap and was watching what he thought was a woman in a bikini but was really a man and couldn't pull any weeds out. How's that for negativity?

Oriole fans: "excited" for the start of another losing season. The warehouse loves "fans" like Ken who don't care if we win or lose, it makes it easy for them to field an economical team full of prospects and retreads

I'm so delighted that we didn't block the progress of our injured LF by signing players like Bay or Holliday with their lofty 900+ ops's in the middle of the batting order.

How can losing be fun ?

Some of you will be satisifed with an 87 loss season and consider it "progress" I literally cannot fathom how that can be satisfying. There were moves that could've been made to improve this team significantly and immediately.

Our cost conscious GM only managed to procure a 36 yr old SS to play 3b. A 3b man with declining numbers for 3 years in a row to play 1b. A set up man with decreased velocity to close games in the al east, even though he only managed to save 10 of 17 chances in the NL last year. Everyone knows its easier to be a closer in the ALeast than the NL, right?

This is "progress" ?

Before you say it, I know all about the so-called "prospects." Everyone has prospects.

Ken is ready to hold Trembley accountable, but not the guy who assembles the roster ?

Earl Weaver, Jim Leyland, Davey Johnson or Casey Stengel couldn't win with this team

Make Trembley the scapegoat, all part of the "plan". That will buy the new guy a year or two for "evaluations" and "adjustments". Can't expect the new mgr to win right away now could we ?

Postpone winning back a yr or two every yr. Its all in the "plan"

(btw, I'm not a Trembley fan but you cant turn chicken shit into chicken salad)

Rick -

Bob has a hard time sticking to his promises. Several months ago, he vowed to never come back here if Trembley was still the O's manager in 2010.

Look how well that worked out...

"Not Ken" your post is precisely what I hate about some sports talk. Most of us are old enough to know what winning was like here. We're all aware of how the current ownership does things like play "We Are Family" between innings (yes I heard it at the park) and generally didn't have a clue for years. But you act like we need to be told this like we're a bunch of idiots. We are NOT satisfied with losing. However, we don't go around pontificating pompously. Do you think we're stupid? Ask the Reds, Rangers, Jays, so called "better" teams what they've won in the last 10 years. Baseball in general is not the way we remember it. What we want to do is discuss the current year and see what happens. I'd like to see your suggestions for improvement.

I'm not defending all of their moves, but LF and the closer are not an issue yet. Gonzalez + Bell are better than Sherill at this point. Ask LA in the playoffs about that one.

I would rotate Reimold and Scott at DH...

this is the absolute last year for this, "not ken"...if development doesn't occur from the core, then we've got problems. I for one think this is the best we can do at the current time, develop players. I do not want to be these middling teams every year. 8-8 or 9-7 in football is fine but .500 every year in baseball is unsatisfying.

Signing the two corner infielders was the second best option - the best would have been to get LaRoche or a similar bat - but no one else did that did they? What team besides 7 or 8 in all of MLB really signs impact players regularly? Baseball is messed up. Let's see if the prospects work out and stop hammering the same the points over and over.

The Baltimore Orioles are getting ready to launch yet another planned year of losing baseball as "The Plan" itself staggers painfully forward towards an uncertain future.

The Andy Macphail fan club is in full spin mode rationalizing why another likely 90 loss season is actually progress and otherwise verbally rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic. Many fans in other cities are doing the math to see how many wins their team needs to at least get a wild card berth. In Baltimore many of the fans are doing the math to count how many days until the Ravens report to training camp.

A season is a terrible thing to waste.

blancione -

Actually, I wouldn't call what you are saying "the truth". I would refer to it as Point of View. Also, if you're main objective is to log on here to pick a fight, I guess you got what you want.

Personally, it doesn't matter to me. I agree there are a lot of question marks on this team. No doubt at all. But it's like me saying the sky is blue, but you think it's really azure. Like with Wieters, for instance. Unless you have crystal ball at hand, I'll side with the analysts, scouts, saber-geeks and stat heads on his future. You say it's fan based dillusional hope, but yet I'm sure you probably think Aroldis Chapman is already a stud because he throws 100 mph.

Anyway, cheers. Hopefully you're wrong and the likes of Tom Tango, Bill James, Fan Graphs etc. are right about the individual futures of the younger players on this team. They probably been right more then you have

the above was from me BTW.

"Not Ken" That's funny, I like that.

I'm gonna start signing my posts "Not Blancione" or "Not wayne" or "not gil" or "not anonymous" or not something like that.

This blog is fun!

Gil is as boring and repetitive as wayne lately. Warehousers/McPhail lovers reference: check. Doom and gloom reference: check. Stupid blind fan's rationalization reference: check. Ravens(real winners) reference: check. Fan who REALLY knows what's going on checklist: complete. Post.

Preach on brother Gil, preach on !!

Sadly, that went over the AM fan club's head. Looks like Rick is jockeying to take over as president of the fan club

In 3 yrs when we're still losing, they'll act like they never supported AM at all. Soon they too will be mocking the AM era in the future. It takes a while for some ppl to catch on, I guess

My question is who are these golden prospects that are going to help us overtake the skanks, sux and rays and make the organization a winner anyway?

Usually, it takes 3 highly touted pitchers to make 1 that's healthy and effective SP in the big leauges.SO you need 9 to make 3. If you dont believe me, take a look at all of the hyped pitching prospects in the past and see how many actually made it. Bedard and ????

On the position side, Neither Bell or Snyder has produced at AAA yet either. There is certainly no guarantee that they will EVER. Most organizations wouldn't be saving a spot for a 1b without power like we are with Snyder. Bell's defense is atrocious and he cant hit lefties ( 2k's today vs sorry ass rich hill), his promotion or future success is no certainty There is no SS in the system that projects as a Major leaguer.

Who is BRob's replacement when his back inevitably gets worse as backs always do ? I know this will ruffle some feathers but what if Wieters is more Varitek than Mauer? I think he'll be solid, but I'm very skeptical about him being "mauer with more power" as he was touted on his way up the minor leagues. I want him to be that, but I'm starting to have my doubts.This season will tell us a lot about Wieters

Who is in this cavalry the AM fan club is waiting on thats so good that we'll be overtaking the SKanks and Sux and Rays and (possibly ) Blow Jays by their future presence?

THE BEST PROSPECTS ARE ALREADY HERE (matusz/wieters)

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We are a bunch of Stuart Smalleys seeking daily affirmation

Andy's good enough (if u dont count wins and losses)

He's smart enough ( if u ignore his record)

and people like me like him ( we dont mind losing)

Yeah, we're positive, Just like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned

The organization is crashing and burning thru another losing, hopeless season, but its better to roast your marshmallows with

Yeah.... I'm positive cuz ignorance is bliss--- Yippeee

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Hey blancione,
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Its funny, the macphail fan club are always redundant and usually not very substantive in their posts, yet they always accuse others of being redundant and saying the same thing over and over, yet they do the same exact thing that they're guilty of. Its ok for them, but not ok for realists. Their hypocrisy is even more annoying than their stupidity. They also have a tendency to lie and/or make stuff up, never understood why they do that ?

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