Don't worry Kam, you'll be taking Albers or Berkens spot soon enough

With quotes like that, is it any wonder Andino had no takers? I hope the cump gets claimed and we can watch him flirt with the Mendoza line while making stupid errors somewhere else.

I wouldn't take Andino either. He sealed his fate Thursday on the play from SS when he swiped at the ball then threw high to 1B for a throwing error. Lugo is a definate improvement. He isn't flashy but he gets the job done. With Brian Roberts not being healthy, the Orioles need someone who can come right in play effectively. Apparently they think Lugo is better suited than Andino.

PLAY BALL !!

82-80

Sure Andino made that boneheaded hot dog mistake on Thursday, but the ones made by both Izturis & Roberts last season & this spring have been at least ten times more fatal for the Orioles. Did you see Izturis' lame effort (?) at a ground ball up the middle in the first inning on Friday? How about the inning-ending double play that Roberts failed to execute at Yankee Stadium last season that led to a five-run first for Evil Inc.? I have ABSOLUTELY NO CONFIDENCE in Roberts, Izturis and Tejada! NONE!

Andino will probably be claimed by another team, and it will come back to bite us in the ***. It won't be long until Trembley is relieved of his duties.

Sure Andino made that boneheaded hot dog mistake on Thursday, but the ones made by both Izturis & Roberts last season & this spring have been at least ten times more fatal for the Orioles. Did you see Izturis' lame effort (?) at a ground ball up the middle in the first inning on Friday? How about the inning-ending double play that Roberts failed to execute at Yankee Stadium last season that led to a five-run first for Evil Inc.? I have ABSOLUTELY NO CONFIDENCE in Roberts, Izturis and Tejada! NONE!

Andino will probably be claimed by another team, and it will come back to bite us in the ***. It won't be long until Trembley is relieved of his duties.

Sure Andino made that boneheaded hot dog mistake on Thursday, but the ones made by both Izturis & Roberts last season & this spring have been at least ten times more fatal for the Orioles. Did you see Izturis' lame effort (?) at a ground ball up the middle in the first inning on Friday? How about the inning-ending double play that Roberts failed to execute at Yankee Stadium last season that led to a five-run first for Evil Inc.? I have ABSOLUTELY NO CONFIDENCE in Roberts, Izturis and Tejada! NONE!

Andino will probably be claimed by another team, and it will come back to bite us in the ***. It won't be long until Trembley is relieved of his duties.

Andino is a pretty good infielder. I'll be pleasnatly surprised if Lugo playsdefense. better than Andino.

Andino is a pretty good infielder. I'll be pleasnatly surprised if Lugo playsdefense. better than Andino.

Mickilio is the next Chris Ray. I don't know why people think every player McPhail got in the bedard trade is a superstar waiting to happen. The Mariners wouldn't have traded these guys if the scouts didn't see a flaw in thier game.Jones has been good enough to beat his flaws for the most part but he has to show he can learn discipline.

disappointed to see robert andino get dfa'd now the speculation begins as to who will get the axe if and when kojie comes off the dl. i am not all that enthused about mat albers. it will be interesting who is hot and not so hot when it is time for kojie's return

Attila the Hon

I thought it was Izturis being slow on the relay that caused the fielders choice on that play.

I have a question : When a major league team purchases a contract from the AAA team, how much do they pay?

Andino made the boneheaded play in the 8th inning on WEDNESDAY. The nearly sure double play grounder ate his lunch. Sarfate should have been in the dugout with one run allowed in 2 innings. Instead Sarfate was charged with 5 runs, 4 earned. Good defense reduces ERAS. Andino has not been in that picture.

Robert Andino is not going to be the difference between a team making the playoffs or not. Neither is Chad Moeller. They're mall fry, disposable and replaceable.

Tough break for Andino. I thought he played well last year.

Anyone that thinks Pie is a sissy for getting the xray wasn't watching the game. He didn't get hit in the meat. It was right on the nub of his ankle. There is no padding there.

Pete, can you confirm the claims that Roberts is 20 lbs overweight? I was looking for it on yesterday's broadcast but he looked normal to me.

So, who brought Andino to the team?

Hey Pete, weren't there a couple pieces in the SUN last year about this guy being one of the 'kids' to be excited about?

But wait........ We have Lugo. All good!

The news about Reimold taking ground balls @ 1st base is the smartest thing I've seen from this organization in a long time.

The news about Reimold taking ground balls @ 1st base is the smartest thing I've seen from this organization in a long time.

No question....there are some fine ballplayers on the O's.

Collectively however, this is another very bad baseball team.

Pretty embarrassing how before the season begins, people are saying 'it's not about this year', while refusing to acknowledge they said the very same thing last year.

Pretty sad that 3rd place is so far out of reach, people are actually excited at the possibility of 4th.

Embarrassing and Sad....

Just another bad baseball 'team', run by an exec who has assembled 'more' than his share of bad baseball teams for the past 2 decades.....

And you'll be there to watch all the horror, live, in person, with your season tickets.
Say it's all about the good times with all your season ticket pals. It's a very good excuse for being a hypocritical blow hard.

Anonymous,

I believe that wayne's season ticket subscription entitles him more than most to share his opinions on the state of the team. Yes, he is negative. But he continues to buy tickets, which to me says that he is a true fan. There is nothing wrong with loving a team so much that you hold them accountable for their continued failures.

I only wish I had the money to be as good a fan. :)

Mr. Angelos, please sell the team.

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I am disappointed by the Lugo/Andino moves.

It may be a clubhouse chemistry thing that played in this.

In any case, the O's definitely need to know the SS and 2B can pick it and in that regard Lugo should suffice.

Anonymous....... Right again Shamster.....

I'll be there many nights enjoying the hell out of being at a baseball game. Why not?

Remember, bad baseball is still..... baseball.

Now, must I endure another dismal season from the ole home team? Yep! Many good teams travel through the Yards however, and there's enough good baseball to make me and my friends forget about Pie making another base running error.

Hope to see you out there.....

And thanks Hopeless Fan. Remember though, you can feel hopeless about the O's (i totally understand)..... but baseball is still a great game.

Just go out and enjoy the night summer air and enjoy watching the game, even if the O's no longer play to win......

My only regret is that Wayne doesn't own a baseball team. I'd be really interested in seeing how well he'd compete with the Red Sox and Yankees. From what I've heard from him here, he'd fulfill all of your wishes concerning the team. He'd spend lavishly like the Sox and Yanks, and in a very few years, he'd sell the team. Oh, he'd also change the record. They'd be considerably worse, because, unlike the Sox and Yanks, the O's cannot afford to pay players like Lugo almost 9 million dollars to play for another team, and his method would produce exactly those results.

Go O's!

The O's are only spending about 50-60% of what they should on payroll. A couple of elite players added to the mix and this team might actually be worth getting excited about. Too bad, marquee free agents are NOT part of the plan.

Hey Hoosier.... lololol...

Repeatedly, I've said the O's can't spend 'overall' like the Yanks and sox. So where did that come from my man? You made a lot of people laugh with that one.....

HOWEVER, you make a very good point. I regret not owning this team as well.

I'll ask you Hoosier... Could I do any worse?

In fact, there's likely not a poster on these blogs that could do any worse.

It's hard to be worst than the worse.....

You know?

anonymous, are you serious?!
While you still have 2 top level prospects in the minors for third and first, you're not going to sign a big bat just because the fans want it. If however snyder flops. I say plain and simple don't be surprised if Mr. Mcphail puts all he can into getting prince fielder to take care of first. so marquee free agents are part of the plan, you just need to be PATIENT!

James,

AM has NEVER shown that he will go after a player like Fielder. You were kidding, right?

Besides, because fans like you have had PATIENCE for 12 (going on 13, 14, 15, etc...), AM will continue to sell you on the future the HOF 'kids'.

Just let the kids play.... right?

Enjoy the L's sir......

Yes Robert, you DO belong in AAA! You make Belanger look like Cal at the plate!

hey hopeless, you call posting on a blog holding the team accountable? seriously? Attendance dropping to 1.9 million is holding the Os accountable. 5 BILLION negative posts mean nothing. The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!

I stopped giving the Os my money two years ago. This year, I may spring for a couple games cause I want to see some of the kids, right now they look like a good group...we'll have to wait and see. They look like they're heading in the righ direction for the first time in how many years?

wayne, read this over and over again:
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!
The ONLY way to truly hold them accountable is to STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY!

So these are the guys that are gonna help us move upwards in the standings eh?

Next year the focus shifts a little bit. He [Trembley] will be judged more on the traditional basis of wins and losses. It’s time for us to make some significant movement upwards in the standings. andy macphail 10/2009

BTW, James Who considers Snyder a "top prospect" anyway ?

James, do you realize that the Orioles are ranked 26th in payroll in MLB ?

Wayne,

What do you do all day that allows you to comment on this blog a thousand times a day? It completely blows my mind.

Yes, we all know you don't like Andy MacPhail. Okay. Thats fine, you can have your opinion. You're not the only one who doesn't like him, but there are some people who think he finaly has the team headed in the right direction. So just let us differ in our opinions, it's not that big of a deal.

And please stop acting all the time like you know so much more about baseball than everyone else, or that you somehow know all the moves that the Orioles should make. Andino was a very mediocre prospect, and maybe a few people said they were excited for him because he did play decently for a while last year. But don't post something that makes it sound like we thought he was the cornerstone of the Oriole's future.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm sick of you on this blog. You say the same basic things every time. You use sarcasm far too often and you have a huge problem with anyone who has a differing opinion.

So, in summary...we know you don't like Andy MacPhail, we know you don't like the direction the Orioles are headed, we know you think its a bad team with the worst pitching staff in the AL, and we know that you have a major problem with anyone who doesn't agree with you. Let it go...if you have the right to spend eight hours a day writing on this blog, then I have a right to disagree with you, and so does anyone else.

Now please commense in spending a good hour or two planning your perfect comeback to this. I'm sure I'll hear from you soon!

Pete

I like compliment you for the nice article about O's new ST home in Sarasota . Finally , no more issues or questions about ST home.

Now , if they can do something about the sub-.500 Major League O's .............

Anon

I also believe that O's total payroll was 26TH in MLB . However , according to this weeks' SI baseball preview , this years' O's payroll is 20TH in MLB with $ 73,000,000 . I thought that was LAST SEASON payroll ? I find this confusing because there is big disparity between 20TH and 26TH slots .

Any thoughts on this topic ?

Mike,

Thanks for the post...... And sir, I post far less than many, but it doesn't seem so at times since some post under many different names. Don't get me wrong though, i do appreciate that you notice....

And I certainly don't blast anyone dear sir, not like you anyway. I may disagree, but I never go out of my way like you just did. Don't get me wrong though, i do appreciate that you notice.

And yes.... it pains me to always be right about the O's. I have said however, that it's certainly not a big deal to be right... you know why? Because an 8 year old could predict how they'll do... But don't get me wrong though, i do appreciate that you notice..

And Mike... sir..... Why are they heading in the right direction? Because of some prospects? Let me ask you then...... Have the Pirates had MANY prospects over the years? The Royals? The Brewers? Want me to go on???? So what makes the Orioles any different? So they have prospects. Big deal!

They STILL have a HORRIBLE baseball team Mike. AGAIN, they will be one of the worst in all of baseball. Does the fact that the Blue jays may be just as bad this year really make people like you feel the O's are improving? Really?
Seriously?

Come on Mike...... Do better... Be a better fan..... Expect and demand more from your team. I'm not the problem. But don't get me wrong though, i do appreciate that you notice...

Be better... Demand better!

Still waiting for the list of players who's career was ruined by MacPhail, wayng.

I enjoy reading the blogs and the baseball discussions, but it bothers me when it degenerates into personal attacks. In particular, it seems that there is an especially virulent dislike of Wayne, which is very odd to me, since Wayne seems to be respectful of even his most bitter detractors, and also to level actually accurate criticisms against the Oriole organization. I am reminded of the mythological character "Cassandra." Cassandra was cursed by the gods so that she could only speak the truth, but would never be believed.

As far as the Os go, there is a major difference between hope and expectation. As a fan, I hope that this will be the year that everything comes together and they finally are able to compete in their division. As a realist, I expect that it will be the same old struggle that we have witnessed for the past 12 seasons.

I hope that the young pitchers will emerge as they once did (from 1963-1965 to glorious '66), but I expect them to fall by the wayside as has happened so many times in the last decade (Sidney Ponson, Daniel Cabrera, Hayden Penn, Adam Loewen, Calvin Maduro, Josh Towers, Jason Johnson, Rodrigo Lopez, Matt Riley, Kurt Ainsworth, Eric DuBose, John Maine, Brian Burres, John Parrish, that's just off the top of my head.)

As Mel Brooks wrote in "The Twelve Chairs": "Hope for the best, expect the worst!"

Allan,

I thought the payroll was at approx 67 million. Perhaps the discrepancy is money being paid to our players by other teams (millwood and lugo)

Lugo and Millwood are making 21 mil combined, but the Os are only paying 10 of it. There are always discrepancies

No matter what the exact numer, the Orioles could easily afford 30-40 million more than they are paying and that is shameful

GHank,

It's really not that puzzling.

People feel like I'm bursting their 'hope' bubble. You see, when I remind them of AM's record the past 20 years, or how the team is near the bottom in payroll, or how AM has brought in one terrible free agent after another since he's arrived, and how a 10 game increase in wins can't qualify as 'improvement' since 2009 was one of the worst in O's history, etc, etc, etc, they get upset at me.

You see GHank, I just get tired of the continuous spin and hype the front office, media and some fans love to throw at us. Why? Because their spin and hype never comes true.

I don't blame the posters though. I mean what else are they going to say? They're locked in, and the only thing they have left is to attack those that are bursting their spin.

I would never try to take that away from them....

Keep waiting shamsham......

I love it....... poor guy.

Enjoy the L's

Using only 12 pitchers with Mickolio & Tillman in Norfolk proves that Orioles pitching is stronger than in 2009.

Secondly why WASTE money on veterans - Koji is a great example of buying damaged goods and hoping.

I disagree with the Atkins project at any price. His ST hitting is the evil opposite of Reimold's surge.

Wayne's a blow hard phony. He refuses to back up his words with even guesses, much less a list. He says they're out there. Why won't he get them? Because he's a liar. There is no list, only a bitter old man talking out his ass.

did anyone take a break from Corporal Mortification and leave their basements today to hunt for Easter Eggs?

Just in case-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporal_mortification (what the monk in Da Vinci Code does)

Jones gets himself into a quick 0-2 hole? WHIP!

Garrett Atkins grounds out to 2nd? WHIP!

Bullpen blows a lead? WHIP!

Jeremy Guthrie has a bad spring? WHIP!

Andy MacPhail does something I perceive as cheap or otherwise stupid? WHIP!

Peter Angelos remains alive and in relatively good health? WHIP!

National Sports writers widely agree O's headed on right track? WHIP!

Anon

I have to agree with you on both discrepancies issue and their abilty to take on anywhere from $ 20 to 50 million on team payroll. I know they can afford the Tex and A.J. deals , maybe even the ARod deals.

If an poster questions how O's can afford these deals , ask them how Minnesota Twins can afford the $ 184 million 8 year Joe Mauer deal.

Is it me or the term ' hometown discount' fading away from baseball landscape?

ullpen blows a lead? WHIP!

Jeremy Guthrie has a bad spring? WHIP!

Andy MacPhail does something I perceive as cheap or otherwise stupid? WHIP!

Peter Angelos remains alive and in relatively good health? WHI

THANKS

Andy MacPhail does something I perceive as cheap or otherwise stupid? WHIP!

Peter Angelos remains alive and in relatively good health? WHIP!