What’s up with Benson?

 The O’s site has this update.
Chances still are that he doesn’t pitch this season. It can happen, but it’s shall we say doubtful.
I’m going to play devil’s advocate here. Let’s just say that the rehab works and at the end of March it looks like he won’t need to get knifed. Maybe by May he’d [...]

Mix and Mash

Here’s a little bit of quick weekend linkage
Thomas Boswell writes that this is a very important season for the O’s.
Roch writes that Jamie Walker is ok.
Another season, another stupid rule from I’m sure….Peter Angelos.
It might be 2009 before we see another O’s prospect with power potential make it to Baltimore.

Maybe I should have had another pitcher

Me and one of the friends went to a Mexican place where I gorged myself on some kicking fajitas and had a half a pitcher of beer  and I come home and check the O’s news and what do I see?
THIS.
Not a good day for our multimillion dollar bullpen.
Get well soon, Jamie Walker.
Choose less scary exercises [...]

Benson goes under the kn–…no, he doesn’t

So…Kris Benson…ah, what’s going on there?
He’s done for the season, he goes for a second opinion. He might be able to rehab it. No, he can’t rehab it. He gets a third opinion. Accupuncture might work. He gets a fourth opinion and thinks greasing it up in butter and leaning on pan might heal it. [...]

Time to get back to it

It looks like my vacation is over and it’s time to get back to posting regularly. Players have reported and the foreplay of real baseball is amongst us. Of course, we still have six weeks until there is any meaning baseball, but the world for me is a better place knowing that right now in [...]

What a bummer

I’ve been in sleep mode around here until Spring Training started up, unless something happened. Well, something made have to post before I did my ode to Spring Training on Wednesday…and it’s not good.
Kris Benson is out of the season with a partially torn rotator cuff.
Benson is nothing more than an average pitcher who can [...]

If I were a baseball player

I ripped this idea off from Rob’s blog, where he got it from Off Wing Opinion, and I’m just translating it from hockey to baseball.
Team I’d play for: The Baltimore Orioles, of course.
Jersey Number:47
Position: 1st Base (Lord knows we need a first baseman anyway)
Nickname: Big Ben
At Bat Music: Paint it Black- Rolling Stones 
Strengths: High OBP, [...]

Checking back in

It’s been a hellish week, so today’s the first chance I’ve made time to post. 
Whenever the word snow is mentioned in the forecast in the south, it’s always hellish. So I’ve basically lived at work this past week.
There’s a few minor things happening in the Oriole World. Check out this link for the O’s site [...]