This is the End, My Friends

Today is the final of the regular season, which means the Orioles season ends today. It hasn’t been a bad season, it’s been a decent season with an absolutely horrible last month to it. That’s how it goes though sometimes.
In a way, I’ll be relieved to have the season over with. The how-low-can-you-go injury plagued/medicore pitching [...]

How are those September Callups Doing?

Now that the season is almost done, its time enough to see how those players who got the call up from the minors have fared thus far in Baltimore. Some are prospects with at least some upside, some are medicore guys, and who knows about the rest.
Kam Mickolio
Kam was a player acquired in the Great [...]

O’s Drop Twin Bill, the slow painful spiral continues

There’s only 4 games left. I wonder if this woeful team will win anymore games this season. For the month, their record is a staggering 4-18. There’s a chance they could win one more game.
Tonight is the finale against the Tampa Rays, who should thank the O’s when they win the AL East.
Thursday’s an off day, then [...]

O’s close out Yankee Stadium Tonight

In case you hadn’t heard, tonight the Orioles will be the last team to play against the Yankees in the last game ever at Yankee Stadium.
I think its rather fitting. The Yankees have had a disappointing season and won’t be going to the playoffs. Instead of a possible ALCS ESPN dream of a Red Sox/Yankees [...]

Dog Days Blues

In my three years of doing this blog, the last quarter of the season I lose my steam. The three quarters of each season, I’m usually on it and keep things going; at least I like to think. But as the O’s enter their yearly season end skid, I enter my own skid of indifference. [...]

A few notes

I’ve been out of the loop for the weekend and got back today to get back into said loop. Here’s a few little blurbs of interest I found.  

Saturday was the day that the O’s clinched their 11th consecutive losing season. We expected it, but its still painful to see the big 82 sitting in [...]

Peter Schmuck thinks that the O’s will_go_after_Paul_Byrd_type_free_agent_pitchers_this_offseason. He thinks we’ll sign two of them. I’m figuring by Paul Byrd type he means, medicore older guys who win about as many games as they lose. Proof of my defination can be seen here.
That’s not a horrible plan. Shoot, I’d love to see the O’s sign CC [...]

What’s happened in Birdland this week?

Jim Johnson has been shut_down_for_the_rest_of_the_season. Roch says that the team is saying it’s just a combination of wear and tear and inflammation…and not a torn labrum. If that was the case, what a freakish awful coincidence that’d be. Three pitchers in the same season having torn labrums.

           Remember that awesome [...]

It’s that time of year again

Some things are a yearly sign of Summer’s end. Kids go back to school, Labor Day, Football season kicking off, and the Orioles going into a complete tailspin. As usual, this big old Earth keeps spinning around and these same old things keep happening.
With the Labor Day, work, the woman, friends, and doing what I [...]