Game Thread for Game 153, Orioles and Jays
by Tom Dakers on Sep 18, 2008 7:00 PM EDT
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Yay, Thigpen is playing. Yeah I know he hasn't looked great this year but still out like to see him get some at bats. But I don't understand why he bats 8th and Moonraker bats 9th!! Why? I know I shouldn't try to second guess Cito but that makes no sense to me.
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his ways are mysterious
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I didn't mean it that way
at least, I don’t think
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Brian Roberts destroys us
but I can’t help but like him a lot
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
oh yeah I was going to ask about that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
unimpressive, Bautista
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
nice snag by Thigpen on that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yeah Jesse
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Did I jump the gun putting up the game thread?
we hadn’t talked and was close to game time so put it up quick….not sure if you were going to
thanks, not at all
I ran after work and just got home,
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Litsch is getting unlucky
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I really hope it never happens again
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
nice inning LItsch
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Bautista goes yard!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I imagine it will be hard for him to get playing time
with Ryan Doumit there. How long before Doumit is a free agent?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Doumit does seem to get hurt a lot though
and he also hits enough to play 1st base or outfield, so there’s some playing time, I would think. also, his defense behind the plate isn’t very good
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
But a catcher who hits well enough to be a first baseman
means you can get a first baseman who hits well enough to be a first baseman and have that much more offense.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
sure
I don’t mean stick him there permanently, just once in a while to give him a day off behind the plate, and since his bat is staying in the lineup, you can do it a little more often than usual catcher days off
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
The Mench that Mench never was
at least for us.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yeah Mench has been awful
not sure why he’s still on the team
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
exactly
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
on the other hand
he, unlike Wilkerson, wasn’t given over 200 at-bats
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
is there an election coming up?
there just was one…
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yeah we are voting in just a few weeks.....
we have a parlement system so there is no fixed dates for elections
yeah
I am aware of the system, actually, it just feels like there was just an election
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Does to me too.......minority last time....
Harper sees the opposition is in disarray…..Liberals have no money
it used to be such a strong party
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
will be again....leader isn't one that draws you to him....not that Harper is any great personality
Harper is running on ’I’m not as bad as the other guy;
In Canada it's every 3-5 years
(PM gets to pick when) or after a non-confidence vote.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
hey here it's only every 4 years
but pretty much constant campaigning in between
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
how does it work with your MPs
the congressmen here run every 2 years – it is a total joke, all they do is run for office, they don’t even think about doing anything until they are entrenched enough that they are guaranteed reelection
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
of course
duh, I knew that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Right, because of the non-confidence vote.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
no dp lyle
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well
if we keep (and he keeps) having those kind of at-bats, we should get to him pretty soon
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
another great inning from Litsch
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Should put the pressure on Olsen
after his 20+ last inning.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
i'm here
just cooking so drifting in and out
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
making pad phrik
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
w/ snow peas, chinese broccoli, and straw mushrooms
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
my mom watched baseball, hence me
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
My dad watched hockey and football but yelled, and I mean really yelled, at the screen....
so baseball I could watch in peace
she is
a Yankee fan, unfortunately
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
my family members who are yankee fans
are legit, they came from Italy when the Yankees were awful, and supported the team through thin and thin until they finally got good in the 90s.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Back to back walks from Jesse
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
yeah Jesse
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
0-2 count on Roberts, then walked him
to load the bases.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
thats what happens when you walk 3 dudes
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
haha
I did too when I was 10, for about a day
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well this has been a few days now. and constant phone calls.
my middle boy had a girl friend in pre school…and they kissed and hugged…..
Free baserunners are nice
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Hard to beat it out when they expect it
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
that was dumb
our 8 and 9 hitters get on and then we give away an out with our leadoff hitter on?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
of course
Bautista pops up on the first pitch
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
can we please
stop doing that already?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I know this doesn't mean anything to you guys, but Ron Lancaster passed away....
he was a great quarterback in the CFL when I was a kid….making me feel old
that one looked pretty good to me
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Litsch is tired now
leaving everything up
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
So a silly question.....
The designated hitter….does he only hit for the pitcher or does he play any other position?
I know I shouldn't rag on Cito too much....but the man figures if you haven't thrown 100 pitches you can't be tired.....
this is where young pitchers get hurt
Litsch got out of it though
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
I agree with you, by the way
but I think Litsch was over 100, wasn’t he?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
attaboy Vern
way to lead off the inning
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
With Lind?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
You mean Lind?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
it was Lind, wasn't it?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
who hasn't been hitting that great
since being moved to the 5 spot in the order.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Best lineup slot was 7
but also the smallest sample size.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Well, okay, he was 0-4 cleanup.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
nice one Lyle
ripped that
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Can we pinch hit for Thigpen?
Give Snider a chance to bat this inning maybe?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Zaun pinch-hitting
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
double for the Zaunbie
what is he doing trying to go for a triple??!?!?!?!?
bet Ortiz' wasn't
with 2 outs
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
It was leadoff
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
am I to assume
that Thigpen looked like his old self tonight?
so is he hurt?
and that’s why Zaun was hitting?
And how serious is the injury?
I thought he looked okay actually
he was working the counts a little bit, had some decent swings, and looked good behind the plate
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well, going for 3 was ridiculous
but I’ll take the runs
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well
Snider didn’t get to bat
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
so are we going back to Syracuse?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
yeah
I like Portland as a city, but it doesn’t seem to fit. And no one seems to want New Orleans
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
when teams switch minor league affiliates
do they just transplant the entire roster and coaching staff to the new location, and get rid of everyone who was there before?
yeah
pretty much, the players and staff belong to the major-league team
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
and the grounds crew and stuff
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
the cannon GM was a great guy.....would sit and talk to you for a couple of innings....
sat with me for awhile one game and had my middle boy who was about 3….hands him a ball and he throws it out to the field
ya, I've heard that
isn’t it more of a PR type job than a baseball operations thing?
Was Portland even up for grabs?
I thought it was Vegas, Albuquerque (probably getting the Dodgers), New Orleans (probably getting the Marlins), Columbus (probably getting the Indians), Buffalo (reportedly getting the Mets) and Syracuse (would rather have the Nats than us).
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Wilner mentioned Portland
so I did. I hadn’t really been following it too closely. But Portland would be better than Vegas, I think.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Doesn't say anything about it on portlandbeavers.com
And I thought the deals with minor league teams were in 2 year increments. The Padres signed with the Beavers in ’01.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Scratch that
it says they just extended with the Padres through 2010.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
he couldn't've meant Maine, could he?
I think that’s double A
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Yeah, I didn't think we were in the market for a new AA team
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
well
I do travel to Vegas quite a bit for work, so that wouldn’t be the worst for me personally, but it doesn’t seem very good for the team. definitely not a long-term thing
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Especially being so far from the AA team
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Dodgers and Indians have made their new deals official
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
Teen Wolfe in
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
definitely
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
nice one scoot
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
O's announcers mocking the Mets
now that’s irony
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
just laughing about their "choke" last year
and saying it looks like it will happen again this season
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
no problem with mocking the mets
just ironic coming from the O’s, one of the worst-run teams in baseball. Angelos has totally run the team into the ground
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
great inning for Cy
and nice to see Mac in at short
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
outside corner
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
What are we, like, 4 under .500 on the road?
Our problem has been not pressing home field advantage, ie. walk-offs.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
it's been by far our best year on the road in a long time
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well, up to BJ
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
there's one
nasty one to get Millar
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
do not walk this guy Beej
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
but you did
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
well
we haven’t lost on catcher interference yet this season, have we? it was only a matter of time….
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Ryan gets out number two on the foul pop to Lyle.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Mac!!!!!
and Lyle!!!!! wow
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Beej was more impressed by Lyle's pick, actually
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
but I agree with you
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Web gem
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
The best part
Roberts is so fast, and the play still wasn’t close.
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
"why you get paid the big bucks to be a closer, right here"
-Rod Black
I was under the impression that you got paid the big bucks to not load the bases in the ninth inning
Great play by Sir John A to let Beej off the hook
definitely
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
Does that mean the Beej gets the Batista
since minus that play he’s way down?
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
well he deserves some credit
for inducing a weak grounder, no?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
A little too weak for comfort
"He almost has to start. Do you believe in miracles?"
so Carlson, Wolfe, Zaun, and Mac?
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
really, that's terrible news
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
If that's true, then suddenly
our rotation of the future goes from bright with promise to a huge question mark. Both our prospective young aces (Marcum and McGowan) have possibly-very-serious injuries.
Sportscentre just reported
that Marcum’s injury may be “worse than originally thought,” though no details were provided. Was there any word on his situation during the game?
Also, JP apparently said that they are going to try to extend AJ. We’ll see if that ends up happening.
sounds like TJ to me
they won’t say, but Andrews is looking at the MRI results tomorrow for a second opinion
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
this is the cynic in me talking
why do I get the undeniable feeling that JP knew that something must have been wrong when he sent Marcum down for rehab, but refused to shut him down for at least some time to protect his arm, likely because he knew that he needed Marcum for the team to make a run if he was to keep his job.
funny
I was also blaming the demotion, but in a different way – I was speculating that whatever those AAA guys did with Marcum’s delivery threw off his mechanics and caused the injury
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
that too
I guess we won’t know until tomorrow, maybe it won’t be so bad. TJ would suck, of course, but at least pitchers have a good track record of recovery and he’d probably be back for opening day 2010.
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
maybe
it’s just that it seemed like he was hurt already before the demotion (I remember that post about his release point changing in the few starts just preceding the demotion). So I feel like this was case of JP not letting on what he actually knew and trying to cover things up.
well,
I’m out. Goodnight all, and maybe Bluebird Banter shouldn’t sponsor any more players!!!
"Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our closed rooms... The game of ball is glorious." - Walt Whitman
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