What an absolute disaster. The Orioles gave up game two of a three game set to the lowly Seattle Mariners Tuesday night for no other purpose, it would seem, than to allow Jim Hunter to use the term ‘rubber match’ in that debacle of a post-game show. I’m not sure if I’m correct on this [...]

I have no idea if Dave Trembley or Andy MacPhail were Boy Scouts.  A couple of quick Google searches yielded me no definitive results, but I really don’t need either to have been one to make my point.  At four plus weeks into the 2010 campaign, it’s obvious that preparedness was left off the Orioles’ [...]

It reminds me of a line from Hoosiers where Cletus says to Gene Hackman’s character (Norman Dale), “Norm, I’m trying hard to believe you know what you’re doing here.”    Even as an eternal Orioles optimist- especially on April 1st- even I’m having to try hard to believe Dave Trembley knows what the hell he’s [...]

1.       The overrating of mid-major college basketball teams has gotten a little ridiculous.  That Joe Lunardi would have New Mexico as a 3 seed and Maryland as a 6 speaks volumes about the way the selection committee has endorsed the idea that annual upsets are good for the sport.  Lunardi is simply predicting what the [...]

Firm five? If I’m Dave Trembley there may be a firm ONE.  Kevin Millwood. I guess Guthrie got paid, so he’s your number two. But if you want to walk into camp and declare that Bergesen, Matusz , and Tillman are 3,4,5, then what are you saying to guys like Arietta? Patton?  Britton? This time [...]