Dave Cameron over at Fangraphs chimed in on the Orioles’ winter today; he is not impressed. There’s just very little upside in any of these deals. Even in a best case scenario, Tejada and Millwood continue to be above average players, make the team good enough to fight the Rays for third place in the […]

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Anyone in the greater Baltimore area tomorrow should roll on down to the Annual Orioles Fanfest at the Baltimore Convention Center. Season ticket holders will get in at 10:00 am for a special “State of the Orioles” address and Q+A session with Andy MacPhail and Dave Trembley. Doors open to the general public at 11 […]

We are officially one month out from “pitchers and catchers” ladies and gentlemen!  WOOOOOO, right?  Woo? After making two fairly quick and well-received moves the Orioles have been largely dormant.  Rumors put them in the Matt Holliday running, but logic dictated otherwise.  The Orioles were legitimately in the Adam LaRoche running and according to Roch […]

– How ironic is this?  Arlodis Chapman escapes Communist Cuba and signs with the “Reds”. – Mark MacGwire admits to using steroids, in other news cats like yarn, birds eat seeds and small bugs and dogs love smll pieces of American cheese – It amazes me how many people I see wanted us to sign […]

The Orioles have largely been the laughing stock of the American League for the last decade. Sure the Royals might have been worse, even though they did scrape together a winning season in the last ten years, and the Pirates and Nationals may have been more embarrassing but the Orioles have been larger jokes.  Why?  […]

The Orioles signed former shortstop Mike Bordick today to be a Minor League Offensive Coordinator.  His job?  To work with Orioles prospects on fundamental baserunning and contact situational hitting.  This move fits in nicely with the team’s desire to refocus on the above-mentioned fundamentals after an atrocious 2009 in those aspects. Bordick is listed as […]

There simply is not a lot going on right now.  Nothing, nada, nil, the null-set – it is a slow news day.  It will be a slow news week as the calendar changes to a new year you have to wonder about the future – so let’s take a look at some early predictions for […]

Happy Holidays Birdland. The snow is still blanketing the greater Baltimore Mtreo-plex and I have received the early girft of a nice long X-Mas vacation from Santa, or Father Christmas, or whomever you choose to think gives gifts at times like this.  Myself, I celebrate Christmas and the twiggy tree in my den right now […]

Here we are readers.  The two most important events of the last ten years of Oriole baseball.  We can argue all we want about the position of the last 8 things, and you can argue that Wieters should be on this list, but I don’t think that anyone can argue about these next two events. […]

5. Ripken’s 3000th hit The decade started out with some history for the Orioles coming from a familiar source. On April 15, 2000 Cal Ripken Jr. collected his 3000th hit in Minnesota off Twins reliever Hector Carrasco. 2000 had started off slow for Ripken, whose 1999 season was cut short due to back spasms, he […]

8) Daniel Cabrera’s One-Hitter in NYC No man has generated more hair-pulling moments than one Daniel Cabrera. D-Cab was quite possibly the most maddening force of nature that put on a uniform in the last ten years. More likable than Sydney “Margaritaville” Ponson but more unstable than that adjustable rate mortgage you got four years […]

I write a blog. Therefore, in accordance with the blog-writer’s association by-laws (article 1 section 8 clause 18) I must create a “list” of important moments at the close of a significant portion of time be it seasonal, annual or in increments of ten years colloquially called a “decade”. The end of the “aughts” is […]

Orioles broadcaster Buck Martinez will not return to the pressbox in Camden Yards next year. Martinez will be the in-house personality for the Toronto Blue Jays.  Martinez was, of course, a former catcher and manager of the Jays so he will fit right in the Toronto booth. Will I miss Martinez?  Well, you bet.. Sorry, […]