The Baltimore Orioles keep on getting (potential) greatness for the low this off-season. After all but stealing Mark Trumbo from the Mariners, and resigning Darren O’Day (for a price that some could argue was lower than expected), the team picked up Korean left fielder/first baseman Hyun-soo Kim. Kim, 28, is coming off a great season […]
Read moreSo, what if Chris Davis leaves?
I don’t claim to be an expert on sports. I enjoy sportsball of all sorts, but I’m not in the front offices of any teams–unless I’m playing Madden, MLB The Show, or FIFA. However, like many Orioles fans, I’m preparing myself for that news clip on SportsCenter which announces that 1B (and sometimes outfielder, DH, […]
Read moreWhat Could Have Been: Jay Gibbons
Photo Credit: Keith Allison, Flickr.com Tell me where you were about fourteen years ago. It was the spring to summer of 2001. 9/11 was still just a date and Aaliyah was still alive. Michael Jordan was preparing for his final return. The Arizona Diamondbacks proved that Cinderella (even ones with bloated salaries) still existed. And […]
Read more"Foreign Substances": Some Thoughts on the 2015 MLB Season
Now, we all know that I’m a baseball fan. But, this season has been brutal, and not even from just the standpoint as an Orioles fan. From pitchers being suspended for having “foreign substances” on their arms during games, to the AL East having one of the worst cumulative records thus far, to the “speed […]
Read moreShould We Panic about the (In)Action of the Orioles?
So, stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A Baltimore Orioles team does meh-to-great in the regular season. If they make it to the playoffs, they get demoralized by a “Cinderella” team that no one expected to be as epic as they were in the post-season. The Orioles team is jacked to the brims […]
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Konichiwa, bitches (not in the “bad bitch” sense, but in the Lupe “bitch bad, woman good” slightly-ironic-because-I-still-call-my-brothers-nigga-on-ocassion-in-song-but-I-can-still-preach-like-a-good-worker-monkey sense). So, since I’ve been gone, LeBron won his first championship. That’s a pretty hefty task for the LeBaron to accomplish. Now, he can finally start onto that whole “I’ll be better than Michael, just you wait and […]
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