Boh’s vs. ‘Stro’s
Apologies for the late post. Here’s your Orioles/Astros open thread.
What can we say about Miguel Tejada? Overall, I think we can say that he’s basically a good guy who created some problems for himself. The Mitchell Report, falsifying his age, and kinda packing it in when it was clear the team was no good – all things that he could have and should have avoided. To Miguel’s credit, Orioles management never made good on their promise to surround him with a legitimate team. He probably doesn’t deserve to be booed, but he will be a little. Most of us probably wished him well when he got traded and he is indeed doing just fine. He’s driving in lots of runs and leads all of the NL shortstops in All-Star votes – same old Miggy.
More importantly, however, is the fact that it’s Wild Bill Hagy T-Shirt Night at the Yard. A year ago, the Orioles organization would have laughed at the suggestion of such a thing. This year, it’s just another good sign in a growing list of good signs. It’s nothing short of an apology to the fanbase as a whole – after all, that’s what Hagy represents – and although it’s long overdue, it’s much appreciated.
There’s bound to be something magical tonight. I’m at my place of business right now wishing, as I’m sure Neal is, that I could join the LC’ers for a night out.
O-R-I-O-L-E-S!
Bill Hagy was before my time, and I don’t know a lot about him. As a result I don’t care about him at all.
But, I will say that despite what many are saying, I think Miguel Tejada deserved more than he got as far as a ‘welcome home’ was concerned. He may have lied about his age. He may have done steroids. He may appear to have slacked towards the end of his time here. But the one thing you can’t take away from him: He played every day, he was the leader of the team, and his statistics were always the best. He got absolutely dick for his efforts; from the front office, from the lackluster fans, from his teammates.
I don’t see how you can rag on a guy who put up team leading statistics the whole time he was here. He was the face of the fucking franchise for 4 years.
Went to the game. This team is just insane. Blown chances, 11 stranded base runners, many of whom were in scoring position, and they still find a way to win.
We didn’t get shirts, mainly because they were gone before 6:30. Something that I found a bit fishy considering the relatively light attendance.
At the Markakis night against the much bigger draw Red Sox, at 6:50 I still got a shirt.
Oh well. Hopefully the 8,000 eight year olds are enjoying their new XL dresses. 15 and older my ass.
It seemed like an ok attendance eventually for a Tuesday. No way were the shirts gone at 6:30. We were sitting by the Eutaw street entrance eating at 6:15 and they were opening up a couple new boxes. Fishy indeed. I feel bad for you, though, man, because they are cool shirts indeed.
I heard all day “Tejada this, Tejada that” but when it came to it, I did nothing. Nothing struck me. I thought I would boo, then I thought I would cheer, but when he came up – he’s just a dude on another team that I used to go nuts for, but I’m more than happy with Luuuuke and Albers over Tejada. And nothing hit me. I was totally ambivalent – as was the crowd early on. A couple people seemed angry at him, some clapped, one little kid in front of us had a Miggy shirt on, and seemed confused.
They played a “Thank you Miggy” video of his best moments, and it was just like “Yeah, I remember that” for me, and then nothing. I’m just not excited to see him gone, nor upset that he’s gone. I was, however, real happy with 0 for 3 with a walk and his team losing (again – to Orioles MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC)
Can any closer stop us?
Well, I guess Hagy T-Shirt night seemed like more of a smash than it actually was. That’s too bad about the people that didn’t get a shirt. Nestor was even whining on NST about how the O’s had “better have some kind of donation set up” since it’s arguable that the O’s were trying to spike ticket sales on the Hagy name. To that I say, whatever works, man. The guy already has an award in his name – what’s so bad about a T-shirt night? Clearly it was a popular idea and the O’s have been short on popular ideas in recent years.
AooR, I agree with you about Tejada. Had I been at the game, I probably would have given the guy a clap or two. After that, he becomes just another guy on the team I’m hoping the O’s beat. He was here, he put up numbers (some record breaking), the team continued to lose, now he’s gone. I do think it was nice they gave him a thank you video, though. And having him on the team was certainly better than NOT having him on the team, at least early on in his tenure here.
But at least there was MAGIC again last night. Melvin Mora, dude. Nice at-bat. What was up with Olson? Retired 12 straight, lets up a single, and then the wheels fall off? He’s been kind of a puzzling guy. Certainly MUCH more effective this year than at the end of last year, but it’s hard to tell what kind of major league pitcher he’ll really turn into.
Speaking of pitching, how about Brandon Erbe? 7IP, 1 hit, 12 K’s, 0 walks. He’s another puzzling one, but if he starts to get some consistency, we may have something here.
I got straight off from work and left for Bawlmer for the game, so when I got there at like 5:15 I still got a shirt. They’re cool, but kinda not excited about the XL size…so it was especially lame to see little kids walking around in what appeared to be “Wild Bill Hagy Nightie Night”.
I was up in the LF UR and failed to see any other LC’ers, we really need to coordinate a LC night because starting chants by yourself among strangers sober is … deflating. lol
Lots of strange looks when I moved up after the 3rd inning to the 3rd baseline when I started doing Luuuke chants, some guy behind me said “he heard you the first time!”; I’m so embarrassed that I ruined his quiet night out.
Awesome game despite the legions of unenthused fans who can’t clap/chant unless prompted, need to be reminded to stand up for the LAST F*ING INNING IN A COMEBACK WIN, and who had no idea who Wild Bill even was.
“Who’s birthday is it?”
“I dunno.”
(Both wearing the same free Hagy shirt and while a clip of the dude is on friggin’ HD in front of them.)
Melvin’s at bat was all I wanted to talk about with my uncle last night. It was fucking epic. Great game. And the XL shirt seemed like a small XL, because it fits me like a charm, and I wear a L.
Kona, I was down third base side lower level. There was a dumbass Cubs fan right behind me who keep saying “There’s all these Heggies here. Look at the Heggies!” All night. Goddamnit, dude. The crowd seemed like it had a hard time getting into the game for whatever reason until certain moments. But it wasn’t an awful crowd…it just wasn’t Friday night’s crowd. That was an awesome night.
Anyway, I woulda met up with whoever if I didn’t learn at the last second that I got really good seats for free (thanks, Uncle!)…next time.
I’m sort of surprised the boston haters aren’t out, but this is worth mentioning:
This has never happened before and will NEVER happen again (07 Red Sox, 08 Perfect Season/Super Bowl, 08 Celtics)
Take some pleasure in it. As a sports fan. Any at all. Find some. Don’t be negative.
There has been inspirational stories. Tito sticks with Pedroia who was dreadful in the first half of 07, and he wins the R.O.Y., culminating in a leadoff homerun to start the World Series. Maaaan. He’s a short guy and they wouldn’t let him into the Rockies stadium for Game 3, the guard says ‘you dont’ play for the red sox’ and Dustin says ‘why don’t you ask Jeff Francis who I am’
No matter how you feel about the Patriots, the fact that all the Jets shit went down in week 2 or 3 and they maintained face to close out a perfect regular season is impressive, no matter the outcome of the Super Bowl.
We should understand that degree of difficulty, especially after watching the wheel’s fall off, year after year.
What really got me going on all this Sox/Pats jive was when KG got off the court last night, first thing he does is find Bill Russell and say “I hope we made you proud”
That man understands what it’s all about and anyone who wouldn’t kill for that type of Oriole/Raven is lying.
The Celtics made me feel good about these Os. (especially with miggy in town, if you know what I’m sayin)
Call me pathetic, call me what you will.
I love the C’s.
But, JtG, if it wasn’t clear that you were a Sox fan before, it sure as hell is now. Only a Sox fan can pull out Dustin Pedroia quotes out of his ass like that.
Hahahahahahaha
Everyone already knows Joe the Guy love love loves the Red Sox, and especially Dustin Pedroia who, last I checked, was stinking up that lineup to the tune of “Worse at bat than Lugo”
The quote that made me hate Dustin Pedroia?
Referring to Daniel Cabrera:
“The guy is an idiot,” Pedroia told reporters afterward. “I dropped my bat. It kind of freaked me out. I was upset they took him out of the game. He is good to hit. He’s 9-15. The guy sucks.”
I saw this quote too, thought it was funny:
On Bedard going only five or six innings and 100 pitches of late, Bavasi says a lot of pitchers can have days where 90 pitches feel like 200. On why Bedard can’t go longer, Bavasi says it’s a good question, but one that has to be put to Bedard.
“He’ll have a stupid answer for you, you can count on it,” Bavasi said. “He’ll have some dumbass answer.”
Greg, I saw that quote, too. Man o man.
Well, it’s true: his quotes are often (hiliarously) stupid. But I love him for it. My favorites being his response to questions about his near perfect game against Texas last year (“We won and that’s the bottom line,” Bedard said. “If I throw a complete game, I throw a complete game. If I don’t, I don’t. At the end of the day we won and that’s what counts.”), and his spring training request of only five questions. To which a reporter asks “Why only five questions?” and Bedard replies “Now you only have 4 questions.”.
How am I the only one who finds this hysterical? He’s a talented guy who’s really dry and keeps to himself. Maybe he’s got a superiority complex, but mostly he just seems like a guy who doesn’t want to have to deal with media types. Which I guess is part of being an athlete, but do people hate Eddie Murray? He was mean to the media, too.