“I think you always make evaluations based on performance first,” Trembley said. “Not everybody here is a milkshake drinker. They’re not all guys that you’d want to bring home and introduce to your daughters. You understand that. But performance is the bottom line. I didn’t see Fernando Cabrera fitting in on this club next year. I think we can do better. I told him I appreciated what he did, but I didn’t see him making this club coming out of spring training.”

Brilliant. Give that man a contract. I think I’ll buy a road Baltimore Trembley jersey this Christmas.

Go Baysox!

Why wouldn’t they have announced DT’s return back in July when the team – for the first time since Clinton was President – was actually semi-competitive and in need, perhaps, of a “spark”?

My guess is that MacPhail intended to renew DT all along but caught wind of some of the locker room friction and needed some time to weed through it and make sure bringing DT back in ’09 didn’t do more harm than good with the players.

They must not be OVERLY thrilled with Trembley or they wouldn’t keep bush-leagueing him with these one year deals. There are people who work for Coca Cola who have better contracts than
DT.

I don’t think he’s a great X’s and O’s manager but I think he’s a good man. He’s a stand up guy who has been given a shitburger team to work with and they won’t find anyone else around to work with this crop of guys he’s been handed for $600k or whatever it is they’re underpaying him in ’08.

Are there better managers in the big leagues? No doubt. But you can’t make wine without good grapes.

The extenstion was a no brainer

Things like this take time to work

So it gets put on the back burner…while they play baseball games

Remember the baseball games?

So, as the season tailspins to the fiery crash of a finish we’ve grown to love, the Baseball Minds figure, hey let’s push the DT annoucement out a little early and see if it sparks the boys for the home stretch

I’m ok with that. If there is a preferrable way they “should” have gone about it, I’d be up to read it.

Andy has been taking a slow, methodical and calculated to nearly Every Move he has made thus far (key example the bedard trade)

Your comment gives the impression that you’re not satisfied with the way they handled the extension. Or are you simply arguing semantics?

I’m just curious. Two easy questions. No need for the standard DF lecture about the time “when Baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy”