Ain’t the beer cold?

Back on the wagon.

Of course I missed a week of awesome Orioles stuff.

Firstly, congrats to you Neal for scoring that Examiner gig. Does that start today? Let us know. Also, more props to you for getting TLC on the hallowed pages of Roch’s blog. That’s just cool, and I might add a little overdue.

What a crazy season. If we even had halfway-legit starting pitching, we’d certainly be at least above .500 right now. What’s the secret to this crazy offensive resurgence? What’s the Crow been up to the last bunch of years? We get rid of our power hitter (who has 12 home runs, by the way, as many as Ramon) and suddenly Mora, Millar, Huff, and the career minor leaguer Luke Scott are all going to finish with more than 20 home runs. We have a good lineup, minus shortstop and Jay Payton. FUN.

This is fun baseball. And the best part is that these dudes are hitting BETTER in August, something we haven’t seen … ever?

The whole attitude is different. I think we’re going to remember 2008 as the year that things started to change for the better. For whatever reason (Trembley, no Miggy, no Bedard are my three big ones), this team doesn’t care about its losing past. Even though they’re technically not far from where they were last year, it’s not even close.

WTB

I’m sure some posters, who will remain nameless (DF) would surely disagree that this season has been Positive.

They (Drew) would say that ticket sales are low, we’re still in last place, too little too late with the jerseys, or whatever…

It irks me that those people, who I would never dare call out (Drew Forrester) can spew such filth before the season starts, but can’t admit in the same forums, that maybe they were Wrong.

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This season has been a success on so many levels:

The trades have proven to be nothing short of…an R word that shouldn’t be used in the context of sports. We’ll call it Robbery, for the sake of the children.

The prospects are looking Damn Good. I’m not a pregnant chicken and I will NOT count my eggs before they hatch, but DAMN it’s tempting…

And even the veterans are grinding it out to the bitter end (Millar, Huff come to mind)

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I’m here.

Summer has been busy, but this is still where I go for game recaps, before the news outlets, before ESPN…This is the spot.

I don’t like to chime in if I don’t watch the game (that’s not really true) but I’m here grasping for .500 with y’all and I always appreciate the informed, intelligent posts. Although I like the odd ones too. I played water polo once, but my horse drowned.

LC