Trying to figure out who is going to be the next Orioles closer is like trying to solve the Rubik’s Cube while wearing a blindfold. In other words, its really difficult to figure out just who is going to consistently close games for the O’s. They signed Mike “I-can’t-stand-still-when-I-pitch” Gonzalez to a two-year, $12 million deal in the offseason hoping he would be the answer to the closer problem. Well it didn’t take but two games to figure out that finding a closer would be a lingering problem for the O’s all season. Gonzalez doesn’t have horrible career numbers as a closer, but I’m not quite sure if he was worth $6 million a year.
The most saves he has ever recorded in a season was 24 with Pittsburgh in 2006. He has an excellent career strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.50, which is one of the attributes you need to be an effective closer. But he has been a setup guy for the majority of his career, so to give him that much money and expect him to come right in and be successful as a closer may have been too much to ask. After blowing two saves against Tampa Bay and Toronto in the first week of the season, it seemed as if that decision wasn’t the smartest one the O’s have ever made. Gonzalez was then placed on the disabled list on April 14 with a left shoulder strain. So with Gonzalez out of commission for several weeks, the O’s were in need of a new closer.
The most logical guy to throw into the closer role was Jim Johnson. Johnson did well last season as a setup guy so Trembley gave him a chance to try and close out some games. Well Johnson has appeared in 10 games this season and has accumulated a 6.52 ERA, allowing seven earned runs in 9 2/3 innings. After his mysterious implosion, he was optioned back to Triple-A Norfolk on May 1.
With Johnson currently out of the picture, Cla Meredith, Will Ohman, Matt Albers and Alfredo Simon have been handling the late inning situations. Of the three, Simon is the only one who has the potential to be a closer. Meredith, Ohman and Albers are strictly setup guys and are hard to trust when it comes to relying on them to close out games. Simon is considered the closer for the moment, but judging from his career numbers (26 hits, 16 earned runs in 22 1/3 innings) he probably won’t be the long-term solution. However, he has fared well so far this season, appearing in three games this season and not allowing an earned run. He throws hard and his 6-foot-4, 230-pound frame makes you believe he has the physical attributes to be a good closer down the road. He has only been in the league for two years so he has a lot of learning to do.
Early on, I thought Kam Mickolio had the stuff to be a decent closer, but he was optioned back to Triple-A back on April 27th after just three appearances. He was called up on April 15th, but allowed five hits and three earned runs in just 3 2/3 innings. Mickolio’s fastball is anywhere from the mid-to-high 90s and both his slider and changeup are works-in-progress. He definitely needs some work on his control, but I think he could eventually be an option for closing games for the O’s.
Needless to say, the O’s could have anyone close out games in the coming weeks. I guess it all depends on who the hot pitcher is at the time and who Trembley thinks can handle the situation placed in front of him. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised with anyone they throw in there.
In that the team only has 7 wins, a closer is the least of their problems. You don't need to close out many games when you are only scoring an average of 3 runs per game in the AL. Koji will be the "next man up" in my opinion, but he seems to be a delicate little flower who cannot tolerate any temperatures over 72 degrees.
Hah. Yeah Koji proved that he couldn't handle the heat early last season. One inning may really benefit him. Looks like he'll be back up for the Minnesota series.
Honestly, forget the closer- I just want to have more than one run in a game. Is that possible? At this point I can handle having anyone as the closer as long as we score runs.
I still predict that Will-o Will Ohman will be the closer before season's end. They guy has the MPH and is crafty enough- besides with a name like Will-o they guy has got to have talent.
I like Will Oh Man! But I think he plays best as a situational guy. I'm pulling for Simon, the guy has a wicked fastball with a lot of movement. If he can command it he'll be a good fit. But Koji might best serve that role.
I'm not sure if I agree with the comments 100%. I do think that we need to start producing some offensive , that's obvious. But if you look at these games that we're losing, we're in them until the 9th for the most part. I'm not sure of the statistic, but we're somewhere in the top 3 for losses by 2 and under. If we can get a closer who can finish up the game and not throw runs in the 9th, then we're going to be ok. In terms of our starting pitching, I feel terrible for Hernandez and Bergussen. David (with the exception of yesterdays day game against the Yankees) has pitched 5 games that should have been wins, but the offense just couldn't pull through for him. Brad was the best we had last season until he got hurt. He's an amazing pitcher and will be great one day, but he needs to fully recover from the line drive shot that knocked him out last year. We have a solid team. I don't think we need to go to AAA quite yet… even if we do, who do we have in Norfolk? Josh Bell… that's about it. We just need some extra batting practices, and a few more wins to regain confidence. 🙂 I will always be a fan.
Dom
Last I heard, David Hernandez had the second worst run support in all of baseball. He certainly had a difficult start yesterday, but has pitched pretty well otherwise. Same with Guthrie, who had a bad spring, but has pitched really solid so far.
The starters have been great, but the bats have come alive just once, in that 12 run win over Boston. Hopefully the Crow can get the bats going in Minnesota. They certainly need it and you don't want to get these young starters discouraged.
Exactly! I have high hopes! 🙂
You've got to think that eventually guys like Nolan Reimold, Luke Scott and Adam Jones are gonna start hitting. I'm just pulling for that to happen now!
Last I heard, David Hernandez had the second worst run support in all of baseball. He certainly had a difficult start yesterday, but has pitched pretty well otherwise. Same with Guthrie, who had a bad spring, but has pitched really solid so far.
The starters have been great, but the bats have come alive just once, in that 12 run win over Boston. Hopefully the Crow can get the bats going in Minnesota. They certainly need it and you don't want to get these young starters discouraged.
Welcome Dom!
I'm not sure if I agree with the comments 100%. I do think that we need to start producing some offensive , that's obvious. But if you look at these games that we're losing, we're in them until the 9th for the most part. I'm not sure of the statistic, but we're somewhere in the top 3 for losses by 2 and under. If we can get a closer who can finish up the game and not throw runs in the 9th, then we're going to be ok. In terms of our starting pitching, I feel terrible for Hernandez and Bergussen. David (with the exception of yesterdays day game against the Yankees) has pitched 5 games that should have been wins, but the offense just couldn't pull through for him. Brad was the best we had last season until he got hurt. He's an amazing pitcher and will be great one day, but he needs to fully recover from the line drive shot that knocked him out last year. We have a solid team. I don't think we need to go to AAA quite yet… even if we do, who do we have in Norfolk? Josh Bell… that's about it. We just need some extra batting practices, and a few more wins to regain confidence. 🙂 I will always be a fan.
Dom
I'm not sure if I agree with the comments 100%. I do think that we need to start producing some offensive , that's obvious. But if you look at these games that we're losing, we're in them until the 9th for the most part. I'm not sure of the statistic, but we're somewhere in the top 3 for losses by 2 and under. If we can get a closer who can finish up the game and not throw runs in the 9th, then we're going to be ok. In terms of our starting pitching, I feel terrible for Hernandez and Bergussen. David (with the exception of yesterdays day game against the Yankees) has pitched 5 games that should have been wins, but the offense just couldn't pull through for him. Brad was the best we had last season until he got hurt. He's an amazing pitcher and will be great one day, but he needs to fully recover from the line drive shot that knocked him out last year. We have a solid team. I don't think we need to go to AAA quite yet… even if we do, who do we have in Norfolk? Josh Bell… that's about it. We just need some extra batting practices, and a few more wins to regain confidence. 🙂 I will always be a fan.
Dom
I like Will Oh Man! But I think he plays best as a situational guy. I'm pulling for Simon, the guy has a wicked fastball with a lot of movement. If he can command it he'll be a good fit. But Koji might best serve that role.
love the nickname you gave him. almost as bad as cy young. or josh beckett. well beckett doesn't move, he just takes 10 mins per pitch. at the game sunday he was taking forever and my whole section (18, so right on field level next to dugout) was heckling him. no wonder joe west hates him. i totally get now why the yankees and red sox suck. their pitchers take forever to pitch and they think they are better than everyone else so they can do things at their own pace. i was hoping the umps this past weekend would call a delay on beckett.
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love the nickname you gave him. almost as bad as cy young. or josh beckett. well beckett doesn't move, he just takes 10 mins per pitch. at the game sunday he was taking forever and my whole section (18, so right on field level next to dugout) was heckling him. no wonder joe west hates him. i totally get now why the yankees and red sox suck. their pitchers take forever to pitch and they think they are better than everyone else so they can do things at their own pace. i was hoping the umps this past weekend would call a delay on beckett.
Dom wrote "We have a solid team" and "we're going to be ok"… WTF? C'mon man, are you drunk? They have 7 freaking wins and 12 straight losing seasons! You have Jones and Reimold hitting below .210 with few homers & ribbies so you have to say, are they any good?
To actually sit there and say this team is solid makes you out to be someone who is clueless… Usually I won't comment on such absurd comments but you have got to have been in hiding…
C'mon man, before you write again, think what you are saying… This is a sports forum not a "Stand-Up Comedy" routine…
So now a guy with an ERA of 5.74 and a WHIP of 1.66 is something to cheer about?
It's really come to that huh?
5 innings and 3 runs is now considered a good start? That's a 5.40 ERA.
Our starters have been "great"? Bergesen has been putrid. Hernandez below average. Guthrie average AT BEST. Matusz and Millwood have been good.
Our starters as a whole have been far from "great". They've just been better than what's pretty much the worst offensive team in the league.
I cannot understand how people would still try to spin this team into anything besides terrible.
It's defies logic.
Zach
People are fed up dude.
Lots of guys have pop in their bat. Bell is far from a sure thing. They have no sure things in the minors with regards to bats.
It's pathetic and it's tiresome.
They are the worst team in baseball and have virutally nothing in the minors that can help them at the plate.
How long are you just gonna whistle past the graveyard and tell us how the future is bright while the team disinegrates once again?
I'm still hopeful that Andy MacPhail will keep to his word and buy the bats. He talked about building pitching and buying bats. There will be plently available this off season.
I guess we are related. I am extremely disappointed by the way the season has started and will probably finish. I think it is a tremendous set back to the rebuilding efforts. I think that the Orioles had to tear it down and start over due to years of mismanagement under Edward Bennett Williams, Eli Jacobs, and now Peter Angelos and the cast of clowns at GM they paraded through here like Syd Thrift and Roland Hemond, Flanny, Duquette, Beattie. It's been nearly 30 years of the Who's Who in terrible GMs. Guys that did a decent job – Frank Wren and Pat Gillick got run out of town. Wren basically by Cal Ripken Jr. I think they had to do what they've done. I hope McPhail knows what he's doing, but who knows? I just hope he does. They do need to bring in FAs, it's just that I didn't think last year was the year to do it, and that has proven out. You cannot make decisions on where your holes are after players have 1 major league season under their belts. They had no idea which of their pitchers would stick. It now looks like Bergeson is not an AL East pitcher. It now looks like Wieters could be a solid major leaguer, Jones is iffy, Markakis is solid, but it looks like he'll never be a leader. I think THIS is the offseason to make the moves. If they don't do it this offseason, then my patience will run out.
I just cannot believe you are getting sucked into "this is the offseason to make moves" mantra.
We were told they wanted to add legit bats last offseason and we ended up with Garrett F'n Atkins and Tejada.
How many times do you need to be fooled before you finally realize what is going on?
The payroll has been slashed and the team looks worse than ever.
It isn't changing anytime soon. And by that, I mean years.
We're from different generations Mark, that's the only way "I" can explain our differences of opinion. And Zach has been influenced by his Old Man. I have seen this team decline for 30 years with clowns like Dewey Evans coming in, and Rick Burleson, Lee Lacy, Ron Kittle et al . 1996 and 1997 were abberations in my mind, not the last 13 years. I think the Orioles need a core of 3-4 players to build around and re-build their minor leagues that have been drier than cotton mouth after downing 5 tequilla shots on Cinqo De Mayo. Getting good scouts like the Marlins, Twins, and even the Yankees have. I don't know if McPhail is the right guy, I really don't. I HOPE he is. I think his idea is right, at least what he says he's doing.
Tejada and Atkins were signed for one year, and not cheaply mind you, so I really have no problem with either of those, in fact I like Tejada, always have. I don't think they viewed them as long term, or else they would have signed them for more than one year.
I'm not saying McPhail is making all the right moves, quite honestly it doesn't look like it as the record doesn't show it, but I guess I'm willing to give it some more time. It's either that or I could say I'm rooting for the Red Sox like my Boy Ravens2488 did this year.
I appreciate your passion and patience.
But I really think you are ignoring the elephant in the room and that's the owner.
He is a tyrant who has driven this organization into the abyss.
You keep talking about the past 30 years but the reality is this team had some winning seasons besides 96 and 97. http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/
They have NEVER had a run like the past 13 years.
So while there have been other issues over the years, I cannot and will not ignore what Angelos has done to this organization.
It goes far beyond just the product on the field. It's been disgraceful on so many accounts that it's hard to fathom.
I do not believe winning is his number one goal and quite frankly I think his actions have shown it.
Every time I think they've hit rock bottom they manage to redefine the term.
I'm referring more to the fact that the Orioles have failed to produce position players over the last 30 years.
But what can you do about the owner? Protest? Free the Birds? Not go to the games? I've been through that. See Baltimore Colts. He's never insinuated he's selling, I don't know that there is someone local with the wherewithal to buy a half a billion dollar team. So what can we do about the owner?
You are correct STG
Nothing we can do.
But I will NOT do is pretend things are changing when they aren't.
That was my point.
We're from different generations Mark, that's the only way "I" can explain our differences of opinion. And Zach has been influenced by his Old Man. I have seen this team decline for 30 years with clowns like Dewey Evans coming in, and Rick Burleson, Lee Lacy, Ron Kittle et al . 1996 and 1997 were abberations in my mind, not the last 13 years. I think the Orioles need a core of 3-4 players to build around and re-build their minor leagues that have been drier than cotton mouth after downing 5 tequilla shots on Cinqo De Mayo. Getting good scouts like the Marlins, Twins, and even the Yankees have. I don't know if McPhail is the right guy, I really don't. I HOPE he is. I think his idea is right, at least what he says he's doing.
Tejada and Atkins were signed for one year, and not cheaply mind you, so I really have no problem with either of those, in fact I like Tejada, always have. I don't think they viewed them as long term, or else they would have signed them for more than one year.
I'm not saying McPhail is making all the right moves, quite honestly it doesn't look like it as the record doesn't show it, but I guess I'm willing to give it some more time. It's either that or I could say I'm rooting for the Red Sox like my Boy Ravens2488 did this year.
We need a 3b/SS/1B and we have a 2b with a bad back that is in the first year of a 40 million dollar extension.
By the way, the arms are still a MAJOR question mark.
I cannot believe how non chalant you are about another season of inept baseball.
Marky Mark – When someone throws out that Bergeson is awesome and going to be great after only seeing him throw a handful of games has got to be riding the "Himalaya" roller coaster way to much!
And the "we have a solid team" that was thrown out there Mark has got to make you wonder where this guy has been.
The mentioning of Josh Bell as being the only "good" thing in the minor leagues is mind numbing because Bell is nothing and is goina be nothing….
2,4,6,8 – Do you have an original thoughts or are you just trying to suck up to Mark?
2,4,6,8 hears the Good Humor Man's bell and can't think straight. He's the same guy who said he was rooting for the Red Sox" from now on, yet has been strangely quiet so far this season, especially after getting swept by the low-life Orioles last week. He thinks Big Papi is really 34 years old, is actively investigating how he tested positive for steroids, and that Lawrence Taylor was set up this morning. He's like a refrigerator full of grass shrimp and stale beer.
And the Orioles are 7-21.
All of this nonsense about potential players that are a year or two away means nothing to the this team right now.
Bell isn't gonna make them much better.
They need help in all sorts of areas.
I mean, it's almost like a bizarro world here sometimes.
You do watch the Orioles every night, correct?
I do know Ol' Bruz was disappointed in the "expose" on Big Ben over on SI.com…I was hoping to be able to say "Hey, Hon, let me read this part to you"…But I really never found that part…Other problem is, who is gonna be third member of the deceased baseball family trifecta after Ernie Harwell and now Robin Roberts, may they both rest in peace…
Heard the Neurologists are saying his head trauma may be leading to his poor decisions…CLASSIC!!! Tiger is a Sex Addict (what guy isn't?), Ben's head trauma has caused his misgivings…What a world! He who has the best PR wins in this world.
I was a fan when we were doing well. I've been a fan for the past 13 shaky seasons. And I'm a fan now. I'll always be a fan. Trash talking our players isn't going to do much for the moral of the team. If moral is down, then so is the record. We need more people like me, and less pessimists like yourself to help our team get to where we need to be!
Ummm.
Nevermind.
I'm with you Dom and I always appreciate good fans contributing on BaltimoreSportsReport.com. I'll always be out there at the yard cheering on our team and it's good to know that you will be too.
always. these fair weather fans piss me off! They should just go hop on the Bosox bandwagon and leave Baltimore sports to those who actually care about Baltimore sports 🙂
Dom – I appreciate your passion for Baltimore Sports. Look, I was 18 years old when the Mayflower vans pulled away from Owings Mills…. I remember that sick feeling I had, hell I still have. I love the Ravens, but it'll never be the same for old guys like me. I guess I'm paranoid, still shell shocked, whatever, but I will not give up on this team. I didn't give up on the Colts, despite all the razzing I took as a kid, and I will not give up on the Orioles. I haven't liked a lot of what they've done over the years, but their still my team. I'll dog cuss them but I've got tickets to 3 straight games next week. It's in my blood. Many call me a sucker, a fool, whatever, I gotta have faith, no matter how blind my friends say I am. I don't know if this plan to rebuild the farm system is working, it sure looks like it isn't at this point, but I refuse to give up. Nice to hear someone shares my passion.
Hey Dom
I got news for you.
People who talk about the Orioles on a blog and criticize the team aren't fair weather fans.
The problem you and Zach can't seem to comprehend is that the masses have already bailed. Whether it was this season or the past 12 horrific seasons.
How do you call someone who is fed up with this garbage "fair weather"? I was at 2 of the 3 Boston games. Im going to San Francisco specifically to see the Orioles play the Giants.
And I'm pissed off and fed up with the team. But I still watch.
Why? Because I'm a fan.
You and Zach aren't "better" fans because you buy this BS that the warehouse sells.
Believe that.
Thank you for your "news" Mark! Mind blowing! I never said I was a "better fan." I'm just saying that I don't give up hope. Am I fed up? Damn right I am! But I still have hope. And yes, I have season tickets.
"always. these fair weather fans piss me off! They should just go hop on the Bosox bandwagon and leave Baltimore sports to those who actually care about Baltimore sports :)"
Cut and pasted from a post by Dom.
I'll just let that speak for itself.
And one more thing……being positive about a joke of a team doesn't help them one bit.
Zach
I can name a bunch of other fans that go to games that are also completely fed up with the garbage that we see nightly.
It's amazing how you think that you are a better fan because you know a bit more about the current team than someone who has basically given up hope. You aren't a better fan.
The plan is a rouse Zach. I've pointed out fact after fact to you and all you can say is that Josh Bell might be good.
You are correct about one thing though. This is a different "plan". The sad part is that it is a just another in the long list of "plans" that will fail.
The fans that root for their team when they are struggling are always better fans than the fans that only come out to cheer when they win.
Which is MOST fans Zach.
Baltimore isn't any different than any other city.
Yankee Stadium was empty in the 80s when they sucked.
Check out when Fenway started their sell out streak. 2003.
The Orioles aren't just losing. They have been systematically ruined.
Wake up man.
Why is someone a good fan for being a glutton for punishment?
It's as if you refuse to see what is right in front of you.
Yeah I got it Mark and if I didn't, I got it when we argued this point a week ago.
I guess your thought is that a good fan is pretty much anyone that has ever rooted for a team at any point in time or anyone that has ever gone to a game.
I demand a little more.
Yea, well when the team sucks for 13 years and does what they have done, some fans demand more.
It works both ways.
My point is that it's highly arrogant to label yourself or anyone a better fan for any reason.
So no, you still don't get it.
I've never written the words that I'm a better fan than anyone else. I think our requirements are different for good fans.
Let me know how to "demand more" and I will do it. I'm not happy about 7 winning seasons in 27 years either. I'm not happy about an organization not producing position players. I'm not happy about a 9-22 start. But to say you must "demand more", I'm just not sure how to do that. I can see if you refuse to buy tickets, but you apparently you "do" buy tickets, unless you get them as freebies. You apparently still watch the games, you still post your thoughts about them. How is it you're "demanding more"? I'd just like to know. If I know an actor continually puts out what I view as bad movies, I stop going to see his movies.
Zach
I can name a bunch of other fans that go to games that are also completely fed up with the garbage that we see nightly.
It's amazing how you think that you are a better fan because you know a bit more about the current team than someone who has basically given up hope. You aren't a better fan.
The plan is a rouse Zach. I've pointed out fact after fact to you and all you can say is that Josh Bell might be good.
You are correct about one thing though. This is a different "plan". The sad part is that it is a just another in the long list of "plans" that will fail.
Et tu fei Dom – I can give you better ball then the O's can. For $5, come over to my backyard for our Wiffle ball games… For $5 you get a brewski, a dog and a great view of a great game! Right now I lead the team with 10 dingers over my neighbors fence which gives me 5 more than your great Josh Bell! and "Red Meat", our star pitcher is 5-0 which is a better record than any O's pitcher. As good as I am I don't bat cleanup as that is the big bat spot and my boy "The Hammer" takes that spot.
(Continue) from note to Dom – I did get player of the game for one I saved us the other day. I was playing centerfield, "Mr. Wiggles" our reliever was in for "Red Meat". 1 out, guy on third, we're up 4-3. This guy on the other team, "Mad Dog", cranks one to dead center, I run back and catch it, runner on third tags, the pitcher is in my way so I rear back and curve the wiffle ball around my pitcher and hit "Flash" who tagged from third, right on the shoulder, two steps before he touched the third pole on the fence (which is home plate). I think the only reason I got him was when he tagged up he slipped on the paper plate that was being used for third base and didn't get a good footing.
Dom – we had an away game once and my left fielder, "Crusher", was chasing a ball down the line and smacked into a rabbit cage. From then on he was known as "Jack", short for Jack Rabbit. So you see Dom, you come watch us and we might give you a nickname! What would you like? "A$$ Clown"?, "HandJammer"?,
Good fan? Bad fan? Honest fan? Cynical fan? Me? When I was seven, in the spring of 1970, I went to my first organized baseball practice — for the Rosedale Clinic, at Red House Run Elementary School…They broke us up initially in to two groups, outfielders and infielders. Young Bruz was in the outfield group. Coach asked the group, "Who can tell me how many outfielders the Orioles have?" Young Bruz had gotten thru counting in his head Don Buford and Paul Blair and Frank Robinson and Merv Rettenmund and was working on Curt Motton when the Coach answered the question "They have three…A left fielder, center fielder, and right fielder". Oh, boy! Almost a decade later, I'm lucky enough to have been 16 in 1979…Though I didn't get high or even drink then, I spent 30-some night and afternoons sitting in Section 34, screaming "Stick it in his ear, Flannnnnnnagan" right along with Mr. Hagy (May He Rest In Peace) and friends. Spelling out O-R-I-O-L-E-S with all my might, yelling "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" as Dempsey waved that white towel from the left field bull pen.
Lemme tell ya, young and old — That was a long way from Lee Lacy and Alan Wiggins and Bruce Chen and Ryan Minor and Manny Alexander and Kurt Ainsworth and Kris Benson and Albert Belle and 33 year old Fred Lynn and 36 year old (and .209 hitting) Rick Burleson and 39 year old Dewey Evans and his 38 RBIs and 32 year old Ron Kittle and his .164 average…One 90+ winning season since the '83 Champs…A still barren minor league system…I don't wanna hear about "Hope"…Or "Optimism"…Or anything about me being "Bad Fan" since I gave up the season tickets I held since 1991…What Peter Angelos (and a little bad luck — See Davis, Glenn injury) has done to my team is reprehensible…Be blind to it, if you wish…Ol' Bruz says, simply, "Free the Birds"!
I liked your post til the last three words. I don't see how fueling Nasty's propaganda will help make anything better.
I like the bus trips, but I can't take the guy seriously. He's made a living off of bashing the Orioles and I can't find a way to respect that side of his business.
I want the glory days back too, I just don't see how making a $15 donation to WNST to protest the team is gonna turn things around.
It'll make Angelos sell the team!!! You know a publicity stunt like this is to get Angelos to sell, it worked so well last time! "Free the Birds" is a publicity stunt aimed at getting WNST some local and perhaps national exposure. Let's not kid ourselves. Nothing productive will become of "Free the Birds" other than 2 or 3 more listeners to add to his 10 watt station. Good for Nestor, I'd be trying to drum up interest to, he's a business man, but to try to sell this as some kind of method to get Angelos to sell is preposterous. If anything, something like this will make Angelos dig his heels in. Nestor has become the Rush Limbaugh of Baltimore Sports.
It hasn't worked the past two times, but you're right lots of people are talking about it and tuning into WNST which = more advertisers, which = more $.
As I said, Nasty makes his living off the Orioles poor play. The bad start was great for his company.
Where was the protest when EBW was making veiled threats to move to DC while signing bums like Lacy, Wiggins, bringing Weaver back out of retirement? Where was the protest when Eli Jacobs was bilking the team for money? This town is so short sighted.
Bruz with the post of the month.
Angelos has allowed the spiral of failure to continue in the downward turn, no doubt, but these problems started long before his arrival in 1996:
Lee Lacy – 1991
Wiggins – 1986
Minor – 1995
Manny Alexander – 1988
Lynn – 1985
Burleson – 1987
Evans – 1991
Kittle – 1990
Since 1983, 27 years – the team has gone to the post season twice, produced two everyday position player – Roberts and Markakis, and has had 7 winning seasons, going to the post season twice in 27 years. Talk about ignoring the elephant in the room, this spiral started with a lot of the players you named here, Bruz.
Again, Angelos has allowed the spiral to continue since 1997 when he essentially fired the Manager of the Year and let the top executive in baseball go, but let's not pretend this losing tradition all started in 1998, it's just not true.
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