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10-04-2012, 12:48 AM #13Veteran Poster
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10-04-2012, 08:47 AM #14Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
Let's see--a team that won 5 of 7 games against "us" this season, including outscoring "us" by a combined 13 runs in two games last August, starting Yu Darvish, who is 4-0 with a 1.86 ERA over his last seven starts--versus either a rookie with a sore knee (Johnson) or a retread with a 9.38 ERA in six games in Arlington, & a lineup that suddenly can't find its bats with both hands.
Yup, like those odds all right . Hope you don't gamble with the kids' milk money.
FWIW, that pathetic performance in Tampa combined with the A's sweep of the Rangers probably cost Buck any chance at AL Manager of the Year.
Hope you enjoyed this season, because there's very little chance the O's repeat it. Showalter's teams historically peak in his second full year & tank thereafter. And they aren't going 29-9 in 1-run games and 16-2 in extra innings again. It's ten minutes past midnight in the fairytale, Cindy's scrubbing floors, & the prince ain't showing up with the glass slipper anytime soon, if at all.
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10-04-2012, 08:57 AM #15Hall Of Fame Poster
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10-04-2012, 09:01 AM #16Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
Its baseball, anyone can grab a one game series. You'd have to be a fool to put money on the O's though, Texas is a much better team.
Its been a good run for the Orioles, a very surprising one at that. But I don't see any playoff games in Baltimore this season.
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10-04-2012, 09:06 AM #17Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
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10-04-2012, 09:09 AM #18Hall Of Fame Poster
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10-04-2012, 03:34 PM #20Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
You've obviously mistaken me for someone who wants the Orioles to lose. People often confuse expressing the probability of a disappointing outcome for wanting that outcome to occur. I take no pleasure in pointing out how long the odds are against the O's & I would be very happy to be proven wrong. I'm just not going to let it break my heart if that doesn't happen.
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10-04-2012, 03:36 PM #21Hyperbolic curmudgeometer
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
Congrats to O's. Insurance run was sweet. 4-1
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Re: O's v. Rays Game Thread -- Why? Because its 15 yrs in the Making!
Rangers on the verge of becoming the "Buffalo Bills" of MLB
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