YES, we're in first place with a record of 1-0, beating Oakland 4-0. Although on a realilistic note, we will have to step it up a knotch in both pitching and hitting. The second hottest guy on the team, Matos, did hit a two run homer.
Speaking of hot. Anyone see Javy? He was wearing only a jock strap under his see-through white tight pants. I could see the straps against his flawless bubble butt and the pouch which hold his cup which contains his.....sorry just past out. Even his skin below that. BTW-He might consider trimming up a bit to be more comfortable. Not that I'm complaining.
Anyway, GO ORIOLES!! Those damn Yankees are next.

Thanks for pointing that out! I must have missed that one. Since I did record it, I'll have to go back and review the tape.

Speaking of Javy, what do you think of Rafael Palmero? I never thought much about him until I saw him testify to Congress. Boy was he hot!

Palmero is hot. And with all the Viagra he takes...
I also keep my eye on Roberts and Matos. Both cute guys.
Think I'm going to need to comfort them tonight. We're losing 7-0 to Oakland. Ouch
One thing though, Why aren't they wearing there sliding pants? I thought it was standard wear for a game.

What going on with the AL East? The standing are upside down. New York and Boston tied for last place and Baltimore in second. Not that I'm complaining but can the end of the world be just around the corner?

VOTE FOR ME - PAPAL RACE 2005!

Your winning the Papal Race would be more a sign of the end of the world than the AL East standings. wink

Does Sammy Sosa have a home run or RBI yet?

Last night Sammy hit his first HR as an Oriole (575th in his career), and got his first RBI.

Just read an article that Brady Anderson has a
7 month old daughter. Had no idea.

Some people are comparing leadoff hitter Brian Roberts' surprising power surge this season to Brady's (steroid induced?) 50 HR year. In his first 4 years in the bigs, Roberts has hit 2, 1, 5, and 4 HRs. He's got 7 this season in only 87 ABs.

The O's went on a 20 hit attack tonight in defeating the Red Sox 11-8. The O's presently lead the AL East by 3 games, with an impressive 14-7 record.

Not a bad start for a ragtag team of old veterans and young bucks. I couldn't be more happy for them. I'm sure it won't last, but for now...

Am I the only Orioles fan left here?? :mad:
In honor of Brian Roberts' history-making (at least for the Orioles) walk-off and the snapping of our losing streak against the accursed YANKEES nonetheless, I am resurrecting this thread.

I love ss, Miguel Tejada. He definitely deserves to start ahead of Jeter in the All-Star game.

Was in Baltimore last night on a 7 hour layover in BWI, and could not get my partner talked into heading into Camden Yards for even a couple of innings! :mad:

But it was really great to see how the whole area seems to get behind the Orioles. There were thousands on the streets wearing orange and black! The light rail was filled with people heading off to the game. I really wish the Marlins ballpark had gone through on the bay. That would have been a great location.

[ July 04, 2005, 01:58 PM: Message edited by: MiamiSpartan ]

CONGRATS!!! To Rafael Palmeiro. He got his 3000th hit against Seatlle tonight. He now joins the 3000+hit/500+HR club. I'd write more about this outstanding achivement but Javy just called me to join him in the shower. Got to go.

Maybe this will light a fire under our boys' collective rears and they will retake the division lead.

Go Orioles!

[ July 15, 2005, 11:40 PM: Message edited by: owllover711 ]

Palmiero's not that far from the 3,000 hit/600 homer club, which is even more exclusive. And they showed his wife in the stands -- she seems well-endowed enough that I can't understand why he needs Viagra. wink

Pod Person!! Body Snatcher!!! What have you done with Joe??!

Calm down, MM. I didn't say I wanted her...just that from his perspective as a presumably straight man, it seems to me he shouldn't need Viagra when her rack is bouncing around in front of him. wink

[ July 17, 2005, 05:47 PM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]

In the wake of their huge collapse in the AL East followed by the Rafael Palmiero scandal, the Orioles have fired manager Lee Mazzilli. This after the ESPN2 announcers for the Orioles-Angels game last night said the Orioles don't fire managers -- they just let their contracts run out and get someone new.

I feel bad for Mazzilli. The pitching staff is AAA-level. Sosa is washed up and why the Orioles didn't know this is beyond me. And now this Palmeiro situation, which is totally out of his control. Maybe there is something going on behind the scenes we don't know about?

I feel bad for Lee Mazzilli, too. But, he was really on "the hot seat" before the season ever started. However, the great start from the Orioles saved him from being fired by the evil Peter Angelos and company. Once the O's predictably started tumbling like we all expected they would, it was becoming painfully obvious that Mazzilli would not last the season. I would love to see him back as a coach for the Yankees next season.

Cynic that I am, I wonder if Mazzilli's firing is in part a way for Angelos to distance himself from the Palmeiro situation. Granted, the team has fallen far and fast, but Angelos can now answer any questions he faces about palmeiro by saying he left all player dealings to Mazzilli and that he didn't know anything about it.

~Adam

Correct, Adam! You obviously know our evil owner well.

Seriously though, it was what I expected of him this time. Angelos is too evil to accept any blame for any of the mess that my team has become, so he has offered up Maz as a scapegoat. Also, in typical Angelos fashion, he makes a huge blunder in the process. :mad:

However, I must strenuously object against our freefall being "predictable" in any way. When a critical mass of the Orioles' best players ended up on the DL the Orioles started their slide from first which was concurrent with the return of key Red Sox and Yankee players from theirstints on the DL, combined with some fortunate trades/signings in the second half of the season, while Angelos, of course, refused to do anything of the sort, therefore giving the Orioles no help in their struggle to right the ship.

And I take exception to the labeling of Orioles pitching as AAA caliber. Maybe Sir Shrek at this point... :mad: Our bullpen is what bites the big one, especially the pod person we got in place of Steve Kline.

The Orioles' success this year was not some fluke or happy accident. If they hadn't suffered so many key injuries or tried to make some trading happen near the deadline, who knows what they could have accomplished? (yeah I know, shoulda coulda woulda doesn't matter.) Is it necessary to completely deny them any credit for what they managed to accomplish, regardless of the Palmeiro scandal?

I think we all saw it coming, so that makes it very much predictable. It was, however, really quick and rather spectacular, in its way.

:confused:

Would you mind telling me why you see it that way? 'Cause frankly, I don't agree. With all due respect, just because my team has had a run of bad seasons over the past 9 years doesn't mean any success it has now is some fluke.

Many of the players they have now are the same players that I watched all summer in 2002 when I was working in Baltimore when they were miserable and lost 95 games. That, and the fact that they were losing before 2002 and have lost every year since, tells me there is something to it being a fluke. The Orioles simply were NEVER a better team than the Red Sox or Yankees, even when they were way ahead. They got off to a decent start at the same time the Yankees were playing miserably and the Red Sox were treading water. Their only great stretch was an 8-game win streak at the end of April. Take that away and from opening day to June 21 (the free-fall began the next day) they were just 34-28.

A few things to consider:

• post-steroid and post-corked bat Sammy Sosa is a shell of what he used to be.
• the starting staff: a combination of inexperiened young guys, way overrated Sidney Ponson, and retread Bruce Chen - who's bounced from team to team to team to team and tantalized them all briefly with a few wins and then fell apart.
• Brian Roberts was way off the charts and surely was going to slow down, and now he has. Flash in the pan? Who knows.
• the bullpen (outside of maybe B.J. Ryan) and bench doesn't scare anyone, and with any important injuries it was obvious the Orioles wouldn't be able to overcome them.

[ August 05, 2005, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]