Entries from May 2007

May 31, 2007

O’s sweep the Royals, win 5th straight.

You know you’re an Oriole fan when the following exchange is expected:

Yup, we’re just that good.
Well lately we have a lot to be excited about.  We’ve won five in a row and all five have been won by starters.  We’re hitting, fielding, pitching; everything is clicking.  The team even seems to be happy which is [...]

May 30, 2007

Some answers:

Before I discuss last night’s win over KC, Roch Kubatko of the Baltimore Sun put some questions up on his blog and I wanted to answer them. Here goes:
Isn’t it amazing how much smarter a manager looks when his team is scoring eight runs a game?
Yeah, this is what I’ve been saying! [...]

May 29, 2007

O’s on a winning streak, begin a 10 game road trip

What’s better than going on a ten-game road trip? Kicking it off with a stop in Kansas City! Not to say that Kansas City are the punching bags of 2005 – 2006. This KC team is clearly much better than their predecessors. The O’s don’t seem to mind though being that [...]

May 26, 2007

Oh what a week it was

The Orioles continue their full-on assault of my soul. Their mission? Make me totally ignore this blog and baseball as a whole by June 1st. While their effort has been commendable, they don’t know who they’re up against. I take a beating and keep getting up better than Dwayne Wade. [...]

May 18, 2007

Battle of the Beltways

Tonight the O’s kick-off a three game series tonight in DC against the Nationals in what is being billed as a battle of the Beltways. For those of you now from the DC area, the Beltways refer to the Baltimore Beltway (rt. 695) and the DC Beltway (rt. 495). Both roads are terrible [...]

May 18, 2007

A fresh perspective.

Yesterday, the Cubs were up 5 – 1 in the bottom of the ninth vs. the Mets.  The Cubs closer, Ryan Dempster, gave up five runs in the bottom of the ninth and the Mets ended up winning the game 6 – 5.
On Sunday, the Orioles were up 5 – 0 in the bottom of [...]

May 16, 2007

Guest Columnist: Ace Rothstein

The Oriole Way Woe
What do we do now? It’s entirely too early to be posing this question, yet here we stand, begging for an answer. And this question is not posed to the players or the front office because we know what they’ll do. This question is posed to you and me, the tattered fan [...]

May 16, 2007

Holy Litsch!

There are some games where you can’t get too down on.  This game was one of them.  Yeah, of course, as an Oriole fan I was pulling for them to win right up until the final ground ball off the bat of Aubrey Huff, no doubt about that.  Regardless of that, some magic happened tonight [...]

May 15, 2007

Baez ineffective again, blows the game with ease.

The O’s got another solid start yesterday.  The O’s bullpen blew another lead yesterday.  Same old story I guess.  Bedard pitched seven strong innings only to be relieved by Danys Baez who promptly gave up a two-run homer to Troy Glaus.  The fact that Glaus was even in the lineup was a shocker to begin [...]

May 14, 2007

Tonight vs. the Jays

Uhhhh…Eric Bedard in Canada? Yeah, I’m thinking we win (which is what I’m talking aboot). Tomo Ohka goes for the Jays in what we hope should be a lopsided victory to get us back on track.
Let’s not hang our heads for too long. I looked at the lineup from 2003 and I [...]