ORIOLES

MLB is talking about doing away with the divisions and just putting the top records in the playoffs.  Everyone would play everyone.  Would make for an interesting season.  I want it to happen (but that's because the Orioles have to play the Yankees something like 19 times next year…it's insane)

Going to the game today with my "The Hunt for Orange October" sign.  Hope it brings luck!

I just counted 18, which is still absurd like you said. Yet only one weekend series at Camden (THREE at Yankee Stadium).

Need to keep winning today. I smell Tampa and the Angels hot on the O's tail feathers.

K8teebug wrote:
MLB is talking about doing away with the divisions and just putting the top records in the playoffs.  Everyone would play everyone.  Would make for an interesting season.  I want it to happen (but that's because the Orioles have to play the Yankees something like 19 times next year…it's insane)

Going to the game today with my "The Hunt for Orange October" sign.  Hope it brings luck!

K8teebug wrote:
MLB is talking about doing away with the divisions and just putting the top records in the playoffs.  Everyone would play everyone. 

ha… I don't believe they will do this but it would be interesting as, if memory serves, it would restore baseball to the way it was organized for most of its history.. divisions are an anomaly actually…

K8teebug wrote:
MLB is talking about doing away with the divisions and just putting the top records in the playoffs.  Everyone would play everyone.  Would make for an interesting season.  I want it to happen (but that's because the Orioles have to play the Yankees something like 19 times next year…it's insane)

Going to the game today with my "The Hunt for Orange October" sign.  Hope it brings luck!

Where are you sitting?  Will look for you on the Mister Angelos Sports Network.

Section 9.

Wild Card and ALDS games are sold out.

Good call James. More Steve Johnson, Buck.

James wrote:
Call me crazy, but I think Steve Johnson should be in the starting rotation.

What is it with MASN and the temp agency it uses to staff broadcasters for hO's games? Jesus Christ in a handbasket, while the Nats consistently go with Carpenter and Santangelo, MASN rotates Jim Hunter, Gary Thorne, Jim Palmer, Mike Bordick, Brady Anderson, Miguel Tejada and whoever they can find as day labor at the local 7-11. Not that cast of characters is any worse than Santangelo, but geez, the hO's will never have a "TV voice" like other franchises if they just keep temp agency carousel to staff games.

Any ideas as to why they do this? I just write it off as Angelos.

Thousand wrote:
What is it with MASN and the temp agency it uses to staff broadcasters for hO's games? Jesus Christ in a handbasket, while the Nats consistently go with Carpenter and Santangelo, MASN rotates Jim Hunter, Gary Thorne, Jim Palmer, Mike Bordick, Brady Anderson, Miguel Tejada and whoever they can find as day labor at the local 7-11. Not that cast of characters is any worse than Santangelo, but geez, the hO's will never have a "TV voice" like other franchises if they just keep temp agency carousel to staff games.

Any ideas as to why they do this? I just write it off as Angelos.

hO's?  Fuck off.

Thousand wrote:
Any ideas as to why they do this? I just write it off as Angelos.

Suicide?

Didn't they get rid of Jon Miller in the late 90s??

Thousand wrote:
the Nats consistently go with Carpenter and Santangelo

…who are consistently awful.  Palmer is great but won't commit to the entire season.  After that…who cares?

It's because Palmer only wanted to call 1/2 the season.  I agree that Bordick is REALLY boring, but the Nationals game callers are just horrendous.

Yes, the Orioles did get rid of John Miller.  So did ESPN.  No idea why either of them would as he rules.

K8teebug wrote:
It's because Palmer only wanted to call 1/2 the season.  I agree that Bordick is REALLY boring, but the Nationals game callers are just horrendous.

Yes, the Orioles did get rid of John Miller.  So did ESPN.  No idea why either of them would as he rules.

Jon Miller is the best.

Do the players get to choose the theme music that is played when they come to bat? I once heard that they did.

My favorite theme music was when they played How Soon is Now? when BJ Surhoff came to bat. Do they play anything good as a player introduction song at Camden this year? I have only been once this year and all I heard was suckage.

I went to Nats Stadium yesterday and the best I heard were some Bob Marley selections when Kurt Suzuki came to bat. They played Zep's Dazed and Confused once for Jayson Werth. Not a personal favorite, but respectable. The rest was garbage.

werth's is one of my favorites. i love the song, and it totally fits his slow walk to the plate.

i really like that 80s synth-y one morse uses. the part where the stadium cuts it off and the crowd continues to the really high note is awesome.

seems like every team has 1 or 2 great walk-up songs, the rest are awful.

Most of the guys have terrible taste in music.  Adam Jones has a good song.

The PA music guy at the Yard is great though.  A big Smiths fan for sure.

AS you probably know, Morse didn't play yesterday, so missed his.
:(

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
werth's is one of my favorites. i love the song, and it totally fits his slow walk to the plate.

i really like that 80s synth-y one morse uses. the part where the stadium cuts it off and the crowd continues to the really high note is awesome.

seems like every team has 1 or 2 great walk-up songs, the rest are awful.

James wrote:
AS you probably know, Morse didn't play yesterday, so missed his.
:(

gaaaaaaaaah wrote:
werth's is one of my favorites. i love the song, and it totally fits his slow walk to the plate.

i really like that 80s synth-y one morse uses. the part where the stadium cuts it off and the crowd continues to the really high note is awesome.

seems like every team has 1 or 2 great walk-up songs, the rest are awful.

It's hilarious, everyone the stadium sings along with "Take On Me", I like how it's a thing now. ITS SO A THING!