I agree with the setiment that we need to see what we have this year, and that means giving guys a consistent chance to get going at the potential expense of wins.

 

Were we in a pennant race, I would favor swapping Viciedo and Dunn and starting Lillibridge. But we're not in a pennant race and not expected to be in one, so we need to give the high upside guys a chance to live up and become building blocks or trade bait.

I was ready to come online to proclaim my love for this team when it fell apart.

Last night felt just like an old "grinder" type of win.

Just good enough to get guys out and taking advantage of mistakes.

Still kind of shocked on the three late homers.

Oh well, let's get back in the win column.

I was ready to come online to proclaim my love for this team when it fell apart.

Last night felt just like an old "grinder" type of win.

Just good enough to get guys out and taking advantage of mistakes.

Still kind of shocked on the three late homers.

Oh well, let's get back in the win column.

As the team was one out away from a win, I was thinking very positively for exactly this reason. Humber battled and the offense took advantage of some Baltimore mistakes. The last 1.1 innings made the whole game feel bad.

So far, I've been pretty happy with Robin. More so than I thought I would be.

 

fathom, I get what you are saying about Lillibridge, and I sort of agree. With some of De Aza's recent misadventures in CF, maybe play Rios in CF for a game, have Lilli in right to get his bat in the lineup. But I also see what Ventura is doing here - he wants to give people like De Aza, Morel, Beckham, Viciedo and Rios a real, long-run chance of getting a groove going. This is preferable to the Ozzie method, IMO. So I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.

 

Considering we're not facing another lefty in this series, it just seemed like a good spot to get Lillibridge some at bats.

Sure I do.

Viciedo will hit 20-30 home runs not even trying to.

Dunn will be lucky again to sniff 20.

 

Why oh why did I even get into a discussion with you on this?

 

 

Considering we're not facing another lefty in this series, it just seemed like a good spot to get Lillibridge some at bats.

 

I get it, and I would be fine with it if Robin did that. I just also see the other side in this case, and I think it is just as valid.

 

De Aza's average went from .250 to .222 today. One of his triples from the Tigers series was ruled an error on Delmon Young.

Morel and GB again WHY?

Morel and GB again WHY?

Because they're not going to fix what ails them on the bench.

Because they're not going to fix what ails them on the bench.

They cannot do any worse.

They cannot do any worse.

So we're 5-4 with these guys not possibly being able to do any worse, and this season with a new manager being keyed by whether or not these guys are developing. Great. Seems like a surefire case for playing them everyday to me.

So we're 5-4 with these guys not possibly being able to do any worse, and this season with a new manager being keyed by whether or not these guys are developing. Great. Seems like a surefire case for playing them everyday to me.

 

Playing Morel is one thing..playing Morel 2nd in the order is borderline insanity....the whole 'doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result' comes to mind.

De Aza's average went from .250 to .222 today. One of his triples from the Tigers series was ruled an error on Delmon Young.

 

So when does he get demoted to AAA? Tonight or does it legally have to wait till tomorrow?

Goddammit...got the Oriole announcers again tonight.

Lets go Danks

PK makes it look easy.

Very quick inning for Danks. Hopefully he can go deep and save the pen a bit.

Crowd is abysmal

Crowd is abysmal

 

Can't be more than 10k there

Crowd is abysmal

 

Everyone knew coming into this year attendance was going to be way down.

Real nice AB by De Aza. He saw a ton of pitches.

Morel can't buy a break.

Everyone knew coming into this year attendance was going to be way down.

 

Absolutely agree but I didn't think it would be that bad. Just sad to see.

Everyone knew coming into this year attendance was going to be way down.

Had 2 games last April with attendance of 18k and 16k, and 16k was the reported for last night I believe.

Had 2 games last April with attendance of 18k and 16k, and 16k was the reported for last night I believe.

 

13.5K

13.5K

 

Tonight will be 10k or less. There are way less people for sure.