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[ashbury]

And I seem to recall you making a jibe or two at the Orioles level of play on this thread.

Sure, the Orioles made a bad play or two. In this game. I commented about those. In this game thread.

 

Sweeping generalizations are for elsewhere. To make a sweeping generalization.

[operation mindcrime]

Was. He's dead to us now.

Oops. I made a mistake! It's Jorge Polanco's birthday. Sorry my bad.

[jokin]

 

Winnar winnar, chicken dinnar!

 

 

(It's just against the Orioles, so I don't want to over do it.)

 

 

ashburyjohn on 05 July 10:16PM

 

Sure the Orioles made a bad play or two. I commented about those in this game thread.

 

The first post is exactly in the "spirit" of highly diminished reward- (after a disastrous and embarrassing roadtrip)- for an empty victory against an equally floundering team- in which most TDers share equal parts frustration and anger at a team in the midst of both inexplicable and explicable collapse- and... looking at the entire thread, most chose to vent in ways surprisingly similar to your "hollow gourmet victory dinner for two" visual.

 

PS- Slegers and Cave were awesome tonight, one part of the "solution"- after all, "sweeping generalizations" can only start with individual game performance analysis- is for even more of the fringiest League Minimum $ guys on the roster to play this well and humiliate and hopefully wake up "The Walking Dead" regulars. (ie, Buxton had the night off, I hope he was watching!).

[David HK]

Over here in the Middle Kingdom, roasted oriole is a common entree...

 

优胜者！优胜者！

 

[jkcarew]

Am I the only one who wondered why MOY didn't pinch hit Austadillo or Garver for Wilson with two out and the bases loaded?

If I can trust the defense of the other catcher. So...no. You’re up 3-1 in the 6th. The guy I pinch hit with has a 65% of making an out. And if I trusted the other guys to perform behind the plate and help protect the 2-run lead, I wouldn’t have started Wilson in the first place. He’ll be pinch hit for when behind...never when ahead.

 

This is what’s going through Molitor’s head here...and in this case, I can’t blame him.

[Jerr]

 

I’d love for Molitor to think outside the box just ONCE, and try a different lineup. How does this sound:

Polanco-SS
Kepler-RF
Mauer-1B
Rosario-LF
Escobar-3B
Morrison-1B
Cave-CF
Garver-C
Dozier-2B

Two 1st baseman??????? So, who's on first????           

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Did we win yet?

 

Yes.

 

Yes we did.

[VATwinsFan]

Am I the only one who wondered why MOY didn't pinch hit Austadillo or Garver for Wilson with two out and the bases loaded?

No.