Major League Baseball proposed cutting the regular-season schedule from 162 games to 154 games in a bargaining session with the MLBPA today. Also part of its proposal: higher seeds in playoffs get to choose their opponents, and division series expand to seven games.
@Blitz_Burgh What could have been. Firing Arians after getting to 2 super bowls in 3 years, during Big Ben's peak I might add, may go down as the single biggest blunder in Rooney history.
@realravenshunt@ThirstRoundPick Funny how players (pitchers in particular) have a lot more success outside the orioles organization… says a lot about development
“At least twice this season, Elias asked other executives what they thought of the club”. So our President is asking other teams for help?! This guy has to go! Oh and the fact that Albernaz won’t comment, says a lot. @Orioles
I’ve lived in the area since 2010, and I’ve never seen as much anger aimed at the local baseball team as I am now.
On what the Orioles Jim Palmer-Craig Albernaz unreturned text outrage is really about:
https://t.co/SjdEUHC5et
Adam Jones reveals the blunt message Buck Showalter gave him after his first bad effort play about being who you say you are and the little things becoming the big things
“There’s two instances. It’s third day there. I hit a bullet ground ball to the third baseman. You’re watching a double play get turned right in front of you, but the first baseman happened to drop the ball.”
“Does it ever look good when you’re halfway through it and you know you ain’t running hard? Never does. You’re still out, but it never looks good.”
“So after the game, he brings me in and says, ‘Hey, I heard you’re supposed to be the star here. Bleepin act like it.’ I’m like, ‘All right.’”
“It was just an extra incentive like, hey, we’re always watching. The fans are always watching. People are always watching. You’re an example. Show it. Go out there and really play as hard as you can.”
“He was so anal about being fundamentally sound. When the outfield misses a cut, it’s two bases. When the infield does, it’s one.”
“Defense was our strong suit. We played phenomenal defense and it was an attitude every single day, because you’re not going to hit every day.”
“But you can play defense every day. You can run the bases hard every day. You can do the intangibles every single day. And that’s what Buck was always paying attention to.”
@ThirstRoundPick Hyder would at least stick up for his men. Granted he took a ball to the face and was right back out there. He needs to represent and be that same guy for the team.