Tommy Pelle

Staff Writer @JustBB_Media⚾️| Story Desk Editor @fox43 📰 FMR✍️: @TowerlightSprts | @BaltSunSports
@CCBCMD ‘23 | @TowsonU ‘25

[Tommy Pelle @TommyWPelle]

Thankfully we have these massive tvs so everyone can watch the game that’s going on while we’re stuck on the concourse👍

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

After struggles early in his career, Coby Mayo has developed into one of the most promising bats across the league, especially against LHP.

Our @TommyWPelle has more on the Orioles' patience with Mayo paying off:
https://t.co/FKPgoXPVpy

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Footballs Back

[Tommy Pelle @TommyWPelle]

🤷‍♂️👀

https://t.co/tFx0DG1EAw

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Pete makes it back-to-back blasts 💥

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

As Baltimore fights to stay alive in a tight Wild Card race, Pete Alonso has been exactly the kind of player the Orioles are paying him to be.

Our @TommyWPelle has more on the Polar Bear keeping the Orioles' playoff hopes alive:
https://t.co/6BCVSfPrhE

[Baltimore Ravens @Ravens]

No one embodied what it means to be a Raven quite like O.J. Brigance.

[Jason Gallagher @jga41agher]

Doomsday looks amazing

[Tommy Pelle @TommyWPelle]

I can’t wrap my head around how subtracting from this year’s team is putting them in a better place to be “playing for the postseason”

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Mike Elias when asked if Orioles can make the playoffs:

"Yes, I do. We're going to be playing for the postseason the rest of the way."

He believes the moves at the deadline still keep the Orioles in a position to continue that pursuit.

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

Better days….

[Jacob Calvin Meyer @jcalvinmeyer]

Working from a Barnes & Noble (deadline day with a toddler at home doesn't work too well).

Overheard the following from an Orioles fan:

"They traded Adley, man, I don't care about anything anymore. This isn't about baseball. They traded away the heart of the franchise."

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Thank you, Adley 🧡

For everything you've meant to Birdland, on and off the field.

Wishing you all the best in your next chapter.

[Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN]

So in return for the first of four years of tanking, the Orioles get zero playoff wins and the prospects from the Red Sox. Make it make sense. Well, the ownership at that time made a lot of money.

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

With Kyle Bradish becoming the highest-paid pitcher in Orioles history, how will his up-and-down journey shape his legacy in Baltimore?

Our @TommyWPelle has more on Bradish's Orioles tenure up to this point:
https://t.co/obiKpGTnGD

[Magick @magickbones]

Notice how Doom only pulled up to start doing this after Hawkeye retired

[JJ Watt @JJWatt]

🇺🇸

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

For the Orioles, this year's trade deadline lies ahead of them as a fork in the road.

Our @TommyWPelle breaks down how exactly they should approach it:
https://t.co/QCB4Pp8kmq

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Me and the boys pulling up to FIFA HQ to file the Balogun appeal

[Just Baseball @JustBB_Media]

After a not-so-glamorous 2025, Brandon Young has done a complete turnaround.

Our @TommyWPelle has more on how the 27-year-old has done it, and whether he can continue this production:
https://t.co/A3P3UkXmZ4

[Tommy Pelle @TommyWPelle]

Now’s a great time shamelessly plug my recent article for @JustBB_Media 🤷🏻‍♂️

https://t.co/3RYFk67s9Z

[Baltimore Orioles @Orioles]

Top two, not two 🔥

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.