Orioles fans starting to get excited...

[silverbear]

A 16-9 start will do that to you... good young pitching will do that to you...

But the real purpose of this thread is to woof about last year's first round draft pick, Dylan Bundy... Dylan is at class A Delmarva right now, but not for long, not with the way he's dominating down there... consider these numbers:

17 IP... 0.00 ERA... 1 hit (in 17 innings)... 2 BB (in 17 innings)... 25 Ks... (in 17 innings)... that's three baserunners in nearly 2 complete games...

He's headed for high A Frederick before too long, if the Orioles don't decide to bump him all the way up to AA Bowie... that's what I'd do, he's been so completely outmatching the hitters at Delmarva, and the jump up to Frederick isn't that big...

And as I noted in another thread, they have gotten revenge for the one time they stumbled this season, that sweep by the Yankmees in Baltimore in the second series of the season... they just went up to Noo Yawk and took two out of three from the Yankmees, and held that once-feared offense to two runs or less in all three games...

Like I said, they've got some pitching now... if the hitting ever heats up (they're hitting a fair number of homers, but their team batting average and their average with runners in scoring position is not yet up to snuff), they could actually make some noise this year...

Next up, a weekend series in Boston... at which point 12 of their first 26 games will have been against the Yankmees and the Red Sox... that leaves only 20 more games against our two biggest rivals, and two of the better teams in the AL...

 

[rathalarge]

A 16-9 start will do that to you... good young pitching will do that to you...

But the real purpose of this thread is to woof about last year's first round draft pick, Dylan Bundy... Dylan is at class A Delmarva right now, but not for long, not with the way he's dominating down there... consider these numbers:

17 IP... 0.00 ERA... 1 hit (in 17 innings)... 2 BB (in 17 innings)... 25 Ks... (in 17 innings)... that's three baserunners in nearly 2 complete games...

He's headed for high A Frederick before too long, if the Orioles don't decide to bump him all the way up to AA Bowie... that's what I'd do, he's been so completely outmatching the hitters at Delmarva, and the jump up to Frederick isn't that big...

And as I noted in another thread, they have gotten revenge for the one time they stumbled this season, that sweep by the Yankmees in Baltimore in the second series of the season... they just went up to Noo Yawk and took two out of three from the Yankmees, and held that once-feared offense to two runs or less in all three games...

Like I said, they've got some pitching now... if the hitting ever heats up (they're hitting a fair number of homers, but their team batting average and their average with runners in scoring position is not yet up to snuff), they could actually make some noise this year...

Next up, a weekend series in Boston... at which point 12 of their first 26 games will have been against the Yankmees and the Red Sox... that leaves only 20 more games against our two biggest rivals, and two of the better teams in the AL...

"O"

 

[casmith07]

If he gets bumped to the Bowie Baysox, I'll go take a watch one weekend.

 

[Biggems]

last year those scrubs started out on fire and quickly fizzled.....they were even worse than my Lastros......

it is pretty sad to see how far they have fallen. they were pretty good when I was a kid, with Palmer, Ripken Jr., and Murray....Weaver as Manager.

 

[trickblue]

last year those scrubs started out on fire and quickly fizzled.....they were even worse than my Lastros......

it is pretty sad to see how far they have fallen. they were pretty good when I was a kid, with Palmer, Ripken Jr., and Murray....Weaver as Manager.

I grew up in the Brooks Robinson era... they were good then as well...

 

[Biggems]

I grew up in the Brooks Robinson era... they were good then as well...

yes they were, but that was before my time.....way before my time:

 

[silverbear]

last year those scrubs started out on fire and quickly fizzled.....they were even worse than my Lastros......

The last time the O's were 7 games over .500 at any point of the season was 2005... or was it 2006??

It was one of the two...

 

[YosemiteSam]

Good to see the O's improving. Though as a Rangers fan I've got to credit to the ex-Rangers you guys have.

 

[silverbear]

I grew up in the Brooks Robinson era... they were good then as well...

My first year as an Orioles fan was 1965, which also happened to be Jim Palmer's rookie season... my Boy Scout troop made a late season Sunday visit to old Memorial Stadium (the first of maybe a dozen games I saw there, including one on their final series ever in there), Palmer was pitching against the then Los Angeles Angels... they were losing 1-0 going into the 9th, and it would have been worse but for a great catch made by Paul Blair in center field...

Then they turned 3 singles and a stolen base into a 2-1 win... and a devoted Orioles fan was born...

To me, the apex of Orioles Magic was Palmer/McNally/Cuellar/Dobson, who made the 1971 O's one of only two teams to have 4 20 game winners in the same season, the only one in the modern era (the other was the 1920 White Sox)... their ERAs ranged from 2.68 (Palmer) to 3.08 (Cuellar)... the O's won the AL by 12 games that year, posting 101 wins, but lost to the Pirates in 7 games in the World Series...

Palmer brought the high heat, McNally had a wicked curve, Cuellar threw the best screwball I ever saw, and Dobson had his "slurve" (a cross between a slider and a curveball)... 4 very different pitchers, so opponents could never get settled into one groove against the Birds...

 

[silverbear]

yes they were, but that was before my time.....way before my time:

If you get a chance to watch the replays of the 1970 World Series versus Cincinnati, you'll see the most dominant display by a third baseman ever... one brilliant defensive play after another... I think that's where he picked up the nickname of the "human vaccuum cleaner"... he also hit .429 in that series, with 2 homers...

I remember Sparky Anderson had a great quote about Brooks at the time, this isn't exact, but it's close:

"If I dropped this paper plate, Brooks would scoop it up on one hop and throw me out at first"...

IT should be noted that Brooks is also a Hall of Fame human being, just as nice a guy as you'll ever meet... he is widely beloved in Ballmer...

 

[silverbear]

Good to see the O's improving. Though as a Rangers fan I've got to credit to the ex-Rangers you guys have.

When the O's lose, I blame them...

 

[YosemiteSam]

When the O's lose, I blame them...

Wow. I watched the last couple of innings of the Rangers / O's game last night. You've got to be really disappointed in the O's local fanbase. The O's are leading the AL East and the best they could draw was 9k fans? Not only that, it looked like more than half of the 9k fans were wearing Texas Rangers paraphernalia.

I thought the O's had better fan support that than. Even when the Rangers were a terrible team, I don't recall them ever drawing only 9k fans.