2015 Baltimore Orioles: “What is the purpose?” Showalter asked later. “Do people get up in the morning and they go, ‘Honey, are we going to the game today? …They’ve got that gnome tonight. Pack up the

PECOTA sez: 79-83 record as of this week's updated projections, a harsh fall to 4th in the AL east (although I think their 2014 projection was also meh and look what happened there). johnny crunch said that showalter quote about his bobblehead giveaway night should be the title, and so it is.

haven't seen a current orange birds thread pop up and needed a place to post what seemed like...a strong reaction, to say the least?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBrXlhjUgAAIONt.jpg

^ real sports fan right there! a month's performance and an armchair evaluation > 37 years of loyalty. ok, buddy.

This changes everything.

has anyone heard of this guy he's ranting about, btw? because i have not.

a month's performance in games that don't count

Earl Weaver will rise from his grave and kick dirt on him

dammit i waited too long huh

yes

i had a title picked out like 2 weeks ago but i kept putting it off and now it's april apparently jfc

i don't really think we need new threads for every team every year (alas poor twins!)

and i'd probably be pissed if someone started a pirates thread ahead of me

but yeah it's april

qualx what was your thread title

maybe the o's should have 2 2015 threads

just something about our gm having his head in toronto and then the op wld be one of his shifty quotes trying to reassure everyone his head isn't in toronto, nothing as good as this one

i'm still bitter a sox fan made it, why didn't you pick up my slack jq higgins

the 2015 minnesota twins: indeed they are a team now i feel better

logan verrett was a rule 5 guy they got from the mets. he looked decent, but seemed like his ceiling was long/middle guy.

in duq we trust.

damn, ubaldo got screwed

getting that "never gonna win again" feeling that comes around every so ofte

n

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Wingate/status/592144073881985025

I mean y'all have a tendency to not die at convenient times so don't be too bummed

y'know like that

i guess sometimes david lough homers off koji uehara

it's true he doesn't usually allow homers but when he does they are in awful situations.

respect

it's crazy, though...joseph and pearce also crushed a couple pitches off him friday night before he locked it down.

John Angelos otm

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/04/orioles-john-angelos-baltimore-protests-mlb

wednesday game at 2:05pm -- no fan admittance

and weekend series vs. rays moved to tampa

Have there been games that were closed to the public before? Seems insane!

Wow

yeah, that is gonna be one creepy ballgame

i wonder if they'll still go through the national anthem and the 7th inning stretch and all that stuff?

zero fans at a 2002 charleston river dogs game (until the sixth inning)

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/stories/2002-07-08-nobody-night.htm

according to john thorn, the mlb record for lowest attendance is six, set at worcester on 9/28/1882

btw blackout (ahem) rules will apply for the game even tho no tix will be sold

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDxzu_2WoAEXjTM.jpg

field of dreams

@TaterTrotTrkr
Even with literally no one in the crowd to impress, Chris Davis still takes 26.11 secs to trot home on a 3-run homer

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XAoHyfsB--/1230525151160926608.jpg

Man, I wish I were there to see that game.

http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pQtge_8XYcPKKGqnoWn27Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTcwMDtpbD1wbGFuZTtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz0xMDU3/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/gettyimages.com/chicago-white-sox-v-baltimore-20150429-191720-260.jpg

after having last pitched in the majors in 2009 and in affiliated ball in 2012, DANIEL CABRERA started for triple-a louisville today! he's only 33!

walked four guys in three innings, just like old times

http://some-atoms.tumblr.com/post/117808407716

that darn sjw

so do the orioles get to make up their own ground rules this weekend?

steve pearce at 2b tonight!

pearce at 2B = not terrible...i was pleasantly surprised

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/steve-pearce-is-playing-second-base

Adam Jones, along w/ Lagares, put on a CF clinic tonight.

not wild about the result, but it was a pretty fun game. bartolo colon is a national treasure, though maybe not quite worth his weight in gold.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEflitEUUAAhS3S.jpg

Mike Wright is off to a hell of a start.

i see u chris parmelee

has finally bounced back from http://thenewsportsguru.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ParmeleeBallCrotchDP.gif

fwiw, i am going to the buck garden gnome game. i'm still smarting from losing my dustin ackley garden gnome from 2013.

oh, the humanity...

5000th win

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJqYk8SWsAEMUcS.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLwDUelUcAAwVBs.png

chris davis has 12 hrs in last 17 games

strds

gonna lol when 3 AL east teams make it into the playoffs and none of them are boston, the only team anyone thought would be any good

baseball is funny

my recollection is that ppl had no idea how the AL East was gonna go

nah it was mostly "these are some 5 really mediocre teams but at least the red sox have some hitting now"

i don't think anyone was predicting more than one team would make the playoffs

the AL has been super weird, nobody predicted the Royals and even less so the Astros to be that good. if anything the AL east would be the least surprising division to me.

that defense as Flores scored was not the Oriole Way

welp see you in 2023 playoffs

I like that y'all are clobbering the yanks in a fashion that will hopefully demoralize them into a WC game loss, but why must thy fans do the seven nation army chant like this is got damned soccer

jim palmer is 70 today