Maestrobjwa

52 minutes ago, winter_warlock said:

U seem pretty sure of urself were all gonna get. A snowy winter..... I want what ur drinking... And I hope ur right lol

Nah this is what he does. He is THE hype man of the forum and everybody loves it!

9 hours ago, North Balti Zen said:

That was a spectacular weather weekend. Did whitewater tubing on Saturday at Harper's Ferry and I cannot imagine a better summer day for that. Two hikes with the dogs yesterday. Such deep blue skies, summer hot but not, HOT, humidity more than tolerable. Just a superlative set of weather days. 

Yes this was about as good of a weekend of weather as you can have around here. And it was perfect timing as I was out in the sun for four hours doing a reeanctment! I had my reservations about the heat when I agreed to do it...but this was absolutely perfect! So glad it was scheduled that Saturday and not the one before or the one after, lol

18 hours ago, CAPE said:

Fans are already disillusioned, and NFL football is less than a month away now. Most Orioles fans are Ravens fans. Interest in an underachieving baseball team going nowhere at that point will be next to nothing.

I've actually seen some split-off of Orioles fans between rooting for the Commanders and the Eagles or somebody else. But that may be just the page I follow, lol

And hey...how long until the bellyaching about our Ravens well run organization starts? Then some could still be miserable if we don't win it all this year either! Now personally I only have a doubt because of the Manning-Lamar copycat pattern for the playoffs...both 3-5 starting year 8, Peyton didn't win it until Year 9...and of course you have the fact that no HC and QB duo have ever gotten a ring after not getting one within their first 5 years together...so ehh I don't know. We certainly are talented enough to do it--and we have been the last three years! But it's about whether it's meant to be this year.

1 hour ago, toolsheds said:

Left in the 5th last night. 

The look does matter.  They need pitching and no free agents will want to come to Baltimore if management looks this incoherent.  Who the heck is Greg Allen, and why is he now starting in CF? 

The primary complaints have been with how they manage prospects, though...not sure why a good veteran free agent would see that and say "nah". I mean if we actually spend the money...I think they'll come. And actually, this team likes giving it's veterans playing time and we complain about starting them over the young players, lol

As for CF is a little more tricky...Cowser is out with a concussion and I'd imagine even if Beavers were up he'd probably be playing in right.

55 minutes ago, mappy said:

Methinks Tuckers 66yd FG record will be beat this season. Jags Little hit one for 70 yesterday 

I'm sure you'd love that, lol Kickers just seem to have stronger legs now, and 60 is slowly becoming the new 50!

Just now, Chris78 said:

No hits since the first 3 batters of the game. 

I don't know if a rookie manages to break that...maybe? Lol They been doing this crap all year! All early hit then quiet...the whole hitting philosophy needs to be overhauled. I hope this ain't an Elias issue...he oughta let the new manager pick his staff.

Well...Beavers certainly wouldn't help this sorry performance, lol

3 hours ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Kind of kidding, but I think @Maestrobjwa might be an Orioles bot. 

I understand how it would sound that way, lol But I think that's just because of my back and forth between @Chris78 about whether the new owners are responsible for this current mess and I happen to blame Elias much more than them, lol (though their blame meter is gonna go up next year if it doesn't get better). And on this issue I just happen not to care as much if they up now or in two weeks. But trust me...I call it like I see it good or bad.

3 hours ago, Chris78 said:

@Maestrobjwa

2023 - 21st in MLB for attendance 

2024 - 19th 

Divisional winners, 101 wins and bottom 10 in attendance. 

The new ownership has some issues to contend with 

 

2023 is puzzling given all the energy and excitement around the team that year...was it ticket prices then or something else, I wonder?

10 hours ago, WxUSAF said:

 

Beavers isn’t even a top 100 prospect right now. So this roster manipulation bullshit is all for the vanishingly small chance that he gets added to those lists at the end of the season and then wins RotY in 2026. 
 

The big deal is that management is prioritizing this microscopic chance of an extra 2027 draft pick over the CURRENT FAN EXPERIENCE. They’re raising ticket prices and forcing fans to watch an outfield of Greg Allen (who??), Dylan Carlson, and Ryan Noda. If you had a healthy high-performing outfield this conversation would be moot. But it’s not. Your outfield is decimated and you have someone who’s knocking the cover off the ball at AAA. 

Ticket prices aren't raised until next year...and by that time Beavers and Basallo will be up so you can pay to see them then  Current fam experience? I don't think the product being slightly less entertaining (I mean it's already a lost season) for a couple weeks is gonna make much of a difference in the long run--this is just a now, now, now thing. Once they're up I don't think anybody next year is still gonna be scowling about them waiting two weeks. We'll just be enjoying them being up here.

And maybe I'm just wired differently, but...in a lost season, why not just turn it off and go do something else if you're not entertained? That's what I do 

2 hours ago, Chris78 said:

Really not a good look right now.

Hard to believe the downfall and change in outlook on this  franchise over the past 12 months

Who cares about a "look"? Winning is gonna ultimately be what puts people back in the seats. This is a temporary decision that won't even matter in a year when Basallo and Beavers are hopefully tearing it up up here. Sure it would be entertaining, but as far as the long term? Now or two weeks from now makes no difference whatsoever other than the game being a little less entertaining. If that's the case...why not just don't go to/watch the game and do something else? Lol

2 hours ago, Chris78 said:

45 days on Mlb roster prior to September 1st or 130 at bats. 

That's what makes them not a rookie. 

Are they worried they  are going to end up over 130 ab's?

Hm...well then there's the other part of bringing up your best prospect and having them sit on and off the bench just to avoid the 130 mark. Teams may prefer more consistent playing time for the best ones? Just speculating

46 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

Still no Beavers?  

 

Signed a guy off the street to play tonight in Baltimore. 

Lol. Wtf

August 15th deadline for ROY next year, lol I have long since accepted this is how the league does things with the best prospects this close to that.

37 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Total bullshit 

Oy...What is the big deal? Are fans just impatient to see the new toys because we wanna see a spark or what? We're talking a week and a half here...This is no different than when Gunnar was called up. And this sealone is done...so what's the difference?

7 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

Sunny 79/59. 10/10 for August 

If can stay like this for tomorrow morning/afternoon this'll be perfect...the reenactment I'm doing fell on the perfect week!

3 hours ago, CAPE said:

Random shower rolled in on the easterly flow. On the northern edge here just a few drops but looks like Ridgely is getting a downpour.

I don't remember seeing showers moving backwards twice in the same week...seeing a cluster move east to west on radar is weird, lol

56 minutes ago, North Balti Zen said:

It’s absolutely ripping rain in Fallston. Looks like a storm popped up east of here and backed to the west. Weird.

What causes something to back to the west?

@Chris78 Here is an article from December that explains exactly what I mean: owners gave him more money to spend ($70M more, in fact)...but he seems to have a different philosophy:

https://www.si.com/mlb/orioles/news/report-orioles-gm-mike-elias-unwilling-spend-against-owner-direction

1 hour ago, Chris78 said:

We got a complete teardown to studs of the O's for about 5 seasons to end up with 2 good years but unable to win a playoff game and now back to losing and selling.

Hopefully this isn't the start of another several years of stinking. The young core hasn't been very impressive this year. Wether slowed down by injuries or under performance it's been a rough year for them. (Holiday hasn't been bad).

Now where's @Maestrobjwa to tell me how great the owner is? Lol

I'm right here not to tell ya that he's great but to tell ya you're blaming the wrong person this time. That's where we disagree. Elias, Elias, Elias! All this is his baby (Cal said a couple weeks ago that "[Elias is the architect"] His philosophy in FA is what got us here. Now...if they don't fire Elias this off-season and he screws stuff up even more...THEN that'll be on ownership--because they have the opportunity to start completely fresh now. New manager, new GM!

34 minutes ago, CAPE said:

This dude is likely the biggest steal of the draft. Go Ravens!

 

I still trust nothing coming out of a Ravens 2nd round. Too much bad luck, lol So far only O-Lineman seem to work out once a decade! He would be the first defensive player...

34 minutes ago, psuhoffman said:

A certain someone in Baltimore keeps weenying any post that’s pessimistic about snowfall. Yet Baltimore has had 9 straight below normal and below 20” seasons and has averaged 9.7” of snow in the last 9 years. Btw the previous longest streak of below 20” winters in Baltimore was 7.  But ya, it’s just cyclical and everything is fine.

we are due for a big year and I’m fairly sure sometime soon we will get both a big storm and season, but we would need to get like 5 straight 30”+ seasons to even get back close to what used to be normal for the post 2016 period.  

I think that dude is either in denial and just says "la la la can't hear you", or is just doing that to troll...been the habit pretty much since this tough stretch began. All we have to go is what's happened the last 9 (and likely 10) years. The reality is just what you stated. Now whether or not we get out of the PDO cycle and we can put together a better 10-year stretch remains to be seen...but at least for now this is where we at.

4 hours ago, snowman19 said:

This -PDO cycle has beat the 1940’s-1970’s severely negative cycle

My goodness that cycle lasted for 30 years?? So "decadal" isn't so much a literal decade but just however many decades it lasts? 

(I'm sure you would've loved it back then...lol Although the 60s were snowy for the east)

Time for a new approach this winter: If any model run shows something that hasn't happened in 10 years...ignore it 

43 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

Same. I just look at the ridge/trough orientation and glean some thoughts on source region. As depicted continental cold will dive east at times.  That's the horse. Hopefully the cart bangs some precip into it when it matters. There could be a giant blob of blue heights in the Pac NW and we'd be better off discussing winter of 26-27 lol

Hey at least we could check out early and just ignore this altogether till next hear, lol

But oy...it amazes me how the snow completely fell off after Jan 16. I had been under the impression that change in climo was more gradual...but it's like somebody flipped a switch in 16, and the clippers disappeared and so did some of our ways of getting snow. I get changing climo but I don't understand why it happened so fast. I wish someone would study what exactly happened that year and why every year since has done, well....what we've seen.

16 minutes ago, WxUSAF said:

I’m ok with Basallo. He needs to catch more anyway. But Beavers is ready. This has bit them in the butt a few times already and they should learn from that.

When did it bite them in the butt? And does 2-3 weeks really make that big of a difference?