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Back to Back HR's for the Astros, 4-0 Houston.

Verlander is just freaking dealing!

Nothing really going right for the Braves tonight (2 Base Error).

Phenomenally dumb to ignore a major hub of talent. Peter Angelos and his "morals." His stand of refusal was pointless given the fact that every other team was going to go after the talent regardless.

Buck Showalter out as manager. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24882299/buck-showalter-baltimore-orioles-manager

Give me a couple of decades and a sex change and I'll be right there with you.

Rocktober, really? That was a terrible joke.

Rockies win and advance.

The guy batting .170 gives Colorado the lead.

That is one akward moment.

Can we get a Kickstarter to get Buck to bring in Britton to the WC game? Oh wait, wrong year, wrong league.

"Didn't he also say _____ (forgot who) looks sexy" earlier?

Ottavino does not look poised.

His contract is up, but it sounds like they might bring him back. One way or another I think Buck has to go. He was handed to much power after 2014, more power the GM (Which is an idiotic way to run things). I'm thankful to Buck for everything he's done, but while he's a good manager, he's not a good judge of talent (Pushing for Chris Davis signing, Trumbo etc.) and I don't think he'd want to stay on as manager for a protracted rebuild anyway. I don't like Duquette either, and I'd prefer a clean house. You know, hire a GM and let him build his vision (manager, scouting etc.). But who knows if that will happen with the O's. We'll see what kind of owners Angelos' sons are soon. Then again, there's rumors that they will ultimately sell the team, so who knows.

Yep. Dan Duquette from 2012: “We don’t like the cutter. We don’t like the cutter as an effective pitch. Name me all the great pitchers that used it as their primary pitch in the big leagues.”

It really is a minor point compared to foreseen stupidity by the O's that bothers me. Trading for Parra who was clearly playing over his head and is not a guy who's goings to bridge the long distance that you need to cross to make the playoffs. So you trade Davies who has had success elsewhere. Meanwhile we waste money on draft picks on Miley, Gallardo, etc to replace him. Then there's no internationally drafting virtually (though hopefully finally this will be changed). And I don't even need to get into how much better Arrieta got better once he was traded. We suck at developing pitchers and I can't count how many times we've screwed our SP developing. Meanwhile we bid against ourselves at resigning Chris Davis who's a complete disaster. Then we resigned Trumbo at 3/48 which was idiotic. Even during the season he hit 48 HR for us, he still only put up 2ish WAR. So we resign him and we have him playing LF, I mean Trumbo is LF! And of course he doesn't hit nearly well as his career year. I mean both of these moves were so dumb. Then there's not trading Britton at the deadline last year instead of this year which we got much less value back. Not extending Manny a few years ago when we had the chance. Then not trading him earlier enough and so we got back less than we would have. Then there's not resigning Miller after trading for him and giving it to O'Day (who we'll a very good reliever, was getting older). I don't min not resinging Cruz, but you gotta improve elsewhere if you don't. I mean that was the year to go for it after winning the division in 2014. And we did almost nothing. These are the things that bother me much more than Hader. Anyway, sorry about going off on there. Just reminds me of how dumb and frustrating this organization can be. Hopefully things will change now that it looks like Peter Angelos is out of the picture.

Looks like my memory is bad sometimes (stupid medication effects). (He was traded in 2013, not 2014) Jul 31, 2013 Baltimore sent outfielder L.J. Hoes and left-handed prospect Josh Hader to the Astros for Bud Norris. To be fair, we did get value out of Bud Norris and he was an important part of the 2014 rotation. Of course, I can now go back and point that we won the AL East in 2014 by 12 games so we didn't need him.

I think he would have ended up there. Problem is they might have wasted a healthy chunk of service time in the process. But of course, no one knows for sure. All I know is I'd love to have him on the O's right now.

Maybe. But one of the few things the Orioles were good at was putting together a bullpen.

I think it's 8.

Oooh, I thought he made have had that for a second.

Simultaneously amazing and saddening to watch Hader work (O's traded him in 2014).

Cain with a RBI single up the middle. 2-1 MIL top of the 8th

That was hilarious!

Kinda of impossible to live up to that day. But it should still be good fun.