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Re: Re: Re: SOMETHING TO TAKE HOME FROM LAST NIGHTS GAME
I suggest you realize my main point was that had your team been able to win quite a few more, instead of just being some spoiler team, you'd have gone through ugly wins also. In order to win 90-100 games a season, there's no way that all those 90-100 games are pretty wons. You'll have to endure a few 10-9 games, not just 12-3 games. Some games, you'll get spanked hard by pitchers with ERAs about 7.
If you're on a losing team, then that losing becomes almost commonplace. On a winning team, you struggle, and you somehow win. Last night's game was an example of this, where nothing goes right, but you somehow win 1 run games. The more of those 1 or 2 run games you win, the better of a contender you are.
As to the Royals, fine, we lost. At least we're not losing this series to Baltimore, so if next season will be better, I'll believe it when I see it, but not a second before. I guess Sidney Ponson didn't really think the O's were going to get any better, and guess who's starting for us right now?
I would think that any fan's team would rather have those ugly wins, and quite a few of them, than just plain losing. If not, then would they prefer to have a losing team knowing that those wins that were ugly? I'd take the ugly losses, so long as we win, payroll not being an issue. If payroll were an issue, we've lost series to Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium before, so I can't see how we're supposed to win every single series against every single team. Try worrying more about your own team sometime, since they're mired in 4th place, *as expected*.
Originally posted by bigtime39
My point got missed, but that's not much of a surprise, so let me try again:
The team with the highest payroll in the history of baseball...the team with the most wins in the AL...needed a freak play miracle to BARELY squeek by a team of kids and castoffs making less than your DH...not to mention that they got wasted by the Royals last week.
I don't really care that we're going to finish fourth again THIS YEAR...that trend is coming to it's conclusion. Important structural changes have been made in the O's front office, and as long as we don't do something REALLY STUPID, like fire Hargrove, this is a team on the rise.
The Cash Machine, on the other hand is going to be sorely lacking in the one attribute money has trouble buying: young, quality pitchers.
The rotation is 150 years old. The bullpen is among the worst in the AL (save for Rivera)...the owner is still a meddelsome windbag...the crows are on their way home...and it'll be an extreme pleasure to see them roost.
Not just here, but in Boston, Toronto and even Tampa
My point got missed, but that's not much of a surprise, so let me try again:
The team with the highest payroll in the history of baseball...the team with the most wins in the AL...needed a freak play miracle to BARELY squeek by a team of kids and castoffs making less than your DH...not to mention that they got wasted by the Royals last week.
I don't really care that we're going to finish fourth again THIS YEAR...that trend is coming to it's conclusion. Important structural changes have been made in the O's front office, and as long as we don't do something REALLY STUPID, like fire Hargrove, this is a team on the rise.
The Cash Machine, on the other hand is going to be sorely lacking in the one attribute money has trouble buying: young, quality pitchers.
The rotation is 150 years old. The bullpen is among the worst in the AL (save for Rivera)...the owner is still a meddelsome windbag...the crows are on their way home...and it'll be an extreme pleasure to see them roost.
Not just here, but in Boston, Toronto and even Tampa
If you're on a losing team, then that losing becomes almost commonplace. On a winning team, you struggle, and you somehow win. Last night's game was an example of this, where nothing goes right, but you somehow win 1 run games. The more of those 1 or 2 run games you win, the better of a contender you are.
As to the Royals, fine, we lost. At least we're not losing this series to Baltimore, so if next season will be better, I'll believe it when I see it, but not a second before. I guess Sidney Ponson didn't really think the O's were going to get any better, and guess who's starting for us right now?
I would think that any fan's team would rather have those ugly wins, and quite a few of them, than just plain losing. If not, then would they prefer to have a losing team knowing that those wins that were ugly? I'd take the ugly losses, so long as we win, payroll not being an issue. If payroll were an issue, we've lost series to Tampa Bay at Yankee Stadium before, so I can't see how we're supposed to win every single series against every single team. Try worrying more about your own team sometime, since they're mired in 4th place, *as expected*.
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