See, that is all he needs to do. Green dye.

I then asked AI...can you make this uniform better?

Do if I was to provide my commentary on it, it is this...it is a mismatch of fonts, which almost always looks bad. Plus, the BMORE has a brick texture print and OPACY is not known for green bricks.

So it looks like a good prototype where someone would maybe say let's no go full TS Elliot design.

But what if he dyes his facial hair green?

The Orioles new City Connect jerseys are exactly what we need. We need big old swings for something new and interesting that have the potential to completely fall on its face.

This is good. Sometimes good is bad. But it wont always be bad. Embrace the shoe losing swings of design!

Maclunkey!

One of the convenient things about the Spurs moving on to a new manager is that this was readily apparent when they signed Tudor.

So, kids got the maybe sixth straight lottery failure for trying to get Banana Ball tickets over the years. Never succeeded. I think we are done with it.

You can try to mix it up with La Bamba. I think Lennon patterned the arrangement after that.

And when you try to cover up the weaknesses in your squad, you dont afford opportunities to those kids...which is an issue because (1) this should be fun and inclusive and (2) growth is not linear...those that struggle today can become exceptional in the future.

I think I have come to the conclusion that winning trophies at the youth level is really an exercise in how to fail in a publicly approved way because to win one, you really have to strategically fail several kids on your team.

As a decade long youth baseball coach, I get how some coaches thirst for plasticware. However, after having a team that wins one, I cannot imagine how any coach doesn't realize that those gilded paperweights are junk and not the reason we are out there.

Dress for the call you want.

What is rough is that the body language of the batter is strike before the ump calls it. So if the ump saw it as borderline, the batter surely did not help himself in that split second matters.

OldMuppet

Keeping the man down

Will he also find a treasure map of your hard drives?

And it will come down to what mattered most last season...

The young core has to perform.

Is Bassitt a great fit for Camden Yards? Not really. He is susceptible to lefty power. He will probably be better on the road.

The positive is that he has a prolonged history of health and success. The bottom end of the rotation needs that.

With the nature of the current market, I think Chris Bassitt was the best plan C (or is it D). Should be a solid short term fix with a better performance profile than somewhat like Zac Gallen. And a better chance to give positive outcomes than Giolito.

Cease and Valdes were the two gets and...nope.

Death to Smoochy (2002)

Orioles are about 10 million over what they were last year with respect to the luxury tax numbers. They probabky will get one more player. Maybe.

Can we all agree Orioles fans that we are projecting our anger about the closing of Brewers Art onto Blaze Alexander?

And yeah, I totally would have chosen Valdez over Alonso, but I might well be wrong.

The Orioles really haven't failed at free agency. I think the failure has been to create a minor league system that churns out useful baseline players. A top of the rotation arm is great when the gods smile on you. A team that stands long term is one that avoids negative replacement production.

I think the playoff solution is getting Valdez. I think SP value is much greater in postseason play.

I think the regular season value is shoring up the lineup and the bullpen.

So if you ask me what problems the Orioles have, I would say SP, bullpen, corner outfield bats, and a reasonable DH.

I wonder whether Marcel Ozuna and Justin Wilson (assuming both are healthy) would do more for this roster than Framber.

I think one of the reasons why I stopped blogging was because it became less about what you had to say, particularly with a new universally competent group of organizations, and it became more about how you said it (branding). And, that bored me.