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Dempsey's Army
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Covering the Baltimore Orioles, Dedicated to Rick Dempsey. Musings from the Oriole diaspora, still waiting for a winning season.
Recent Posts
Base Hits: So Long Buck, More Spring Training, Brad Bergesen and the Accent Aigu
MASN color analyst Buck Martinez has moved on to Toronto to do play-by-play for the Blue Jays in 2010. Good riddance.Nobody is happier about this development than me. I couldn't stand the guy on the broadcasts, from his analysis to the timbre of...
Steve Johnson and the Rule 5 Draft
Many hardcore O's fans got bad news this morning when the San Francisco Giants selected Bowie SP Steve Johnson in the Rule 5 draft.Johnson was left unprotected, somewhat surprisingly, and not unsurprisingly a team selected him. When you look at the p...
Baltimore Orioles Acquire Kevin Millwood, Send Chris Ray to Texas
It looks like all the smoke around a Kevin Millwood deal were indeed signs of fire as the Orioles will reportedly send RP Chris Ray to the Rangers for Millwood and cash considerations.I am not a fan of Millwood the Baltimore Oriole...but considering ...
Base Hits: Winter Meetings, Oriole Blogosphere and It Could Be Worse
Not a ton of substantial Oriole news from the Winter meetings. The most interesting thing that was reported was the gulf between what the Texas Rangers were asking in trade for Kevin Millwood and what the Orioles were willing to offer. According to S...
The Crystal Ball \'10: Brad Bergesen
To me, there was no more puzzling development during the 2009 season than the adoration among writer's and scouts of Tigers rookie pitcher Rick Porcello and the utter dismissal of Oriole rookie pitcher Brad Bergesen. Why? ERA WHIP ...
Book Review: Palmer and Weaver: Together We Were Eleven Foot Nine
Palmer and Weaver: Together We Were Eleven Foot Nineby Jim Palmer and Jim Dalec. 1996I hadn't picked this book up in over ten years but after reading "Weaver on Strategy", I wanted to read this book with different eyes. In "Together We Were Eleven Fo...

