Month: June 2023

More Roberto Clemente tweets/Instagram posts with photos

Gunnar Henderson hit the longest home run ever at Camden Yards

More tweets on the decline of coal

Tweets and YouTube videos on Weegee the photographer

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) took photos of the dark side of New York City.

Ryan McKenna cost me $47.20

I don’t think he belongs on the current Orioles roster as a backup. He would have been fine during the terrible seasons but the 2023 team is too good. Let’s see what Colton Cowser can do.

He also cost me $47.20. I bet $20 on the Orioles to win an early-season game in Boston. I would have won $27.20. The Orioles had a one-run lead with two out in the 9th. McKenna drops an easy fly ball that would have ended the game. The next guy hits a home run so the Orioles lose and I wind up with zero.

The Orioles need to trade prospects for starting pitching

The Orioles farm system is loaded. This is the deepest it has been in at least 40 years. There isn’t room at the major league level for all of their top position prospects and they should trade some for starting pitching. Orioles fans became attached to their minor leaguers because the major league team was so bad but things changed in 2022. Several of these players (Westburg,Cowser) are ready now and could be better than guys on the major league roster.

Here’s a list of the prospects that are in Baseball America’s top 100. When the Orioles drafted Holliday last year, the majority of experts thought they should have taken Druw Jones. It looks like the Orioles made the right decision.

I have also included links to an excellent series on the prospects from PressBox. Here are direct links to a few of the articles. The whole series is here.

I remember Shea Stadium

Shea Stadium was the home of the New York Mets from 1964-2008. I remember when it was built because I lived nearby. I never went to a game there until the early 1990s. It was a dump. I was surprised to see a few remnants of the 1964 World’s Fair were still around in the vicinity.

I bought a piece of the bleachers from Archer Seating.

The Eugene Emeralds’ alternate name is the Exploding Whales

Minor league teams have some wild names. I didn’t know about this until I saw the tweet with a player wearing the jersey.

Here’s the background