Baltimore Orioles

[93henfan]

I'm not sure I'd call 15% a huge margin. Btw, Reuben Amaro Jr. needs to be given a pat on the back, a kick in the ass, and the next plane ticket out of Philly. Fuck me running:

1. LA Dodgers $235,295,219
2. NY Yankees $203,812,506
3. Philadelphia Phillies $180,052,723
4. Boston Red Sox $162,817,411
5. Detroit Tigers $162,228,527
6. LA Angels $155,692,000
7. San Francisco Giants $154,185,878
8. Texas Rangers $136,036,172
9. Washington Nationals $134,704,437
10. Toronto Blue Jays $132,628,700
11. Arizona Diamondbacks $112,688,666
12. Cincinnati Reds $112,390,772
13. St. Louis Cardinals $111,020,360
14. Atlanta Braves $110,897,341
15. Baltimore Orioles $107,406,623
16. Milwaukee Brewers $103,844,806
17. Colorado Rockies $95,832,071
18. Seattle Mariners $92,081,943
19. Kansas City Royals $92,034,345
20. Chicago White Sox $91,159,254
21. San Diego Padres $90,094,196
22. NY Mets $89,051,758
23. Chicago Cubs $89,007,857
24. Minnesota Twins $85,776,500
25. Oakland A's $83,401,400
26. Cleveland Indians $82,534,800
27. Pittsburgh Pirates $78,111,667
28. Tampa Bay Rays $77,062,891
29. Miami Marlins $47,565,400
30. Houston Astros $44,544,174

[93henfan]

Pretty amazing that #25 is the Vegas favorite. Billy Beane really is a genius.

[CAA Flagship]

Pretty amazing that #25 is the Vegas favorite. Billy Beane really is a genius.

Yeah, but he still hasn't won anything yet. Only one trip to the ALCS and that was a 4-0 laugher.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a win-it-all-or-win-nothing guy. What he has done is remarkable. But it is a lot easier to go from bad to good than from good to great.

[93henfan]

Pretty amazing that #25 is the Vegas favorite. Billy Beane really is a genius.

Yeah, but he still hasn't won anything yet. Only one trip to the ALCS and that was a 4-0 laugher.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a win-it-all-or-win-nothing guy. What he has done is remarkable. But it is a lot easier to go from bad to good than from good to great.

If you gave him the Yankmee budget he'd have five rings by now.

[GannonFan]

Spending tons of money isn't as necessary anymore as more and more teams are signing their own guys early. Free agency tends to be pretty sparse these days in terms of real quality additions so the teams that can build their own farm systems (i.e. not the Phillies) are the ones that are starting to emerge as the good teams. Teams like the Yanks just can't buy up the talent as easily as they did through the 90's and early 00's.

[clenz]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bil ... lly-beane/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Longer, but quick, read on that link but WELL worth it

I'm not sure how to cut and paste parts of it without leaving something important off.

Just go read it...

[CAA Flagship]

Spending tons of money isn't as necessary anymore as more and more teams are signing their own guys early. Free agency tends to be pretty sparse these days in terms of real quality additions so the teams that can build their own farm systems (i.e. not the Phillies) are the ones that are starting to emerge as the good teams. Teams like the Yanks just can't buy up the talent as easily as they did through the 90's and early 00's.

To me, it seems that teams that had a long history of bad teams are the ones that show the strongest farm system graduation. This is because they have had top 10 picks for several years in a row. It started for the Tigers with Verlander. The Rays had many top 10 picks. KC, Pittsburgh, and Washington have played their way to good draft picks too. This is all good for baseball and shows that the draft system, as designed, is working. But will they be able to keep them? That is the question. Tampa has lost a lot since their initial rise to relevance. Pittsburgh has lost a lot too but they have done some nice backfilling with vets recently.

[andy7171]

21 games over .500!

HOW 'BOUT DEM O'S, HON!?!

[bandl]

21 games over .500!

HOW 'BOUT DEM O'S, HON!?!

AND HOW 'BOUT THEM NAT'S!

[Grizalltheway]

Any season where the Yankers and Sawx are both in the shitter is a good one.

[93henfan]

21 games over .500!

HOW 'BOUT DEM O'S, HON!?!

AND HOW 'BOUT THEM NAT'S!

Fuck the Natinals.

I finally made it to their stadium two weeks ago. It's a perfect stadium for DC fans. Boring and soulless. A beautiful view of nothing but parking garages and condos in the outfield. You can see the Capital and Washington Monument only if you go down the left field exit ramp. Swing and a miss.

I need to get back up to Camden Yards to see a game in a beautiful venue.

[bluehenbillk]

AND HOW 'BOUT THEM NAT'S!

**** the Natinals.

I finally made it to their stadium two weeks ago. It's a perfect stadium for DC fans. Boring and soulless. A beautiful view of nothing but parking garages and condos in the outfield. You can see the Capital and Washington Monument only if you go down the left field exit ramp. Swing and a miss.

I need to get back up to Camden Yards to see a game in a beautiful venue.

You got that right - Nationals Park - while there is nothing "wrong" with it, really has no kind of draw to it whatsoever. Camden Yards is one of the top 5-6 parks in all of baseball.

[andy7171]

Fuck the Natinals.

I finally made it to their stadium two weeks ago. It's a perfect stadium for DC fans. Boring and soulless. A beautiful view of nothing but parking garages and condos in the outfield. You can see the Capital and Washington Monument only if you go down the left field exit ramp. Swing and a miss.

I need to get back up to Camden Yards to see a game in a beautiful venue.

This. I refuse to go down there. I went to a Bullets game a while back and the train was packed with lifeless Nats fans. Took me forever to get home.

Angelos built that god damned prisonlike hotel blocking the Bromoseltzer Towere, but it's still a nice view. Hard to believe its 25 years old.

[89Hen]

I finally made it to their stadium two weeks ago. It's a perfect stadium for DC fans. Boring and soulless. A beautiful view of nothing but parking garages and condos in the outfield. You can see the Capital and Washington Monument only if you go down the left field exit ramp. Swing and a miss.

I need to get back up to Camden Yards to see a game in a beautiful venue.

Camden is great, but Nats Park gets a bad rap. You can watch the game from many of the concession stands, seating is all geared to watching (many seats beyond the bases in Camden face the center field wall and you have to sit sideways or get a crick in your neck), the red porch is an awesome place to watch a game... I wish they could have gotten the Capitol and Monument in view, but unless they bought all the land between 395 and the park, that wasn't going to happen. MANY parks don't have the money view (Yankee Stadium, Coors Field come quickly to mind).

[89Hen]

Nationals Park - while there is nothing "wrong" with it, really has no kind of draw to it whatsoever. Camden Yards is one of the top 5-6 parks in all of baseball.

Except the baseball team plays there, they have good concessions, it is clean and new... but no, no other "draw".

BTW, you're shorting Camden Yards. They are in the top 3.

[93henfan]

I finally made it to their stadium two weeks ago. It's a perfect stadium for DC fans. Boring and soulless. A beautiful view of nothing but parking garages and condos in the outfield. You can see the Capital and Washington Monument only if you go down the left field exit ramp. Swing and a miss.

I need to get back up to Camden Yards to see a game in a beautiful venue.

Camden is great, but Nats Park gets a bad rap. You can watch the game from many of the concession stands, seating is all geared to watching (many seats beyond the bases in Camden face the center field wall and you have to sit sideways or get a crick in your neck), the red porch is an awesome place to watch a game... I wish they could have gotten the Capitol and Monument in view, but unless they bought all the land between 395 and the park, that wasn't going to happen. MANY parks don't have the money view (Yankee Stadium, Coors Field come quickly to mind).

I honestly have read no reviews of Nats Park or knew it had any rap, so I go in unbiased. The place is soulless.

And if you want me to really be unbiased, I'll even say that my own Phils' CBP is nothing special. Especially now that the Phils suck. The fans made the place special, but it's just another Camden clone when it's half full, and the view is non-existent. The place to build, since most outfields open to the northeast, would have been somewhere along the Schuykill, perhaps near Drexel or Penn.

[bluehenbillk]

Nationals Park - while there is nothing "wrong" with it, really has no kind of draw to it whatsoever. Camden Yards is one of the top 5-6 parks in all of baseball.

Except the baseball team plays there, they have good concessions, it is clean and new... but no, no other "draw".

I'll give you it's clean but "good concessions"?? You need to get out more.

[93henfan]

Machado done for the year.

[CAA Flagship]

Machado done for the year.

What's a Machado? Is it like a Chimichanga, or is it closer to a Tostada? I stick to Burritos and Fajitas so I'm unfamiliar with the right side of the menu.

[93henfan]

Machado done for the year.

What's a Machado? Is it like a Chimichanga, or is it closer to a Tostada? I stick to Burritos and Fajitas so I'm unfamiliar with the right side of the menu.

It's an overly masculine cyclone. As opposed to a Fagado.

[CAA Flagship]

What's a Machado? Is it like a Chimichanga, or is it closer to a Tostada? I stick to Burritos and Fajitas so I'm unfamiliar with the right side of the menu.

It's an overly masculine cyclone. As opposed to a Fagado.

Aye carumba.

[CAA Flagship]

And the lowly Cubs sweep the O's. Did the O's peak too soon?

[andy7171]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGVnHuwm9GI[/youtube]

[dbackjon]

That was spectacular

[Ivytalk]

5 bombs by the O's last night, and another strong outing by Tillman.