Houston, We Have Rule Changes! The Official 2023 MLB Season Thread

[Spence]

this team is a joke

hiring La Rusaa over Hinch was such a ridiculously poor move

Pedro sucks, but this shyt dates back to Tony

they ruined this team

Sox had a shot at Hinch and didn’t take it?

 

[Brozay]

I might just become a Cubs fan

 

[K-Apps]

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

Ever since that Field Of Dreams walkoff home run, been downhill for this guy. If that report is true, it's not even an awful thing to say about someone trying to leave the team a day early but when you're playing like hes playing, it ain't going to go over well. I enjoyed how he played the game and I liked the shyt talking, but I'm sure his teammates and majority of baseball players and fans dont so this slump, combined with his child out of wedlock to the worst year of his career and then getting dropped in the middle of the field, is giving everyone extra ammo to shyt on him and feel justified.

This man made himself the Lizzo of the MLB

 

[Regular_P]

I was waiting for some swearing or slurs that never came. Why the fukk would they suspend him for this? He said absolutely nothing out of line. Pointing out how the Rays have owned Baltimore at the Trop the last six years is what he got suspended over? Are the O's run by election deniers and flat earthers?

 

[K-Apps]

I was waiting for some swearing or slurs that never came. Why the fukk would they suspend him for this? He said absolutely nothing out of line. Pointing out how the Rays have owned Baltimore at the Trop the last six years is what he got suspended over? Are the O's run by election deniers and flat earthers?

@FAH1223 can explain this better than me but Angelos are known to be very thin skin on any type of criticism on the Orioles. John Miller was a legendary broadcaster and Peter Angelos fired him for being too critical.

 

[god shamgod]

The Cubs system has improved more than any other in the last two years. Their organizational talent came in 22nd in our preseason 2021 rankings and should push for the top five when we update those in the very near future. They finally have a wave of pitching heading to Wrigley Field and also have a number of talented position players.

Chicago has four prospects on our current Top 100: outfielders Pete Crow-Armstrong and Kevin Alcantara, right-handers Cade Horton and Ben Brown. It has even more knocking on the door, with catcher Moises Ballesteros, outfielder Owen Caissie, middle infielders Matt Shaw and James Triantos and left-hander Jackson Ferris all coming up in the discussion for next week’s Top 100. Jefferson Rojas, an 18-year-old shortstop holding his own in Single-A, has a high ceiling and could push for the Top 100 in the future.

@Regular_P

 

[FAH1223]

I was waiting for some swearing or slurs that never came. Why the fukk would they suspend him for this? He said absolutely nothing out of line. Pointing out how the Rays have owned Baltimore at the Trop the last six years is what he got suspended over? Are the O's run by election deniers and flat earthers?

@FAH1223 can explain this better than me but Angelos are known to be very thin skin on any type of criticism on the Orioles. John Miller was a legendary broadcaster and Peter Angelos fired him for being too critical.

Correct.

John Angelos is being a bytch. He runs MASN and he's been intimately involved with the broadcast and media for the Orioles even before he became Chairman since his father is too old to run things now.

The fans are giving him hell online. Now they put out a statement.

Kevin Brown will be returning soon.

Brown, the primary play-by-play commentator for Mid-Atlantic Sports Network since 2022, has been off television and radio for a little over the past week, and the absence became noticeable to a fanbase that has become used to Brown’s voice narrating the Orioles’ American League East-leading season.

But a senior Orioles official said Brown will return to the airwaves soon.

“We don’t comment on employment decisions, however, Kevin Brown will be back with us in the near future,” the official told The Baltimore Banner.
Brown last took part in a radio broadcast during last month’s series against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 24, 25 and 26. With the exclusion of two nationally televised games on July 29 and July 30, Brown has missed eight games since his radio appearance.


A source familiar with the network’s discussions said the individual schedules of a rotating cast of personalities was taken into account. There have been 22 different versions of the MASN broadcast team since the beginning of the year — if you include the pre- and post-game shows as well as MASN’s television broadcast of the game.

The source said it was a content decision, and that scheduling decisions are fluid.

There have been multiple changes to the MASN product this season. The network has introduced broadcasts from the center field deck on certain evenings. They have added former Orioles pitcher Brad Brach to an analyst team that still features Ben McDonald and Jim Palmer.

A report from Awful Announcing, a website that covers sports media, says that Brown was suspended indefinitely due to comments he made on air ahead of the series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays on July 23: “The Orioles have won more games against them this season than the last two combined.”
The team official declined to comment on the specifics of the story from Awful Announcing.

Brown began calling games for the Orioles on television and radio in 2019 and took over the lead role last season. He also does work for ESPN, including college football and a Statcast broadcast of the Home Run Derby last month on ESPN 2.

 

[K-Apps]

 

[Gritsngravy]

I might just become a Cubs fan

Ok I see Tim Anderson just they type of nikka you just steal on

 

[god shamgod]

I might just become a Cubs fan

Rogers said eloy & moncada lazy & grandal don’t get along with the pitchers

 

[triplehate]

It's like five times I've scrolled pass this thread thinking it was the Astros season thread.


What happened to Vlad jr why he not hitting homers anymore? I follow a Twitter account that post every home run and I ain't seen him in a minute. Is he hurt?

 

[Dem313wayz]

Smh at Padres. The pitching coach or catcher could have did a mound visit to settle the pitcher down

 

[god shamgod]

Orioles been the best team in baseball for a while & especially post asb. They’re gonna be a problem in October

 

[Regular_P]

@Regular_P

You're already talking too much shyt for my liking in here.

At least the White Sox are more embarrassing than the Tigers.