What's going on, everybody? It's been a while.
Me and Gabe are back to talk about some more
baseball. But today it's a bit of a different
episode. Usually we talk about what's going around
the league and some news, some injuries. But
today it's a special episode. We're going to
be calling it the State of the Union of the Baltimore
Orioles. Now, if you have not been following
along with baseball, we'll let you know. What's
been happening. And it's that the Baltimore Orioles
have been a. What do you say? A joke. A disappointment.
Junk. Awful. Horrendous. Did I already say disappointing?
I think I did. But disappointing. But I think
you get the point. It has not been so good for
Baltimore Oriole fans. Started off really good
on opening day. But ever since then. They've
been kind of an embarrassment. And Gabe's had
enough. And so today we have taken the time to
just talk about how horrific and disappointing
the O's have been to Gabe White. So Gabe, I won't
even ask you how you're doing. I'll just say
here's the mic. Take it away, kid. Take it away.
Thank you. Thank you to my wonderful co -host
for that lovely introduction. I have a lot to
say. So I've cooled off. We're recording this
on Monday the 21st. Yesterday, Easter Sunday,
Charlie Morton ruined my Easter Sunday. The Orioles
lost 24 -2 to the Cincinnati Reds, who struck
out 14 times today against the Marlins. But do
that with that information while you will. And
I watch every game. There's a lot of things that
have been making me a little nervous. It's important
to caveat you're this early in the season. And,
you know, I think they're 9 -12. You're 21 games
in. There's a lot that can happen still the rest
of the way. You have 141 games the rest of the
go, something like that. So you got to feel like
you're – it's not over yet. But you got to feel
pretty anxious if you're an Oriole fan. I have
four key points about the O's that I want to
touch on. But this is a somber occasion. There's
no intro music whatsoever. Kenji's doing the
intro. And I'm just going to talk. Kenji's going
to bring up some interesting questions as he
sees fit, as they might integrate into the conversation.
But that's generally the format for this episode.
You can probably hear it in my tone. I'm pretty
sad. You can ask Kenji. Last week, he was like,
hey, man, let's get together. Let's record. And
the O's had lost on Tuesday, Wednesday, whenever
it was because they lose a lot. And I just said,
I said, baseball is depressing me right now.
I need a break. And then yesterday, 24 -2, I
texted him and said, I don't care if you're there
or not. I will be there, and I'm going to rant.
And I have so much to say. So that's what this
is. Any questions, Kenji? No. Well, I guess we'll
first start off with what did you expect, you
know, coming into the season to what you have
gone so far? I expected better. I mean, it's
a tough answer to the question because I expected
better. I mean, everybody did. You know, the
GM, Mike Elias, said two years ago that it was
lift off from here. They won 101 games in that
offseason. They said. It's liftoff. Like, we
got the young core. They're cheap. Let's go.
And then last year, they add Corbin Burns before
the season. They have a great year, even though
they kind of tumbled after the All -Star break.
And then they get swept in the playoffs again.
And then they lose Corbin Burns. This is a great
introduction into one of my points. It's actually
the fourth one I have written down, but I'm going
to start with it. It's the roster construction.
Because you lose Corbin Burns, you lose Anthony
Santander. And listen. I was on team, let's not
re -sign Tony. I did not want to re -sign Santander.
I was on team, let's re -sign Corbin. And if
not Corbin, let's go get a legitimate arm. The
roster just isn't constructed very well right
now. And even the players that were brought in
to do a job, you know, in spring training, Elias
comes out and he's like, hey, we bring in Charlie
Morton because he's great to eat innings. We
bring in Gary Sanchez, Ramon Laureano, and Dylan
Carlson because they can all hit lefties. Because
we couldn't have lefties. And nobody's doing
what they were brought here to do. And I understand
it's premature to say three weeks into the season
that they're never going to do that because their
career numbers tell otherwise. But it's just
not a very well -constructed team. Against left
-handed pitching, they're trotting out Jorge
Mateo. They're trotting out Gary Sanchez. They're
trotting out Laureano. And I think Gary Sanchez
has three hits this year. Laureano had his insane
game on, what was it, Saturday against the Reds.
So I'm not going to hate on Laureano too much.
But Mateo looks like he's swinging with an oar
and he still wouldn't make contact. And Gary
Sanchez looks horrible. And don't even get me
started on Charlie Morton. That guy's a terrorist,
a domestic terrorist to the city of Baltimore.
He's 41 years old. Ruined my Easter. Ruined Oriole
fans' Easters everywhere. Domestic terrorist,
Charlie Morton. Wow. Wow. You know, he's 41,
and he came in to eat innings. And after Saturday,
the O's show a bit of a show of force offensively.
They absolutely smack Hunter Green around, which
that's kind of a silver lining from the weekend
series. He came in with a .9 ERA, and the O's
just smashed him around the yard, which was phenomenal.
I was stoked to see that from an offensive standpoint.
And then we used a bunch of pitchers that day
because, again, we have no starting pitching,
which is another one of my points. I'll get to
it. Brandon High postgame says, hey, this is
why you bring in Charlie Morton. Charlie, we
need a good start out of you tomorrow. Like,
we need length from the bullpen. Need it. We
need length from the starter to save the bullpen.
And what does Charlie Morton go out and do yesterday?
Two and a third innings. Seven earned runs. Walked
like five people. The Reds, who came into this
series a bad offensive team, drop. 24 runs on
the O's. They had two different position players
throw yesterday. Jorge Mateo and Gary Sanchez
both. And guess what? Both of them allowed more
earned runs than they have hits this season.
Mateo and Sanchez. Absolutely atrocious. They
picked up Cody Poteet, who was the piece that
swapped with the Cubs and Yankees when they traded
Bellinger. They picked up Poteet and sent him
to the minors. They traded for him for cash,
and they brought him up. And after Morton came
out of the game, it was just like, screw you,
Poteet. Good luck, dude. We're just going to
let you die out there because we have nobody
else that can throw. So you're going to go out
and do as much. And Poteet got shelled. I mean,
absolutely shelled, like six earned or something
crazy. Former Oriole catcher Austin Wins, who
was with the team when they were really bad,
like 2019 through 2021. Horrible. He went six
for seven yesterday out of the eight spot. Backup
catcher for the Reds going six for seven. Just,
I mean, whatever. Noel V. Marte goes five for
seven with the grand slam out of the nine spot.
Whatever. I wasn't old enough when the O's gave
up 30 runs in a game with the Texas Rangers.
back in, I think, 2010. 30 -3 was the final score
in that game. And I've sat through the last decade
of Oriole baseball. I'm a pretty, I mean, I am
a diehard fan, as dire as it gets. And yesterday
was as embarrassing a loss as I can recall in
some time. I mean, I've watched them get swept
in the playoffs twice. I was really young when
they got 30 dropped on their head. I've seen
them get blown out before. But Easter Sunday,
great home crowd, beautiful weather. And let's
face it, you got the shit kicked out of you.
They did. They flat out did. They got embarrassed.
And it was kind of a wake -up call for everybody.
I mean, honestly, Brandon Hyde does the post
-game interview, and I didn't want to see Hyde.
I wanted to see Mike Elias, the general manager.
I wanted to see him at the podium, like handcuffed
to the podium, and they ask him all the tough
questions. Why? On God's green earth is Charlie
Morton starting games for this team still. He
has a 10 .95 ERA through five starts. By the
third or fourth inning of every game he's pitched,
the game is over. Because he sucks. Because he's
whore. He's geriatric. He sucks. I got to bring
it back home. He's what again? Geriatric. He's
old as shit. he's horrible he's horrible and
the worst part about it is like like he's like
a martyr post game like his like at first it
was kind of cool that he was honest about his
performances like after first couple bad games
he's like I'll figure it out but he was just
like like he's just kind of a martyr he's like
yeah it's just nothing's working right now like
I just gotta like he's like I if he told me I
get 30 starts he's like it's no question I'm
gonna figure it out but am I gonna get 30 starts
and How bad are we going to be before I figure
it out? It's like, dude, what the hell are you
doing? We paid you $15 million. Yesterday, Justin
Verlander, who got paid basically the same amount
of money by the San Francisco Giants, threw six
innings of one -run ball against the Angels and
looked like vintage Verlander. Max Scherzer's
on the I .L., so do with that what you will.
Jesus Lizardo looks phenomenal for the Phillies,
and they traded him for a bag of chips. We gave
our bag of chips to the Marlins for Trevor Rogers,
who's not even playing. That part hurts when
you think back to that. Kyle Stowers is hitting
.300 with an .850 OPS for the Marlins. Could
use that right now. Could use that right now.
So the rosters construct very poorly. I've been
gravely disappointed in Mike Elias and his failure
to build around his young core. That's kind of
like the most frustrating part of this is the
O's have notoriously been extremely cheap with
payroll, extremely cheap. And you have this amazing
farm system, number one in baseball. four years
in a row something crazy you have three years
of number one prospects you go Adley Gunner Jackson
bam you got three number ones in a row and they're
all cheap and you don't build around them like
you refuse to like you trade for Corbin Burns
you don't re -sign him and then you just do nothing
else it's like well Corbin didn't take our fair
market price so we're gonna go get Charlie Morton
like I don't give a shit about your fair market
price If they don't want to come to the Orioles,
to your team, you got to up the price. You got
to bid more. That's not fair market. Your fair
market numbers don't work if people don't pick
your team. And that brings me to my next point.
Starting pitching. The Orioles have the worst
starting pitching. No, I think overall ERA in
all of professional baseball, all of Major League
Baseball. They are 30th. They are currently behind
the Colorado Rockies who play at Coors Field.
Name me one starter for the Colorado Rockies,
Kenji. Name me one. Kyle Freeland. Okay, sure.
Name me two. Give me one more other than Freeland.
The rookie. That's the rookie. That's it. That's
all you got. And they play at Coors Field. They
play a mile high. Like, it's known as a horrible
pitchers park. And the O's play in a neutral
park. And they are dead last in pitching ERA.
Dead last. I can confirm. 5 .43. The bottom of
the league, the Baltimore Orioles, 5 .12. Nationals,
5 .05. Colorado Rockies. Then Marlins, Athletics.
Diamondbacks, kind of surprising. But that's
a pretty bad list. That's a horrible place to
be. That's a horrible place to be. The starting
pitching is just atrocious. It is. I mean, I
love Tomoyuki Sagano. He pitched great last time
out, so I'm a fan of Tomo. And he has the kind
of stuff that you need. He's reliable. He has
a pitch mix that isn't reliable on pure stuff.
He can be a finesse guy. He can control. So I
like Sagano. But other than that, I hate the
rotation. I hate it. As it stands right now.
Absolutely hate it. Cade Povich, Charlie Morton,
Tomoyuki Sagano, Dean Kramer, and Brandon Young,
the AAA guy. Did you know this? Here, while I'm
on my Mike Elias hate, not a single pitcher drafted
by Mike Elias has made his Major League debut.
Not a single one. Adley Rutschman was the first
position player that he drafted. Not a single
pitcher that he's taken has ever made it to the
Major Leagues. That's a little alarming. He can
draft position players very well. I'll give him
his credit. But he doesn't know pitching. He
doesn't at all. The whole theory is you draft
hitting to trade for pitching, and they just
haven't. So it's just horrible pitchers. Now,
that's kind of my two cents on the starting staff.
Listen, it's tough when those are your frontline
guys. but I think it also kind of goes in conjunction
with my next point, which is injuries. They've
been ravaged thus far by injuries. I mean, no
matter what team you pick out of a hat, pick
any team out of that besides maybe the Los Angeles
Dodgers. And you say you're one, two and three
starters for the year out. Like, like what? That's
going to blow anybody's rotation up, blow anybody's
rotation up. The O's coming into the season.
You needed a good season out of Grayson Rodriguez.
You needed Zach Eflin to be Zach Eflin, and you
need Kyle Braddish to come back healthy after
the All -Star break. Grayson Rodriguez goes down
with triceps soreness in spring training. He's
already getting his shoulder checked out too
because that dude is made of effing fiberglass.
Zach Eflin will be back soon, hopefully. He's
throwing again, but he left with shoulder soreness.
He's out a couple weeks. And Kyle Braddish will
be back and so after the All -Star break. So
quickly, the rotation that you were like, okay,
we need young guys to step up. is just bad players
because none of the people you were remotely
relying on are healthy and i just i i get it
you can't you can't foresee pitching injuries
but you kind of can in this day and age you can't
bank on people's health and i just it's so frustrating
like watching having to watch my favorite team
and see the are the names that they put out there
to start on a daily basis is so tough it's so
tough like i'm like like yes tomorrow i look
they play the nationals i guess the day this
is released they play the nationals and i'm like
okay dean kramer cool and then you look at his
era and you're like well that's a loss then you
look the day after and you're like okay maybe
sagano can give us something or publish can you
give us something okay And then the day after
that's another horrible pitcher. And then this
weekend they're playing in Detroit. And I'll
guarantee you Charlie Morton's getting a start
in Detroit. And Detroit's going to put up six
on him or something crazy and say the same thing
postgame. Colton Couser's hurt. Kirstad got hit
on the arm. I don't know why the hell Jorge Mateo
still has a job. I don't know why he does either.
They just look lost. The O's have dudes that
can run now. Mateo has no value because he can't
hit, he can't field. Jackson Holiday should play
every day against lefties, which inconsistent
lineup construction has been a gripe of mine
as well. They, like, shift around this lineup
every single day. Brandon Hyde is a moron. They,
like, cursed at hitting two bombs in a row before
he finally got a start against a lefty. It's
like holiday doesn't start against lefties. They
play Mateo almost every time a lefties on the
mound. And it's, that's your number one prospect.
The 21 year old phenom doesn't even play against
lefties, but a guy that has horrible career numbers,
who's just fast. That's it. You just like him
because he's fast is playing against lefties.
It's so dumb. Holiday should play every day.
You should play every single day. I just, I think.
I don't blame Brandon Hyde for half of it. People
love to hate on Brandon Hyde. I don't really
have a problem with him because he has to do
with what he's given. And what he's been given
is a shit roster, frankly. But, I mean, I fully
blame Mike Elias. Fully blame him because David
Rubenstein, the new ownership group, like they've
come in and they've said that, you know, people
aren't staying away from Baltimore for money
reasons. And so, you know, they bring in Tyler
O 'Neal. They go after Corbin and give him a
competitive offer. But your pivot could not be
like the Yankees lose out on Juan Soto. What
do they go do? They go get Max Freed. They go
get Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger. And while
those guys might be old, they at least made a
move. And the O's lose out on Corbin Burns. And
they go, you know what? Charlie Morton will be
good because we'll have guys that will step up.
And then they're all hurt three weeks into the
year. Now, actually first, Kenji, do you have
any thoughts here? I looked into your guys' farm
system before they came to pitchers, and all
I see is Chase McDermott. Yeah, he's hurt too.
Guess what? Shocker. Oh, that's really unfortunate.
Yeah, guess what? He's hurt. He's been hurt since
spring training. Yeah, I'm not seeing much else.
I'm trying to look at your pitchers. I see a
couple guys in AAA. Cameron Weston, I think Brandon
Young, you said, has pulled up now. Patrick Riley,
he's double A. Yeah, it's not looking like you
guys really got much coming up. No, they don't.
It's a little worrisome. Yeah, and I think the
frustrating part is maybe Trevor Rodgers can
come back and be like a good fourth or fifth
starter, but you trade away essentially the two
guys that you could afford to lose, right? And
Stowers and Norby were stopped up by the talent
in the organization. Westberg, Holiday, Henderson,
and Stowers in the outfield was going to get
blocked by Kirstead and Couser. So there's no
way they were going to see the field. So they're
tradable, tradable assets. And you panic at the
deadline. And instead of going out and getting
a Lizardo, who's at a similar price, you go out
and you get... Trevor Rogers, who's been absolutely
horrible since like 2021. He's been hurt to start
the year. Who knows what the hell he's going
to bring. It's just like, really dude, we have
like some capital to spend like draft capital
and we spend it on a useless pitcher. So, and
until they make me eat my words, I'm going to
keep saying them. It's just, it's, it's maddening
because they, they have such an amazing young
core position players. Few teams in baseball
can say they have the likes of Adley, Gunner,
Holiday, Westberg, Couser, Mullins. They're not
going to re -sign Mullins as much as people want
him to re -sign. Mullins is currently leading
every hitting category possible. Average, home
runs, RBI, OPB, and hits. He is the leader of
everything when it comes to all of those. Yeah,
no, Mullins has been great, but they won't re
-sign him because... They just won't. Who's going
to play center field next year? Couser. Oh, okay.
That makes sense. So it's just, there's, there's
a couple of different narratives that you can
run with here. And one is, is that the O's are
in trouble this year, which I don't disagree
with that. And then the second one is you have
to like, you wait and see. So I've heard the
narrative, you know, wait and see till Memorial
day. Wait until the middle of May. Wait until
the end of April before you kind of make a snap
judgment. And I understand that. But small sample
size is still a small sample size. Charlie Morton
looks so bad. Cade Povich does not look like
a big league starter. They just don't look like
they have the juice. And it sucks because...
Like the team that was once so fun to watch,
you know, come back kids, they make every game
close. They've got all this young, fun talent
just looks like they are lifeless. Like they
get down early. You feel like the game is close
to being over. Like, it's just, it's a really
tough watch. It's a really tough watch. And it's
due to a lot of things, starting pitching. I
mean, they have a really bad rotation. They've
had a lot of injuries, mainly to the rotation.
They have very inconsistent lineup construction.
Everybody's getting flip -flopped around all
the time. That part's got to stop. Yeah, it does.
And at point blank, Mike Elias, the general manager,
did a horrible job preparing this team this year.
And I think about it like if I was – like as
an employee at my company, if – my boss or my
the teams around me like fail to bring in good
talent or like upgrade at all how how am i expected
or how can i be enthusiastic about coming to
work or about like doing more or being better
when there's no investment from management into
anything else and that's how it feels is it feels
like they they're just like well we're just going
to bank on our guys because they we're not willing
to pay them this amount of money it's like Who
gives a crap, dude? You got a billionaire on
the payroll now. Let him spend his money. Go
get Corbin Burns. Go trade for Sandy Alcantara.
Because I would tell you right now, if they waste
Gunnar Adly Holiday, people will never, never
forgive Mike Elias. Never. If they waste these
years away, if they don't get a playoff win,
if they don't win a series or make a second round,
if they don't ever do that, they will never forgive
this general manager. I mean, they hate Dan Duquette,
who's the previous GM, but he at least had some
deep playoff runs. Would that lose your fandom
for the Baltimore Orioles if in five years you
guys have done absolutely nothing? They don't
sign Gunner. They don't offer Gunner or Adley
until they're free agents for their whatever
it's called. Would you say your fandom is on
the line when it comes to the Baltimore Orioles?
I don't think so. Nothing could ever make me
turn my back on the team. I love that team. I
grew up going to games. But I spent a lot of
money to go on that opening day trip. to go to
a bunch of cities and watch them play. I spent
a lot of money on, like, hats and jerseys and
gear, and I spent a lot of time watching the
games. And you're that one percenter of the people
that watch Baltimore. Yeah, I was. Yeah, my dad
and I on that same account. Top one percent of
those watchers last year. But they just – I mean,
it's a tough watch. It really sucks. Like, they
really are not playing good. The silver lining.
Now, I'm going to try to turn this now somewhere
positive because I could just sit here and read
them the whole time. I do have a question. If
you're going to go positive, I do have a question
that might be a negative. Do you think your team
should sell if they keep this trajectory? Like,
you guys are what? Three games under. Three games
under. If at, let's say, All -Star break, you
guys are below 500. And you've got... Who's in
front of you? You're going to have... Toronto,
New York, Boston. Let's say you have New York
and Boston at least 5 -10 games ahead of you.
Are you selling? I guess it depends on how far
out you are of the wild card. I would think you'd
be that behind. I don't really know what you
sell. Maybe Cedric Mullins? What would you sell?
I think there's a good amount of things that
you guys could sell to try and... Get pitching
or get prospects. Adley. Prospects. You would
sell Adley. No. No. I just – he's been so bad,
man. I think he needs a more challenging backup
catcher that's going to push him. Right? And
I think you just need better hitting coaches.
And you just need a better staff. Because I think
last year we talked about you guys had, what,
three hitting coaches? Yeah, listen, I don't
even hate the hitting coach this year. They just
– they're just getting outscored. Like, they're
just getting – because they can't pitch to save
their life. I think you just need to clean house.
It seems like this system that is currently in
the Baltimore Orioles system is not working.
I do think – listen, I will say this. If there's
any silver lining of a really, really bad season,
it's that I hope Brandon Hyde loses his job.
I hope Mike Elias and Brandon Hyde lose their
jobs. I don't know if Elias will because I think
the owner loves him because he's buddy -buddy
with him. But, I mean, if they have a really
bad season, like a 70 -win season, 75 -win season,
I hope he loses his job because this is too talented
of a group to finish there. Way too talented
of a position player group to finish there. You
have such good players, like key role players,
in such crucial and rare positions. Like, you
guys have... First base is a really hard position
to find, right? Hitters, they can fill their
position and still hit and contribute to a team.
I would say you guys have two really solid ones.
And they have Mayo just waiting. Yeah, they have
Mayo just waiting. Exactly. Mountcastle and O
'Hearn. O 'Hearn don't even play outfield. I
think you got to move on. You got Basayo. How
did I say his name? Yeah, Basayo. And Mayo waiting
in the back. I mean, these guys are just kind
of holding them up. If you guys aren't doing
anything or even if – I don't even know. If honestly
the All -Star break, you guys are like in third
place, I would still look into moving off one
of them because – I mean, you've got to use your
young guys eventually. You're just wasting them.
Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. I think if Adley
has a really bad year, then I say hold on to
Basayo. But – I mean, I don't have a problem
moving Mayo. I would honestly move Mountcastle
before I move Mayo, though. That's what I'm saying.
I think you should move Mountcastle. Yeah, I
think you should move Mountcastle in our hurry.
If I said move Mayo, I was wrong. Don't move
Mayo. Keep the prospects. Trade the major league
ready, guys. That's what I think. Because, yeah,
they just – if you want to elongate this window,
this competitive window, you got to keep the
young guys because Adley's not what everybody
touted him to be. Like, I look at what the Royals
have in Bobby Witt, and looking at the Orioles
taking Adley one pick before Witt kind of pisses
me off. The O's likely don't get Gunner if that's
the case, but Witt's infinitely better than Adley.
Yeah. It's tough, man. Again, now silver lining,
they're still like two games out of a playoff
spot. They're like two games back of the wild
card. That's like a good – you have a good series,
you're in a wild card spot. You have a good week,
you're like comfortably in a wild card spot.
And that's where I'm like, listen, it can still
turn around. The O's still have pitching that
will come. Reinforcements are on the way. Kyle
Gibson, who they signed in for agency at the
end of spring training, Kyle Gibson is going
to join the team soon. Kyle Braddish will join
the team after the All -Star break, and he was
phenomenal before he got hurt. Grayson Rodriguez,
maybe he does something. He's made of glass.
I'm not banking on him for anything. And Zach
Eflin can still be a reliable arm. So you look
at, like, three guys that can kind of help a
little bit. Gibson will join the team soon. Eflin
should join the team hopefully by the end of
the month or the beginning of May, like first
week of May. And then Braddish, like I said,
at the end of the All -Star break. Or, I mean,
end of, like, July, August. And they have Kittredge,
too, who they signed to kind of help bridge the
gap in the back end. So there are pitching reinforcements
coming, but if anything has been proven is that
you can't rely on pitching health. And at the
end of the day, you have prospects. You kind
of have to make a move for them. I hope that
they come out with a fire under their ass tomorrow
and kind of make a statement because guess what,
guys? Everybody's doubting you now. Nobody thinks
you can do it now because, like, You got shown
up by the Reds at home on Easter. Absolutely
shown up. You had two different position players
play. You look slow. You look like you're dragging.
You look flat. I don't know. It calls for concern.
I'm pissed off at Mike Elias for not doing more
to help the young core around him. I'm not as
mad at Brandon Hyde because he's just doing what
he thinks he should do with the players he has.
But mad at Mike Elias. Like, Charlie Morton,
dude, what an unbelievable – I thought Craig
Kimbrell last year was bad, and he was really
bad at times. But at least, like, you go the
course of the game and you're like, okay, we
have a chance to win this, and you lose it at
the end. Like, you can't even get excited about
Charlie Morton. You're like, oh, shit, that's
a loss. Like, third inning of the game, he walks
two batters in a row and then gives up a homer.
Like, oh, crap, this game's over. And all the
players know it too. So, that's my State of the
Union. Burn it all. Burn it down. It is not looking
too good. Like I said, the best part about April
baseball is you have a good week or a good month.
Not even a good month. You have a good week,
and then you feel way better about your start.
That's true. The O's play six games this week.
They go, I guess between now and Sunday, they
go like 5 -1, 4 -2. Then you're looking up your
game under 500 or you're at 500. And you're like,
yeah, we're okay. We're good. Do I think that
they sweep either the Nationals or the Tigers?
Absolutely not. Tigers sweep the Tigers tonight.
Yeah, do I think that they lose two out of three
to both teams? Probably. At least with the way
that they've been playing. But you never know
what happens, man. Like Jordan Westberg was really
cold for a while. Couser is an absolute dumbass
and slid ahead first in the first base and broke
his thumb. I don't know, man. I think you got
to play Ramon Urias more. They do. I mean, his
savant page isn't too good, but, I mean, he has,
like, the best average on the team. I mean, he's
getting on base at a very good rate. He's getting
on base. He plays gold glove defense. I like
Ramon Urias. Because Westbrook was slumping,
and Holiday still has a hard time hitting sometimes.
I think the problem with the O's, and you guys
keep mixing up your lineup, but. It's like you
guys just don't have versatile players. Like
everyone's just kind of stuck. Like your infielders
are stuck in the infield. Your outfielders are
stuck in the outfield. They're trying to make
Jorge Mateo this what? I disagree. I think they
still have, you know, I mean, I think like when
healthy, they can do a lot of good things. Couser
can play center. He can play any corner. They
have O 'Hearn who can play first or he can play
the outfield. They have Westbrook who can play
third or second. I disagree with that. I mean,
they have Laureano who plays exceptional defense.
He can play either corner spot or center. Okay,
okay. You just need a better catcher now. Gary
Sanchez has to do what he can do. Like, his career
numbers aren't bad. He's better than James McCann,
but he has three hits to show for himself. It's
tough. I remember you talking about Dylan Carlson
when you guys signed him. Doesn't have anything
this year. He's a... He's sat in AAA. Good signing,
Michael Ice. At least he can hit lefties. Mm
-hmm. Spend that money and go get somebody else
worth, like, $18 million instead of Charlie Morton.
I think that's what it kind of just comes down
to is just... It was a really bad offseason.
You try... Everybody knew it. I think really
positive about, like, bringing in just, like,
depth pitchers and just, like, we're just going
to have health. But you just have nothing now
when it comes to the pitching spot. And honestly,
you know, maybe it's a good thing you didn't
get Corbin Burns because he's off to a pretty
horrible start. And he just looks like he's just
dropping off. But, I mean, Michael King, Dylan
Seas, they were openly on the trade block. And,
yes, they did ask for Jordan Westbrook, which
is a little bit too much. But I think the Baltimore
Orioles, if they had a little bit more fire under
their butts and a little bit more panicky. Not
panicky. Sorry, that's the wrong way. Because
that's how Trevor Rodgers ended up on your team.
A little bit more, I don't know, desire, I guess,
to want to win, to get a better roster out there.
You guys could have done that. And the offseason
just did not showcase. Yeah, not at all. They
didn't do anything. They wanted to win a World
Series. Yeah. So it's tough because you feel
like they have the young position players to
do it, but that pitching staff is like nowhere
close. They're nowhere close to a World Series
contending team with that staff. So they need
a whole lot of help. Hopefully Kyle Gibson can
be what he's been in his career and give us some
length, maybe take some pressure off of Morton.
I mean, because I'm sure he's probably like freaking
out before every game. Cade Povich doesn't belong
in the big leagues. I actually liked what I saw
from Brandon Young. It's a long season. You have
one really good month and you forget about, you
know, a bad April. But there are a lot of things
to be concerned about in Birdland, for sure.
So that's my State of the Union. Well, everyone,
just if you made it this far. Thank you. First
of all, Gabe, he is going through a rough time.
He lost a lot of recently. And he may continue
to lose a lot more. And so just be thinking about
him. For now, I guess, that's kind of all we
got for today. We were just going to talk about
the O's. State of the Union, baby. The O's. It
is a rough start. Could be worse. Could be the
Colorado Rockies and have three wins. But at
least they have a better pitching staff. And
so maybe it can't get much worse. But we'll hopefully
see you guys. We'll record somewhat soon. Hopefully
Gabe's feeling better so we can get back on talking
baseball. But if not, you know, it might be a
rough year for both of us because the Royals
are the worst offensive team in baseball right
now. So worst pitching staff, worst offense.
At least you swept this in the playoffs last
year. That's true. You were the only series that
we have won this year. But that is besides the
point. Oh, yeah. You did win two out of three
from us. That is the only series. Oh, my goodness.
Dude, the O's are so bad. Yeah. We were on a
nine -game losing streak. You lost to us. Nine
-game losing streak. We won an O. I hate it here.
What a disaster. Mike Eliason should lose his
job. But thanks for listening, everybody. We
always prep the soft season to get hyped up for
our teams, and this is what we get rewarded with.
Yeah. pretty much hang up on one girl on one
team guys that's right yeah like michael scott
says don't get help on one girl when it's talking
to the puppies you know what i'm talking about
i know what you're talking about perfect thanks
for listening everybody we appreciate you catch
you next time goodbye