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Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:44 pm**

[url]http://deadspin.com/report-orioles-considered-forfeiting-to-avoid-playing-1700033627[url]

Ummmm...really?

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:03 pm**

Showalter can put this **** out there all he wants, but they were never forfeiting any games.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:20 pm**

They're going out of their way to be as annoying as possible. Last time I looked both teams were playing on the turf. From the early returns, the odds of his players getting hurt playing on the new turf are much less than on the previous turf.

Whiners gonna whine.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:29 pm**

Forfeit or Sweep. The outcome is the same.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:03 pm**

i don't blame them really. if i we're the orioles, in hindsight i would've forfeited tuesday's game as well.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:07 pm**

And there's more, i swear there is no end to the list of their fake grievances. Shut the **** up already ****...

But De Aza also contended that the way Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson blocked the bag on the play — he used his left leg to prevent De Aza from reaching the base — was dangerous.

“He blocked it. I’m not saying it was bad, but he shouldn’t block like that, because he can hurt somebody,” De Aza said. “Somebody can get hurt like that. Thank God I didn’t jam anything, but something bad could happen there.”

De Aza slid into the bag headfirst, reaching for the outside corner of the base with his left hand. Even with that, the two players made contact on the play. De Aza said he believes he would have gotten hurt had he reached for more of the bag.

“I wish I had it back,” De Aza said. “I thought I had the bag. If he didn’t block me the way he blocked me, I would have gotten there, but unfortunately, I didn’t. Fro

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/sport ... 0424.story

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:16 pm**

Nights King wrote:And there's more, i swear there is no end to the list of their fake grievances. Shut the **** up already ****...

But De Aza also contended that the way Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson blocked the bag on the play — he used his left leg to prevent De Aza from reaching the base — was dangerous.

“He blocked it. I’m not saying it was bad, but he shouldn’t block like that, because he can hurt somebody,” De Aza said. “Somebody can get hurt like that. Thank God I didn’t jam anything, but something bad could happen there.”

De Aza slid into the bag headfirst, reaching for the outside corner of the base with his left hand. Even with that, the two players made contact on the play. De Aza said he believes he would have gotten hurt had he reached for more of the bag.

“I wish I had it back,” De Aza said. “I thought I had the bag. If he didn’t block me the way he blocked me, I would have gotten there, but unfortunately, I didn’t. Fro

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/sport ... 0424.story

That might be the best yet.

Posted: **Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:12 pm**

had to look up carroll county times to make sure it wasn't a parody site, because that article is one of the most hilarious things i've read in a while

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:24 am**

I can't believe no one has said this already but F*** Baltimore!

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:46 am**

"I’m not sure what exactly the league could do about the turf, though, or if it would even have a right to demand some sort of change. Is having a slow turf really all that different than 37-foot fence in left field, or putting a goddamn hill in front of the center field fence?"

/thread

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