um, Ok.....

Why is Darth Vader on Os Schedule? It seems odd.


Lukkkkkke....
Why is Wayward O bothering to look at schedule????

write the captiOn, part 1

hit wayward o in comments area with your suggested caption for this sun photo ....


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and the winner will be photoshopped onto pic in one (1) week's time. keep it pithy or it won't fit in the bubbles.

we did them a favOr. why?

wayward O thinks trembO is good manager and only wants to see best happen over next two years or so.

here at t.w.o. world HQ we have visions of an emotional trembley leading team into postseason sometime soon (after team signs a starter and a 1B who can hit and a SS who can field).

however wayward O would like to ask trembO for one small favor:

PLEASE -- NO MORE JAMIE WALKER PITCHING TO RIGHTIES. AND BY RIGHTIES WE ESPECIALLY MEAN ALEX RODRIGUEZ.

thank you.

as an addendum to request, please note that walker is a fine person and probably can still benefit team as a left-hand one out guy in 6th or 7th inning. but it's clear walker has no chance to get out righties anymore -- at least this year or until he "reinvents" himself or something.

especially guys like the a-rod who, despite being in a hitting slump, can see walker's offerings like it was slow-mo. or instant replay even.

please also note that team lead 4-3 last night after 7 innings and rocky cherry has all of 6 innings pitched all year? it's not like you were going to ruin him keeping him in for another inning. that at least would have given team a *prayer* of holding out for jim johnson in the 9th.

as it was .... we never even got to see JJ. and this is what happens when babes in the woods like kam mickolio inherit walker's messes:


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I think you see my point. Not a bad manager. But some less-than-stellar bull penning last night.

measuring melmOsity, part 2

not long after MEMLO's six-hit, 5-ribby, pounding of dumb tigers yesterday, a team of scientists took count of melmon-ions from melmo's BLOOD STREAM, and this morning revealed latest result...


LATEST READING = 109.5 melmOnions per sq. decaliter
folks, we have entered the FIRST EMPIRICALLY MEASURED PERIOD OF


MELMOCIOUS EXPANSION
ON RECORD.

scientists, using anecdotal evidence, speculate previous MELOSTIC EXPANSE ERA may have been in august of 2006, prior to MELMO's SIGNING OF MASSIVE CONTRACT.

"we are simply benefitting from new, more finely tuned technology," said scientist charlie a. tango of baltimore's memlonic community college in a release, adding "but i must admit ... it's exciting for us scientists to see it officially measured as such."

new functiOnality

hello. please feel free to play with new search deal. result page display leaves something to be desired but overall it works kind of in case there was some nugget that you simply must revisit. perhaps in coming days it can be improved but for now it is what it is.

meanwhile, team is playing baseball in detroit and they have 13 runs through five innings. perhaps they will even win. time will tell.

yawnage .... mOre lame musings

1) according to baltimore sun, my man aubrey has cleared the waiver wire...

"I enjoy the staff, the players, the organization. I've had a great
time this year. I see a lot of future in this team. I left an organization in
Tampa that has gotten good. I'd hate to leave this place and see them get good
as well."

and that's what my man aubrey told the sunpape.

2) camdenchat is fun place to be ... especially after 8-run innings like last night.

3) when big bird can't throw strikes he does next-best thing: he starts crunching bones with his fastball. OUCH!

4) wayward o got a job or something so it's been busy lately ... sorry about lack of otherwOrldly postage.

yOu can rest easy

boston fans should relax, knowing ROB MANFRED is on case...

The commissioner's office is investigating the circumstances of Manny's final hours with the Red Sox. The Globe has learned (from a source with direct knowledge of the inquiry) that Bud Selig directed Major League Baseball executive vice president Rob Manfred to contact all parties for an explanation of how things unfolded around last week's trading deadline. According to the source, Manfred has yet to report back to the commissioner. [Manny Mania takes over LA]

wayward O is sure he'll get to bottom of things soon.

sOuthguts

one minute you're toiling in obscurity and the next you've one-hit old man vladdy and his angels over eight innings and you're flat brimming it with the big club.


Real Men of Genius
Chris Waters, the Wayward O salutes you.

it might be fluke (remember when Josh Towers started 5-1?) but even so you play great defense on hill -- kind of similar to that played by man to your left in the above image.

garrett, yOur car is waiting

wayward o is exceedingly flattered about clamor for t-shirts, however, it's his belief that business model is not, um, ripe for any kind of windfall. also wayward o is not selling out (yet) but he does know a t-shirt mogul extraordinaire and so if it does happen it will happen right.

now that trade deadline is past, jason bay got boston on track, jr. got the chisox on track, and manny began process of destroying dodger's hopes with cancerous behavior, wayward o would like to point out that bronx bombers, having lost 4 of 5 lately and still tangling with hideously good angels team, are a team on brink. which is mostly an excuse to post this image, of which we can't get enough:


Metaphor for 2008 Yanks
Now we all know Janquis will continue to sign every free agent they can ... but if team doesn't make playoffs this year (65% likely as of today) what will they do with increasingly massive and messy payroll?

More importantly .... what if Garrett Olson -- now 8-5 -- finishes season say around 13-9? Wouldn't that have to qualify as Lost Season's biggest surprise? Flatbill's ERA from '07 means '08 isn't really too surprising. Aubrey posted good numbers except for 2007 so 2008 is hardly an aberration. Olson is perhaps most underdiscussed and underhyped outperformer of year so far. Last night he took shutout into ninth vs. woefully bad Mariners in blOwout win. You could make a case for Jimmy Johnson aka Young Houdini as well.


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Plus he looks like one of those young kids who is serious about life. You know the kind.

Ha! Check out Rock's new blog .... also notice Amber has her own MaSn blog but she doesn't know difference between "bean ball" and something called "beam ball." What is a "beam ball"? Wayward O asks you.