philadelphia freedOm

well it's hard not to be happy for happy world champion philadelphia philles and especially future hall of fame pitcher jamie moyer for whom ring very possibly is ticket to cooperstown.

not to mention the excellent jimmy rollins, 2007 mvp, who really gets credit for bringing pride back to sad franchise.

not to mention the city itself, which is free from 28-year title drought despite hosting four major league sports clubs.

however, even in last innings of waning fall classic, level of play remained disappointing if you ask wayward O. aki iwamura needs to catch that pop fly. and jason werth, asleep at first again, lucked out when he made it to second after getting picked off. there were too many similar examples and wayward O on many occasions wondered what these two squads were doing here.

no matter. friends ..... the lost season is over! and now team from baltimore must re-embark on quest.

the quest for october.

when our young, talented stars refuse to lose and when our organization shows the courage to make team better where it must, then we too will have our shot at glory. not a mOment before.

pastry art baristas dOn't like team

sharp-eyed old lady in florida who is wayward O's grandma sent this along, via pony express among other couriers, to world HQ...



the newspaper article, by the way, goes on after page jump, and continues to slag team.

so wayward O did a little research on two men and here are important things you should know:

• hoff was BORN IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND; pitt was born in OKLAHOMA ... WHERE IS THAT???
• pitt has not yet appeared in drunken youtube. hoff has. WHAT IS BRADLEY PITT HIDING???
• According to Guinness Book of World Records, Baywatch is most watched TV show in world, with over 1.1 billion viewers
• Brad Pitt started on show called "Dallas." WHAT SHOW IS THAT???
• Hoff has "aura"; Pitt has "allure"

Enough said. Well maybe not quite enough. Wayward O also made blingee about article:

wOrthless

wayward O hates to say it. wayward O really does. but this world series .... uh ... sucks.

the phillies' eighth was debaculous.

utley's strikeout was minor league caliber.

werth .... is most terrible baseball player wayward O has ever seen play baseball in october. jason werth is a terrible baseball player. he can't hit. he can't run. he can't field and he can't throw.

howard ... ate too many cheesesteaks or something? terrible. what is he doing waving at these curveballs? he is useless because he has no desire to run the bases. all he wants to do is swing for the fences. that can be dealt with.

just not good baseball.

and in top eighth phillies let b.j. upton essentially run bases with no real opposition. what was that?

the philadelphia philles can't even protect their house? well game isn't over yet but they squandered 3-run lead.

1:50 a.m. update: well phillies "protected" their house. but only because rays are even more terrible than phillies.

it's a nO-win situation

fox's world series music is off the mark. it is too pageantified. they should spice it up a little. make it more funky.

yahhhh di di dahhhhhh, waahh wa wa waaaahhhh.

also they should start the game at 8 p.m. i keep falling asleep in the 5th inning.

i'd much rather fall asleep in the 7th or 8th.

i heard there was a play when shane victorino swung feet-first from the "b-ring" on the roof of the trop to catch a line drive. true?

phillies v. rays. either way, wayward O feels cheated. if phillies win, insufferable city becomes even worse. if rays win then entire AL East cashes in on title glory since team last made it there sixty billion years ago.

quick Observation

no MLB team from florida has ever lost a playoff series.

thank you and have nice day.

inventOry

mlb.com writer spencer fordin got the jump on the hot stove yesterday with an interesting article on team's post-season pitching plan, writing

[Andy] MacPhail, who wants to be as cautious as possible with his remaining
prospects, will seek reinforcements through every means available, meaning that the Orioles will seek to add arms through free agency, the waiver wire and trades.

"It's a really a game of inventory for me -- as many as you can," he said. "You are going to have certain disappointments [and] you're going to have some pleasant developments. You've just got to work with numbers and try to build up the base as best as you can and add as much inventory as you can and sort of go with the events from there."

wayward O is heartened to see "free agency" in there but does this "inventory" concept preclude the signing of a top talent who you know is going to win 15 games minimum? just curious....

did we Over-rate the cubs?

well the certainty points system seems again to have done its job, at least so far, predicting three of four teams to advance out of baseball's division series.

perhaps the system over-rated the cubs, who got shtoonked by the dodgers in three straight.

did we give them a point too many for wrigley field? or a point too many for sweet lou?

nah. the cubs were 55-26 at wrigley this summer. that's tampa-like and deserves a certainty point, the team's october home futility notwithstanding.

and sweet lou is the bill parcells of baseball ... he can turn a team around because people play for him.

moreover, even minus two certainty points the cubs would have had more certainty points than the dodgers.

so we conclude, per the system, that the terrible randonmess of octOber -- not to mention the fearsome bat of manny ramirez -- was the over-riding factor in the cubs demise...