Baltimore Orioles Soundoff

Think about it...

Brian Roberts, Melvin Mora, Miguel Tejada, Javy Lopez, Jay Gibbons, Mike Lowell, Walter Young, Nick Markakis, Luis Matos.

Starting Pitcher: A.J. Burnett

How many O's fans think that lineup would be pretty sweet for next year?

Well forget about it...

Peter Angelos didn't let that happen. The Orioles had a chance to trade Larry Bigbie, Jorge Julio, Steve Kline and Hayden Penn for A.J. Burnett and Mike Lowell earlier this year. They balked at the chance. They blew it.

Why? Because Angelos was too cheap to take on Lowell's contract because Lowell wasn't producing. Well, guess what, he is a good ballplayer. It is not like the players the Orioles kept are producing right now either. In fact, they never have.

Jorge Julio and Steve Kline are busts, plain and simple. They don't belong on a MLB roster the way they are playing this year.

Especially for Julio, if he is going to garner trade interest, than for the sake of the gods of baseball, trade him! He is never going to produce for the Orioles. His time is over. And now, the rest of the league is wary of him and his trade value is reduced dramatically.

This is just one of the mind-boggling moves or un-moves that Angelos makes. He never pulls off the trade when he needs to. He always balks at the price. Winners do not balk. Winners do whatever is necessary to win.

The Red Sox do it. The Yankees do it. Even the Mets do it (Right Evan Appell?)

The Orioles, lately, do not do it. And it shows.




And look! His wife is hot! Just kidding AJ's wife, that isn't you. That is some random singer who sang the national anthem one night at the Florida game.