Contract year for Phil. "The world needs ditch diggers too."

Now don't screw up, Phil.

We are such a forgiving lot.

[1] Judge Smails? RIP Ted Knight, I could watch him and Rodney Dangerfield together for a full 2 hours, easily.

Go Phil. Don't suck!

I really don't enjoy Phil Hughes nights and respectfully request that they stop happening.

Pronk comes through!

Phil gets through the phirst. Phantastic!

Hey, a swing-and-miss! Not a foul ball!

Austin was robbed!

[4] Bring out the Billy Balloo!

Could someone please explain what "stuff" is?

"He had great stuff. Best stuff he's had all year."

"But he got walloped."

"He just didn't locate well."

That sounds like bad stuff to me.

C-Dick run.

[12] "Stuff" is a product of "the will to win," only had by those "who play the game the right way."

Ah, that's our Phil.

[14] It was a solo. That's all I ask.

See how long it takes you to count up how many outs Phil has got on ground balls so far.

Huh, that fast!

I got up to do something with the 0-2 count. is it safe to assume that Phil threw at least two awful waste pitches?

This would be a really good time for a not home run, Phil.

Gulp.

Total number of ground balls by Orioles: 0.

Scrap heap!

[14] Hilarious! I'm really LOLing.

Phil, notice how well it works out when they hit ground balls?

Way to get in position, blue.

[21] Thanks.

Solo.
Not complaining.

Dicked

Phil's. Location. SUCKS!

I liked Dickerson when he was on the team.

[1] Maybe Hughes can find employment at the Tool & Die Company?

Hughes has got to find a way through this inning. And why is C-Dick so mean?

[28] Me too. I remember some great catches, and a few game winning hits.

Three True Outcomes inning...

Not a true outcome.

C'mon, Nix. That's terrible.

Cano was too masterful there.

C'mon Hughes - strike this mf out!*

*I like the kid but the quote is the quote

Cripes - what a lousy play on Nix's part.

Aw jeez, coulda been a DP.

Bullshit.

C'mon Phil pick up the team.

Another 0-2 count. This is what continues to fuel my belief that Hughes can be a consistently successful starter.

Beautiful job!

This inning is a Phil Hughes microcosm.

Good enough, Philip.
Greatness will have to wait.

I know it's easy to gripe when your sitting on the couch typing away on the laptop, but there is a difference between a waste pitch and a pitch out of the strike zone that fools the batter.

Phew. Phil phinds a way.

[40] A near 30 pitch inning with a little gopher ball for good measure. Yup.

[39] When?

[42] The Phil Hughes waste pitch is a pitch that no one outside of maybe Jeff Francouer would ever swing at. Its a totally useless waste of time, energy and pitches. Especially since he's a guy that often throws *two* per batter. And sometimes THREE.

I took a moment to read the game thread from last night on the O's blog linked here. There are some clever, frustrated Orioles fans. They are ready to hang johnson by his namesake.

That was strike three.

And that was strike four, but it counted as three.

God, he can be so damn good.

[46] If there's one thing I do not want to see, it's an O's fan hanging Johnson.

[45] And let me make it clear, I dislike waste pitches in general and think they are a total relic. Why on earth, in the era of pitch counts, should we be throwing pitches so worthless that they actually have "waste" in their name? Because we can't give up a hit in a 0-2 count? Who gives a shit?

But I've seen pitchers throw waste pitches that are obviously balls, but maybe are at eye level and fool a jumpy hitter. Phil just flat out throws it over your head. Usually more than once.

[49] Do you think it's all in his head, or a lack of concentration?

Huuuuuuuuuuuughes!

[50] Hi-HO!!

[11] Comedians always get the high hat when it comes to movie awards. How do Ted Knight and Rodney not get any honors for their work in Caddyshack? Friend of mine in the movie business always says, if you want an award you have to play a ######, %%%%%% or !!!! in the &&&&&&&&. (Sorry but can't write it out here on the Banter!)

[52] Uh, aren't those the same thing?

I have no idea. All I know is, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hughes.

Phil has kept them in the game.

[51] Clearly heard, understood, and acknowledged.

[55] You're right, kinda sorta.

Adams hits the ball hard.

I feel that the Jayson Nix era must be nearing its end.

[60] Then again, Reid Brignac. Hmmm.

The Orioles have been hypnotized.

[61] "Jayson Nix and Reid Brignac star in 'Double Play', the gritty crime drama of two ex-ballplayers turned cops looking to bring down an evil drug lord/team owner"

Ok, I'll stop the movie chat now.

Teix does his slide there. Overbay may have broken something.

[63] So it's a buddy picture.

Wow. That was a great call. Who needs the replay.

[63] [65] Brigster & Nix

Navarro was safe, but if the umpire called him out, Buck would have self-immolated taking the entire umpiring crew (and Joe Girardi as well) with him.

Vernon! That sounded like trouble.

[65] Buddy picture/crime drama/action Xtravaganza. Jayson t is the cool-headed, logical one with a pretty wife and precocious 8-yr old daughter. Reid is the 'loose cannon' who doesn't follow orders and has a bevy of hot ladyfriends.

Does Manny Machado really wear #13 to show respect to A-Rod?

[67] ...in Try Hard.

Match-ups.
In a tie game. Not wise.

[67] Sounds like a franchise! Could get 3-4 flicks out of it.

Slainte!

Well, maybe not such a bad move!

Shawn Kelley, the mo-apparent?

[70] Is anyone else getting tired of these Bo Jackson 5-Hour Energy commercials.

[77] I dig them. I too am a 'husband, a father and a former two-sport All-Star..'

Sorry, that last comment was not related to 70.

[77] We don't get them, never seen one.

[80] I think Boat and I are both watching via MLB.COM TV these days.

[77] Don't see them either, shame about his hip. Could have had a Jim Thorpe type career

I don't get it. One pitch for Shawn Kelley? In a tie game?

[77] Bo knows your tired.

"you're" Rats!

NAILED.

Yeah, I know it seems like I already said that, mr smarty.

NAILED.

Filthy curveballs.

[80] I am Bo Jackson. I am a business owner. I am an spokesman. I am a husband and a father I am a two sport athlete. I am a leader a doer and a multitasker. I use 5-Hour Energy. I am Bo Jackson.

Huh, yeah, I get the fucking picture already.

My lasting memory of Tommy Hunter will always be people calling him "Big Game" Tommy Hunter, completely missing the point of the nick name.

You occasionally see people make the same (well, opposite) mistake when they say James "Big Game" Shields.

So, hm. Kind of a shame Shawn Kelley isn't available to pitch now. Kind of a shame he got to throw one pitch. Kind of a waste.

[89] You left out 'I'm a philanthropist, and a community carer. I also once knocked Brian Bosworth on his fat white ass on national TV.'

[91] Joe Girardi, who has had a significantly better year this year than any other with this tea,. still has one really fatal flaw. I'm fairly certain he's afraid to find out what number comes after 12, so in a tie game, we cycle through all good relievers as quickly as possible leaving only the dregs of the bullpen for any potential deep extra inning game

Good hands, kid.
I pretty much ignored all of the 30 for 30 series that the four letter network did in recent years. i did, however, catch the Bo Jackson one just a few weeks ago. It was awesome.

[89] [92} Bo does all that? A philanthropist?

[92] Good one.

I am Don Draper. I am a husband, a father and a boyfriend. I am drinker and a thinker. I am an ad ma, a mad man and a bad man. I'm a philanderer and a panderer. I use doctor-prescribed amphetamines.

[96] Yo, I'm in the middle of Season 5..does Don become a pill addict in Season 6??

[93] It's perplexing. Also makes for quite boring, endless games..

GIve 'em the gas face!

[97] Let's leave it at that. I don't want to ruin it for you.

[97] Like great homerun hitters in the 90's, Don and his cohorts like shots in the butt.