Around the Oriole Blogosphere: 5/7/2008

Before I start the trip around the blogosphere, this quick fact. The Orioles are 1-5 in their last 6 games but the pitching staff has an ERA of 3.48. Obviously, the offense is letting the team down at the moment but the 4 errors in the last 6 games isn't helping either.

More on all that later...

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Amber Theoharis reports that Adam Loewen could be back on the mound as soon as next month.

When Loewen returns, that could be the end of Steve Trachsel as an Oriole. The only reason he's here now is that the Orioles don't want to rush some of their young pitchers but now with Guthrie, Cabrera, and Burres seemingly entrenched as starters, Garrett Olson off to an encouraging start and Matt Albers breathing down Trachsel's neck, he's going to get squeezed out. And that's a good thing.

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I was going to blog about this myself but two other Oriole bloggers have done it for me. Jonah Keri wrote about "loser dynasties" on ESPN.com (where the Orioles belong) and stated among other things that the Oriole's ETA for a winning season is 2012. Matthew Taylor from Roar From 34 and Ben at Oriole Central both wonder about the depth of Keri's analysis of the past and the prospects for the future.

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Ben also looks at the sorry state of the Oriole offense and ponders a future without Steve Trachsel.

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Meanwhile, Matthew Taylor ponders what the present would have been had the Orioles traded Tejada for Ervin Santana and Erick Aybar

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Dave (aka Desert O of Weaver's Tantrum) is hiking the Appalachian Trail and has reached Hot Springs, NC. A good read and coming soon...a bear raids Dave's camp!

Dave has started giving me the itch to strap on my pack and start training for a hike again. Not the whole Appalachian Trail but I do miss backpacking and haven't done any since I left Maine. I started training in February but family illnesses put that on the backburner. Time to start again, I've got the bug.

Evidently, Dave has started Enchanting Sunshine's mind to wander to the trail as well.

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Speaking of Enchanting Sunshine, she has split off her Oriole musings to a different blog called Oriole Fanatic, at least for now. (edit: Looks like the new blog is now called Sixteen Gold Gloves...for now)

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Anthony is tired on the same old results from the offense at Oriole Magic.

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Wayward O wants no more "styling" on the basepaths from Ramon on the basepaths and less knee-jerk reactions from Oriole fans. Oh, this post too with a hilarious picture of Melvin Mora vs. the Angels...

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Pressbox Online has an article on Oriole pitching coach Rick Kranitz.

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SC thinks the Orioles have seen the last of .500 this season.