Base Hits: 3/20/2009

The Matt Wieters hype has gotten so out of hand, it is now being parodied Chuck Norris-style over on this thread at Baseball Think Factory. A few of my favorites:



"When a pitcher plunks Matt Wieters, the ball is awarded first base for enduring the pain."



"Matt Wieters took batting practice this morning. There were no survivors."



"Matt Wieters is so great that Curt Schilling was rendered speechless."



"Matt Wieters swings both ways? No. Both ways swing Matt Wieters. Matt Wieters swings a redwood tree trunk with three different endangered species of owl living on what would be the barrel of a normal bat."

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Wayward O is laying out his Divsional Previews including the AL East. Suprise pick? Royals win the Central!

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Another great entry of The Eutaw Street Chronicles by Matt at Roar from 34.

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Sixteen Gold Gloves goes all Paul Harvey on us. First, she meets Cal Ripken, Jr. and now...the rest of the story.

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Jay Trucker is no fan of Orioles in the WBC. Also, the Orioles want Guthrie to come back to Ft. Lauderdale.

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I participated in an AL East chat at Beyond the Box Score yesterday and tried to represent the Orioles well. Some Rays fans seemed to think that I should fear B.J. Upton more. Upton: good hitter, not a feared hitter. End of story.

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Ben from Oriole central just can't throw away his Daniel "Dirty Bird" Cabrera poster...

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FanGraphs has been doing organizational rankings and the Orioles are ranked #16 in baseball. Usually the O's end up somewhere in the high 20's. Wasn't it last season that the Orioles were assumed to be one of the worst frachises in the world of sport?

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Happy Birthday Chris Hoiles! Hoiles could've been a contender...for the 1993 AL MVP.

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Song of the Week: Marah with "The Dishwasher's Dream" Have a good weekend! Let's go Mountaineers!