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Mid point MBP Poll-Finals

dayzd toe — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:21:07 -0000

Bergie blew out ZAUN (not surprisingly) and somewhat surprisingly Luuuke eeked by Adam Jones, Son! in a very tight vote. Now it's finals time. Who will it be? The boy wonder callup? Or the surprising wild card? Vote for your Mid point MBP!

#1 Adam Jones, Son!
#4 Luuuke
#4 Luuuke

#2 Brad "3E" Bergesen
#2 Brad "3E" Bergesen
#3 ZAUN

Poll

Who's the first "half" MBP?

Luuuke

101 votes

Brad "3E" Bergesen

154 votes

255 votes | Poll has closed

Mid point MBP- Bottom Bracket

dayzd toe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:06:03 -0000

The autobid for ZAUN vs. Boy Wonder, the fave Call up, Brad "3E" Bergesen.

Poll

Who is more Birdland?

#2 Brad "3E" Bergesen

46 votes

#3 ZAUN

3 votes

49 votes | Poll has closed

Mid point MBP-Top Bracket

dayzd toe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:02:09 -0000

Adam Jones outduelled Nicky for the #1 Seed and Luke JUST eeked out the #4 Wildcard Spot from Penni.

Poll closes at Midnight Tonight.

Poll

Who is More Birdland

#1 Adam Jones, Son!

23 votes

#4 Luuuuuke Scott

26 votes

49 votes | Poll has closed

"Mid-Point" MBP

dayzd toe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:23:22 -0000

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So... as we all know, the all-star break is upon us. The HR Derby was yesterday. I started to watch it but it quickly bored me. In my opinion the HRD has run its course. It was cool for a while to see how far juiced up players could hit juiced up balls with juiced up bats, but last night I found it very monotonous. So, I did what any sports fan would naturally do... I kept it on my tube. Following the HRD was the Celebrities & Legends Softball game. Who knew Nelly was so good at softball? Who knew that Bobby Knight had such a soft spot for 4 1/2 ft tall, gold medal winning, gymnasts? And who the hell knew that Goose Gossage played all the way until 1994?!? I always thought that he was a Sepia Tone Era guy. Must've been his name, I dunno. But anyway. Tonight's The Game. But, really, who cares about the good-for-nothing-but means-something-when-it-shouldn't-because-it's-just-an-exhibition-game-anyway game. Enjoy seeing the "best of the best" play on the same field, but to me it's not a particularly big deal. Again... because I'm a good fan it'll be on my TV. The real important business at this, the "halfway" ~~house~~ point is, if the season ended today who would get the MBP award for the season?

We have three of the four brackets filled out: (The Number in parenthises is the number of Game MBP's won)

#1 (# of Birdlands) Nick Markakis (10)/Adam Jones (10)

vs.

#4 Wild Card

#2 (CALLUP) Brad Bergesen (8)

vs.

#3 (ZAUN) ZAUN (2)

The brackets that are links, link to the polls that will determine who gets that bracket place. The Markakis/Jones poll and the Wild Card Poll will end at midnight tonight. The brackets will then get a poll which will end tomorrow night at midnight. The two winners will get a poll which will end at Game Time Friday.

Halfway point MBP Poll, Wildcard

dayzd toe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:29:42 -0000

Time to vote for a Wild Card MBP... based on whatever the hell you like. Included are all players currently on the roster except for those who already have a spot in the MBP Tourney or who are already battling for a spot in the MBP Tourney (Jones, Markakis, Zaun, Bergie) and anyone who has earned at least 1 MBP award already whether or not they're still with the team, and Amber Theoharis... Because she's Amber. The number in parenthises is the number of MBP's that they have earned.

Poll

1 votes

Adam Eaton (1)

0 votes

Chad Moeller (1)

0 votes

78 votes | Poll has closed

Halfway point MBP Poll, #1 Seed

dayzd toe — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:25:13 -0000

Adam and Nicky. Nicky and Adam. They share an address (now). They also share the same amount of Birdlandery. The time is Now. The Place is Now... to separate them.

Poll

These players have tied. Who's More Birdland?

Nick Markakis

14 votes

Adam Jones

36 votes

50 votes | Poll has closed

Mets freaked out by furries...

dayzd toe — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:49:38 -0000

This is sorta off topic but pretty f-ing hilarious.

Apparently Anthrocon 2009 is in Pittsburgh the same week as the Mets.

Ok, so really it's the Mets reporter... but I'll bet more than a few of the players are freaked out too.

I just took a picture with a person who was dressed like Ralph Wigam as a Beaver

Yes, folks, this is what happens when the O's are out left, and I'm at work on the Friday before 4th of July.

The Birdland Address

dayzd toe — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:20:55 -0000

One score and three years ago an unknown force brought forth in the deep south, a new Birdland savior, conceived miraculously to a bat and glove, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are less equal than he.

Now we are engaged in a terrible war, testing the PHN, or MFY, and the Rays formerly known as Devil, that will end their reigns. We are met on a great path of bases of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of the path between first and second, but closer to second, as a final resting place for those who are less powerful than Wieters, every challenger. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we will not dedicate -- will not consecrate -- will not hallow -- this ground. The "speedy" men, all dead, who struggled here, thought they were far above his power only to be gunned down. The world will long remember what he says and does here, and will never forget what they tried here. It is for he, The Wieters, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who floundered under PA have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great Wieters -- that from these dead, victims of the cannon, we take increased delight in the ineptitude that led them to the last full attempt of thievery -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall have died in vain -- that Birdland, under Wieters, shall have a new birth of winning -- and that the League of America shall not perish to the likes of PHN or MFY ever again.

Wieterisms on Bruce Cunningham's show

dayzd toe — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:18:07 -0000

Wieterisms on Bruce Cunningham's show

Matt Wieters started WWIII... His last HR knocked Kim Jong-il's test missile out of the sky
On his way to Baltimore from Norfolk, I95 was so packed, instead of staying on it, Matt Wieters parted the Chesapeake Bay
Matt Wieters hit a ball so hard it scared the seagull off of Buck Martinez's head
Matt Wieters scored the only touchdown in the history of the Baltimore Orioles
Matt Wieters adopted Mark Teixeira's parents. He thought they needed a son to be proud of.

Orioles 1, MFY 9, 05/19/09, So I'm just walking along and... SPLAT!!!

dayzd toe — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:34:17 -0000

So if you watched the game, you know how it went. If you didn't... you're a better person for it.

Brian Bob did it again... almost single-handedly scoring. He led the game off with a single. followed by an Adam Jones, son! single. Nicky failed to move them along so Brian Bob decided to he'd just take third base. And so he did. Aubrey Huff then grounded out to first base. But the always alert Roberts took that oppurtunity to put the only Orioles run on the board. 1-0, Good Guys. Like I said, the ONLY Orioles run, so that would be it for the offense.

Bergesen started out, um, OK. He got Jeter to ground out right back to him followed by a bloop single by Girly-Arm to center (apparently AJ,S wasn't playing so shallow afterall). After he got Boo! Teixeira to ground out to the Man-Horse himself with Damon moving to second, he decided to throw it beyond the grasp of ZAUN. Afterwhich, A-Roid absolutely slobber-knocked a ball to left center; beyond the bullpens.

There the score stood, 2-1. And there it would stand as Bergesen and Cookie Monster found themselves locked in a pitchers' duel. Bergesen retired 13 in a row after the homerun going to the 6th inning before allowing his next baserunner, a single to Cervelli who was subsequently caught stealing 2nd. After the Roberts score, including Aubrey Huff, CC retired 11 in a row until Peni singled to lead off the 5th.

Into the 7th the game would go with a 2-1. MFY score. Here is where the wheels fell of the bus. I won't go into to detail because it hurts so much. I will tell you that Bergey got who my wife thinks is the ugliest player in baseball, Hideki Matsui, to ground out to the Man-Horse. After that the O's would go through 2 pitchers and allow 7 runs before the next out was recorded. And who do you think was our savior? That's right. Hendo. The Hendmeister. He would come in and put the fire out, retiring Rodriguez and Matsui. Obviously quite a lot happened to allow the atrocities that I witnessed last night, but as I said, it hurts so much.

The rest of the game would go quietly and you see the final result. I guess we all have our health, huh? But that's not much consolation when we could have John Gibbons.

Poll

MBP for 05/19/09, O's 1, MFY 9

Brian Roberts (for having the balls to cross the plate in the new Most Storied Stadium)

18 votes

Adam Jones (for returning)

7 votes

Bergey (for putting up a hell of an effort and retiring 13 in a row)

110 votes

No one (that was just too damn hard to watch)

32 votes

167 votes | Poll has closed