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Phil Wood: The Wright move is low-risk for O’s
- The Orioles’ acquisition of right-hander Jaret Wright from the Yankees won’t turn them into contenders. It’s a small, mostly positive step, to improve their pitching staff with little financial risk. True, they’re on the hook for $3 million, but the Yankees will be paying him $4 million, and mediocrity is expensive these days.
Phil Wood: Bonds in Baltimore? Dream on
- When the Dodgers signed free agent pitcher Kevin Brown to a seven-year, $105 million contract in December 1998, then-L.A. general manager Kevin Malone, a former Orioles’ assistant GM, certainly was under the impression that he had won a bidding war with someone.
Phil Wood: Long-suffering O’s need to take a gamble
- Last January, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane rolled the dice and signed free agent DH Frank Thomas to a one-year contract. Thomas was not re-signed by the then-World Champion White Sox, largely because he had been earning $8 million a year and was coming off a season in which injuries limited him to 34 games and a .219 average.
Phil Wood: 1,000 reasons to honor East Capitol
- The World Series is over and likely to be remembered in few places beyond St. Louis and Detroit.
Phil Wood: A moving story and the truth to it
- In the Oct. 3 edition of the Examiner, business columnist Dan Gainor wrote about the disconnect that has occurred between the Orioles and their fans, placing the blame squarely on ownership (“Owner turned great team into dreaded Angel-O’s”). Gainor’s compared the fall of the Orioles to the sinking of the Titanic. He wrote that Peter Angelos had become “the most hated man in Baltimore,” supplanting late Colts owner Robert Irsay.
Phil Wood: New Nats manager needs to know flow
- I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Joe Girardi will not — repeat, not — be the next manager of the Washington Nationals.
- I’m going to go out on a limb and predict Joe Girardi will not — repeat, not — be the next manager of the Washington Nationals.
Phil Wood: Two Tigers, ready to chomp
- Did you ever think you’d live long enough to hear Kenny Rogers’ name mentioned in the same breath as Christy Mathewson? Me either. Kenny Rogers the singer had a better chance at something like that. Yet, the 41-year-old (42 in three weeks) Detroit left-hander is currently threatening Matty’s century-old postseason consecutive scoreless innings record.
Phil Wood: During ’66 title run, some O’s truly reached a bench mark
- In the program that was distributed to attendees at Thursday’s reunion of the 1966 Orioles World Series championship team at Morgan State, there were thumbnail sketches of several players that ended with the phrase “… and helped the Orioles win the 1966 World Series.”
Phil Wood: Celebrating the beginning, and best, of a dynasty
- That four decades have passed since the Orioles won their first world championship is staggering. The surviving members of that 1966 club will be honored tomorrow evening at a cocktail reception at Morgan State University, sponsored by the Babe Ruth Museum.
Phil Wood: Will Nats be Joe’s Co.?
- The hot rumor locally is Joe Girardi will be the Nationals’ next manager.
Phil Wood: Numbers don’t always jive with pitch counts
- I started following Major League Baseball in the late 1950s. Growing up in the D.C. area, I had the privilege of listening to Bob Wolff and Chuck Thompson broadcast the Senators games on radio and television. I guarantee you, not once did I ever hear either man — both Ford Frick Award honorees at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown — use the two words that have become an integral part of today’s game.
Phil Wood: Mussina back in black-and-orange? Hmm ...
- When Mike Mussina opted to leave the Orioles to sign with the Yankees as a free agent, he cited a desire to earn a World Series ring, something he figured wasn’t likely to happen in Baltimore anytime soon. Six years later, he’s still waiting for that ring. Oh, he got to postseason play with New York every year, but the Yankees didn’t win.
Phil Wood: Soriano was one for the ages
- Whether or not Alfonso Soriano ever plays another game in a Washington uniform, it’s safe to say his 2006 numbers rank among the top seasons ever seen in our town.
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