Quick Hits: O's News and Computer Issues...

The Orioles needed a well-deserved day off, as they are in the home stretch of spring training before heading back up north the middle of next week.

I’m still in Florida, but now I am getting a Windows error on my laptop, so I and my road partner, are at a Marriott business center (which by the way they charge the hell out of you) while I blog. I am going to need to buy a Windows XP CD when the stores open up and hope to rectify the issue.

The great Thomas Boswell of the Washington Post pens a great article on Peter Angelos. Keep in mind, Boswell is no fan of Angelos, but articulates much what most in the media and fans have felt over the past 2 decades.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031901643.html

Jorge Arangure points out the Orioles are trying to be extra cautious as to the team signs now since the team has been linked to many in the various steroid cases that have popped up in the last few seasons.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/19/AR2007031901861.html

More on the visit to Orioles’ camp by Peter Angelos from the Baltimore Examiner.
http://www.examiner.com/a-625916~Optimistic_Angelos_visits_Orioles_camp.html

Before I go further, take a chance to read Mike Boehm’s piece on him at Oriole Magic. He does a great job pointing the quotes, misquotes, assumed truths and half truths that Angelos has said over the course of his ownership tenure.
http://mvn.com/mlb-orioles/2007/03/19/angelos-caught-in-another-lie/

There’s a Q&A with perhaps the most popular Oriole, Brian Roberts.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-osqa0320,0,1047352.story?coll=bal-sports-baseball

The team has made a lot of changes in the off-season, and hope translates into great success in 2007. Piece by Roch Kubatko.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-orioles319,0,1080857.story?coll=bal-sports-baseball

The offense has struggled, but the bullpen has been remarkable and a source of strength for the Orioles.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-orioles319,0,1080857.story?coll=bal-sports-baseball

Erik Bedard will be the Opening Day starter against Minnesota.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/sports/orioles/index.html

As well, he’s primed for a big year, but he’s taking things as they come and not making a big deal about it.
http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070317&content_id=1847547&vkey=spt2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal

Here’s an article from the AP about the Orioles’ young pitching staff, and how they have to go through ‘on-the-job-training’.
http://www.examiner.com/a-626912~Youthful_Orioles_pitchers_often_learn_on_the_fly.html

Jeff ‘Screech’ Fiorentino and Jeff Hoey have been demoted to the minors.
http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070318&content_id=1848787&vkey=spt2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal

Spencer Fordin has a mailbag out this week, looking at Steve Trachsel, Paul Shuey, Val Majewski and the O’s lack of power.
http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070319&content_id=1850489&vkey=news_bal&fext=.jsp&c_id=bal