I must admit that I was all set to write a blog about the audacity of Miguel Tejada for what he did in yesterday's game. My high horse was saddled and I was ready to talk about the city of Baltimore, our baseball history and Cal Ripken's amazing accomplishment here. How any other team, any other city could go right ahead do this, but not the team of the Iron Man.
The radio talk shows were buzzing yesterday afternoon with outrage at the Orioles for putting Tejada in the lineup to keep his consecutive game streak alive, despite his injury. I was surprised that none of them were talking about Cal or Lou Gehrig. When Cal was on the path to breaking the streak I remember hearing people talk about the ways that Gehrig kept the streak alive in a similar way as Tejada. But hey....he is a Yankee....clearly they don't respect the game. Cal would never do anything like that!!
Well I might have been wrong and thus I am not charging ahead on any high horse. With a broken wrist that he didn't know about, Tejada attempted to play in yesterday's game. In light of everything else going on with the O's and everyone piling on the hate....I'm glad I took the time to think about this before I wrote about my outrage with the team and more specifically Tejada. Ultimately, I just want to see them getting back to the Oriole Way - hustling, playing hard, amazing defense and great pitching. Is that too much to ask for??