Rafael Palmeiro

[clown]

1st off, i would like to say i was a big fan of Raffy back in the day....

but now....he brings absolutely nothing to the table for the O's...

he's slow

can't hit for power with his steroidless arms

and is probably the biggest ***** on the Orioles.....(Doesn't dive for balls, slides cowardly.....is never looking for more bases)

and i'm kind of getting sick of him.....

Helton is the answer at 1b....

or even Huff

or maybe even Mike Sweeney.

not too mention he hits 5th!!! He's had close to zero production so far....

I would love to see him benched....

anyone else with me??

WHile the redsox and yankees are going through their april slumps, we need to take control and get out way ahead of them!!! Palmeiro is our liability....

I would like to see Gomez/Newhan assume his spot for now and in the near future make a trade for one of the 1st baseman listed above.

Linup should be:

Roberts
Mora
Tejada
Sosa
J. Lopez
Matos
Gibbons
Newhan/Gomez
Bigbie

we lose that righty/lefty/right thing but it's not like we're having problems against lefty pitchers....

[aejm1400]

I've been a little disappointed in Raffy myself lately, but he's still our best defensive 1st baseman reguardless of how many balls he dives for. We've also seen Gibbons and Gomez get some starts at first I would expect that to continue. But, maybe Raffy will get hot for us when we need it.

Although it would be nice to have someone like Helton, I don't want to see the O's give up to much to get him.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I agree with aejm...it'd be hard to ditch raffy though, he's such a good guy...i've always been a big fan...but he's old, what do you expect?

If we could add a big bat somehow without giving up too much, it'd be awesome.

[TheDoyler23]

He's starting to hit to left field and is trying to go back up the middle with the ball. He'll heat up soon.