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Good News, Everyone, A-Rod Is Back: Your ALCS Open Thread

Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com

Mr. October July? Rodriguez is back in the starting line-up (if you call "batting sixth" the starting line-up). Dog Fister and Andy Pettitte square off in chilly New York, and the ghosts of Orioles past will fly aimlessly through stadium, moan…

Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com

Dan Duquette and Buck Showalter didn't get much into specifics for an Orioles club that returns a core group of young players, as Saturday afternoon was a chance to step back and appreciate everything accomplished in 2012.

Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com

Orioles manager Buck Showalter said his contract status is a "non-issue" and he praised managing partner Peter Angelos Saturday morning for making the commitment to hire him in-season in 2010 in the first place.

Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com

Yesterday we brought you a screenshot of the half-empty stands inside of Yankee Stadium a good half hour after the first pitch of Game 5 of the Yankee-Orioles series. New York's transportation system is uniquely—how should we put it—clusterfuck-y arou…

Tyler Kepner, nytimes.com

For the Yankees' struggling hitters, it is probably best not to dwell too much on the Tigers, who held the A's to a .194 average in their division series. Then again, the Yankees held the Orioles to a .187 average in theirs.

David Brown, yahoo.com

Your browser does not support iframes. The moment Friday night when CC Sabathia turned the wrong way on a short grounder by Robert Andino, giving himself no outlet and allowing the Baltimore Orioles to load the bases in the eighth inning, it felt like t…

nydailynews.com

When J.J. Hardy grounded out to Derek Jeter to end the eighth inning, leaving the bases loaded with the Orioles managing to score only one run, sighs of relief were heard coming from the headquarters o f TBS, Fox and Major League Baseball. And when CC S…