Under Review

Adam Jones and the Orioles might’ve finally gotten themselves back on track. It had been a rough week-plus in the Charm City, with the Orioles wading through an eight game losing streak. Last night, however, the O's exploded for 11 runs and AJ was right in the middle of it -- recording two hits, a walk, and playing his usual solid center field.

I bring up AJ and the O's because a segment we filmed with him while he was visiting us in the Fan Cave last week will be up on our website today, and I feel like someone needs to step up and talk about what happened that day.

AJ was nice enough to do the “Fishing in the Fish Bowl” segment that we had filmed with Nick Swisher some weeks ago. Basically, each player was asked to step inside of our Fish Bowl display window, and using a fishing rod with a magnet on the end of it, try to pull as many items out of our fishing hole as possible in two minutes. The leader in the clubhouse was Swisher with six. Jones, on the other hand, only pulled out two items.

Two items. Adam Jones, one of the best center fielders in baseball, tremendous all-around athlete, only pulled out two items. And do you want to know why sports fans? Because he had to use a different fishing hole than Nick! So, on behalf of Adam, I am hereby saying that his results in the MLB Fan Cave Fish Bowl experiment are under protest.

As you watch the segment today, notice how AJ's magnet keeps getting stuck to the side of the bowl. For some reason — and I'm not saying Mike (cough cough Yankees fan cough cough) was involved — someone decided to switch bowls to one with a metal rim, thereby making it damn near impossible for Jonesy to compete with Swish.

So, I'm going on record and calling shenanigans. Tweet me and let me know if you think I'm right. If you need a comparison, check out Swisher in the Fish Bowl (link) and then watch Jones (link) and see if you notice a difference in the bowls. I'm telling you, there's something (dare I say?) fishy going on around here.