If I might borrow a photo caption from CNNSI.com’s MLB baseball power-rankings feature, verbatim: On pace to lose 112 games, the Baltimore Orioles are on pace to becoming one of the worst teams in MLB’s modern era. Let me repeat…
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* – tracking the Baltimore Whorioles magnificent march toward an 87.5+ loss season, all so I win a twenty-dollar bill, yo.
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Before Saturday night’s showdown at Camden Yards, the New York Mutts hadn’t won consecutive road games in nearly 11 months. Then, along came the Orioles! Well, I don’t know how long it’d been since the Mutts won three road games…
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Let it be recorded, for posterity’s sake, that the Baltimore Worthlessoles turned the corner into the home stretch Friday with a 5-1 drubbing at the hands of R. Dickey and the rest of the (oh hell, this hurts to even…
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Big news in SMN Land: Trembley fired! Juan Samuel hired!!! (Well, promoted, but still.) The upside? In their first game under a new regime, the Baltimore Whorioles lost 11-0, thus dropping their stellar record to 15-39, and the SMN* to…
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One of my favorite aftershocks of Roy Halladay’s perfect game is that — seriously, I’m not lying here — the Baltimore Sun asked Kevin Millwood, the 0-5 ace of a 15-36 team, for his reaction. It’s funnier than Caddyshack that…
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Oh glorious day. What else can be said of a Thursday which offers not one reminder of March 28, 1984 … 1) From the Schyulkill Expressway at 8:21 a.m. 2) From my email at 12:42 p.m. (via a hawk-eyed Dadlani…
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And I quote, from the Baltimore Sun: Let’s start with this: I’ve never seen Dave Trembley more frustrated than he was Sunday after the Orioles’ 4-3 loss in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park. He looked as…
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It is with great pride that I excerpt a story about last night’s Whorioles loss to the mighty Kansas City Royals … A crowd of 9,299 — second-smallest in the 19-year history of Camden Yards — braved miserable weather for…
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Q: Which Major League Baseball team was up 2-0 going into the ninth inning on Saturday, only to lose 8-2 without going into extra innings vs. Cleveland? A: The mighty Baltimore Orioles, that’s who!!! Which means the SMN* now stands…