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Syphilitic Magic Number*

Baltimore Orioles: 53-87 If the Whorioles go 22-0, I lose. If the Whorioles go 21-1, I win. Cal Ripken’s no better than a pedo. * – tracking the Baltimore Whorioles magnificent march toward an 87.5+ loss season, all so I…

Syphilitic Magic Number*

So insane are matters in the Syphilis Capital of the Universe that, on a Whorioles fan forum, this was the title of a recent post … The best last-place team you’ll ever see Fuckin’ adorable. But to a certain extent,…

Syphilitic Magic Number*

Fine. New manager’s lit a fire ‘neath the Whorioles, hasn’t he? Whatever. Even Houdini got caught up in his chains from time to time. But, what I know is this: – The Whorioles got shut-out by the mighty Seattle Mariners…

Syphilitic Magic Number*

With today’s 5-4 loss to the powerhouse Kansas City Royals, the Whorioles not only closed out Juan Samuel’s brief managerial reign with a 17-34 record, dropped Cy Young candidate Kevin Millwood to 2-11 and established a SMN* of … ……

Syphilitic Magic Number*

I’m going to break with jersey-number-representing-the-SMN form. It’s 24. The O-No’s have to win 44 of 68 remaining games for me to lose The Bet of All Bets. Ain’t happening. But mysteriously, the Worst News Bears of Balmer actually drew…

Syphilitic Magic Number*

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…