return Of the pants crappers
let's recap last week, shall we?
team pulls into 3rd place on 4 july with win over texas. team looks at standings, craps pants, and goes on to lose 5 straight, each loss more hideous than last.
meanwhile other teams in AL East begin going in their accustomed direction; when pressure builds, they start winning.
not our beloved birds though. to be fair our birds are overmatched in the talent department this year: our rote is two solids and three drunks we pulled off broadway after closing time. our bullpen is wracked by injuries. our defense is a couple young stars and two solid vets picking their way through a tangle of driftwood.
wayward o guesses this must be what everyone -- and wayward o means EVERYONE -- predicted going into lost season.
but why must it come on heels of such promise, during SOFT SPOT in schedule prior to all-star break? why indeed friends.
wayward o concludes that pain of past five games simply FEELS WORSE because it comes in STARK RELIEF to pleasure of exceeding expectations for several months.
well team goes to boston and faces buchholz, wakefield and matzusaka before all-star break. these guys are beatable.
maybe diaspora will be favored with more exceeding of expectations and less heartbreak but if team drops red sox series or is swept you can expect free-for-all spiral with tenbagger losing streaks galore going into home stretch.
and if your name isn't guthrie, markakis or jones you might be headed somewhere else.
now if we could only drug rick dempsey and tie him to the bottom of a 747 heading for .... anywhere so long as it's on the far side of a major ocean ... wayward o could probably stomach rest of lOst season in peace. dempsey should be fired immediately. first of all he's incompetent and second of all he thinks it's funny when team loses.
team pulls into 3rd place on 4 july with win over texas. team looks at standings, craps pants, and goes on to lose 5 straight, each loss more hideous than last.
meanwhile other teams in AL East begin going in their accustomed direction; when pressure builds, they start winning.
not our beloved birds though. to be fair our birds are overmatched in the talent department this year: our rote is two solids and three drunks we pulled off broadway after closing time. our bullpen is wracked by injuries. our defense is a couple young stars and two solid vets picking their way through a tangle of driftwood.
wayward o guesses this must be what everyone -- and wayward o means EVERYONE -- predicted going into lost season.
but why must it come on heels of such promise, during SOFT SPOT in schedule prior to all-star break? why indeed friends.
wayward o concludes that pain of past five games simply FEELS WORSE because it comes in STARK RELIEF to pleasure of exceeding expectations for several months.
well team goes to boston and faces buchholz, wakefield and matzusaka before all-star break. these guys are beatable.
maybe diaspora will be favored with more exceeding of expectations and less heartbreak but if team drops red sox series or is swept you can expect free-for-all spiral with tenbagger losing streaks galore going into home stretch.
and if your name isn't guthrie, markakis or jones you might be headed somewhere else.
now if we could only drug rick dempsey and tie him to the bottom of a 747 heading for .... anywhere so long as it's on the far side of a major ocean ... wayward o could probably stomach rest of lOst season in peace. dempsey should be fired immediately. first of all he's incompetent and second of all he thinks it's funny when team loses.
Labels: 2008: the lost season
posted by the wayward o at
7:07 AM
5 Comments:
It feels like this happens every stinkin' July, our beloved Birds need Depends.
True, true. It does happen: as sure as the sun sets every day on Baltimore Harbor, the O's fold under the pressure of pennant races, the heat, and a long season for a bunch of young pitching arms. Seen it before, seeing it again.
But before we all go through a full box of Kleenex about the 5-game slide (now 7 of 8, but hey, who's counting?), remember this IS a different team. They have come back from adversity at the end of many thrilling games, and also at the end of losing streaks.
They have a better bullpen (despite the many crash and burns of July); better overall speed; fresh, new bats (Jones and Scott, eg); B-Rob, Markake, and a rejuvenated Huff, and a different gritty attitude about fighting hard till the end.
Granted, what they're mostly fighting off is the inevitable crumble already swallowing them whole. But it still is a fight. Maybe 84 wins is a stretch. But don't be surprised if they scrap their way to 77, 78 wins.
Remember, this is an audition for the players out there who may sign in the offseason (M. Teixiera anyone?). And a solid, though losing, season could go a long way to helping McPhail make 1 or 2 more mammoth trade deals, like he engineered in dumping Tejada and Bedard this past winter.
Hey, wayward O, great playing softball with you the other night.
T.
yay tom! it was good to meet you. if only i was actually playing!
Hey O,
Check out this comment on deadspin regarding the all-star game:
http://deadspin.com/5025710/uggla-implodes-big-papis-madonna-hi+jinx-and-bud-selig-loves-him-some-sarah-jessica-parker#c6714368
you may have launched a new term regarding the orioles. or you are that dude.
deadspin is WAY TO COOL for wayward o.
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