Who’s Minding the Store?
Ordinarily I don’t believe in apologizing for not posting much, or even mentioning it. I make an exception here though because things have been quieter than normal at a time when they probably ought...
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Thoughts on Change
Fair warning: this post isn’t about baseball, or really even sports. Not unless you squint. What can I say? The O’s are on the west coast. So, instead, this is a post about change. The reason things...
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You Knew a Slump Was Coming, Right?
There I went in my last guest post for MASN talking about how the Orioles were officially a good team. Then there they went, rattling off five losses in a row and falling into a tie for third place (or...
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Losing Wasn’t More Fun, But It Was a Little Easier
I was thinking about the ‘ol Loss Column today, and the fact that I have been so lax in posting, and I found myself asking a question: were things better when the Orioles sucked? Not the baseball, of...
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New World, Same World
I used to have a lot of friends who loved moving. That meant travel for some and outright relocation for others. These were (are) folks for whom movement was a horizon to chase. For whom change itself...
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Some of These Orioles Might Be All-Time Greats
So I wrote up my weekly guest post for MASN and I talked about how cool it is that the Orioles have improved so much that a national vote is poised to land them four starters in the All-Star game. From...
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Dylan Bundy: Panic, or Not?
For the most part, I greeted the news that Dylan Bundy would need Tommy John surgery with something of a shrug. For one thing, I predicted as much back on May 1st over at MASN — admittedly not a...
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This Orioles-Yankees Series Was a Turning Point
Logic would suggest that there’s nothing remarkable about a home team enjoying majority support from the fans in its own ballpark. That’s sort of the way it works…usually. Thus, “home” team. But as we...
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Is Now the Time For an Angelos Renaissance?
As of press time for this column the Orioles haven’t been playing well. Losers of five of six before tonight, they’re right on the verge of a bona fide slump. Let me say up front that it’s OK. They’ve...
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Orioles Food For Thought: Vol. 1
Feeling a regular feature coming on here… ☞ As Dan the Man said, of course Erik Bedard took himself out of a no-hitter. And I don’t even fault him for it, simply because that’s Bedardism at its most...
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Duquette is Playing to Win, and I Like It
After the Orioles scooped up Scott Feldman a few weeks back I, like most folks, figured that would be the last of stretch-run pitching additions. It is, after all, not common for a team in the depths...
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Rest In Peace, Art Donovan
I don’t have an Artie Donovan story, unfortunately. I was never lucky enough to meet him and his playing days were before my time. But I knew him as a legend. The kind of guy who is thoroughly...
View ArticleHow Time Flies…
Yeah, it’s been awhile. So it goes and on to the next. Last year on this date the Orioles were 70-57. At that point we were just beginning to believe that perhaps the team was for real and would,...
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It’s closing time in Birdland. Drink up.
Nothing dies on the Internet. This is both one of the medium’s greatest assets and one of its most pressing drawbacks. Permanence is a lure as well as a drag. And, ultimately, a hard thing to...
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