O's - No Fight, and the Win Loss Record Shows IT!

This sums up the 2010 O’s - The Orioles dropped to 0-51 when trailing after eight innings. There’s no fight in this team, and while I understand losing day in and day out gets tough, come on? This team has not came back in ANY of 51 games after the 8th? It’s not like we haven’t been in close games, though the offense is as pathetic as any I have ever seen, on ANY Team. Hitting with RISP also has a component of luck, and perhaps we’ve been more unlucky than most, but good teams make their own good fortune, which explains a great deal. It’s just a pathetic display of professionalism, and we really need a manager who isn’t going to take any BS and who gets in players faces. This team continues to make base running mistakes and to not make plays that major leaguers must make. On a national level and on a daily basis this team is the brunt of jokes (see Jay Leno last night. Jay F’in Leno!), and deservedly so. Yes, the team has some talent, but I’ve seen nothing to convince me that we are within a decade of competing. The other thing that frustrates me beyond belief are the continued comments from Samuel and the players, like these from Izturis: "That's the game; somebody had to lose," Izturis said. "We played great games. We played to win the game. We lost all three, but we have to forget about this series and focus on Texas." - We played great games? Until the O’s convince themselves that they aren’t playing good games, that they don’t always get the bad calls, and they are in the major leagues, getting paid a fortune to play a game, this franchise will continue to “play” baseball at the historically poor level they have in 2010.

I’m just glad I’ve had the World Cup and Hawaii to distract me from the horrible weather in Seattle and the pathetic baseball being played in Baltimore, and Seattle. Beat the Yankees tonight M’s!