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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

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Well, we regressed slightly in 2013 after making the playoffs the year before. No one was calling for radical changes or for Buck or Dan's head on a platter.

I think so long as we play competitively and preferably make the postseason no one will be too angry. I think there will be a push to fill in those remaining holes, and hopefully it pay off.

Hopefully we won't be one of those teams that always makes the postseason but never the World Series. But many times a World Series caliber team is one that takes several years in the making.

We'll be fine.

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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

Only stupid fans expect a world series title or consider the season a failure.

Even if your the most talented team in baseball, the playoffs are a bit of a crapshoot. Run into a steam roller like KC or say Boston last year and your done no matter how good your season was.

If as a fan winning the WS is your only measuring stick of success, your bound to be one very very unhappy fan in most cases.

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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

Nestor Aparicio will almost undoubtedly be in your corner with that sentiment.

Fortunately, the fans don't run the team ...... even if some of them are under the impression that they do.

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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

Oh man, your THAT guy at the little league game aren't you? You're that coach that orders a beaning. You're the guy that has "ALPHA MALE" tattooed across his chest?

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Pro sports is all about money. If we lose to a team like the Royals, ya, that would be bad. But, if we get in and lose to a team with double our payroll, what are you going to do?

Well lazy fans are going to conclude that pro sports are all about money when the 2014 ALSC stands as eloquent testimony to precisely the opposite.

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Ah, how quickly we, as fans, forget.

meh. I've been a die hard O's fan sine the 70's when I was old enough to understand what winning vs losing means. I support the OP. It never hurts to have lofty goals. Yes, we quickly forget what endless losing seasons are like, but we have also, slowly like a frog in a pot coming to boil, forgotten what its like to have a baseball program that regularly competes for championships. And championships are what we as fans need to demand. Shoot for the stars every year and one time we may land on the moon. Shoot for the moon and sometimes we may get close (like this year).

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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

Nothing to show for it?

What are you talking about? We were the AL East champions for the first time since 1997. We also swept the Detroit Tigers - a team that won the Royals' division by the way and had 3 Cy Young pitchers - in the division series. And we did much of this without Wieters, Machado and Davis.

Only one team wins in baseball. There is A TON of randomness in the playoffs.

We had a great season. If I told you at the beginning of the year that Ubaldo wasnt going to be good, Wieters was going to miss the season, Machado would miss two plus months and Davis the last 17 games, but we'd sweep the Tigers, you'd take it in a heartbeat.

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We've been.good for 3 years in a row and made the postseason in 2 of those years and have nothing to show for it. This year we made it to the ALCS. I think.most were just happy to get this far. Next year, we might be among the favorites to win it all. I don't see why not.

If we come up short again, will there be more anger coming from Oriole fans? Will fans start calling for changes?

I will tell you why the O's will not be favored to win it all. The O's will not win the off season. Deep pocket teams and crazy GMs will pay big for the top FAs. The O's will not, so the national media and many others will not favor the O's.

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