allquixotic

MLB Gameday Audio is the radio feed and it isn’t blacked out anywhere, even in Baltimore.

Completely agree. And it's how we lost, too. If we lost in game 5 by a score of 9-7, I'd be like, "Damn. " But no, the team completely forgot what a baseball and a bat are.

Multiple trips to the nation's leading sports psychologists for the entire team this offseason. More important than Felix's TJ surgery.

They don't even strike me as "lovable losers". They strike me as a team that had all the right stuff they needed to win, but psyched themselves out mentally into playing awfully. They tried too hard, while the damn Rangers were relaxed, chill, easygoing. The Rangers took on the personality we had all throughout the regular season. Fittingly, our season ends ... with a sweep. It's just incredible how people can let their emotions get to them so much that they become completely ineffective at their job. Just appalling.

Yep, and because we don't go to the playoffs often, our lives are flying by as the team we care about and love spends about 8 out of every 10 years completely irrelevant and uncompetitive. Then, when they do go to the playoffs, a team that makes it there much more often than us just makes us look like absolute buffoons on the national stage for caring about a team this consistently bad. Rinse and repeat, all my life. I've never known any different, and I'm an old man (in the sense of being old enough to be the father of some teenagers).

It's not going to be tonight, and it probably won't be this decade, but I really hope that someday we get our just revenge against the Texas Rangers. I hate, hate, HATE this smug, overpowered team with a firey passion. And I hate the state of Texas. Goodnight.

Yep. I still have no idea how they do that. How are they that consistently lucky? Are they cheating?

Eovaldi cruising. Kremer running on fumes. See you guys next year. I predict a 99.9999999999999999% chance the O's lose, and a 70% chance they get shut out.

I know we've already seen the first inning, but I would bet real money that the O's lose today, and I was very sure of that before the game started. This team is DEAD.

What if they were built with a deck of cards that was bound to collapse, though? I hope too, but Fangraphs always seems to be right in the end. The only upset so far is the O’s winning the division. I don’t expect them to be wrong again about the playoffs.

I really hate the Rangers, and have ever since I was growing up and they beat us 26-7 and 30-3. I had such high hopes for our revenge this year, but at this rate we may never get revenge on them. So disappointing to be cowed by a team with an awful bullpen. A few more lucky bounces and we could’ve outscored them yesterday. Our offense wasn’t bad.

Calling the season here. It ended when Webb coughed up that salami. We won’t win a game.

Choke team.

I pay hundreds of dollars to come out and see my favorite team play in the playoffs and they give up a grand slam. Why do I bother.

Booooooooo. Guess there’s always next year, but will they win in my lifetime?

What a pathetic embarrassing head case. Grayson better visit a sports psychologist in the off season. Which likely starts after game 3 at this rate.

Fixed that for you.

This is bad form. Let’s try to be respectful. Even if someone is mean to you, you don’t have to be mean back. The O’s are in the ALDS. Let’s try and enjoy it a bit…

It wouldn’t be the team we all root for, know and love, if they didn’t shit the bed when it matters, y’know? It’s kind of the definition of the Orioles for as long as I’ve been alive. Jeffrey Maier; Buck Showalter and Ubaldo Jimenez vs Encarnacion; Matusz vs Ibanez; or laying flat for the Royals… you name it. I’ve literally never been alive for an Orioles WS appearance and I’m an old man already. I could have a 10 year old kid if I’d had kids when most people do.

To be fair, so would I.

Pretty sure they’re already sweating. Sborz is like Fujinami. He can be good but he can also be horrific.

That’s why we have Hays on the team! Not for his bat apparently, but I’ll take the amazing fielding…