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NewMarketSean

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I feel pretty much the same way as NMS. I'm still paying attention, but whereas earlier in the year I was turning on my TV the minute I finished dinner and then watching until the last out, now I'm tuning in and out. The team simply isn't fun to watch most of the time.

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If you're not a fan, then why do you keep posting here?

There's a difference between being a fan of the Orioles and being a fan of losing baseball. At least right now there is. Although with a few more losing seasons, who knows, they may become synonyms.

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I can get aboard something when it's not sinking.

Last August and September were fun and gave me hope that things could turn around.

Wrong.

Between injuries and guys not performing well, we're back to doom and gloom land. It's the Orioles endless cycle. They are terrible for a long time, something happens and then there is small but established improvement, fans get excited and say "we're finally turning a corner" and then BAM! the Orioles find a way to rip your hearts out of your chest again.

Remember Brian Matusz? The guy who was supposed to be our ace for years to come? Jamie Moyer has a better fastball than Matusz now. Remember Tillman, centerpiece of the Bedard trade? His meatball, err fastball, is BP. Wieters is barely above a .700 OPS. He was supposed to never have an OPS below infinity.

I don't be grudge anyone from watching the games but you can't tell me you enjoy Orioles baseball right now.

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I can get aboard something when it's not sinking.

Last August and September were fun and gave me hope that things could turn around.

Wrong.

Between injuries and guys not performing well, we're back to doom and gloom land.

I don't be grudge anyone from watching the games but you can't tell me you enjoy Orioles baseball right now.

I enjoy small pieces of it right now. I really enjoyed when Reynolds hit his first bomb last night. Of course, after that it was typical Orioles hell.

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We can only watch the same ol stuff for so many years. Remarkably, this team continues to do far too little to model itself after a winning franchise. The whole "al east" retort is rediculous, as a team in a smaller market and a comparable market have both had winning seasons and continue to do things correctly. The Orioles continue to tread water in raw sewage

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the funny thing is Sean, I am sure that you will be back here tomorrow to comment on the Orioles loss/win. So threads like this are kinda dumb. You do it pretty much every year and you always come back.

You realize that being a negative fan doesn't preclude a person from posting on a message board right? The two aren't really related...at all.

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You realize that being a negative fan doesn't preclude a person from posting on a message board right? The two aren't really related...at all.

Ay yi yi, Yeah. I think what Sean is saying is how most people feel. I mean, I'll put it this way. If my friend called me up and said "dude I have two free tickets to the game Friday," I am probably going to go, but if I have to work and need to say I can't go, find someone else, its not the end of the world.

And of course I'm going to browse this site on my lunch break, and post when I want to. But I'm not going to fall over myself to see the team crap the bed in <insert city>.

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