What moment in O's history have you NOT recovered from?

[atomic]

The Glen Davis trade. I was so pissed at the time. Two young pitchers and a centerfielder for an average first baseman. It turned out to be pretty much what I expected.

[TiredofLosing20]

The Glen Davis trade. I was so pissed at the time. Two young pitchers and a centerfielder for an average first baseman. It turned out to be pretty much what I expected.

This is a good one. I don't remember hating it at the time (tho I was young) but in hindsight it was pretty bad

[eb45]

The 1-14 stretch at the end of July in 2005. Went from 50-42, half a game out of first, to 51-56 with the season pretty much over and Lee Mazzilli fired.

I guess that's not a moment, so if I had to pick one I'd say this. One of my least favorite players (Pierzynski) homers off one of my favorites (Chris Ray) to erase a 6-4 Orioles lead, and then while that's still sinking in, Jermaine Dye goes deep to make it 8-6. I still remember listening to the radio late that night and feeling this incredible sinking feeling when Pierzynski homered, and then utter disbelief when Dye hit one out as well. 30-3 was bad, the Mother's Day Massacre was bad, Jack Cust was bad, but nothing for me was worse than that late summer of 2005.

[NewMarketSean]

The 1-14 stretch at the end of July in 2005. Went from 50-42, half a game out of first, to 51-56 with the season pretty much over and Lee Mazzilli fired.

I guess that's not a moment, so if I had to pick one I'd say this. One of my least favorite players (Pierzynski) homers off one of my favorites (Chris Ray) to erase a 6-4 Orioles lead, and then while that's still sinking in, Jermaine Dye goes deep to make it 8-6. I still remember listening to the radio late that night and feeling this incredible sinking feeling when Pierzynski homered, and then utter disbelief when Dye hit one out as well. 30-3 was bad, the Mother's Day Massacre was bad, Jack Cust was bad, but nothing for me was worse than that late summer of 2005.

I didn't realize it was a 1-14 stretch. It felt like a long slide that second half of the season. Didn't realize it happened so fast.

Yeah, that was pretty brutal. To think that we had that good a chance to not only have a winning record, but be in the hunt for a playoff spot, and then the wheels came off.

If 2005 had been a successful season I wonder if the organization would have taken a turn for the better. Probably not, but it's interesting to think about what could have been.

[btownoriole]

Armando Benitez hanging a slider to Marquis Grissom, Game 2, '97 ALCS. The Maier play sucks but we did finish 2nd that year and the Yanks won the series 4-1. The O's were the best team in baseball in '97, were getting ready to go up 2 games to nothing on a mediocre Indians team. After that pitch, the Indians started believing and the O's never recovered.

I still believe Thome struck out for the 3rd out just before Grissom came up. Horrible call on the missed check swing.

[Barnaby Graves]

Mother's Day Massacre. Everything about that game is a pretty good summation of the Orioles over the last decade+. Right down to have an overpaid reliever not doing his job (Baez; Ray didn't do his either but was making substantially less).

[utvolzac]

For me, it was Todd Williams giving up a game winning hit on an intentional walk. It's one thing to lose, but it's unnecessary to do it on a historically embarrassing way.

I think even the ESPN anchor who was an O's fan even led off the SportsCenter highlight with "yeah we suck".

[Moose Milligan]

Surprised no one has chimed in with 30-3.

[Whammer]

When Sid Thryft traded Surhoff to the Braves for a pitcher with a bad shoulder. The team lost their soul that day. The story is Mussina was good friends with B.J. and made up his mind not to resign with the O's that day.

[Fan4Life]

I've become too numb to have any residual issues.... however it took 3-ish years for me to recover from the wire to wire first place finish only to get bounced in the first round. I still don't like the best of 5 first round.

[DrinkinWithFermi]

Maier. It's still one of the lowest points in modern sports history.

[24fps]

Note Raffy's not-so-fashionable ear wear. One of my favorite Orioles ever until then.

[TonySoprano]

Aug. 2, 1993....

Peter Angelos bought the Orioles at an auction in New York for $173 million.

[CamdenTerp]

Yeah, I can't get the picture out of my head of Tony Tarasco looking up and pointing to the stands in RF at Yankee stadium.

Damn you Rich Garcia...:angryfire:

[33rdst]

Marquis Grissom's HR off of Benitez.