This team won't finish above .500 and they should be sellers!

[Floater]

I feel like for the past 3 weeks, I've seen about 500, "Buy," threads and 505, "Sell," threads. I guess it's time to sell until Saturday when it's time to buy after a 2 game winning streak and then sell on Sunday after a frustrating loss.

[Can_of_corn]

Right... because no team has ever come back from 2.5 games back in July to grab a playoff spot.

Care to name one that was this flawed that did it?

[Jagwar]

Care to name one that was this flawed that did it?

No thank you. But would adding a solid pitcher and hitter increase the chance of competing for that spot?

[eb45]

I'm not disagreeing with the first part of this thread necessarily, but the second part is literally the definition of kneejerk reactionary thread starting

[Greg]

I'm not disagreeing with the first part of this thread necessarily, but the second part is literally the definition of kneejerk reactionary thread starting

Do you think Tillman,Gonzalez,Hunter and Britton can hold up for the next 65 games? Plus this at this line up it is god awful.

[Greg]

Do you think Tillman,Gonzalez,Hunter and Britton can hold up for the next 65 games? Plus this at this line up it is god awful.

Plus look at this awful line up.

[olehippi]

I just turned the game off. Truly depressing. It seems the Orioles simply can't deal with even a little bit of success - like a 5 game winning streak and 7 straight quality starts .....and this with no one really hitting well. It would really be nice to see them put it all together and run with it for a while, but I'm now convinced that isn't going to happen this year, even if they do make a trade or two. Really a pretty sad state of affairs. I keep telling myself "it's only a game" but..............

[crawjo]

The Orioles should be buyers to make the team better for 2013, not just for 2012.

[wingman123]

Just wondering, is Gonzalez not allowed to have a bad outing?

[Jagwar]

Do you think Tillman,Gonzalez,Hunter and Britton can hold up for the next 65 games? Plus this at this line up it is god awful.

I will say this about the lineup. There are a lot of hitters who are getting way too many chances to be in the lineup. Davis and Reynolds in particular.

[Hank Scorpio]

The Orioles main problems are their starting pitching, their all or nothing lineup, and their shoddy defense. Oh, and they have zero team speed.

Other than that they're pretty good.

[TheBee]

People have been predicting impending doom and despair for this team since before the season started. I was one who did it before the season began, now I'm just enjoying the season. I have no problem with the thread, it just seems like every loss breeds four of these saying essentially the same thing.

[Can_of_corn]

No thank you. But would adding a solid pitcher and hitter increase the chance of competing for that spot?

Honestly? Lets say the O's pick up Johnson (2 wins) and Headley (1 win) {over remainder of the season}. I don't think that would be enough. Maybe if they had started the season with them.

[Flash- bd]

Just wondering, is Gonzalez not allowed to have a bad outing?

Certainly not. As with any of our other pitchers, a bad outing is an absolutely unacceptable, dastardly, morally reprehensible, downright heteroclitic thing. It is and should be met with outrage and apoplexy as a bad outing represents a flagrant attempt to sabotage our otherwise rock-solid bid for a playoff spot.

[JourneyFan]

Just wondering, is Gonzalez not allowed to have a bad outing?

I think it's more about the fact that this team looks to be sinking pretty rapidly, and at this point bad outings, regardless of what makes them such, all start to bleed together; that's all you start to notice.