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i know baseball season for 2014 is done. I have never been more disappointed in my team,the Orioles,then i was this year.For them to loose four straight games in the play offs is unbelievable. There is no other team that played in the M.L.B that could have done worse.I have been a baseball fan for many years and I know you have to take the good with the bad. I really thought we were going to the world series.To me, the way we lost just didn't make up for the good we did to get there.I know that good pitching shuts down good hitting, but how could all our bats go cold at once?I sure took a lot of razing from my friends who weren't Oriole fans, but that I can take it as well as I can give it, like all true fans of any sport should be able to do. Maybe when Manny comes back and hopefully,we keep Markakis in 2015,we'll do better. curveball

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Get over it curveball. The 2014 season was the best in recent memory... better than 2012. The team went further than anyone thought. They even had the Manager of the Year that they should of had in 2012. The Royals were hot at the time. Nothing could have stopped them at the time.

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i know baseball season for 2014 is done. I have never been more disappointed in my team,the Orioles,then i was this year.For them to loose four straight games in the play offs is unbelievable. There is no other team that played in the M.L.B that could have done worse.I have been a baseball fan for many years and I know you have to take the good with the bad. I really thought we were going to the world series.To me, the way we lost just didn't make up for the good we did to get there.I know that good pitching shuts down good hitting, but how could all our bats go cold at once?I sure took a lot of razing from my friends who weren't Oriole fans, but that I can take it as well as I can give it, like all true fans of any sport should be able to do. Maybe when Manny comes back and hopefully,we keep Markakis in 2015,we'll do better. curveball

So the 17 losing seasons were less dissapointing....geez. I was never more proud of my team. It sucked to lose that way but it was a hellava season.

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i know baseball season for 2014 is done. I have never been more disappointed in my team,the Orioles,then i was this year.For them to loose four straight games in the play offs is unbelievable. There is no other team that played in the M.L.B that could have done worse.I have been a baseball fan for many years and I know you have to take the good with the bad. I really thought we were going to the world series.To me, the way we lost just didn't make up for the good we did to get there.I know that good pitching shuts down good hitting, but how could all our bats go cold at once?I sure took a lot of razing from my friends who weren't Oriole fans, but that I can take it as well as I can give it, like all true fans of any sport should be able to do. Maybe when Manny comes back and hopefully,we keep Markakis in 2015,we'll do better. curveball

Somebody agrees with you, completely:

i agree 100%

Keep in mind though that the lone thread that he started on the OH was, "Is Buck going to retire after the season?"

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/144342-O-s

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i know baseball season for 2014 is done. I have never been more disappointed in my team,the Orioles,then i was this year.For them to loose four straight games in the play offs is unbelievable. There is no other team that played in the M.L.B that could have done worse.I have been a baseball fan for many years and I know you have to take the good with the bad. I really thought we were going to the world series.To me, the way we lost just didn't make up for the good we did to get there.I know that good pitching shuts down good hitting, but how could all our bats go cold at once?I sure took a lot of razing from my friends who weren't Oriole fans, but that I can take it as well as I can give it, like all true fans of any sport should be able to do. Maybe when Manny comes back and hopefully,we keep Markakis in 2015,we'll do better. curveball

Did you flunk English 101?

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I have lived and died and watched every Orioles season since 1965. 2012 and 2014 rank right up there with the best seasons ever for me as a fan. Disappointed at the time by losing in the playoffs? No doubt, but no more certainly than I was in 1969, 1971, 1973 and 1974 when we won the AL East and lost to the As both years, 1979, 1980 when we won 100 games and finished 2nd in AL East and no wild cards, 1982 losing that very last game to the Brewers, 1996 with Jeffrey Maier and 1997 with us getting 10 hits and no runs and Armando giving up that hr. All of these were just as or more painful when they happened with last year's loss, but all those seasons and 2014 were sooooooooo much better than the 15 years of darkness that there is no comparison. Give me 2014 seasons every year and we will sometimes make it all the way to the top.

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And where is this coming from? I could almost understand if this was an overreaction to ALCS game 4 on Oct. 15. But on Dec. 1? Has this post been sitting in a some weird Orioles Hangout limbo for a month and a half? Just bouncing around in a dark corner of the internets?

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And where is this coming from? I could almost understand if this was an overreaction to ALCS game 4 on Oct. 15. But on Dec. 1? Has this post been sitting in a some weird Orioles Hangout limbo for a month and a half? Just bouncing around in a dark corner of the internets?
It was his first post. He had a take, and was sure it did not suck.
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So the 17 losing seasons were less disappointing ... geez.
All of these were just as or more painful when they happened with last year's loss, but all those seasons and 2014 were sooooooooo much better than the 15 years of darkness that there is no comparison. Give me 2014 seasons every year and we will sometimes make it all the way to the top.

14 consecutive losing seasons.

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