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The This Team IS Done, We are Dumb and Nothing can Fix it MEGA THREAD

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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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Best news in a long time. Thanks.

I said Juanita, my sweet Juanita, what are you up to?

Put my money in your meter baby so it won't run down

But you caught me in the squeeze play on the cheesy side of town

Throw me a dime, throw me a line

'Cause there's a fat man in the bathtub with the blues.

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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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Goodbye and have a nice summer.

In a typical Orioles season I go cold turkey on baseball after May 10th. Sadly this is a typical season. I will watch no more games, make no more posts on message boards, read no recaps, look at no box scores.

I will reclaim my summer and enjoy the extra time to pursue more enriching activities.

See you guys next Spring!!!

You too. Enjoy the summer and see you next season.

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I think last year felt exactly like this year throughout May. Right now we've lost four in a row so everything bad seems magnified.

Don't worry about Cruz and Miller. We're third in runs scored and our bullpen hasn't lost a game we were leading after 7 innings. Worry about the starting pitching. The reason we caught fire last year is that the starting pitching got in sync. It's not in sync now. There's no guarantee that it will get in sync later, either. Whether it does or not will decide our season.

Think of all the bad moments last year at this time. Swept by DET (including Hunter blowing the save on back to back HR by Cabrera and V-Mart). Lost 2 of 3 to Milwaukee, Houston, Minnesota. The bullpen was a mess. There was the series in OAK that Manny got suspended, at which point we were 6.5 games back. For me the lowest point was Britton's BS on the Beltran walkoff against these very same Yankees. Somehow we came back from all that to win 96 games. I don't want to minimize everyone's concerns but it is way to early for anyone to give up.

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I said Juanita, my sweet Juanita, what are you up to?

Put my money in your meter baby so it won't run down

But you caught me in the squeeze play on the cheesy side of town

Throw me a dime, throw me a line

'Cause there's a fat man in the bathtub with the blues.

My man Lowell George!

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Think of all the bad moments last year at this time. Swept by DET (including Hunter blowing the save on back to back HR by Cabrera and V-Mart). Lost 2 of 3 to Milwaukee, Houston, Minnesota. The bullpen was a mess. There was the series in OAK that Manny got suspended, at which point we were 6.5 games back. For me the lowest point was Britton's BS on the Beltran walkoff against these very same Yankees. Somehow we came back from all that to win 96 games. I don't want to minimize everyone's concerns but it is way to early for anyone to give up.
This post should lock this stupid thread. There is nothing one can say to this. It is just true.
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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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Don't worry about Cruz and Miller. We're third in runs scored and our bullpen hasn't lost a game we were leading after 7 innings. Worry about the starting pitching. The reason we caught fire last year is that the starting pitching got in sync. It's not in sync now.

I miss them. They would have made little difference. We need to pitch well. And throw some strikes.

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This post should lock this stupid thread. There is nothing one can say to this. It is just true.

I am hopeful that if all of these types of threads are absorbed by this thread then eventually we will only see one reactionary thread per loss and not the two or three we are seeing now.

Since the attention seeking poster won't be getting the look at me moment they are craving.

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CA-ORIOLE Hangout Grand Counsel

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I said Juanita, my sweet Juanita, what are you up to?

Put my money in your meter baby so it won't run down

But you caught me in the squeeze play on the cheesy side of town

Throw me a dime, throw me a line

'Cause there's a fat man in the bathtub with the blues.

I think we should add and "I told you so".

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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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Are you sure that does not deserve a "Bragging about my Boasts Today. Will Slither Away again when I'm Wrong" corner for them?

To be quickly followed by... " I really live near and root for a division or AL rival and I just come here to poke the bear when the opportunity arises" Battle Royale.

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