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I really don't understand these kinds of comments. What does "fire" look like in terms of a baseball team? Players yelling and screaming and jumping up and down? Players wearing their emotions on their sleeve? There aren't a lot of opportunities to do that when you're losing.

Too often, what people think is a lack of fire is actually just a lack of winning.

It really has nothing to do with winning or losing. The fire is an inner energy. Its hard to explain. Its more of an inner feeling on my part, a sixth sense kind of thing that I've felt about this team since spring training. And it actually began in the off-season when the Orioles front office dilly-dallied instead of knuckling down and signing Nelson Cruz. And since they seemed disinterested in resigning Markakis, I thought they should have made a move to bring in top-end corner OF via trade, not someone like Travis Snyder. There is a "spark" missing from this team.....I see it, I feel it.....a spark to light the fire.

I can't believe you've never had a weird, unexplained sense about something or someone.

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It really has nothing to do with winning or losing. The fire is an inner energy. Its hard to explain. Its more of an inner feeling on my part, a sixth sense kind of thing that I've felt about this team since spring training. And it actually began in the off-season when the Orioles front office dilly-dallied instead of knuckling down and signing Nelson Cruz. And since they seemed disinterested in resigning Markakis, I thought they should have made a move to bring in top-end corner OF via trade, not someone like Travis Snyder. There is a "spark" missing from this team.....I see it, I feel it.....a spark to light the fire.

But how could you possibly know how much "inner energy" a bunch of other people have? You're not inside their bodies.

If the Orioles were noticeably not hustling or were giving a lackadaisical effort, it would make sense to say they lacked energy. But I haven't seen anything like that. The players look like they're playing as hard as they did last year. They're just not getting the same results.

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It really has nothing to do with winning or losing. The fire is an inner energy. Its hard to explain. Its more of an inner feeling on my part, a sixth sense kind of thing that I've felt about this team since spring training. And it actually began in the off-season when the Orioles front office dilly-dallied instead of knuckling down and signing Nelson Cruz. And since they seemed disinterested in resigning Markakis, I thought they should have made a move to bring in top-end corner OF via trade, not someone like Travis Snyder. There is a "spark" missing from this team.....I see it, I feel it.....a spark to light the fire.

I can't believe you've never had a weird, unexplained sense about something or someone.

I had this gurgling in my stomach that I attributed to the 1987 Astros. But it turned out to be some black beans in the tacos I ate the night before. Fixed by some Tums.

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We have this whole outrage in OH, because DD didn't resign Cruz and Markakis, nor did he win the Miller sweepstakes.

I guess it doesn't matter that all three teams involved over spent for their player?

Why can't we ever be the team that's trying to figure out how to offload three years of an insane contract? What do all the other team's armchair GMs get to have all the fun? Anyway, overspending is just a negative-focused way of saying we want to win and we'll do ridiculous and illogical things to prove we love our fans.

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We have this whole outrage in OH, because DD didn't resign Cruz and Markakis, nor did he win the Miller sweepstakes.

I guess it doesn't matter that all three teams involved over spent for their player?

The "outrage" is limited to a small vocal minority. Most of us agreed the players were not worth what it would cost to keep them.

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Why can't we ever be the team that's trying to figure out how to offload three years of an insane contract? What do all the other team's armchair GMs get to have all the fun? Anyway, overspending is just a negative-focused way of saying we want to win and we'll do ridiculous and illogical things to prove we love our fans.

That would be Boston Fans and their 200 million dollar payroll and losing team. :)

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