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Any Bullets Left?.....Or Going Down In Flames?

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The Orioles went into the All-Star break winning 10 of 13 games and climbed back to .500. Since then, they have gone 18-18, still at .500, but falling in the standings, now 7 games out and 2 1/2 back in the wild card.

Have the Orioles run out of bullets and begun their death spiral to fall out of contention?

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It was obvious earlier in the year that this years team wasn't very good. With all the guys that have been released/demoted and Parra as the only real addition how can we expect to be much better. My observation is that this team is very DH heavy and the wrong decision was made to hang in rather than sell. The future would've benefitted from a sell off better than a half hearted attempt to improve.

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I of course desperately hope I'm wrong, but I can't see a scenario in which we make things interesting in the last month and change. The Twins series was crucial, and being swept in four games at home, many in devastating fashion, crushed our spirit. This road trip will be the one that finally breaks our back. Losing last night's game in the fashion we did (Ubaldo cruising, then the wheels completely coming off), after losing the series to the Twins like we did, is going to be very, very difficult to come back from. Most importantly, we play virtually nothing but winning teams the rest of the way, against which we have struggled mightily. It's just not going to happen.

To be honest, at this point I'm curious if there are guys that we may have snuck through waivers at some point over this month that we may look to deal. That certainly could be a stretch, but we could be four under after this trip.

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It was obvious earlier in the year that this years team wasn't very good. With all the guys that have been released/demoted and Parra as the only real addition how can we expect to be much better. My observation is that this team is very DH heavy and the wrong decision was made to hang in rather than sell. The future would've benefitted from a sell off better than a half hearted attempt to improve.

Man, EXACTLY how I felt. By treading water (and actually making things worse by trading Davies for a guy we won't more than likely keep) and NOT trading our assets, we hurt the team long-term. I was upset over the lack of offseason moves, but the decision at the deadline was worse for the franchise long-term.

It is what it is....makes me upset, but you do your best to keep your head up. I just feel at times, we don't have a clear direction on things because of PA. Was it all DD's decision? Who knows...

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You can say it was obvious the team wasn't any good but we were actually in 1st place in June and leading the wild card race about a week ago. Easy to say now how obvious it was.

People around here waffling on opinions and using hindsight? No way.

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I'll bet we still have another run in us. I'm hoping one of the guys (Mancini? Walker? Alvarez?) can give us a spark in September.

Starting pitching becomes a little less important once rosters expand (since Buck is more inclined to the bullpen earlier with the extra arms), but it still is what will make or break us IMO.

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I thought the team would be about as good as last year's (fewer runs scored with the loss of Cruz, but better pitching with improvement from Ubaldo and a bigger contribution from Gausman), and that the competition in the AL East would be weaker, other than possibly Toronto.

And it did look like things were headed that way. Briefly.

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