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5 hours ago, Greg Pappas said:

I keep an eye on KC every game they play and it's unbelievable how often they blow a late lead, as they did again yesterday.

Ironic for a team that had the best bullpen in the game just a few years ago.

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I'd be pleasantly surprised if we can 'hold off' the Royals to get the #1 pick.  I just think we're better than they are. Getting #2 doesn't suck, but I'm still hoping we pull it out.  I'm not going to do it, but it'd be interesting to see a poll of how many of our posters actual want to be the worst team in baseball and get the #1 pick.  The percentage of folks in favor of getting #2 might just be higher than expected. 

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Orioles have a much tougher schedule than the Royals do from here on out.  It would be nice to be swept by the Royals before heading into the rest of a tough September where we play teams with a winning record 19 out of 25 games compared to the Royals who play only 7 of their next 26 against teams with winning records; all 7 of those games are against Cleveland.  

The Race to the Bottom!

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2 hours ago, Greg Pappas said:

I'd be pleasantly surprised if we can 'hold off' the Royals to get the #1 pick.  I just think we're better than they are. Getting #2 doesn't suck, but I'm still hoping we pull it out.  I'm not going to do it, but it'd be interesting to see a poll of how many of our posters actual want to be the worst team in baseball and get the #1 pick.  The percentage of folks in favor of getting #2 might just be higher than expected. 

I hope we don’t break any historic AL records but at this point why care if we are the worst? 

If you are going to be this bad then make it worthwhile. 

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2 hours ago, ScGO's said:

Orioles have a much tougher schedule than the Royals do from here on out.  It would be nice to be swept by the Royals before heading into the rest of a tough September where we play teams with a winning record 19 out of 25 games compared to the Royals who play only 7 of their next 26 against teams with winning records; all 7 of those games are against Cleveland.  

The Race to the Bottom!

I thought that season ending Astros series would be meaningless but Oakland may disagree. 

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