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What was amazing was how quickly we went from World Series champs to horrible.  The 88 team also had two hall of fame players in their prime.  I never thought the Orioles would have a team as bad as that  again, but we've had three teams worse since 2017.

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48 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

Really awesome the people of Baltimore came out to support the O's when they came back to town after going 0-21.  Baltimore can't even support a winning team like that now.

Being awful and irrelevant for over a decade- at the same time baseball in generally was losing popularity- was nearly fatal. I'd take 100 1988s over the dark years of the 2000s. Fans can get past a bad year, it's just a blip. But extended losing leads to people just not bothering to pay attention anymore.

2012-2016 was a nice shot in the arm, but then followed by another long swoon. Hopefully something special is on the horizon with the current stacked farm system.

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1 hour ago, Frobby said:

It really sucks when your hopes for the season have been irretrievably crushed by mid-April.  

I remember in 1984 (the season following the O's WS win) when the Tigers shot out to a 35-5 start, finished May at 37-9. The O's were out 9.5 games on April 30 and 10.5 games on May 31. In the pre-wild card era you had the sense that there was no coming back from that.  

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20 minutes ago, Tbone83 said:

Being awful and irrelevant for over a decade- at the same time baseball in generally was losing popularity- was nearly fatal. I'd take 100 1988s over the dark years of the 2000s. Fans can get past a bad year, it's just a blip. But extended losing leads to people just not bothering to pay attention anymore.

2012-2016 was a nice shot in the arm, but then followed by another long swoon. Hopefully something special is on the horizon with the current stacked farm system.

This is 100 spot on. My dad took me to my first game in 1988 and I've been on the birdland express ever since. The train has been derailed, or stuck at the station, for most of the years I've been watching. Plenty of dreadful seasons with a few sprinkles of joy. Hopefully the pendulum is swinging towards an extended period of winning. 

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16 minutes ago, Jagwar said:

I remember in 1984 (the season following the O's WS win) when the Tigers shot out to a 35-5 start, finished May at 37-9. The O's were out 9.5 games on April 30 and 10.5 games on May 31. In the pre-wild card era you had the sense that there was no coming back from that.  

I remember the O’s lost a doubleheader to Detroit (looking back, it was on June 10) and that felt like the death knell.  They’d been trailing Detroit all year and that was their last chance to close some ground.  I think I went to that DH, but I’m not sure.  

But 1988 was something else altogether.  That team was just so awful.  
 

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12 hours ago, kaj21206 said:

What was amazing was how quickly we went from World Series champs to horrible.  The 88 team also had two hall of fame players in their prime.  I never thought the Orioles would have a team as bad as that  again, but we've had three teams worse since 2017.

Happens more often than you think. Look at how the Nats bombed after 2019. Even the O’s, while they didn’t win the WS in 2014, went from 96 wins to 47 wins in 4 years. 

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47 minutes ago, dystopia said:

Happens more often than you think. Look at how the Nats bombed after 2019. Even the O’s, while they didn’t win the WS in 2014, went from 96 wins to 47 wins in 4 years. 

You're right, but the Orioles of my youth were always good.  The descent from 84-88 was shocking to me as I only knew the Orioles as contenders.  I've gotten used poor teams over the last forty years, unfortunately.

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