People have been gradually reaching the breaking point where they finally give up on the 2025 Orioles for most of the last month and a half. Did you hit yours yet? Mark figures everyone must have and goes into some comparing of this year to 2018. Also, he goes on a lengthy rant about how you hardly ever see the Oriole Bird any more, and that's a shame.

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Fresh off of watching a performance of the Les Miserables musical, Mark is thinking about all the ways that the 2025 Orioles are even more depressing and full of tragedy than the Victor Hugo book, without even the benefit of a redemptive arc of salvation. Don't worry, this bit only lasts for about 25% of the episode.

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If anyone had started to feel better about the Orioles lately, they shredded that pretty well with Wednesday's awful loss to the Rays. Mark is still steaming about it, and concerned about how it reflects on something bad in the big picture: There's nobody good to pitch this year maybe next year either.

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The Orioles are fresh off a three-game sweep of the Angels where they won each game in a different way, giving them a 14-6 record over the last 20 games. Not bad at all! It's enough that Mark is feeling better about their trajectory, though he wants everyone to keep in mind the one guy who REALLY has to be convinced is Mike Elias.

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The Orioles looked better for a couple of weeks but now they've dropped two straight series and the schedule doesn't get any easier. There are still some positive signs, so if you want to hope that they can stabilize with a respectable pace from here on, go for it. In the mailbag of this episode, Mark goes into his thoughts on the catching situation and specifically whether Adley is back.

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If the Orioles had managed to play a good series against the Athletics, Mark might have been able to feel good about them for a while longer. They didn't. In this episode, looking again at the wild card math with a mailbag question about where exactly the "sell" tipping point should be, and turning to some talk about how the schedule gets tougher over the next two weeks.

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Mark has now recorded two regularly-scheduled podcast episodes since the last time the Orioles lost a game. Yes, it really happened: They've won six in a row. In this episode, looking at how it's worked out even with the O's not firing on all cylinders, then looking ahead to the Athletics to see if the O's can manage to keep the fun going.

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The Orioles just swept the White Sox and they've won six of eight games, but they've hurt Mark too much this year for him to believe that means they can keep it up. In this episode, some laying out of what's gone wrong with the pitching staff before looking ahead to players coming back from injuries and how that might even (gasp) help the lineup.

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The Orioles finally pulled off a three-game winning streak and then went right back to losing, going back on some familiar 2025 themes. In this episode, Mark highlights a number of specific areas where the offense is failing, before moving on to some prospects who were unheralded before the season but may be making more of a name for themselves.

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After watching Friday's game where Seranthony Domínguez, Gregory Soto, and Cionel Pérez combined to turn a game the Orioles led into a laugher blowout loss, Mark has a simple plea for Mike Elias: Find somebody who can stop you from doing stuff that any doofus could look at and recognize is dumb.

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