Leading Off

It doesn’t suck to be an Orioles fan this week! Well, Sunday didn’t help. The Orioles gave the game away, and then the other team in town followed suit. So… go teams?

After a week in which the Orioles showed surprising signs of life, Jake is forced to defend some of his “interesting” choices in The Drink of the Week,

 

This Week on the Twitters

The good news is that everyone will be too busy complaining about the Ravens that they will forget about complaining about the Os.

— The Sunglass Guy (@OsSunglassGuy) September 20, 2015

In honor of Ruben Amaro's exit, @baseballpro reprinted my account of his talk with rabbis before signing Delmon Young http://t.co/CIClK32HK3

— Zachary Levine (@zacharylevine) September 15, 2015

Awesome to hear that we will be getting baseball equipment donated by the Bmore Chapter of @sabr!

— Leon Day Foundation (@LeonDayPark) September 19, 2015

Chris Davis homer. Way back to left center. That's No. 43. Leading the majors in homers again

— Dan Connolly (@danconnolly2016) September 20, 2015

The Baysox have won their first Eastern League Championship! #BringHometheBAYcon pic.twitter.com/Db59yd5ip1

— Bowie Baysox (@BowieBaysox) September 20, 2015

 

Too Little, Too Late

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The Orioles have gone 9-12 in their most recent stretch. Wouldn’t it have been nice to see this kind of baseball in August, when they were busy throwing the season away? The guys avoid talking through what might have been, and instead focus on what can be gleaned from a “lost season.”

 

Express Written Consent

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MLB’s Advanced Media arm is at it again. You may remember (and only because we keep bringing it up) that MLBAM has been busy stamping out free promotion of its product for quite some time. For instance, MLBAM removed this podcast (and others like it) from iTunes because it was afraid that you, the listener, would confuse this:

for this:

Now they’re telling you that you can’t use animated GIFs of MLB footage. At some level, we understand this issue: MLBAM cannot control the message or the context in which their properties and players are used by the masses. On the other hand, this is a situation in which baseball fans – particularly those elusive young,