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 Leading Off

The Orioles have 13 games left in the 2016 regular season. They currently hold the first AL Wild Card position. Hold on to your butts. After a split with the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays, the O’s host the Boston Red Sox, in a series that can either end with the Orioles in contention for a division crown – or hopelessly out of it. We’re trying to remind ourselves that this is supposed to be fun.

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The Drink of the Week has gone from drowning our sorrows to celebrating wins. Let us know what you’re up to via Twitter (@birdseyeviewbal), or on Untapped (jakee4025 and magn8606).

 

This Medical Wing

Here are the ouchies:

* Steve Pearce (elbow)

* Joey Rickard (thumb)

Not injuries, still medical:

* Wade Miley (upcoming paternity leave)

* Dariel Alvarez (unavailable due to pregnancy complications – our best the Alvarez family!)

 

This Week on the Twitters

@BirdsEyeViewBal I don't want to accuse the Orioles of playing favorites but they did win in my birthday.

— Chris Maurer (@MaurerFTW) September 18, 2016

Trumbo is back! Pun intended.

— Stephen Adams (@StephenPAdams) September 18, 2016

Buck on Hardy: "What was that movie with Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger about completing somebody? He kind of completes our infield."

— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) September 17, 2016

This game is well attended. So at least you guys can shut up about that for a night.

— Alex Conway (@AlexConwayCC) September 16, 2016

Hey @BirdsEyeViewBal, that game was fire emoji, fire emoji, fire emoji.

— Matt Taylor (@roarfrom34) September 15, 2016

 

Offensive Fallacies

You hear complaints about this offense all the time.

They depend too much on the home run.

They can’t deliver with runners in scoring position.

This performance just shows that this team isn’t ready for October.

Well, Scott is here to tell you those complaints are… crap. This team may not be the best in baseball. It may not be the ’27 Yankees. But the 2016 Orioles have played pretty well, and if you look at all the things that are painful to watch in the moment, they really don’t have much to do with the final position of a team, if it makes the playoffs.

Join us for the myths of the Three True Outcomes in the Playoffs and the correlation between last minute performance and playoff results.

 

Hate Train

Part of rooting for a baseball team is rooting against your rival baseball teams. And part of  rooting against your rival teams is letting some of their players reeeeeally get under your skin. Some of them do it well, others not so much.