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Leading Off

April is gone, and Justin Timberlake has made his annual appearance on our social media feeds. This is the time when we try to convince ourselves there has been enough baseball to draw reasonable conclusions. But, Birdland, it is not. And if there were reasonable conclusions to be reached, we certainly wouldn’t get there.

 

The Medical Wing

* Zach Britton – left forearm strain

* Chris Tillman – shoulder

* Welington Castillo – neck spasms

* Anthony Santander – uh… stuff?

 

 

This Week on the Twitters

@BirdsEyeViewBal @mattkremnitzer Palmer moaning in amazement of homeruns is my favorite sound on the planet

— This is Birdland (@Os_Birdland) April 25, 2017

@BirdsEyeViewBal pic.twitter.com/jaxhIpSVqa

— Andrew Stetka (@AStetka) April 26, 2017

Seth Smith Little League Home Run! According to @sabr Database, 1st LLHR for Orioles since Boog Powell on 8/11/1966 https://t.co/zA7Wl2AT1l

— James Smyth (@JamesSmyth621) April 27, 2017

Shrimp!! @BirdsEyeViewBal https://t.co/AXpsRCT4DD

— Tom Jones (@steelbaru) April 27, 2017

Let's be honest, the Orioles have been on the right end of a lot of bullshit wins so far this year, so they were overdue for… this.

— Camden Chat (@CamdenChat) April 29, 2017

 

 

The Angriest Balls

This week, we’re visited by Ryan Blake (@ryguyblake) to discuss the start of the Orioles season – hot starts, slow starts. Fun games, sad games. Things we love, and things that make us throw things at the television.

Ryan tells us why we shouldn’t worry about Manny Machado, and why you should worry about these new-look Yankees.

Check out Ryan’s podcast over at baseballfam.com and keep up with his OriolesFansProbz on Twitter.

 

 

Do You Even Baseball?

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April has come and gone, and its ending was certainly… intense. What do you make of it? Are you an optimist who says that the Orioles’ winning record means that good things are in store for this team in 2017? Or are you a pessimist who says that the wins are all smoke an mirrors, and that this team is in trouble?

Can we *clutches pearls* admit it’s probably somewhere in the middle?

The Orioles played as bad a series as you’re going to see a team play, this past weekend in New York. When we asked Orioles Twitter which regular season losses were worse than Friday’s “one that got away,” the response was limited to: