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Leading Off

This baseball thing, it’s… whoo boy, it’s something, isn’t it? The Orioles lost a lot of games, in new and inventive ways. That’s not true, they lost them just like they did in May and June. But it feels better to say it the first way, doesn’t it?

 

The Medical Wing

 

This Week on the Twitters

Good lord. Orioles twitter account is out for blood tonight. I love it. https://t.co/4cnyoqpd80

— Eroc RDT (@BarstoolRDT) July 2, 2017

Here's my plan for the Orioles' future: take that $400 million you're thinking of giving Manny, instead buy Tampa's entire scouting/dev Dept

— Eutaw St. Report (@EutawStReport) June 30, 2017

Getting drummed like Ringo……

— Joe Angel (@WaveItByeBye) July 2, 2017

Can someone younger than me make a gif of Ubaldo's head onto John Cusack holding the boom box in Say Anything. #InYourEyes

— Chris Maurer (@MaurerFTW) June 30, 2017

Tae-Hyon Chong, Suk-Min Yoon, Seong-Min Kim and Hyun-Soo Kim. The TV graphic reads "The Wrong Match: Baltimore and Korean players." pic.twitter.com/xdrXPcaepd

— Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) July 2, 2017

Fans coming out the woodwork to complain about things known about O's org for years. Makes it more random/special that O's went on any run.

— Matt Kremnitzer (@mattkremnitzer) July 5, 2017

 

 

How to Root for a Bad Team

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In Episode 164 of this podcast, we explored how Orioles fans, who had suffered 14 years of futility, had no idea how to root for a good team. They didn’t have the context to take the ups with the downs. Here in 2017, we have the opposite problem.

The Orioles are a bad team.

So how do we root for them? What do we take away from the experience of watching Orioles Baseball, and how do we go back to the way things were before? Before Adam Jones hit the home run to answer the Yankees in the 8th inning of the Cal Statue Game. Before we Cued the Pretender. Before the Curse of the Andino. Before Crush Davis. Before all of that, there was just… bad baseball.

Are you ready? Buckle up.

 

Buy or Sell? (Don’t Buy)

OK, so if they’re bad, at which point do you throw in the towel? Jake and Scott often spend time on this show pulling each other off the ledge. In this particular episode, they seem to be handing each other shots and whispering “jump.”

How quickly do you rip off the band aid? Full tank mode, or staged “retooling?” Who is your “franchise player,” and do you even need one?

There’s also a lot of Jake laughing hysterically, off mic. It’s that kind of show.

 

Fantasy Boss

Scott extends his lead to 2-0,