When Bad Teams Happen to Good People

The Orioles are playing like there is an unfavorable steroid report implicating the whole team on a reporter's desk about to be published. They are on a pace to hit the fewest home runs in the team's history and they play in what Mike Lupica once called a Little League park. They lost games this week to the Nats, the Jays, and now the A's. Tonight's game ended with two men on and a strike out. In the offseason, the only players who agree to come to Baltimore are relief pitchers, mostly from the national league who are coming off good years when batters from other teams forgot to swing the bat against them. When they arrive in Baltimore, they are shellacked from that point on. I used to tell my wife that I wanted to watch the Orioles until they start playing well so I can witness how things got turned around. However, things continue to move in the wrong direction and it's only May.