Nolan Reimold was a small but awesome part of the 2012 Orioles and he gave us several fond memories before that. He was called. He served. He is counted.
The 2012 Orioles are only three years in the past. It already feels like so much longer. The wild euphoria of unexpected success has subsided, and now that we have tasted good baseball in Birdland again, we will settle for nothing less, which is why the current string of bad baseball is such a disappointment. People were constantly getting designated for assignment that year, too, but the team was winning and we never liked most of the guys cast aside, so it was different.