Are you still here? Congratulations! You’ve made it halfway through 2019 Orioles season without losing your sanity.
It hasn’t been easy. The Orioles are heading into the All-Star break a lowly 25-61. However much we repeat “This is a rebuilding year” as though it were a meditation mantra, watching this team lose day in and day out wears you down. (Sometimes it gets so bad I make a mental catalogue of types of losses—the blowout, the pitchers’ duel/late innings squeaker, the seesaw slugfest we’re on the wrong side of, and the early lead/bullpen collapse—and ponder which is most painful.