The 2019 Baltimore Orioles are a very bad baseball team. You know this. I know this. We all know this, right?
Yet sometimes, for the briefest of moments, we let that fact slip out of our minds. We dare to hope for good things. We come down with a cautious case of, dare I say it, optimism. We allow ourselves to dream that, perhaps today, the Orioles can accomplish something positive.
And then the Orioles rudely rouse us with a bucket of cold water, blundering and stumbling and reminding us that they are, in the end, a very bad baseball team.