Thursday Bird Droppings: It’s a sweep in Birdland

Spenser Watkins and his friendsHappy Thursday, Camden Chatters! It’s a lovely morning indeed, because the Orioles just got their first three-game sweep of the year! They kept saying on TV their first “three-game” sweep of the year, perhaps because they won the lone game they played against the Cubs with the other game in the series getting rained out. Everyone knows that one game does not a series make, but I will also say three-game sweep to maintain my technical correctness.

Every year in our pre-season contest, we ask who will be the first team that the Orioles sweep, and now we have our answer. The Texas Rangers, a team in another division and who the Orioles didn’t play until July, were…