P2Daily: Is It Time to Get Serious Yet?

Over the last four years, probably the two worst teams in baseball have been Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Of the two, the Orioles’ record has been worse. If you adjust for league and division, though, they might have been better than the Pirates. Anyway, the two are the gold standard for awful baseball right now, so you’d expect their attitudes toward their fans to be pretty similar.

Or not. One good illustration is the openness of minor league spring training this year. The Orioles seem to want their fans to attend the exhibition games involving their prospects. The location (which is generally obscure information for minor league exhibitions) and schedule are easy to find online. The team…