How are the Orioles doing, you ask? Well, they’re 29-73 on the season, are on pace to have a historically bad number of losses, and either have traded or are about to trade every last one of their most entertaining players before the deadline. They’re also 41.5 games back of the AL East lead. Forty one and a half games.
An MLB scout would rather get ‘struck by lightning’ than watch the Orioles play
Baltimore’s season is going GREAAAAAAAAAAT.
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On top of that, even their worst pitcher this year didn’t want to stay in the organization and try to turn things around in Triple A. When you’re pitching like Chris Tillman was and still want no part of hanging around an organization hoping things get better, something horrible has happened.
Nothing describes the woeful Orioles quite like this quote from an MLB scout anonymously commenting on what it feels like watching this team play.
There’s bad baseball and then there’s “professional scout would rather suffer serious injury or die than watch another single second of a team” bad. Especially because it’s not like scouts haven’t had to watch other bad teams as part of their year round baseball-analyzing responsibilities.
So that someone who has almost certainly been forced to watch trash teams many times before thinks this means the Orioles have reached “insult to the very sport itself” levels. That’s next level. It would almost be impressive how bad they are if that awfulness wasn’t also causing the people watching them play to ask to be struck down so they don’t have to do it anymore.
I’ll just leave you with this.
Stop this team before they hurt someone.
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