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Leave it an error unless he gives up a hit then you can change it to a hit too if you still care.

@sports.thebaltimorebanner.com If I were to work up an article trying to look at how to distribute blame for the Orioles season between underperformance, injuries, and poor off-season planning, would you have any interest in it?

Needed knee surgery after sleeping awkwardly.

Seeing all the stupid Juan Soto discourse and imagining what would be happening if the Orioles had given him $765M and he was hitting .246/.379/.443 and they were 17-28 (+2 wins from where they are). I'd maybe go live in the woods.

I prefer Humphrey Bogart when he's just playing a tough jerk and not a tough jerk that's also the romantic lead.

Boy, this is depressing to see from fans of other teams. But we do have a long recent history of being lumped in with the Pirates.

I still don't believe in curses, but every Orioles game is bringing me slightly closer.

This has been a criticism of Elias for at least a couple years now, and he hasn't done anything to dispel it. "We're going to stick with our process" instead of doing some self-reflection isn't what actual smart people do when everything goes wrong.

Out of curiosity, checked the low point for the A's in 2002 (the year they won 20 in a row), and it was six games under .500, during the series they lost 2 of 3 to the Orioles in Oakland (winning O's pitchers: Travis Driskill and Sidney Ponson).

If the reason to sign Kyle Gibson was for veteran leadership, maybe get him out of the rotation and make him the manager?

Also pretty wild that the Orioles have somehow not even been the worst team at hitting with runners in scoring position this year (though they do strike out the most often).

Anyway, please everything be magically fixed now, that would be great.

They don't walk much (24th), strike out a ton (28th), and have shown mid power (12th ISO). They're bad at base-running. The defense isn't good. If you give them the literal best pitching staff in the Majors they're probably around .500.

The Orioles have a below average offense and a below average defense and were I think hoping for an average pitching staff, so even though that last one has been a disaster it kind of wouldn't have mattered. Maybe the pressure from bad pitching really is completely killing the hitters, I don't know.

This Orioles team plus Corbin Burnes is still well below .500. Part injuries, part bad luck, part something else going on.

Seeing a lot of people say this season is on Elias not Hyde about the latter's firing, but Hyde being gone and the team continuing to be bad is what can get you to Elias' firing. (If Hyde lasted the season, it's more likely just him and not Elias go in the off-season.)

I guess I'd recommend fans not let individual at bats or games make them mad, because the season looks pretty lost and they don't really matter anymore.

A lot has gone wrong for the Orioles, but one of the things people were mad about regarding the off-season was (essentially) that the team put themselves in a bad position to win the division if they didn't have a lot go right.

Honestly, not sure what Hyde can even say publicly at this point. It's completely irrelevant if he uses the right words if the team keeps losing.

It's cool, if the Orioles keep getting 14 hits a game their expected runs scored is over 4.

Now that it doesn't require actually throwing the pitches, how many consecutive batters can a team intentionally walk before the umpires stop letting them?

Had a dream that I was trying to put together my best Pokemon team and saw I had a Cedric Mullins and decided to give up the type matchups for the centerfield defense.

Mother Nature has also had just about enough of them.

There are probably explanations of their process that the Orioles could give to make people OK with letting it continue to play out, but I don't think they're the kind of details they'd give out to the public.

Had a dream that I was trying to put together my best Pokemon team and saw I had a Cedric Mullins and decided to give up the type matchups for the centerfield defense.

It's wild how there are thousands of baseball games every year and you still sometimes see things for the first time.

I like Anthony Bowens, but the announcers trying to sell "there's nothing he can't do!" when he's in matches with guys who have more exciting offense is tough.