“Dear Baseball,
Let’s not make this harder than it needs to be.
We had some good times, but we knew it would never last.
That’s right, I said we. Pretend all you want, but in your heart of hearts you knew as well as I did that this was just a fling.
You knew my heart was spoken for already. What were you going to sway me with? The Orioles did their Oriole thing and were practically mathematically eliminated from the playoffs by the end of April. After that, let’s face the facts, we were just spinning our wheels.