Two great personalities and players from the 2014 Orioles moved on in the flurry of activity ahead of the trade deadline. A Birdland salute for Bud Norris and Tommy Hunter, whose careers are headed elsewhere, but who will never be forgotten here.
If there was ever a baseball team in my lifetime that deserved to go on forever, it was the 2014 Orioles. Their 96-win dominance of the American League East was a unique achievement in my adult lifetime and it was made all the more sweet by the fact that the cadre of pundits, experts, talking heads, and other opinion-generating barnacles who cling to the hull of baseball did not see it coming before the season started.