History repeating itself isn't exactly what the Orioles should be looking for as they search for a new direction with their hires of a front office that is likely to include an experienced president of baseball operations to oversee a new staff that includes a younger, up-and-coming general manager type.
Yet as the rival Boston Red Sox celebrate a fourth World Series since 2004 after a summary dismissal of the Los Angeles Dodgers, it's not the fact that former Oriole Steve Pearce won the World Series MVP or the odd revisionism on their feelings about Manny Machado that Orioles fans should be focusing on.