All the way back in spring training, before the Orioles had lost a single game, everyone kind of expected this. Nobody knew exactly how they would get here, but any fan holding reasonable expectations knew Baltimore was in for another year in the basement of the AL East.
Fast forward to August 14th, and well, Baltimore is right where we expected them to be. To quote the late football coach Dennis Green, “They are who we thought they were.” After dropping 15 straight to the Yankees, the Orioles sit at 39-81 this year. They are who we thought they were, but that’s not to say there hasn’t been a surprise or two along the way.