Good Morning, Birdland!
A week ago, the Orioles clinched the AL’s top Wild Card seed. Today, they are sitting on the couch with the rest of us as the Division Series gets underway. Baseball is cruel like that.
The next few weeks are going to be agonizing. Baseball games will be played that—at times this year—it felt like the Orioles were destined to be a part of. It was rather easy to make an argument back in mid-June that the Orioles were the best team on the junior circuit and maybe in all of baseball. No one was guaranteeing a World Series title or anything, but the O’s had as good of a shot as anyone else to make a deep run.