If you’re an Orioles fan, it obviously is hard to get excited about a team that’s being dominated by its division rivals on an almost-daily basis and will likely hit the wrong century mark sometime in early September.
Rebuilding is never pretty. It certainly isn’t how anybody in Baltimore was hoping to spend the second half of the 2018 season.
It is, as the verbally unimaginative like to say, what it is.
The Orioles are holding open auditions for next year and taking the lumps that come with putting a bunch of unproven players on the field against opponents that — in a lot of cases — are headed for the postseason.