So the Orioles are 6-17? Big deal. They’ve had starts just as bad — and worse.
The 1999 Orioles, a team littered with All-Stars (Brady Anderson, Mike Mussina, Cal Ripken Jr.) also won six of their first 23 games. But they played better than .500 baseball after that to finish a less dismal 78-84, in fourth place in the American League East.
And Adam Jones surely remembers 2010, his third season in Baltimore, when during the Orioles’ 5-18 start, he muffed a fly ball while blowing a bubble with a mouthful of gum.