Pretty much anything that begins, “When you look up the word [blank] in the Oxford English Dictionary … ”—whether it’s a blog post or a speech or a debate club performance or whatever—it is, with near-100% probability, guaranteed to suck. I fell into that trap recently, thinking about Mike Mussina’s ten seasons as an Oriole with the word nostalgia bobbing around in my head. I kept thinking about my nostalgia for Mussina and the great Orioles teams of the ‘90s, and how it’s funny that nostalgia literally comes from pain (from the Greek nostos, “a return home,” and algia, “pain”), because when I think about Moose’s career, I feel nostalgia and, frankly, a little pain.
Top 50 Orioles of All Time: #6, Mike Mussina
