As someone who has measured each summer’s happiness by the victories and defeats of the Baltimore Orioles ever since I was half the size of Clint “Scrap Iron” Courtney, can I say a few things here that separate many of us amateurs from a professional such as Mike Elias?
Elias runs the team, while the rest of us merely sit in the stands (or watch the TV set) and suffer. As we hit the quarter-post of a long season this week, these Orioles are a major disappointment.
And like it or not, they are Elias’ babies.
He drafted them, usually right off the very top of the vast list of baseball’s alleged future stars.
Or he traded for or signed them as free agents, lately with the blessings and big bucks of the O’s majority owner, David Rubenstein.
And what have we got but a team floundering beneath .500 once again and opening the weekend by throwing away a winnable game, which is precisely what they did the night before.
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