There are now 153 days remaining until the next scheduled Orioles game. You know the drill by now.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the World Series starts tomorrow. It will be over by, at the latest, Halloween. Between the Rays and the Brewers, there will be a first-time winner crowned. I think that\u2019s fun. If all else is equal, I like to root for long droughts being broken. I think it\u2019s good to put that kind of energy out there. Some day, maybe, it will be the Orioles turn to try to break a long drought, and it would be nice to be a sympathetic favorite at that time.<\/p>\n
I know not every Orioles fan agrees, with some people preferring that teams ahead of the Orioles on the list not get scratched off to push the O\u2019s closer to the top of the list of failure. It is not fun to be on those lists. Only five teams have gone longer than the Orioles without winning a title. If the Brewers win this World Series, that will be four.<\/p>\n
The Padres and Mariners have also never won it, the Guardians last title was in 1948, and the Pirates haven\u2019t won since (sigh) 1979. I wasn\u2019t alive for that one, but I\u2019ve heard enough about it, and I don\u2019t think my \u201croot for the longest drought to end\u201d philosophy would ever apply to Pittsburgh. Wasn\u2019t a whole lot of danger of having to think about that this year. Any of the other teams ahead of the O\u2019s would probably be about as sympathetic as the Brewers, especially if they were facing another AL East team in the postseason.<\/p>\n
The Orioles have not won the World Series as long as I have been alive, and I\u2019m turning 43 next month. It\u2019s a long time. Unless fortunes rapidly turn around, the O\u2019s title drought is going to hit \u201cget a colonoscopy\u201d age pretty soon. It is not great that after two years in the postseason and zero postseason wins, that things stink again with no certainty of whether the people in charge can figure out how to stop that from happening. But there is quite a while yet before we will start to have any idea of whether their offseason turnaround plan is going to get results.<\/p>\n
Orioles stuff you might have missed<\/p>\n
All the ways new Orioles GM Jared Banner can make an early impact<\/a> (The Baltimore Banner)
How GM Jared Banner\u2019s \u2018relentless\u2019 approach can shake up the Orioles<\/a> (The Baltimore Sun)
The local papers are digging in on the new guy. At The Banner – yeah, it\u2019s funny – Jon Meoli suggests that one thing Banner could help the Orioles do is be the first in speculative technology rather than just playing catch-up copying everyone else. Yeah, that would be a nice way to get an edge.<\/p>\n