In last week’s episode of the podcast, I remarked on the new Orioles slogan for 2026, fly different, and how important it is that the O’s actually do things differently compared to last season. Since then, they’ve gone 1-5 and things are feeling all too familiar from what we’ve now been seeing since around the All-Star Break in 2024. It’s not great.
For this week’s episode, I’m reacting to all the ugliness we’ve seen over the last week. It hasn’t been good. You could fairly put more than half of the Opening
Day roster on the list of players who are stinking so far. It’s still early, so at least there’s that.
We’re going to find out pretty quickly whether these guys have sterner stuff than last year’s team. If they pull it together and avoid a deep early hole, then they’ve got something they weren’t able to do last year. If they just keep falling, especially with their next opponent being a presumably-weak White Sox team, well, we’ve seen that story before. It wasn’t fun the first time around and it would feel even worse the second time after they had an offseason to try to fix everything.
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How are you feeling about the way things have gone over the first nine games? Answers could make it into the mailbag section of the next episode of the podcast.
