Unwatchable. Pathetic. Hopeless. I am really starting to believe I won't see a turn-around in my lifetime and I am only turning 40 this year.

At this point you just have to laugh..

I want to qualify that last entry... Kudos to the offense for trying to keep the team in the game by putting up a 6-spot.

However, when the 'pen gives up 7 (and counting) in the following inning it becomes apparent how the team eventually loses faith in itself and goes into their annual late season swoon.

Can Mora pitch? Put him in so he'll stop bitching. There's no room for individual bitching at this point. Perform or sit on the bench. Period.

Baseball is just unfair these days. Half of baseball is the advanced minor leagues for the other half while the divisions are completely out of whack. I just can't see the O's becoming a force in the AL East, its too tough and NY & Boston get better every year. We might be making improvement, but NY and Boston are improving more at the same time. It needs a salary cap NOW!

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Make excuses all you want this team is so dysfunctional cap or no cap they would find ways to be a joke.

kudos to Zaun....at least someone is showing a little bit of heartt

Zaun showing heart by arguing a ball that was a strike?

I can just see Wieters getting hurt or something like that.

Trembley will no doubt get tossed at some point arguing a lame call while never actually sticking up for the team when they truly get hosed.

Nice to see Roberts hitting with nobody on down by 8.

Zaun just wanted to get home and start cooking some Mexican food.

I'd like for someone familiar with the MacPhail plan to tell me as to whether it addresses short and longer relief pitching as well as a closer? Because unless these young pitchers they are touting as if they were Glavine, Maddux, and Smoltz will put us in a position to win every game, we will still fall apart if we didn't have a good bullpen. Oh and what does the plan say about 1st short and 3rd?

It is discouraging how far we are from even competing with the Yanks and Red Sox, much less beating them. All other sports have salary caps in an effort to maintain some competition, but baseball keeps going as always. The "tax" is a joke to the rich teams. In the old days the Yanks had the money, but at least the other teams had the reserve clause to allow them to retain players and build teams!

The whining about a cap is such a red herring.

Take a look at the Red Sox. Their high priced bat? JD Drew.

Pedroia/Youkilis/Ellsbury are all home grown.

We could have had Lowell for a package of guys who are worthless right now.

They traded a guy in Hanley Ramirez who is one of the best players in the league but got Beckett and Lowell in return.

Papelbon? Home grown.

The Orioles actually have money to sign guys but they have either not spent it or spent it unwisely. Belle and Segui. Hell, they spent 42 million on Bradford/Baez/Walker.

Does anyone actually think Boston or most other teams would even THINK about much less actually do that?

All these excuses ignore the basic problem. This team has failed to draft and develop talent. They MIGHT have some guys who will stop that trend but until they prove it, it's still a bunch of the same old stuff.

Look at the cap in the NFL. The Bengals always stink. The Lions always stink. The Browns always stink. Why? Because they are poorly run.

And that is why the Orioles have stunk for so many years.

We aren't the Pirates or Marlins as far as money goes yet we are the Pirates as far as performance goes.

The Marlins? Well, they've managed to win win 2 World Series in the past 12 years competing with huge market teams like the Mets and Phillies along with a very well run franchise in the Braves.

So pardon me if I don't think a cap will do anything for the Orioles.

It makes me sick how chipper Dempsey and Tom Davis are after the game-they need Palmer in there giving his thoughts on the Orioles pitching performance today.

Mark - You are correct. Using the salary cap is an excuse. The Orioles had the highest payroll in 1998 and a depleted and mismanagaged farm system. It's been downhill ever since.

If people think it's revenue based only, the Orioles have only themselves to blame. Through mismanagement at the major league and minor league levels, along with a poorly run business side, the Orioles could have the revenue to compete. Just their attendance drop alone has left over $100M in revenue on the table, and that is a conservative estimate.

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