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VIDEO: Dan Connolly and Steve Cockey discuss the first half of the Orioles’ season
Dan Connolly Dan Connolly has spent more than two decades as a print journalist in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Baltimore native and Calvert Hall graduate first covered the Orioles as a beat writer for the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record in 2001 before becoming The Baltimore Sun’s national baseball writer/Orioles reporter in 2005. He has won multiple state and national writing awards, including several from the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2013 he was named Maryland Co-Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. And in 2015, he authored his first book, "100 Things Orioles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." He lives in York, with his wife, Karen, and three children, Alex, Annie, and Grace.
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In my opinion adding Britton who has been on the disabled list most of the first "half" and "Crush" Davis who has played crushed as well aren't going to change anything dramatically over the next ten days. As Dennis Green once said, "They are who we think they are." The issue for me is if they don't make any moves of substance what are you going to do for 2018?
Unproductive drafts, signings and AAAA prospects put us here approaching last call. When DD was hired we were going to search the world for prospects but famously sell those slots now for suspects. It seems like stealing leftover drinks from someone's table. Pablo Sandoval is a great example that the ship of the horizon is departing rather than coming in. You can drink up for either cheers or sympathies but ten games won't do it just as the first 32 did not.
Well ... ummmmm ... I for one would be happy if they were to go 10-0 out of the blocks!
So would I especially since the Cubs and Rangers are more talented with about the same won-lost record. I'll follow my favorite team this year for the love of the game and not the chance to dance naked down Charles Street in October. Who replaces Tillman, Miley, Jimenez, Kim, Smith, Castello, Hardy, etc. and provides some prop up for a rather beat up Adam Jones? What should we look forward to happen?
That's my problem -- and the Orioles' brass problem -- right now. I don't think we know who they are. 22-10 and 20-36 are distinctively different teams. And if this club goes, say, 7-3 in a tough homestand, I do think it gives the organization pause. Because two months will be left to play.