Hello, friends.
There are now 168 days remaining until the next real Orioles game. For the next little while, there’s playoff baseball to divert our attention a little bit, or at least there’s some of that. The Cubs avoided a sweep against the Brewers yesterday, so they’ll be playing Game 4 today. I didn’t stay up late enough to have a reaction to Phillies-Dodgers.
As for the American League, the Tigers exploded late to take their series with the Mariners to a fifth game back in Seattle on Friday. But I’m burying the lede, because the big one from yesterday is that the Yankees lost and their season is over. The Blue Jays wrapped up New York in four games on Wednesday. Too bad, so sad for them. Now, everyone in Birdland can turn to rooting for whoever wins Tigers-Mariners in the ALCS, bec