Best Camdencast Podcasts (2025)

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E69: Less Exciting Starters 24:20

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4h ago24:20

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If it was entirely up to Mark, the Orioles would get a big-ticket free agent (or trade) pitcher this offseason and a back-end guy as well. In this episode, he goes through some of the likely candidates for the #4 or #5 addition they also need to make. Also, in the mailbag, a question about the season ticket changes gets Mark ranting again. Learn mo…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E68: The Free Agent Aces 26:25

12h ago26:25

26:25

The Orioles shuffled a lot on the roster fringes, on the coaching staff, and in the front office since last time. Mark runs down all of the changes before looking to the essential goals of this coming offseason, particularly the need to get a top starting pitcher. In short, it's scary to have to count on this year's free agent crop to produce an ac…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E67: The Manager Arrives 26:28

16d ago26:28

26:28

New Orioles manager Craig Albernaz is getting introduced today and Mark is feeling good about the vibes, though of course what ends up happening is what really matters. Can he and his new staff correct what went wrong this year? In the mailbag, a listener has his eyes on Twins starter Pablo López. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E66: Orioles Infield Review 26:27

28d ago26:27

26:27

NOTE FROM MARK: This episode was recorded prior to the breaking news of the Orioles choosing their next manager. We'll talk about it next time. Sorry! The Orioles did not have any Gold Glove or Silver Slugger finalists in the 2025 season. That's not all because of the infield, but the group certainly didn't help, with Gunnar Henderson's power outag…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E65: 2025 Orioles Outfield Review 28:09

1M ago28:09

28:09

The Orioles still don't have a new manager. Podcast Spouse asked when is it time to panic if there's no hire, so Mark starts off with thoughts on that before moving into the rundown of what happened in the Orioles outfield in 2025. There was a lot of disappointment but towards the end, some excitement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E64: The Bullpen Was Bad 24:37

1M ago24:37

24:37

Mike Elias made a number of mistakes last offseason, many of which were concentrated in who to keep from his bullpen and how much he might need to ad to it. The Orioles "Plan A" bullpen could have been worse, but Plan A didn't survive long thanks to injuries, and Plans B and beyond were a whole lot worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E63: 2025 Starting Rotation Review 25:38

2M ago25:38

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The 2025 Orioles were dragged into oblivion early on by the failure of their starting rotation, which was a nasty combination of Mike Elias making bad decisions last offseason and having bad luck piled on top of that. Mark sifts through the wreckage to try to figure out what went wrong and what has to be done for better things next season. Learn mo…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E62: Good Riddance 25:21

2M ago25:21

25:21

The good news is that the 2025 Orioles season is over and they can never lose again. The bad news is that most of their problems will follow them into next season unless some big changes are made in the rotation and bullpen and unless their hitters get their acts together. Mark, as you can probably guess, is not excited. Learn more about your ad ch…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E61: Spoilers? 28:23

2M ago28:23

28:23

The Orioles offense is limping through September and it's not stopping them from a good record. Now the final weekend of the season remains, and the only question left is: Can the Orioles spoil the Yankees postseason seeding? Mark also dips into the mailbag to start thinking about big-ticket free agents coming this offseason. Learn more about your …

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E60: Losing Season 26:21

2M ago26:21

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The Orioles offense is missing again, averaging just over 3 runs per game for September even with the team having a solid record in that time. What is Mike Elias going to do about all of this mess next season? That's what is on Mark's mind as the season winds down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E59: Eliminated 24:14

2M ago24:14

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It's been a good month of September for the Orioles so far, but that wasn't enough to stop them from getting eliminated from the postseason. Mark goes through what's been working and what hasn't this month with an eye towards next year, then tries to will himself into believing they might be able to knock the Yankees down a peg. Learn more about yo…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E58: Manager Thoughts 27:48

2M ago27:48

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The Orioles September momentum screeched to a halt with a weekend sweep by the Blue Jays. Mark is particularly irked at some pitching decisions made by interim manager Tony Mansolino, and in this episode surveys a recent article mentioning possible future not-Mansolino Orioles managers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E57: POBO 25:34

2M ago25:34

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The Orioles are having a fun September, adding a sweep of the Pirates onto what they've already done. In this episode, Mark is interested in Thursday's report that Mike Elias secretly got promoted this past offseason. Why is that dude so weird? Plus, looking ahead to O's who might get off the IL before season's end. Learn more about your ad choices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E56: Memories of Brighter Days 25:05

3M ago25:05

25:05

The weekend's news that former Orioles manager Davey Johnson passed away has got Mark thinking back to more innocent days of Orioles fandom from his childhood. Turning back towards 2025, this episode discusses another round of (hopefully) minor injuries and how they might impact the last few weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E55: Contenders Await 22:42

3M ago22:42

22:42

The Orioles started their September with a nice rebound series by sweeping the Padres - a definite playoff team - in San Diego. Good work! More tough teams are coming, with 16/22 remaining games against contenders. Also in this episode, Mark foolishly looks at some free agent pitching targets as if the O's might spend real money on someone good. Le…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E54: Bleak Horizon 24:19

3M ago24:19

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A dismal month of August, capped by two messy blowouts in San Francisco, has got Mark feeling glum about the prospect of things getting better for the Orioles next year. Can they do anything to turn this feeling around over the season's final month? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E53: Mopped 24:47

3M ago24:47

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The offense has disappeared again and the Orioles just got mopped in a four-game series against the Red Sox and they've now lost seven of eight overall. What is there even to feel good about? Mark grasps for what he can find but mostly it's another disappointing set of games to discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E52: The Extension 26:21

3M ago26:21

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Mark was starting to wonder if the Orioles would ever give out a contract extension to anyone and they finally did it, going for young catcher Samuel Basallo. In this episode, considering the cases for some other Orioles who are or might have once been good candidates, plus Mark's current minimum goal for this team's win total. Learn more about you…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E51: Busy Week 24:59

3M ago24:59

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Mark went on vacation for a few days and that's when Mike Elias struck with the Dylan Beavers and Samuel Basallo call-ups. Some things have gone better with the Orioles in August, particularly in the rotation. Will all of this be enough to build some excitement for 2026? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E50: Disrespect 24:58

3M ago24:58

24:58

When you get down to it, a team that disappoints as hard as the Orioles have done in 2025 should be bending over backwards to keep fans in the fold. Instead, the Orioles are implementing aggressive season ticket plan changes that may act to drive away a lot of old 13-game holders. Mark is quite unhappy about the decisions. Learn more about your ad …

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E49: Grim March 24:32

4M ago24:32

24:32

After a weekend series in which the Orioles scored eight runs and got twelve hits across three games, with the brutal hitting (and sometimes fielding) outfield situation still present, Mark is feeling like it's a real grim march to follow the team right now. Good chance to check in on the teams the Orioles traded guys to in July. Learn more about y…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E48: Playing Out The String 25:06

4M ago25:06

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Watching a bunch of guys who have no business being near an MLB mound get blown out in Philadelphia has not filled Mark with excitement for next season. The Orioles have chosen this time to send out season ticket info where it seems like they're squeezing fans yet again. It's not great! In the mailbag, another lament about a lack of Orioles contrac…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E47: Give Us Beavers Already 26:25

4M ago26:25

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The Orioles traded two outfielders away at the trade deadline, so you'd think that means they're calling up their hot-hitting AAA outfielder Dylan Beavers. Instead, Mike Elias has Jordyn Adams and Dylan Carlson on the roster and had Jeremiah Jackson playing OF in Chicago. Mark is grumpy about this. In the mailbag, assessing pitching depth and Elias…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E46: Trade Deadline Recap 28:35

4M ago28:35

28:35

Mike Elias was a busy, busy man ahead of the trade deadline, which made for a busy, busy week for your Orioles podcaster/blogger. Mark breaks down each of the many individual trades and tries to look at all of them as a group to see what the O's outlook is for the rest of the season and hopefully for the future with this group. Learn more about you…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E45: Bring On The Trades 25:24

4M ago25:24

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There are three days to go until the trade deadline and unless Mike Elias made late night trades after this recording, the Orioles have only dealt two guys in July. Mark is anxious to get the dealing over with so everyone can start to look towards building the best possible 2026 O's team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E44: Change is Coming 24:32

4M ago24:32

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Mark is feeling both excited and anxious about the fact that the Orioles roster is headed for a period of turnover across the next week, between trades coming and rehabs that will wrap up. Maybe it'll turn out well? Plus, looking at the changes to O's prospect lists as various publications update for the middle of the season. Learn more about your …

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E43: The Countdown 25:53

4M ago25:53

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The Orioles did not start a miracle winning streak right out of the All-Star break, so it's settled: They're sellers. With ten days to the deadline, Mark tries to read recent Mike Elias tea leaves to figure out if post-2026 free agents are on the table. From the mailbag, a listener asks if a prospect is promoted after the trade deadline, is the res…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E42: The Second Half 25:20

4M ago25:20

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There are 14 Orioles games over 13 days to go until we arrive at the 2025 trade deadline. Mark is both excited for and dreading the sell-off that is dictated by their place in the standings. After one more run through who might be traded and what kind of value they could have, we turn to the O's just-concluded draft. Learn more about your ad choice…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E41: The Start of a Moment 27:40

5M ago27:40

27:40

Between the Orioles trading Bryan Baker and sweeping the Mets on Thursday, Mark had a whole lot to talk about in this episode. Which way will the Orioles go? In a big mailbag episode, Mark goes over the wild card case, MVO, and looks ahead to possible draft picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E40: The Catcher Carousel 27:25

5M ago27:25

27:25

The Orioles pulled off a nice weekend sweep in Atlanta, yet got no closer in the wild card chase because the Mariners also got a sweep this weekend. In this episode, Mark reacts to the latest injury to an Orioles catcher and starts to question the Mike Elias logic that's keeping it from being Samuel Basallo time. Plus, in the mailbag, thoughts on E…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E39: The Declaration of Incompetence 26:59

5M ago26:59

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The Orioles have now played as many games under Tony Mansolino as they did under Brandon Hyde and they're actually above .500 in that stretch. Really: 22-21. Mark is thinking about how they've done this even with injury headwinds remaining against them over that time. Plus, looking ahead to this weekend's matchup with another 2025 disappointment, t…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E38: The Next Wave 27:40

5M ago27:40

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The Orioles are 15-11 in June, which is pretty good. Mark just can't lose sight of the fact that April and May dug such a huge hole, so the next month is going to be about the O's probably trading away players to try to reinforce the next wave coming from the system. Six-plus years into his tenure, Mike Elias still hasn't really done much to turn l…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E37: Free the Bird! 25:40

5M ago25:40

25:40

People have been gradually reaching the breaking point where they finally give up on the 2025 Orioles for most of the last month and a half. Did you hit yours yet? Mark figures everyone must have and goes into some comparing of this year to 2018. Also, he goes on a lengthy rant about how you hardly ever see the Oriole Bird any more, and that's a sh…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E36: Les Miserables 26:35

5M ago26:35

26:35

Fresh off of watching a performance of the Les Miserables musical, Mark is thinking about all the ways that the 2025 Orioles are even more depressing and full of tragedy than the Victor Hugo book, without even the benefit of a redemptive arc of salvation. Don't worry, this bit only lasts for about 25% of the episode. Learn more about your ad choice…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E35: Who's Gonna Pitch? 27:27

5M ago27:27

27:27

If anyone had started to feel better about the Orioles lately, they shredded that pretty well with Wednesday's awful loss to the Rays. Mark is still steaming about it, and concerned about how it reflects on something bad in the big picture: There's nobody good to pitch this year maybe next year either. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E34: Another Sweep 25:04

5M ago25:04

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The Orioles are fresh off a three-game sweep of the Angels where they won each game in a different way, giving them a 14-6 record over the last 20 games. Not bad at all! It's enough that Mark is feeling better about their trajectory, though he wants everyone to keep in mind the one guy who REALLY has to be convinced is Mike Elias. Learn more about …

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E33: This Is Who They Are 25:45

5M ago25:45

25:45

The Orioles looked better for a couple of weeks but now they've dropped two straight series and the schedule doesn't get any easier. There are still some positive signs, so if you want to hope that they can stabilize with a respectable pace from here on, go for it. In the mailbag of this episode, Mark goes into his thoughts on the catching situatio…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E32: Return to Reality 27:32

6M ago27:32

27:32

If the Orioles had managed to play a good series against the Athletics, Mark might have been able to feel good about them for a while longer. They didn't. In this episode, looking again at the wild card math with a mailbag question about where exactly the "sell" tipping point should be, and turning to some talk about how the schedule gets tougher o…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E31: Six Straight Wins! 24:19

6M ago24:19

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Mark has now recorded two regularly-scheduled podcast episodes since the last time the Orioles lost a game. Yes, it really happened: They've won six in a row. In this episode, looking at how it's worked out even with the O's not firing on all cylinders, then looking ahead to the Athletics to see if the O's can manage to keep the fun going. Learn mo…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E30: The Problems (Pitching) 27:18

6M ago27:18

27:18

The Orioles just swept the White Sox and they've won six of eight games, but they've hurt Mark too much this year for him to believe that means they can keep it up. In this episode, some laying out of what's gone wrong with the pitching staff before looking ahead to players coming back from injuries and how that might even (gasp) help the lineup. L…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E29: The Problems (Offense) 25:30

6M ago25:30

25:30

The Orioles finally pulled off a three-game winning streak and then went right back to losing, going back on some familiar 2025 themes. In this episode, Mark highlights a number of specific areas where the offense is failing, before moving on to some prospects who were unheralded before the season but may be making more of a name for themselves. Le…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E28: Avoiding the Stupid 27:58

6M ago27:58

27:58

After watching Friday's game where Seranthony Domínguez, Gregory Soto, and Cionel Pérez combined to turn a game the Orioles led into a laugher blowout loss, Mark has a simple plea for Mike Elias: Find somebody who can stop you from doing stuff that any doofus could look at and recognize is dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E27: What Now? 29:21

6M ago29:21

29:21

Mark left for a weekend and it happened: Brandon Hyde got the boot, a bad pitcher (Kyle Gibson) was dumped, and the Orioles tried to move on. For a few days, they kept losing. Now we'll see if they can fix stuff. Today in the mailbag, some second-guessing of Elias's offseason decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E26: The Waiting Game 26:16

6M ago26:16

26:16

The Orioles just got swept AGAIN by the Twins for one more reminder that nothing is going right for them in 2025. They've got a record that puts them more in company with the tanking teams of 2018-2021. Mark had already given up hope and still they keep him feeling bad. In the mailbag this episode, thoughts on Cedric Mullins and Brandon Hyde. Learn…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E25: A Starting Point 28:06

7M ago28:06

28:06

Injured Orioles are making their way back to the team, you can almost believe the starting rotation could stabilize, and now it's going to be up to the hitters to hit better, especially against lefties, like they did in beating the Angels on Sunday. Mark talks through the current state of the team and checks in on the top 10 prospects through about…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E24: Still Sliding 24:49

7M ago24:49

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The Orioles are still mixing in all of their different 2025 struggles to make sure not just that they're losing games but losing them in the way that leaves fans feeling the most demoralized possible for the future. After seeing them get swept by the Twins, Mark is ready to give up on this season ending up anywhere good. Learn more about your ad ch…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E23: They Ain't Got It 25:42

7M ago25:42

25:42

The Orioles still haven't either won three games in a row or two series in a row after largely stinking it up against the Royals over the weekend. Mark looks at some of the lowlights and tries (without much success) to believe in better times to come. A lot that's been going wrong has to start going right, and soon. Learn more about your ad choices…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E22: SMFB 26:55

7M ago26:55

26:55

The vibes MAY have turned for the better with the Orioles in winning two out of three games against the Yankees, thanks to Ryan O'Hearn's "shouldn't say that on live TV" battle cry. But it won't matter if they can't sustain it with some better starting pitching and/or hitting against lefties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E21: Everything Sucks 25:06

7M ago25:06

25:06

With the exception of Cedric Mullins, pretty much everything about the Orioles sucks right now. It'd be one thing if it was just Mike Elias's starting rotation plan failing, but the pathetic offense from players who are supposed to be key for years to come is not good. Mark is not here to make anyone feel better, only to share in the misery. Learn …

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Good Morning, Birdland S3E20: The Road to Improvement 25:25

7M ago25:25

25:25

The Orioles only won one game in their series against the Nationals, but after two good starting pitcher outings in a row, Mark can almost sort of squint and see some kind of road for improvement. In the mailbag, some thoughts on the defense, which is decidedly NOT improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…