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Good Morning, Birdland S4E34: One Game Back

The Orioles walked away from Sacramento with three ugly wins, which count the same in the standings as three pretty wins. Mark tries yet again to make sense of this team

Good Morning, Birdland S4E33: The Phoenix

Unbelievably, the Orioles wake up this morning as the sole possessor of the third AL Wild Card spot. Yes, they're below .500, but somehow, they have risen from the ashes.

Good Morning, Birdland S4E32: The Elephant

Sunday's outburst notwithstanding, the Orioles offense has disappeared to start August and if that goes on, their slim chances leave town. In this episode, Mark is mostly

Good Morning, Birdland S4E31: Deadline Day

The trade deadline has arrived. The Orioles are 2.5 games out. What is Mike Elias going to do? Mark tries to assess the state of the team and what should happen and then

Good Morning, Birdland S4E30: Orioles Tragic

There's a lot of talk about Greek tragedies in culture right now thanks to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which has Mark thinking about the 2026 Orioles as a figure of

Good Morning, Birdland S4E29: Seven In A Row

One of the storylines of the season has been the Orioles refusing to go on a long winning streak. They've finally done it, winning seven in a row (and counting?) Plus, th

Good Morning, Birdland S4E28: Rollercoaster

The All-Star break has arrived and it interrupts the Orioles in the middle of a season-best four-game winning streak. In this episode, Mark spends time being sad about Bl

Good Morning, Birdland S4E27: It's Been Two Years

After another disappointing Orioles week, Mark is reflecting on the fact that it's now been almost exactly two years since the O's fell into a rut. Most of the roster tha

Good Morning, Birdland S4E26: The Halfway Point

The halfway point of the 2026 Orioles regular season is just about upon us, prompting Mark to look back on what's been going well and what hasn't been going so well with

Good Morning, Birdland S4E25: The Elusive Winning Streak

The Orioles got our hopes up with yet another three-game winning streak but they just can't keep their foot on the gas. Mark dives from this general frustration to some s

Good Morning, Birdland S4E24: Still Treading Water

A 3-3 road trip by the Orioles would have felt pretty good this time last week. It doesn't feel quite as good after they won two of the first three, and the two losses in

Good Morning, Birdland S4E23: The May Rollercoaster

The Orioles gave us a few great wins in May and also an unfortunate number of horrible losses, finishing below .500 for the month overall. Mark isn't excited but he talks

Good Morning, Birdland S4E22: Adapt Or Die

The Orioles getting swept by the Rays has triggered a lot of angst and soul-searching in Birdland, except some reporting indicates there's very little of that in the fron

Good Morning, Birdland S4E21: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back

Just when the Orioles do something like beating the Yankees twice to make you think they're turning the corner, they get worked over by a bad Nationals pitching staff twi

Good Morning, Birdland S4E20: My Hottest Take Yet

The Orioles continue to exist in an uncomfortable middle ground between where we want them to be and complete disaster, and it keeps feeling as if they're more likely to

Good Morning, Birdland S4E19: Elias's Bad Bets

The Orioles continue to inspire uncomfortably familiar feelings like we experienced about them last year. Mark isn't ready to throw in the towel on them just yet, but he

Good Morning, Birdland S4E18: Treading Water

The Orioles somehow managed to be more embarrassing this weekend than the Red Sox, and the Red Sox freaking fired their manager mid-series. Mark tries to talk himself int

Good Morning, Birdland S4E17: Outsmarting Themselves

No great baseball acumen was required for the Orioles to consider that maybe putting Weston Wilson in left field or Blaze Alexander in center or Johnathan Rodríguez as th

Good Morning, Birdland S4E16: First Place...?

The Orioles are in first place! How the heck did that even happen amidst all of the injury chaos? Somehow, it did. Mark runs through the latest of the pile of injuries be

Good Morning, Birdland S4E15: Familiar

Nine games into the 2026 season, the Orioles have an even worse record than last year's team did and it feels like a whole lot of familiar things are going wrong. How man