Maybe the Orioles will win a World Series with this core. Maybe they won’t. But I honestly don’t think I can or should keep following them this closely. What a shame — I love caring about this team, but I think this hurts more than it feels good.
“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut
as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté - the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball - seems a small price to pay for such a gift.” - Roger Angell