Nothing else has worked, so why shouldn't we take over?
WNST has helped fix the Orioles OFF the field, but nothing - or no one - has been able to fix the O's Sunday ON-FIELD woes.
Until now.
Leave it to us, I guess.
We tossed this idea around on today's edition of The Comcast Morning Show and, although we don't have a clear answer yet on HOW we're going to fix them, I've decided we'll do the fixin' this Thursday morning.
Here's the deal. Losers of 13 straight games on Sunday, the Orioles have tried promotions and divine intervention to end their losing skid and neither worked. Yesterday, the team promised everyone in attendance a free ticket to a future game if they won - and that move backfired when they lost, 11-10. And, prior to Sunday's game, Rev. John Bauer gathered the team in the locker room for a traditional Sunday morning prayer, although I highly doubt he asked the man above to insure a victory for the hometown nine. It was probably more like a "keep the players healthy" prayer (does God have an axe to grind with Adam Loewen?), not one in which Rev. Bauer asked for intervention to stop the losing skid.
So, that brings us to this Thursday. We tossed around two ideas today on the show. Do we go back to God one more time and ask, this time a little more bluntly and forcefully, for Him to take care of the losing skid this Sunday when the O's are in Boston?
Or, should we go the witchcraft route? Is it time to bring in someone who can take care of that losing skid with a little wizardry and their own form of "service to the community"?
God...or witchcraft? Do we bring in a Man of the cloth and see if we can break the losing skid with some well-timed prayer? Or do we find someone who deals in the supernatural and see if they might be of assistance?
What to do?
We're going to work on it this week and by Thursday, we'll have a plan in place to fix the Orioles in time to snap that ugly 13-game losing skid in Beantown on Sunday.
We took calls and e-mails today on the subject (God is ahead right now, 19-15) and you're welcome to chime in via the comments section below.
I voted for God, by the way.
If I'm lucky, maybe He can get the O's to stop their Sunday losing streak and get Matt Dryer in the team's front office to return one of my e-mails that I sent last week.
I know, I know...let's not get greedy, huh?