Even Simple Tasks Baffling for the O's

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I was going to visit Camden Yards this week, catch a few rays between raindrops and see whether the Rangers could score, say, 27 runs against the Orioles' "pitching staff." (If you're wondering why the previous two words are in quotation marks, you must be a Major League Soccer fan.)

Trouble is, I didn't know when the next slugfest would start. One game or two? Last night or today? Game time of 7:35, 4:05 or 1:35? So I said to heck with it and watched David Letterman, whose worknight finishes earlier than the Orioles' anyway.

If you're looking for another negative aspect to the deeply disappointing '96 O's, this would seem to be it. We already knew the pitching …