Baltimore Quitters (aka The Orioles)

Great overview of Baltimore's baseball franchise. Excerpt: "People who don't pay attention to the O's -- and why would you? -- might look at the uninterrupted decade of lousy finishes (nine in fourth place, one in third) and assume the team has been steadily, hopelessly terrible. The truth is far more humiliating: The Orioles are quitters. Year after year, there comes a moment at which the Birds look up and down the standings, scan the clubhouse and collectively decide that whatever combination of talent, enthusiasm, and guts it takes to get through 162 games, they don't have it. So they stop trying."