Oriolitis.

What the hell was that? The ending was alright but the beginning? Bah. The beginning was terrible.

Hopefully, they're just trying to get all the suck out of them before they get to the play offs and they haven't contracted a severe case of Couldn't-pitch-tee-ball, otherwise known as Oriolitis (named after it's discoverer the recent Baltimore Orioles). The disease is slow progressing and they've been exhibiting an early symptom, Finds-grounding-into-double-plays-extra-fun, since early days. Unfortunately for a team hoping to win baseball games (as a team on the verge of making the post season would be looking to do), the prognosis for Oriolitis is not good. It's just not easy to do when you suffer from those symptoms.

So is there a cure? How does one overcome Oriolitis? Well, Eli Lilly is hard at work modifying E. Coli bacteria for injection but is yet to have any success against Oriolitis-it's quite virulent. The only known course of treatment is to go home and wait until next year and even that's not always effective.

So, fingers and toes crossed that they're just in a little funk right now and that when it really matters, they'll be able to get it together again.