For the first time in four years, I decided to take a pause from the boredom of attending baseball's Winter Meetings and stay nice and cozy and awake here in Baltimore. (Next season, though, Las Vegas may just beckon me west.)
But after years of watching Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette try his best to make chicken salad out of a flawed recipe -- one without the chicken, i.e. pitching -- it seems the Orioles have turned on the proverbial dime and realized the need for chicken.
Seriously, watching Duquette try and convince everyone that the Orioles have been contending since the Kansas City Royals swept them in the American League Championship Series in 2014 has grown tired. Part of that push was that fact that the long-suffering fan base was energized in 2012-2014.
