The Orioles could be in a division with Pittsburgh, Kansas City, and the Fresno Grizzlies and it wouldn't help them any until they fix the problems at the top.

The shame is that when Angelos bought that team he essentially acquired a license to print money. Remember he bought the O's and Camden Yard out of receivership (Eli Jacobs was forced to sell them off during bankrupcy procedures) paying bottom barrel prices for one of baseball's best franchises, a good talent base (they went to the playoffs in two of Angelos first 4 years as owner), and a stadium that was the jewel of baseball and sold out every night. On top of that, he owned the regional cable sports network that broadcasts their games.

Somehow, long before the Nats came to town or the Red Sox became the dominant team in baseball, Pete turned all those advantages into nothing, and now he sits atop one of the game's worst organizations, a stadium that's empty every night of the year except when the Yanks or Red Sox come to town (and then is filled with fans of the opposition) and a seriously compromised revenue base.  

Agreed. I take the whole "All Out" bullshit as a personal insult to my intelligence because in my 50 or so years of watching baseball I've never seen a last place club that wasn't going through the motions by the dog days. Nor have I ever seen a bad team with a happy clubhouse. I say the vets have cashed it in by Memorial Day (might as well, seeing that the front office beat them to it by five or six months).