Well, here we are at the All-Star break so what better time to summarize the Orioles 2009 season than at the halfway point. So yeah…this could will be a long post. First things first, I have to preface this post by mentioning that I couldn’t care less about the Orioles record this year. No one (including the front office) expected the Orioles to contend or even come close to contending this year. When COO and GM Andy Macphail took over in 2007 he said he didn’t expect to put a contender on the field until 2010 at the earliest. The key to this season for the O’s is progress…on the major league club and in the minors. So if you go by that judgment scale, the first half of ’09 has to be seen as a success. So let’s break it down:
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A Round of Sound 