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54 games and will win at least 54 games before the season has even started. Those 54 wins and losses will counter each other due to league parity, travel, luck, weather, streaks, injuries, slumps, coincidence, trades, egos, pride and money. Some teams win all 54, like the 2001 Seattle Mariners who won a record 116 games and were so good, so lucky they had to borrow and steal from the 54 loss column. Any team can lose 90 games a season, the Orioles have perfected that for over a decade. But to lose 121 games you really have to work at losing spectacularly. And Angelos is a spectacular owner.It would be easy to stick a fork in the Orioles dystopian arse call them done and get on with better and happier pursuits this summer. But I am, and always will be a Baltimore Oriole, as I was in 1988 when they lost their first twenty one games to start the season a major league record. That was easily the funnest time we've shared in our thirtyodd seasons together. And, at the time, living six blocks from the old Memorial Stadium the Old Gray Lady of 33rd Street that summer, that team is as bright and as brilliantly twisted of any Baltimore memory I hold.The 1988 Orioles were a hard team to like, much like my initial take on Baltimore. The O's had two future Hall of Famers Cal Ripken Jr. and Eddie Murray who was a bit of a team cancer and they were coached by Frank Robinson (another HOFer) who replaced Cal Ripken Sr. six games into the season. Then there was a slew of roster names that looked and played like they came straight from the Dundalk docks. But after that tenth loss in a row, I knew and loved