Baltimore MLB team that's "for the birds"

Usage examples of orioles.

Ted Worley, who just moments earlier had been minding his own business and watching his beloved Orioles, would now spend the rest of that night and most of the next week worrying about tumors growing wild in his bladder.

The Orioles had knocked off Cleveland the previous night, 5—4, in eleven innings.

It looked as though the goddamned Orioles were going to take the pennant, and that, to his New York sensibilities, was a crime worse than how the Rangers looked this year.

They were watching TV in his den, the Orioles and the White Sox playing in Baltimore.

Mike Flanagan was pitching, and looked to be on his way to another Cy Young Award, and the rookie shortstop the Orioles had just brought up was playing particularly well, and looked to have a big-league future.

Sure enough, the goddamned Baltimore Orioles were in the playoffs, and looking to go head to head with the Philadelphia Phillies, relegating his Bronx Bombers to the Hot Stove League yet again.

The Orioles had won again and would be going to the World Series against the Phillies.

The Orioles had just one more game to win to finish the Phillies off, he was pleased and surprised to learn.

In the bedroom of Bendición Alvarado, about whom we only remembeied the tale of her canonization by decree, we found broken-down birdcages with little bird bones changed to stone by the years, we saw a wicker easy chair nibbled by the cows, we saw watercolor sets and glasses with paintbrushes of the kind used by bird-women of the plains so they could sell faded birds by passing them off as orioles, we saw a tub with a balm bush that had kept on growing in neglect and its branches had climbed up the wall and peeped out through the eyes of the portraits and had gone out through the window and ended up getting all entangled with the wild bushes in the rear courtyards, but we couldn't find the most insignificant trace of his ever having been in that room.

When lunch was ordered, they sat near the window and quickly got past the weather, the Orioles latest losing streak, and the lousy state of the economy.

Worley, weak and trembling and angry, recounted his first contact with Clay Carter, a phone call from nowhere while he was trying to enjoy an Orioles game, the frightening news about Dyloft, the urinalysis, the visit from the young lawyer, the filing of the lawsuit.

But yesterday on TV when he ate a hot dog at a Baltimore Orioles game and said he wasn't accustomed to such fine food at the White House, I decided, 'All right, Mr.

And somehow they'd ended up with three ball caps, an Orioles sweatshirt, and a glow-in-the-dark Frisbee.

Seth's hair stuck out from under an Orioles fielder's cap that Cam had ended up buying him when they went to a game the week before.