Yankees Defeat Orioles at Camden Yards, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same...

I don’t know how quite to articulate what I saw in person attending the Orioles-Yankees game last night at Camden Yards.

I do know one thing. It seems like the more things change, the more they stay the same.

It was painful to sit at your team’s home ballpark and see the guys you root for get beat down by a rival.

The Yankees are the big-bad, bullies in the sport who seem to get whatever they want; meanwhile, the Orioles are like the frumpy kid who is picked on constantly. They try to fight back and quickly find out they need a lot of help if they want to defeat their nemesis.

Well, it’s no mystery that the Yankees have pretty much owned the Orioles for the past several seasons.

Once again, they they just flat-out trashed the Orioles, 15-3.

You all pretty much know what happened.

C.C. Sabathia owned the Orioles – again; Brad Bergesen struggled again despite four of his six innings of work being very good; the Yankee lineup launched five homers, there were potential fireworks in the 9th inning and the home team wilted again.

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