Leading Off May comes to a merciful close, and the Orioles are limping into June – both figuratively and literally. We’re here for it, though. Thanks for a great month, O’s. Drink of the Week Join us for the Drink of the Week, and let us know how you’re consoling yourself as you watch the O’s. Find us on Untappd * magn8606 * jakee4025 This Week on the Twitters Adam Frazier vs Nestor Cortes#Birdland🦄 IT'S A UNICORN 🦄Home Run (6) 💣Exit velo: 96.5 mphLaunch angle: 35 degProj. distance: 311 ftThis would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium and nowhere else.BAL (4) @ NYY (5)🔺 7th pic.twitter.com/DVsVUXQQDO— Would it dong? (@would_it_dong) May 25, 2023 Ok, I just went down the John Means rabbit hole. I’m getting excited, friends.— Baltimorons (@bmorons) May 26, 2023 In April, Jorge Mateo had 11 XBH in 69 very nice AB.In May, he has 1 XBH in 66 AB.— Eutaw Street Report (@EutawStReport) May 26, 2023 The A's estimate there will be 405,000 out-of-town visitors that would come to Vegas to see games. That's nuts: First, if a visitor goes to 2.5 games on avg, that means the A's would draw 1 million out-of-town fans. If they sellout a 33k stadium, 38% would be away fans. 1/4— Hal the Hot Dog Guy, PhD (@AsHotDog) April 24, 2023 Around the Bases First Base: Aaron Hicks… but why? The Orioles signed Aaron Hicks. For… reasons. An organization that is noted for being stacked with prospects signed a guy who had been released by the Yankees for not being good enough to play in the AL East. Yay? Second Base: The inevitable slump The Orioles were apparently playing an unsustainable brand of baseball? Weird. The O’s are 5-5 in their last 10 games. But that’s not the real story. The real story is the loss of Cedric Mullins on top of the Orioles not playing their best baseball. Can the Orioles be only-OK for enough time to start firing on all cylinders? We’ll see. We thought May was going to be a disaster. It wasn’t. Let’s see how much margin of error the team has bought itself. Third Base: Rotation Management We’re not gonna lie: we hate the way the Orioles rotation has been set over the past week or so. It’s not so much the demotion of Grayson Rodriguez that we hate. It’s the fact that the demotion had no backup plan. It’s the fact that it led us to a bullpen game, when the bullpen has been a mess. Whereas it’s easy to play MMQB, it’s also apparent that there were much better ways to go about managing the rotation. We’re allowed to be critical of a good team. We’re allowed to be supportive while also stating that the roster management...