It's not quite as dramatic as it was to enter Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" on your black-and-white TV sets back in the '60s, but the Mike Elias-led Baltimore Orioles have entered into a different time and space than any other Orioles team in the proud 65-year history of the franchise.
For lack of a better term, I'll call it the "Time Between," which is a period of indeterminate length and is obviously the time between being at the bottom and getting back to contention.
What is so strange about such a chapter in the life of the franchise is the usual yardsticks to measure progress don't really apply in any meaningful way. The wins on the field are as close to meaningless as you can get. Don't get me wrong, while others may call it "tanking," that term is useless in a true and honest discussion of how and why a team embarks upon a rebuild.
