The Baltimore Orioles have not won the World Series since 1983. If this fact makes you feel things, Camdencast is the place for you. This is the home of Good Morning Birdland, with a new podcast every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. Camden Chat's Mark Brown runs through the latest news, chats about the ongoing Orioles quest to go from a #1 farm system to being a playoff-caliber team, and shares listener emails.
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Camden Chat is a blog where fans of the Baltimore Orioles gather to talk about the team or anything else. On the podcast, Mark and Stacey (and occasionally others) discuss the team, Major League Baseball in general, and whatever esoteric interest the conversation stumbles across.
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Two friends take you on a journey through all 11 seasons and 243 episodes of the seminal WB classic 7th Heaven. Erin is a longtime viewer and avid fan of the Camden family and has seen every episode and Tanvee is just now seeing the episodes for the first time. Come along with us on this journey to the community of Glen Oak, CA and discover (or rediscover) the struggles of being the ministers kids.
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E27: What Now?
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32:21Mark left for a weekend and it happened: Brandon Hyde got the boot, a bad pitcher (Kyle Gibson) was dumped, and the Orioles tried to move on. For a few days, they kept losing. Now we'll see if they can fix stuff. Today in the mailbag, some second-guessing of Elias's offseason decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E26: The Waiting Game
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29:16The Orioles just got swept AGAIN by the Twins for one more reminder that nothing is going right for them in 2025. They've got a record that puts them more in company with the tanking teams of 2018-2021. Mark had already given up hope and still they keep him feeling bad. In the mailbag this episode, thoughts on Cedric Mullins and Brandon Hyde. Learn…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E25: A Starting Point
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31:06Injured Orioles are making their way back to the team, you can almost believe the starting rotation could stabilize, and now it's going to be up to the hitters to hit better, especially against lefties, like they did in beating the Angels on Sunday. Mark talks through the current state of the team and checks in on the top 10 prospects through about…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E24: Still Sliding
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27:49The Orioles are still mixing in all of their different 2025 struggles to make sure not just that they're losing games but losing them in the way that leaves fans feeling the most demoralized possible for the future. After seeing them get swept by the Twins, Mark is ready to give up on this season ending up anywhere good. Learn more about your ad ch…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E23: They Ain't Got It
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28:42The Orioles still haven't either won three games in a row or two series in a row after largely stinking it up against the Royals over the weekend. Mark looks at some of the lowlights and tries (without much success) to believe in better times to come. A lot that's been going wrong has to start going right, and soon. Learn more about your ad choices…
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The vibes MAY have turned for the better with the Orioles in winning two out of three games against the Yankees, thanks to Ryan O'Hearn's "shouldn't say that on live TV" battle cry. But it won't matter if they can't sustain it with some better starting pitching and/or hitting against lefties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E21: Everything Sucks
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28:06With the exception of Cedric Mullins, pretty much everything about the Orioles sucks right now. It'd be one thing if it was just Mike Elias's starting rotation plan failing, but the pathetic offense from players who are supposed to be key for years to come is not good. Mark is not here to make anyone feel better, only to share in the misery. Learn …
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E20: The Road to Improvement
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28:25The Orioles only won one game in their series against the Nationals, but after two good starting pitcher outings in a row, Mark can almost sort of squint and see some kind of road for improvement. In the mailbag, some thoughts on the defense, which is decidedly NOT improved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E19: Embarrassing
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29:52The Orioles didn't quite make it back to "30-3" territory as they lost to the Reds on Sunday, but 24-2 is pretty close, and certainly embarrassing for all involved. Mark's despair is that it doesn't even feel like that was a fluke. Until the rotation improves and goes deeper into games, jabronis could be blown up any given night. From the mailbag, …
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E18: Consecutive Wins!
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27:59The Orioles finally got two at least decent starting pitching outings in a row and, not coincidentally, they finally won two in a row. Mark reacts to the series win against the Guardians (also the first for 2025) before turning to the state of the rotation and Mike Elias's recent comments about it. Plus, a look ahead to the Reds series, where two l…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E17: The Woes Continue
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28:03The Orioles were four outs away from winning on Sunday and being able to feel good about the weekend's series against the Jays. The bullpen blew it and so the woes continue. In this episode, Mark is mostly lamenting the starting rotation, although the 0-13 with RISP on Sunday sure hurt. Looking ahead to the Guardians, maybe that can start to improv…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E16: Bad Company
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28:45After another dismal series, the Orioles haven't chased away any feelings that the bad stuff from the second half of last year is lingering. In this episode, Mark takes a look at some of the specific players who have struggled so far and how long those struggles might have to go on before the O's try something different. Learn more about your ad ch…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E15: The Galaxy Brain
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27:34The Orioles outsmarted themselves with some lineup decisions on Sunday and being too clever bit them hard right away. In this episode, Mark does a poor job of explaining the "galaxy brain" meme that he thinks explains the O's at times, then turns ahead to the Diamondbacks series, where the O's are facing two bad (so far) pitchers so they better fin…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E14: Early Malaise
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28:10Orioles starting pitchers other than Zach Eflin have mostly looked bad and the Orioles offense without Gunnar Henderson has been a see-saw kind of unit. If you're feeling glum about the first week, Mark is right there with you. In this episode, we talk through it, plus dip into the mailbag for some thoughts about first base and a listener's dream s…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E13: About That Rotation...
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27:00Four games into the Orioles season, you probably feel exactly the same way you did about the team as you did before the season started. For Mark, that's anxiety about the starting rotation and what they'll do if there are injuries. The O's had to deal with two very bad starts and one injury-shortened one, AND multiple players getting hurt. It's not…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E12: Undefeated!
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29:00The Orioles did about as much as they could have done on Opening Day to silence the doubters, including Mark, who had crept in starting in the second half of last year. Mark runs through all the good stuff from a record-setting win and then takes a look at the Triple-A roster, which will be kicking off the minor league season tonight. Learn more ab…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E11: Let's Get It Started
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28:57Can Mark tell you a little secret? He's excited for Jackson Holliday's 2025 season. Now sorry to Jackson for the curse. In this one day before Opening Day episode, a last view of the experts take on the 2025 O's position by position, some worrying about Gunnar, wondering if the Orioles will ever do a contract extension, and also wondering why the h…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E10: Something to Believe
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29:36There's still a lot to be nervous about heading into the 2025 Orioles season, including not knowing whether Gunnar Henderson will miss time or how much time Grayson Rodriguez will miss. In this episode, Mark tries to talk himself into believing in the team because that's more fun than dread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E9: Just Stop Getting Injured
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29:17Gunnar Henderson isn't back yet and now Grayson Rodriguez has elbow pain too. It's not a recipe to have Mark feeling good vibes about the Orioles right now, but he's trying to make the best of it anyway. In the mailbag, thoughts on the most likely qualifying offer candidates on the 2025 O's. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E8: The MASN Divorce
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30:36While we were all busy keeping our fingers crossed that Gunnar Henderson heals quickly, MLB announced that the Orioles-Nationals MASN marriage is ending after this year. It feels like a big deal and it is, but Mark is not so sure there's much short-term financial harm for the O's over it. In happier news, the Mountain is back on the mound, and good…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E7: The Reserves
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29:42If there's one thing we know about a modern baseball roster, it's that the Opening Day 26-man roster won't stay the same for long. The Orioles will be calling upon the other players on the 40-man roster throughout the season. In this episode, Mark takes a look at the reserves to see what they might be able to contribute and when. Learn more about y…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E6: Projected Opening Day Roster
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31:56Orioles spring training opened up without any surprise injury news to shake up the Opening Day roster picture. Between incumbents and free agent signings, there's not a lot of room for movement in the 26-man roster. Mark takes a look at each of the likely players, what they might be needed for this year, and whether they can live up to that. Learn …
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E5: Please, No Surprise Injuries
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29:36Orioles fans learned only last year that your carefully-imagined roster can get blown up one day into spring training if players got hurt over the offseason and the public only finds out when they report. Mark's main hope in this episode is that sort of thing doesn't happen again. Other topics include how much of the roster feels locked in, there's…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E4: The Projections
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30:23Note from Mark: This episode was being recorded as the news broke about the Orioles signing Ramón Laureano, so there's nothing about that in here. Sorry! I'm annoyed about it too. What is in this episode is a look at projections for the 2025 Orioles, specifically the team and individual projections from PECOTA at Baseball Prospectus. Where do the O…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E3: The Other Dylan C
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27:37Anyone who thought the Orioles were done with signings was proven wrong as they added outfielder Dylan Carlson into the mix this week. Mark offers his thoughts on the signing and what it might portend for the Orioles roster, throwing cold water on the idea of it being a precursor to trading Heston Kjerstad. From the mailbag, a question about Mark's…
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E2: So Long, Tony Taters
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31:24It's been clear for a while that the Orioles weren't going to bring back Anthony Santander, but Mark is still feeling sad now that he's officially signed with the Blue Jays. After another round of wondering whether Mike Elias will ever make an impactful multi-year signing, Mark turns to the recent international signings to look at what the players …
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Good Morning, Birdland S3E1: New Year, New Rotation
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27:54We're all used to complaining about the Orioles not spending much money at all. This offseason, they've added $63 million to their 2025 payroll. In this episode, Mark reacts to the simple fact: That's a lot of money! It's just not been spent on any pitchers who look like the ace the O's lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adc…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E80: The Other Japanese Pitcher
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29:39The Orioles made a starting pitching move as they inked veteran Japanese righty Tomoyuki Sugano on Monday night. Mark just hopes that's not THE starting pitching move, because there still seems to be a need for the top of the O's rotation not just for 2025 but for the next few years of the current team's competitive window as well. In the mailbag, …
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E79: They Signed Some Guys
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29:47In signing outfielder Tyler O'Neill and catcher Gary Sánchez to replace Anthony Santander and James McCann, have the Orioles even improved on their 2024 roster? Mark isn't so sure, though we all know his inherent pessimism about O's signings. Also in this episode, taking a look at what's left on the starting pitching market, with the hopes that the…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E78: Waiting for the Action
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27:48Are the Orioles a playoff team in 2025 based on their organization right now with no external additions? Mark is not convinced that the answer is yes, so the need for some signings and/or trades is imperative. The problem with this for O's fans is that we either wait around for big signings that don't happen, or the big signings turn out badly. May…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E77: Coaching Staff Shuffle
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26:36Did you have former Oriole Robinson Chirinos joining the coaching staff on your offseason bingo card? Come on, no you didn't. Chirinos and recent Triple-A Norfolk manager Buck Britton are in and some people want that to mean something. Mark adds his thoughts on the bullpen in the wake of Jacob Webb getting cut loose at the non-tender deadline. In t…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E76: Good Fences Make Good Hitters
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26:48As of Tuesday night, it's official: Corbin Burnes and Anthony Santander declined the qualifying offers and are free agents. Mark is counting on cashing in the draft picks when they sign elsewhere, even after getting burned when Colton Cowser didn't actually win ROY and give the Orioles a bonus pick. Also in this episode: A little Hall of Fame ballo…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E75: Awards Season
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30:12Around the midway point of the season, the Orioles had strong contenders for Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVP awards. Now we're in November and the top 3 finishers were announced and all the O's have is Colton Cowser as a possible ROY winner. That's the big one, since it awards the Orioles a draft pick if he wins, so Mark hopes it comes throug…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E74: The Offseason Begins
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31:08MLB's offseason isn't even a week old and the Orioles have already made at least one surprise move in deciding not to bring back reliever Danny Coulombe on a modest contract for 2025. Mark runs down the team's routine roster maintenance over the first post-World Series days before turning to the broader question of what the O's need to do to have a…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E73: Season Review: Rotation
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30:34On February 1 when the Orioles acquired Corbin Burnes, we could all imagine an exciting rotation for the season. The injuries to Kyle Bradish and John Means pierced those dreams but things worked out okay after all. Mark looks at the good and the bad from the 2024 starting pitchers in the last of his season review episodes. Learn more about your ad…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E72: Season Review: Bullpen
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31:28The bullpen was one of the big strengths of the Orioles in the 2023 season. For 2024, a big question was, could they continue that with Félix Bautista out for the year? In this episode, Mark runs through the various ways that this question was answered with a resounding "No," from Craig Kimbrel on down to the midseason trash heap addition of Burch …
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E71: Season Review: Infield
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30:30The season didn't play out in the Orioles infield quite like fans might have hoped, particularly with Adley Rutschman's second half struggle and Jackson Holliday's flop of a debut. Mark looks at each infield position to see who delivered, who didn't, who should/will be back next year and how to feel about all of that. It's not all Adley angst, I pr…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E70: Season Review: Outfield
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28:33This review of the 2024 Orioles outfield is the first of Mark's four part look at the season. Starting with the outfield, we all assumed that Hays/Mullins/Santander would be the OF, and things didn't turn out that way thanks to Colton Cowser's semi-breakout. With Tony Taters about to become a free agent, things are likely to look different yet agai…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E69: Maybe Next Year
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26:14Another season, another Orioles postseason appearance, another swift exit. Mark's dream of the Orioles winning the World Series in his lifetime must wait another year. In this raw episode, talking about what went wrong in the short two-game sweep, what needs to go right in the future, and some very early thoughts on what's going to have to change t…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E68: Powerless
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26:26For a second consecutive postseason, the Orioles have gotten off to a bad start that could end up leading them to a swift exit. Mark breaks down the powerless game 1 Orioles, and on the subject of powerless, goes into an existential rant about baseball fandom and how there's nothing that any of us can do to make our favorite baseball team win, but …
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E67: So, It's The Royals
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26:46The Orioles wrapped up their regular season with a 91-71 record, giving consecutive 90+ win seasons for the first time in Mark's life - and yours too if you're 41 or younger. Their reward for this, after other MLB results on Sunday, is a wild card date against the Kansas City Royals. Did you just shudder? Mark did. In this episode, a breakdown of K…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E66: Clinched, and Not Clinched
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24:37The Orioles clinching a postseason berth in Yankee Stadium was sweet, as was their fighting off the Yankees clinching the AL East until the final game of the just-finished series. Mark reacts after an especially feel-bad loss that wrapped up the series, hoping that less-reliable relievers struggling isn't going to impact much. On the bright side, t…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E65: Wild Card Mess
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27:31If things had gone better for the Orioles, they could have clinched a wild card spot this past weekend. Instead, they've only let the surging Tigers into a messy picture and the O's just keep sputtering and not sealing up their spot. Mark reacts to the latest ways the Orioles found to lose over the weekend, looks around at the other struggling team…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E64: The Reprieve
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28:43After Seranthony Domínguez blew the save on Thursday afternoon, the Orioles could have easily continued careening towards disaster. Thankfully, Anthony Santander saved us all from that dread with a walkoff home run, leaving the O's still in a pretty good postseason positions if they can only win a few more games. A big if! Mark discusses the reprie…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E63: Division Hopes Are Done
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28:09Time is running out on the 2024 season and the Orioles have still not managed to solve their big problems on offense. Mark laments after the weekend's series loss in Detroit that the O's winning the AL East is a dead dream now, and holding on to the home wild card position is in danger if they can't get this thing figured out too. After breaking do…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E62: Still Feeling Blue
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29:21Remember feeling good about the 2024 Orioles? It's been a while, and their last series against the Red Sox didn't make the good feelings return. Mark again pleads for things to get better over the final 15 games the team has left to play, lest they slip into a worse postseason spot. There are many culprits and the O's just need some of these guys t…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E61: They Never Scored
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29:11The Orioles have scored four runs in their last four games. They're lucky to have won one of them. Mark vents his frustration with the hitters, especially Adley Rutschman, before pleading to keep things in perspective and not let the disappointment turn into bitterness as this injury-plagued O's team continues an underwhelming multi-month stretch. …
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E60: Magic Number Math
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28:44The Orioles are fresh off a disappointing loss to the White Sox, but they still won two out of three and that was good enough to get them into first place in the AL East. Mark surveys what's coming up for the O's fellow postseason contenders and what has to happen for the O's to make each of the different postseason spots. Also, some more thoughts …
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E59: Finally, A Series Win
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28:20The Orioles are STILL playing .500 since June 9 thanks to winning two of three against the Rockies, which they absolutely needed to do. Mark is feeling both relief and anxiety (as usual) thanks to the wins in combination with more O's injuries, including to their best August hitter Ramón Urías. Also in this episode, breaking down the postseason pic…
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Good Morning, Birdland S2E58: The Early Edition
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29:39The Orioles have continued on their basic "playing .500 since early June" path by mixing in frustrating losses with fun wins that they just can't manage to string together. Mark is not feeling great about what the flaws they've shown in July and August means for October, particularly the struggle of Corbin Burnes. He tries to make himself (and you)…
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