Just how sad and pathetic are those other birds in town? Well let’s put things in perspective.

Remember that 0-21 start to the Orioles’ 1988 season? That season ended with a franchise worst 54-107 record. This year the O’s are on pace to shatter that mark and finish 43-119. In order to best their franchise worst the O’s must go 38-60 the rest of the way.

Now this might not seem like such a tall task but that mark is a .388 winning percentage and to get there, the O’s must improve by 46%. Is there any sign of such improvement in sight?

To not lose 100 games, the O’s must go 46-52 the rest of the way, a .469 winning clip and a 76% improvement over their current state of ineptness.

If only there was a great consolation prize named Stephen Strasburg on the back end of the futility.

Count Mr. Mojo among those who think the following members of the Orioles are OVERRATED: Matt Weiters, Adam Jones, Chris Tillman and Andy McPhail.

Weiters looks uninterested at the plate and hardly attacks the strike zone. His long, loopy swings are devoid of bat speed; Jones also has a long swing although he does attack. Trouble is he attacks so many bad pitches that opposing hurlers have little incentive to serve him up anything decent to hit; Chris Tillman, sorry but Mojo has never been much of a fan. Not overpowering and not precise. The combination is BP pitching; McPhail, groom the arms and buy the bats, eh? So will you buy the bats? If so when because the “groomed” arms certainly don’t appear to be compelling enough to motivate Mr. Asbestos to dust off his wallet.

Hey TL, I noticed a little tidbit in your Grapevine piece last week about Ken Lucas and how he could “affect the chemistry in the Ravens’ locker room.” I did a little checking on my own regarding Lucas and what I heard through my own grapevine (no one will go on record with this) is that Lucas isn’t a problem child but if acquired you might find him in Mount Vernon on his days off. Just sayin’…

The World Cup! That is such a cool name for a tourney. I just like saying it, “The World Cup!” Too bad the games don’t measure up to the way cool name.

I have several friends who are soccer aficionados and I had the pleasure of their company this past Saturday while watching the USA take on the Brits. They were actually rooting for a tie. Mojo just can’t get his arms around that thought process. Why bother?

I have an idea for ESPN/ABC to make the games more appealing to folks like me who find these games pretty boring. How about starting them all at the same time in different parts of the world and then create something like the NFL has in the NFL Red Zone. Call it the World Cup Beehive…you know to keep in the spirit of those annoying horns these South Africans use to support the sport. Maybe the NFL could encourage those horns during games that Dan Dierdorf broadcasts to drown out his statements of the obvious.

Interesting poll here on 24x7 last week regarding the “go to” sports talker. No surprise that the fan favorite go to guy is Bob Haynie (32% of vote). However what is surprising -- Bruce Cunningham finished third with 15%. He outpaced Rob Long (13%), Mark Viviano (11%), Jerry Coleman (4%) and Drew Forrester (3%). Scott Garceau finished second with 22% of the vote.

Cunningham before Long and Viviano?

That’s like choosing the Bay City Rollers over the Rolling Stones and The Who.

Speaking of sports radio, former Baltimore jock talker Anita Marks is on her way to the Big Apple at WFAN. For her sake, let’s hope she’s doing field reporting otherwise, I suggest a very short term apartment lease for Marks. That town will chew her up and spit her out faster than Sammy Sosa goes through a bag of Beech Nut chewing tobacco.

And for those who wanted Marks out, who would have thought that 105.7 The Fan would hire another woman (Jen Royle) who by comparison makes Marks sound like the ladies’ answer to Frank DeFord?

Congrats to the Baltimore Mariners on continuing their undefeated season (12-0 thus far).

Keep on rolling!