Orioles fans can keep track of how their team is moving with all deliberate speed at baseball's winter meetings with ESPN's Baseball Tonight from 5 to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday next week. And what better place to make deals than the meetings' site, Las Vegas?

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That ESPN footage of Orioles outfielder Luke Scott packing heat is two years old, back when he was still a member of the Astros. But seeing him demonstrate how he would keep his pistol handy in his car and openly talk about carrying a gun for protection makes for compelling video that you just knew would pop up again on the network in the wake of the Plaxico Burress story.

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Now tell all your friends how clever you are to have picked up on the visual pun of the photo without having moved your cursor over the picture. Then have them check out this posting to see if they are equally clever (as Ray makes yet another desperate attempt to increase his page views).