Just like in business where sales solves all problems, in sports winning solves all problems. Gonna take more than 9 wins to erase 10 years of Angelos' mishandling. Put 'Baltimore' back on the jersey!!!!

Sorry, still one excuses left. Gas was $3.45 yesterday for regular unleaded.
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Capt.,
Knowing what a big fan you are of the owner, that made me chuckle. On the bright side, the Orioles outdrew the Marlins.
-- Bill O.

Bill,

There's been a lot of bad baseball over the last 10 years. On TV and at the Yard. I've seen enough double plays to last a lifetime. I've seen O's teams that were incapable of coming back if they were down after the 6th. I've seen inability to manufacture runs. I've seen bullpens just throw in the towel in what should have been easy wins.

Finally they are rebuilding the right way, but they deserve this struggle to win back fans. In the end they should win us back. But this past Tuesday's 11-3 drubbing by the Jays is exactly what I'm talking about. I was at that game and we were done by the 4th inning (if not earlier). It was a poor use of 3 hours.

And that's my main point. When, win or lose, an O's game presents at least a pretty good chance of time well spent (read: good baseball), the fans will return.
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Alex,
Thanks for writing. Valid point. I agree with the fans who continue to say, Show me. To be fair, every team is going to have maybe five to 10 real dud in 81 home games and unfortunately you got stuck with one of them. Here's hoping your time and money are better spent the next time you're there.
-- Bill O.

Come on O's fans! Get to Camden Yards tonight with your O's gear on and outnumber those damn Yankee fans!

Ive been down that road so many times about the owner. I figure people were tried of me talking about it. :)

I went to the Orioles game Thursday night night (thrilling 6-5 victory in 10 innings). I was with about 6500 of my closest friends. They didn’t announce the attendance at the game (paper said 13,000+), but it looked much less than that. There were so few folks I was quite afraid that the between inning camera that scans the crowd would find me and insist that I kiss myself (as I was the only person in my section).
Between every inning the camera scans the crowd and I was dreading the fact that I would be depicted as the lonesome soul eating his chicken strips and fries with gusto.

I had purchased my ticket at the O's ticket window and the clerk there took great pains to show me where my seat was and was that all right, etc. I was in sec 358 (upper deck) row cc seat 5. There was not another fan within a section of me. Why the painstaking with my seat choice is beyond me.

I wasn’t too optimistic as the game wore on, but they Orioles had some great at-bats and wore down the Chicago bullpen. Kevin Millar had a hit (breaking up Floyd’s no-hitter in the fourth), two walks and reached on a strikeout/passed ball. He scored twice (in the eighth, from 1B, to put the Birds within two) and the winning run in the 10th. He is the slowest player ever! If he, Ramon Hernandez, and a piano had a race, there would be no winner. But he scored on a close-y play with a headfirst slide after reaching on a strikeout (just making it as Piersynski’s errant throw pulled Konerko off the bag (( the umpire anticipated the safe ((and correct)) call))). Millar also made two stellar plays at first base, one starting a 3-6-3 double play. He doesn’t look like much and is slower than me, but I guess he is a ballplayer.

Oh, and Markakis is good.
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Great comment ... I actually made this a post. Sorry, no cash.
-- Bill O.