So long, Roch. We enjoyed it while it lasted!

I am so sorry to see you leave. You were a great asset to the Sun and all of the loyal Oriole fans who looked forward to your columns, blogs, quips and stories everyday. I ish you the best in whatever the future brings you and let us know where you may land. Good Luck from Cumberland, Maryland. May you always bleed Orange and Black

Thanks, Roch, and good luck.

this is truly a sad say in baltimore sports history. Good luck in the future Roch! May it be a blessed one!

Roch,

I know I haven't commented much, but I haven't missed a post here since day 1 and I've loved every minute of it. Thanks so much for the updates on our favorite team, and the humor to make it more fun these past few trying seasons. I wish you the best, and look forward to reading your next endevor.
-Matt

roch
congrats and good luck with everything. Your blog has helped me get through the last 10 years of Orioles non-magic. Hopefully the O's are ready to turn the corner, as are you.

Let us know where you wind up, and def. start your own blog when you get settled.

Also, here's to a sweep at Yankee Stadium, 1st since 1986.

godspeed
- NY O's fan

Roch --

Thanks for the hard work and the quick jokes you made and will make. You can’t put a price on memories like that. Where are you going to work now?

I hope you will be around to give us a guest blog once in a while to just refresh us of your haircut and the humor. I'm sure everybody will say this, but I will miss you for this blog. Good luck!

Just when I thought I was gonna miss you, you go on about the hair gel.

I haven't been much for posting comments, but I read this space everyday. It really just hit me when I saw the title "Final Post" how sad I feel to see it go even if this isn't really the "end". Roch, your posts made for entertaining and informative reads while helping me to decompress throughout the work day. As an out of towner following the Birds, you helped me stay connected to the team I grew up with. Best of luck with your future endeavors and know that you will be missed.

Roch you will be missed greatly...I dont know what I am going to do in the mornings seeing that my routine started with "http://sunspot. net/roch"!

Good luck with everything, hopefully we'll hear from you soon.

You're a great writer yourself with a wonderful sensayooma.

Will miss you. Good luck!

sad sad day

Roch, I just want to say thank you for the blogging and even the articles. It is my dream to be a sports journalist, as it is what I am in school for, and you have provided a fresh perspective of the business. Everybody who gets into this business has a writer who they looked to for inspiration, a writer they remember long into their careers. For me, that person is you, and if I am lucky enough to make it into this field, my first article will be a tribute to Roch Kubatko. Thank you for everything, and let us know where you end up.

Roch - Thanks Again. Boomer.

If you move a an indian reservation not only can you open a casino where you can make a living off of Jeremy C but you can blog using smoke signals. Sort of a back to the future thing. We will be looking to the sky!

Roche,

A very big THANK YOU for your insight, your humor, and your various stories!!!

You will be missed!!!

Roch, thanks for entertaining us and keeping us informed of all things Oriole. Your wit will surely be missed around here. Hope to see you land somewhere soon. Good luck, man!

Longtime lurker and not a poster, but I had to respond to this entry to echo the others in thanking you for your work, wishing you the best, and looking forward to your reporting wherever you land.

you will be missed .... enough said

Godspeed, Roch.

(Did TomD have something to do with this?) :)

Thanks Roch for the great O's info and good luck to you in the future.

Hope to see you somewhere in cyberspace again. On that note it's off to the watering hole today to hoist one to Roch.

you climbed your way to the top of the salt mine. good luck roch.

Almost forgot, send me your address and I'll send ya a case of Paul Mitchell styling gel. Stuff holds better than concrete.

Good luck, Roch.

Thanks for hosting this forum for us — bandwagoners and haters alike.

We’re almost like, ... [sniff] FAMILY, man!

This blog was a fun three-year ride. I hope it can reincarnate itself in some form soon.

Yeah well all that stuff about you is OK but why don't you tell the readers of this blog something there really want to know like have the Os signed Brian Matusz yet?

Good luck.

Thanks Roch. It won't be the same looking up in the press box and not being able to yell "Roch" and get the same wave every time.

I've enjoyed the blog immensely and will miss it. Thanks Roch, and all the best!

ROCH! How are we going to find you? Google? Cuil.com? thanks for making it tolerable to be an O's fan!

I will miss the one blog that made me laugh out loud (and cry, too,) at odd and sundry times of the day.

Can you create a yahoo address and post it so people can email you and you can make an announcement as to what you are doing next?

I'm too spoiled by your blog read any other about the Os.

Wishing you all the best t hat life has to offer,

Mahesh

I saw today that you are headed for a Sports Network in the Mid Atlantic where Roch Around the Clock will live on! Good news for us and hopefully it is good news for you also, Roch. See you soon.

Thank Roch, good luck with MASN and I hope they give you a Blog to write everyday like this one.Once again thank you for all the memories.

this stinks. and you never updated your photo. your blog was a nice break from the office cube world and got us through the day. I truly loved your wit you worked into each blog. you'll be missed greatly.

Good luck Roch, really enjoyed your blog. You seeme to really enjoy it also.

You will be missed.

Thanks for the insider info and the laughs.
Good luck Roch.

Roch,it was a sad day when Heather left because I always enjoyed her Maryland blog,and it's a sadder day with you leaving,because you had better hair,lol.Seriously though,this was always the first thing I looked for when I opened my computer every day and the last thing I checked after a home game,win or lose.You'll be sorely missed and hope they find someone at least as half as competent as you to carry something similar onwards.BestWishes,we've never met in person but I still feel like I'm saying farewell to a good friend.Will look for you on the tube.Thanks again for keeping us entertained and informed.And arguing amongst ourselves,lol.I can only imagine how badly you'll miss bob L,lol.

Wow, can't believe Roch Around the Clock is no more.

Thanks for all the posts, jokes and insights, they will be sorely missed!

Good Luck and Best Wishes!!

God Bless and may all your lights be green.

Hey Roch,

Good luck. Your blog was always my first stop to find out how the Orioles did the day before...the score doesn't mean as much as the quotes from players/managers that you included. Your 'Dennis Milleresk' references will be missed as well as your funny one-liners...forget the gel, dye your hair bright orange and you can be "Oriole Top" out on the stand-up circuit

Besides my kids prefer flavored corn syrup anyway.

For years now I have felt at home when at O's games because I look over to the pressox and hear people hollering up to you. I've always been on the lookout for a 97 Cavalier. You made the Orioles beat fun - and seen through the eyes of a professional and a Baltimorean. Thanks, Roch.

Roch, we'll definitely miss you man. I'll be checking your blog out on MASN for sure. Thanks for all of the insight you have given us everyday.

Thanks for all the news and entertainment Roch, I've read your stuff for years. Good luck!

Where you goin Roch??? What new link should i bookmark to get the goods on the O's?

Good luck Roch! It's not going to be the same coming on this site everyday and not seeing your most recent update. You will most certainly do well in wherever your next destination may be! Stay strong bro!

Eric in PA

Roch,

I know I speak on behalf of the masses that have contributed to this blog over the years…..and the greater masses that just read it for information and entertainment.
You are really going to be missed!! I hope you walk away understanding how important your role was to us O’s fans.

I wish you nothing but the best as you reinvent yourself!!!

Classy piece, Roch.

Thanks for everything Roch. This blog was a splendid addition to Orioles baseball. I want to ask you what will become of it, but I suppose you don't know or else you would have told us already.

Best wishes and good luck to you!

Thanks for all of the thoughtful insights and the humor you've bought to your blog. I hope to read you somewhere else. Good Luck.

Bummer that you're leaving; posting occasionally on this site felt like participating in something special.
Really admire your even handedness and enjoy your humorous observations, Roch. I remember you posting about your teenage girl leaving an extensive collection of shampoo and conditioner bottles in the shower -- and laugh now when I stumble over my own daughter's menagerie.
It was also interesting watching you decide how to handle G. of E. I bet some of those postyings made you shake your head!!!
Best of wishes to you.
Brian: what the heck are you going to do with yourself without Roch around?
-george

Good job.

And for you, hey, somebody sign the man.

All the best, Roch!

take care Roch, def gonna miss the blogs. hope to see you pop up on MSN @least

Nice work Roch. It did seem that lately, you were becoming a bit disinterested, with this, and I think I probably sent in a few sarcastic and unkind comments. Please accept my apology. Envy will cause a person to say bad things. I will miss you...............

I want to be like Roch !

Amazin

Sorry to see you go, Roch. I hope wherever you land, you'll still be blogging about the O's. We really enjoy your insights and your (sometimes lame) attempts at humor. ;)

Happy trails!

Sorry to see you leave this forum and hope we'll see you surface online (I'm not in MD) soon.

Roch , for a long time I have really enjoyed your blogs. You have provided so much information to all of us. so I thank you for all the great times you have shared. I understand you are going to MASN Sports, well I am following you there. I have read and listened to some of Amber's blogs and enjoyed them. I see no reason why you can not continue to provide us the same entertaining blogs there as you did so many years at The Sun. I wish you all the best. Take care my friend.
Dave

Letter l for Lotsa Luck!

I don't think I will miss you too much, especially considering dcrtv.com posted where you are heading. I will see you there my friend.

Roll on, Roch. All the best, and we'll see you on MASN and MASN.com (as Amber just announced during the game). And stop by the baseball show on Saturday mornings with Tom, Phil, Dave, Huey, Dewey and Louie!

Thanks for everything Roch - you will be missed! Best wishes as you venture into your new career, whatever that may be...

What am I gonna do now that I cant check your blog at least 3 times daily? Please tell me you will at least continue it somewhere else.

It's not over, Roch!

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...?

Good luck at your new place of employment.

Godspeed Roch, I will miss this blog greatly although I never commented too often.

Do you have URL for your new blog?

Brian (aka Bucktail), a fellow Carroll Countian

Thanks, Roch. Enjoyed your blog immensely and best of luck in your next endeavor.

Oh captain, my captain.........ok, that was kinda corny and yet, somehow creepy!

see ya on the

Mr Angelos Sports Network

Thanks roch for putting up with my rambling, but we will catch up again .

I'll be reading your blog everyday on masn. If you run out of gel crisco works great. Just stay away from big dogs

Good luck Roch!!

Very much enjoyed your columns and blog.

Thanks for always telling it like it is. You will be missed but I'm sure, we haven't heard or seen the last of you!

Roch,glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor during this tumultious time and I'm happy you're landing on your feet with MASN you'll be a huge asset there. Good luck.

it's a sad day. we saw it coming but the painful reality is sinking in. thanks for everything, roch. i look forward to seeing you again when you resurface.

Thanks for everything, Roch...you're the best, and I'm sure you'll find success wherever you may land!

np: "Changes," David Bowie

Roch, Change is good no matter what some say. Enjoy your next adventure. I'm sure we'll be seeing you and make sure you throw first pitch strikes!

Roch,

You did a fantastic job with a new medium. Great sense of homor and reporting, I will miss it!

thank you.

You Roch! Thanks for it, I'll miss your blog.

Good luck Roch. It's a sad day for O's fans. Your blog has always been my favorite. I'm not sure how I'm gonna replace it.
Good luck with your new career path.
-Jeff

Take Care Roch. Thanks for all your work, especially giving us an inside view into the locker room. Your spring training reports with the lineups were always great, and your off-season post were always informative as well. I'm sure you will be around in the area so I can still give an old shout out. I've been reading since 05 and I thought it was cool that you were having a blog since you were always funny on the morning show on 98 Rock, and this blog was the best thing on the sun. My guess is we will see you on PTI soon. Don't forget us little people. Peace!

Roch,

Sucks to be losing your blog. Hands down one of the best, if not the best, of local sports blogs (including DC). It is (was) a great mix of insight, reporting, scooping....all mixed in with heavy amounts of sarcasm and humor. I really looked forward to reading your new posts each and every day. You will be missed.

Thanks for your great efforts, man. Take care, best of luck with the future. And don't make your self TOO scarce, okay?

Thanks again,

Ryan C

good luck roch! I wish you the best! will definetely miss your blogging and posts. Keep on trucking!

I really enjoyed reading your blog every day. It was often witty and it was always the ultimate source for latest information about the Orioles. It fed my obsession for that information and I will surely miss that. Best of luck.

Thanks for all that you've put into this blog Roch. It's always been a favorite of mine.

Based on the advertisments on todays game I think we will all be able to find you. Good luck with the new gig.

Goodnight sweet prince.

I notice that there a several people with roots to Baltimore and the Orioles who follow them from afar through your postings. You cared and it showed, and that made it the perfect meeting place to stay in touch with a touchstone of our past. I think you were not just a reporter but also a fan, and though that may not be perfect for journalistic credentials, it was perfect as the moderator of the meeting ground for Oriole followers.
Your comments were always incisive, and your humor was always entertaining. It was always a pleasure, and perhaps kept me more involved in a losing cause than I might otherwise have been. Your departure may make it easier to let go of the frustration of the attachment to an exercise in futility.
Your work was well appreciated and I wish you well in all that your new present holds out to you.
Thank you.
Be Well
Joe

Thanks Roch!

See you on MASN!

Thanks, Roch. This blog has been the one thing to keep me sane while rooting for the O's over the past couple of years. Best wishes!

Roch - you ROCK! Good luck to a good man.

Really disappointed to see you go, Roch -- always loved the blog. Best of luck with your future endeavors.

Thanks for everything Roch.

Be seeing you.

Roch,

We will miss you. I hope that you end up somewhere soon, as your blog is a must-read. I'm an aspiring sports journalist and you are one of my heroes. Best of luck.

Roch, I've remember reading your blog for the first time a few years ago. Since then your blog has been the sole reason one of the first things I do when I get to a computer is refresh the Sun webpage to check for another funny and insightful post about my favorite team. You gave us inside info we couldn't get anywhere else. I will miss your writing very much. Good luck and GO ORIOLES

Best of luck Roch. I hope whatever you end up doing next suits you and you do it as well as you did this job.

Roch,

Again many thanks for the great insight, stories, quips, and more importantly feeding us our daily dose of O's tidbits. Through the many losing seasons and pent up frustration over the direction of the team, one thing remained constant, and provided us our salvation: Roch Around The Clock! From an old Severna Park who is now transplanted in Texas, thanks for being there for us!! God bless you, and nothing but the best wishes for you. As I felt with the passing of Chuck Thompson, tonight, the beer just isn't quite as cold as it's been in the past. I'm out!!!

Good luck Roch. Your blog will be missed.

Roch, thank you for giving me something to read at work! You've always known when to inject a little humor in an otherwise sad O's season (the past 10 of them, to be exact). True Orioles fans will know where to find you next (I'm talking about where you'll be working - not your house - don't worry!)

Roch, you're making the right move. Once you leave a place you've been for a long time, you'll never look back.

thanks, Roch! I'd go off and on reading the daily Orioles columns, but I always checked out your blog. Something about the quick, no-nonsense info, conversational tone, and fan dialogue always kept me coming back. Your insight was always appreciated too. All in all, definitely the best part of the Sun's sports section (at least in my opinion).
Thanks, best of luck, and hope you stick with the sports trade, and in particular...a blog, somewhere, somehow!

I am eagerly looking forward to your MASN blog on Friday - it lifted my spirits to find out that you would still be blogging about the Os (even as the os got pummelled by the Yankees). OMG! The TV announcer has ESP - just after I wrote pummelled, he said "the Os got pummelled" - my wife often says I should be a baseball sports caster because I beat the announcers to their analysis by saying things out loud before they do. Anyway, good luck working for Pete!

Good Luck, Roch!! O's fans will follow you to Masn, as you are "Baltimores Best" when it comes to our team.

Roch, Good luck with everything. Please let us know when you start up you new blog. It has been a pleasure. I have tears in my eyes!!!

Thanks Roch!

Best of luck to you, Roch! I didn't comment much, but "Roch Around the Clock" was one of the few places I made a point to swing by at least once a day. You gave a great inside perspective of the clubhouse & inspired people to weigh in. Speaking as a lifelong O's fan, The Sun has some big shoes to fill!

Best wishes, Roch

I discovered this blog this year and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I appreciate the humor you brought to it. You have definately made it more enjoyable to be an Orioles fan. We're gonna miss you. Hope you continue to blog somewhere else.

I notice that there a several people with roots to Baltimore and the Orioles who follow them from afar through your postings. You cared and it showed, and that made it the perfect meeting place to stay in touch with a touchstone of our past. I think you were not just a reporter but also a fan, and though that may not be perfect for journalistic credentials, it was perfect as the moderator of the meeting ground for Oriole followers.
Your comments were always incisive, and your humor was always entertaining. It was always a pleasure to read what you had to say, and perhaps kept me more involved in a losing cause than I might otherwise have been. Your departure may make it easier to let go of the frustration of the attachment to an exercise in futility.
Your work was well appreciated and I wish you well in all that your new present holds out to you.
Thank you.
Be Well
Joe

Thanks for all the great work!! Best of luck.

Roch,
Roch around the Clock became a big part of my daily routine. Checking several times a day (and night) for a new post, cursing you when there wasn't one, I am responsible for more than a few of those "hits" since this thing started. I have always enjoyed your light hearted approach, It's a game after all, and the fact you were never afraid to make a corny joke or poke fun at yourself. I have truly enjoyed it and wonder what I will do with all the free time now that the Clock has stopped.
Thanks and Good Luck

chuxter

Godspeed Roch - Hopefully you're new gig will some day go to around the clock programming and you can become a VideoStar.

See around Roch. Thanks for the blog, it was awesome.

Best of luck!

Kev

hope to hear from you again.. good luck- you will be missed!

Thanks, Roch, for the insightful and humorous coverage of Orioles baseball. I've enjoyed it! Being from Ohio, the blog has provided plenty of details I otherwise wouldn't get. Maybe you could reinvent yourself into a Cy Young caliber pitcher...
Anyway, best to you in your new endeavor. Go O's!!

Roch - best of luck to you and whatever you do...the Blog was awesome! I miss it already!

Oh, it said Jack Gibbons...I thought you were thanking JAY Gibbons...best of luck, Roch, in whatever comes your way. You made being an Oriole fan a lot more enjoyable in these "rebuilding" times. We'll miss you...

Thanks Roch! I said it before and I will say it again. Your blog is the best thing about following the Orioles. Hope to see you blogging around again soon!

Thanks Roch - your Dutch fan club misses you already, or at least I do.

hey Roch,
As i accidentally found my way to some other blogs-- it occurred to me to say-- dude you were born to blog.

Duuuuuuudddddeeeee......

Good travelz.

--- wayward O

Thanks for all your hard work through the years Roch. I always looked forward to reading your blog since I've been in Kuwait & Iraq. I hope whomever is taking your place is as on point with the info and updates as you were.

Kev Luv, Q-West, Iraq bwof Dundalk!

I really enjoyed your blog. You speak good baseball.
I wish you the best Blog spot on the internet!!
I understand you are going to work at MASN. I will look for you there.

Go Orioles!!!!

Roch, I have been reading your scribes as long as I can remember. I wish you the best at MASN and whatever else you get into.

It's been a blast Roch! Thanks for letting me and the other Oriole girls stalk you at Spring Training a few years ago when this was just a baby blog, and for still having a few minutes to chat when we stopped by the press box.

As much as I am going to miss the blog, I am very excited for you. Your talent and personality have really helped make a name for yourself among O's fans and the rest of the media. I am positive that there are bigger and better things in store for you... which is great, because it means there's even more Roch in store for the fans, too.

Good luck and hope to see you around soon!

-Heathir

Thanks Roch for an informative and often funny blog. My coworkers (all non-Orioles fans) will now have more time to get their work done as they won't have to politely smile while I recount to them peices of humor that I have read in your blog.

Best wishes to you

roch, you did a great job here and i know you will do a great job over at MASN !!!!

Thanks, Roch.

For years and years, I always craved Orioles news in a timelier and more abundant fashion than traditional newspapers could publish it. Then your blog came along, and it was exactly what I felt I had been missing.

Thanks for all your work, and all the best to you in your future endeavors.

Thanks Roch.Your blog was the first thing i read every morning.

Dang, what am i gonna do without Roch's sarcasm?

And how are we gonna know where you're moving to with the blog?

Thanks for the blogging, we'll all certainly miss you... We don't have any of your kind here in Cleveland :) Well, any that we LIKE, anyway.

Thanks for all the great news about the O's. Though I never posted, I ALWAYS read your blog. I am going to miss it! Good luck with your future endeavors, and enjoy life to it's complete fullest!

I can't believe it. I just can't believe it. This is worse than a gutwretching trade deadline bombshell.

So long Roch... and you better start a new blog up somewhere. Thanks for the memories, this was the best source for Orioles news on the planet and you will be badly missed.

So long Roch, I look forward to reading your blogs again, hopefully soon.

As a Richmonder, I get my O's news from Tom Davis and Roch Kubatko. I will miss your wit , humor and accurate reporting. Hope you show up with Tom on Masn. Jack Sampson

You will be missed on this page. Will read your blog on the internet. Thanks for a the years.

Thanks for everything roch, you will be missed! Best of luck.
Go Os!

Thanks for everything Roch and best of luck! The blog has really made me feel closer to the Orioles fans and community than ever (since I've never had the chance to live in Baltimore).

And, yes, it is all about the hair...