Jeez pete , are you can report the amount of crunches or situps next?

I miss my buddy Wayne as he always told it like it was. I hope you find your way back in front of your keyboard some day old friend.

Rest in piece kindred spirit!!!

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Pete's reply: It's not like they're playing the Yankees yet. They just stepped out on the field. What are you looking for?

Dont worry my friend im sure in another chapter the great genesis of redundancy and negativity will arise from his alternate exiled posting name and "tell it like it is" once more.

good job Pete....

Hi Shamrock,

I am afraid that the blog has been permanently purged of many of the the people who you used to exchange educated opinions with. You are pretty much the lone senior voice of sanity, reason and real identity remaining.

As you can see, the number and quality of postings are pitiful compared to what they used to be. Your former associates on the blog apparently tired of being called names and exited pretty much en masse. They wanted to talk baseball, not trade insults.

Carry on the tradition and do us proud.

Hilly does a mean "Napolean Dynamite" too. Check out you tube....

Once again the O's start spring training praying to avoid a 100 loss season. NO STARTING PITCHING once again.
Last place before we start, "wait till next year when those talented youngsters come along". Same old same old.

Pete: I think with the advent of the Nationals the Orioles are a small market team. I base that on the attendance from the 50 through 70s when Washington had teams and team fan who did not go see the Senators but did not attend Os games and were not Os fans. Typically the Orioles had great teams but could not sell out the World Series. At that time they were lucky to break a million. They certainly were cash strapped and a small market team.

Has the area changed that much to make the Os medium market team along with the Nats? Except for MASN the media outlets are the same except as all media businesses have declining revenest. I still only have one radio station in the Harrisburg area to listen to the Os . Of course, I do have MASN to see all 162 games.

I am not sure how areas are classified. I do know the Os and Nats are a smaller market than Philadelphia, New York, and Boston and ,La,. Tampa is smaller in the division but is not this area in the bottom 5 or 6?

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Pete's reply: I think it's a medium market. The Orioles filled the stadium every night for years before the Nats came to DC, but the decline was in progress well before they were a factor. I think a winning O's team would easily draw medium market revenue.

Former blog participants,
Shamrock is the one insulting Pete's column, and wayne was regularly insulting anyone, in particular AM and even our deceased traveling secretary. It's the rest of us who are tired of the insults.

My apologies to wayne, wherever he is. I just read his comments that the offensive one on the Phil Itzoe article was not from him.

Brian,

Shamrock is not a bad guy, he just has illusions that he is the wittiest and most glib person in cyberspace. He never bothered me because I recognized when he was serious and when he was not, which was most of the time. Shamrock views his talents as "on loan from God" to borrow a phrase. He is one funny guy. I miss the back and forth. He is real people and I honestly believe that he uses one screen name and one only.

Wayne attacked opinions and ideas, not people, however, many people cannot tolerate it when their ideas are attacked and react with awful personal messages. Review the blog from Friday through Sunday of last week.

The blog is repleat with a much younger generation of people who claim they have hundreds of friends developed on facebook, but don't know how to manage personal relationships. They are comfortable behind a keyborad where they are safe. HR Directors{my wife is one} will tell you that these individuals have problems with interpersonal relationship skills. The filth that they generate on line is reprehensible. They are part of the problem, not part of the solution. They lack proper communication skills.

It's a new year, maybe we can 'all just get along' & be appreciative of the team & what could be a better year.

As for small market/medium market question, I'd say the presence of NFL football in town is more a barometer of the fan base & game attendees than the Nats in DC. Somewhere there's a historical bar graph of O's attendance by year, particularly from 1984-1996 (the lost years for NFL here).