We just had a soccer poll and since the only other sport going on during the summer that's worth a damn is baseball i wanted to know how many of you salty watermen and women are baseball fans and if you are who is your favorite. i'll start it off right by putting down the Orioles. I'm only putting East Coast teams so if you dont see yours...sorry.
I am an O's fan for life too. I only see them play one series per year now. Once a year in Anaheim and every other year in San Diego. Actually, I am going to the Pads/Orioles series this weekend when they come west... I just love baseball and love baseball games, so rather than being the salty old Orioles fan for ever, I started going to about 15-20 pads games a year.... They are super fun... Its no Camden yards, but at least the weather is nice.... My company works with the Pads and Chargers, so I get to meet the players all the time which is cool. Its too bad for the orioles though... I mean, I would have NEVER thought that they would have under a .200 winning percentage. I mean, I know its the AL east and all that, but the O's have the same sh**y payroll as tampa and many others, and for 15 years, the Os have just floundered. Its sad... One day, when we get a few new young kids, Cal Ripken is coming back to manager or be a GM... Until then, just pray that the Orioles get shipped off to the NL east or something where they can compete.
Im not even ashamed to be an orioles fan at this point i just embrace every win they can srounge up, when your best pitcher is 2-7 you need to be optomistic, i treat every win like it was a playoff win cus i know after that it should be about a week before i see another one
I have to say, being born in maryland and growing up with mike deveraux, brady anderson, and cal has made me a diehard Os fan, I still love the Nats as my national league team. Im sad to see there are no Nats fans and even more sad to see that there are Soxs fans in the mid atlantic forum, but.........i guess as long as you are east coast that's cool. what a minute the sox suck.
Los Mets. It's been three of the most miserable years of my life, enduring two season ending collapses, the most injury depleted and just mentally beaten team last season, which then culminated with a Yankee/Philly World Series as the fanbase's two most hated teams. But this team has a different feel to it with the emergence of homegrown talent, and for the first time in a long time I'm (cautiously) optimistic.
It's actually amazing how bad they really are. Granted, the AL East is insane, but they're downright awful. It's obviously way too early to even talk about how good Weiters really is, but when SI is saying that he's better than Mauer before he even got called up, the poor bastard was kinda screwed. They've got young talented arms, and though they haven't panned out just yet, that's how you have to build (look at the Rays rotation). Adam Jones has been awful though, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them move Millwood, or Bedard ( who will cost more).
angelos....bag him & tag him Peter Angelos is the reason that the O's blow, and also why no decent player will ever sign for the O's as long as that clown owns the team. Too bad, cause the ballyard is awesome, the fans are cool & know baseball & the history of the franchise is terrific. -- Yankees in the AL (my first game was at the original Stadium & The Mick was playing CF) -- Nats in the NL (the Lerners are finally coming around to reality, as owners)
Wow really? That's awesome!!! my grandpa caught one of his homerun balls and the cover is half torn off. also got him to sign the ball. when i was a kid, i decided it would be cool if i signed my name on the other side of the ball. well, that devalued the ball quite a bit. but its no big deal, i wouldn't have sold that ball in a million years anyway since my grandpa gave it to me, and he died of lou gehrig's disease a few years later
The orioles are bad cus they are very inconsistent. One night they score 1 run and lose 3-1 the next they score 7 and lose 7-11 you can never count on any sort of pattern if they could at least get one pitcher that you know is only gonna give up 2or 3 runs we would do much better, and all the hype just adds pressure it dosnt help matters now we look like even more of a dissapointment then we really are.
In my opinion, I dont think the O's have a bad team at all. They are just very unfortunate to play in the AL East which is stacked with teams. If you think about it, you have the yanks, rays, and sox in the division, which are prolly 3 of the top 5 teams in baseball. You can also throw in the blue jays who have done very well this year and have a good record. The O's have to face each of these teams roughly 20 times a year which works out to something like 75 or 80 games against the best teams in baseball. If they played in another division, I think they would at least be a .500 ball club.
I understand what you getting at but the Orioles play a lot of other teams besides the ones in the AL East. I mean I love them and I always will but as a sane person I have to admit that a 17-46 record if abismal for any division. Get rid of Schneider in Washington and Angelos in Balt. and the beltway will be redeemed.
i am a yankees season ticket holder though sometimes i sell my ticket to my buddy who i go with, and don't make it to every game i got a ticket for, because it's sometimes time consuming, and the bronx isn't exactly around the corner. i also get tired of having to be on the gw bridge by 4;00 for a 7;00 game. the walk from the lot sucks unless we get there at least a half an hour before the game starts, and with the traffic we're lucky if we even cross the gw by midnight after an evening game. other than that it's great. i fell out of following baseball for years too. this was the first year i went to the new stadium. i did'nt see any games last season. i also got to go to two of the subway series games at citifield, and i liked citifield more than the new yankee stadium. any yankees fans or anyone in general like this jaba chamberlain joker? the fact that joe girardi has so much faith in this guy is hilarious. 2 out of every 5 games he might get away without blowing the ball game. i don't know how many times they brought him in for the yankees to blow the game. joe girardi gives his press conference, and talks about how ''jaba is great, but he didn't have it today. as pitchers they got good days, and bad days.'' uh seriously? like he's really gonna get on there, and say one of his players sucks. i also like the colorado rockies though up until the last three years they have been pretty whatever. this year too. they always have good teams, but they chalk it all up to coors field being a home run haven, and especially for the visiting teams. coors field in denver, and the newer stadium that the giants play at in san francisco are my favorite stadiums i've been to. my dad was a mets fan when i was growing up, and he would take me to shea stadium quite a bit. i always liked shea more than yankee stadium, because it always seemed more cleaner, and classier, and it just had a better atmosphere.
if you have a chance you should check out nats stadium in DC. its amazing (not as agood as Camden though)! The only thing they got wrong was that homeplate faces parking garages and not a memeorial or the anacostia river. as Macgruber would say, "Weeaakk."
