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Quick thoughts on Pie, fireworks

August 15, 2009 |

Even through more than a decade of losing baseball, student tickets and post-game fireworks can still lure out a little bit of a crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The announced attendance at the ballpark tonight was 25,836 — still just 53 percent of Oriole Park’s capacity — but those that did make it [...]

A different kind of ‘Dear John’ letter

August 13, 2009 |

Dear Coach Harbaugh, It’s been a while since we’ve chatted, John, but I still can’t believe how quickly these last several months have passed. It’s wonderful to think that, in just a few hours, I’ll be sitting in M&T Bank Stadium watching your Ravens take the playing field for the first time in the 2009-10 [...]

Let’s just jump right in…

August 12, 2009 |

…kind of like Kevin Youkilis did last night. The hefty Red Sox first baseman was drilled last night by Detroit Tigers pitcher Rick Porcello, and Youk decided he’d rather chuck his helmet at the pitcher and sprint to the mound than jog down to first. I’m split on how I feel about Youkilis’s charge. On [...]