As if I needed another reason to like Orioles President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail, I got a musical one the other night. Taking advantage of the rain delay Tuesday night (gotta love those ninth-inning interruptions), I tracked MacPhail in the hallway outside the press dining room. He was looking at the frames photos of [...]

It’s been fun to see some energy injected into Camden Yards the past few weeks. But with new found energy comes responsibility — and I’m talking to the folks who cheer on their favorite Orioles in a most annoying way. Specifically, the Luke Scott fan who sits in front of the press box. Now I’ve [...]

West Coast road trips by the Orioles are a bad-news, good-news proposition. The bad news is that you often don’t  get to find out the game’s result until the next morning (c’mon, fess up — you fall asleep before the game is over because you’re a responsible adult who has to be to work in [...]

A week into baseball season, and the  Orioles’ hot start has been tempered by something our local daily newspaper has done. Yes, The Sun has bastardized the baseball boxscore. Go ahead, check it out in the morning paper. Oh, it looks like the same recap you’ve become accustomed to seeing. But dig a little deeper [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Not so long ago, the entrance to the players’ parking lot at Fort Lauderdale Stadium was crammed with people at 7:30 a.m., when players started arriving for a day’s work at the Baltimore Orioles’ spring camp. Now, on a good day, you’ll see — at best — a handful of people, [...]