Archive | September, 2009

Joe Angel takes a shot at the Red Sox (warning: this is really funny)

Posted on 30 September 2009 by Drew Forrester

So I was heading back from speaking to the good folks at Ravens Nest #8 in Middle River tonight and as I was leaving Bill Bateman’s Express, I flipped on the O’s/Tampa Bay game. It’s 5-0 in favor of Tampa Bay in the 6th or 7th inning…I don’t even know, to be honest.  I just [...]

I can bite my tongue no longer!

Posted on 30 September 2009 by Tom Clayton

As I sit in my house watching the Orioles on track to lose their thirteenth game in a row I feel like I have to end my silence. It has been one month and twenty-two days since I have written about a baseball team that I have loved for as long as I can remember. [...]

Ravens Fans Get Early Christmas Present

Posted on 30 September 2009 by Tom Federline

Can I be the first to say it for this upcoming holiday season? This is way out of character for me (it still being September), but I have to ……….Merry Christmas Baltimore! Thank you Baltimore Ravens, thank you Cincinnati Bengals, thank you Detroit Lions! Could a better scenario have played out? Ravens roll, Steelers choke, ‘Skins are humiliated. [...]

So long, Melvin, and hold your head up

Posted on 30 September 2009 by Luke Jones

As the Orioles fall toward the 100-loss mark with seemingly little resistance over the final week of the season, their elder statesman winds down his 10-year stay with an organization fixed in what feels like an endless era of losing. Melvin Mora arrived in the Charm City after being traded with three others from the New York Mets [...]

It’s “must-win” territory for O’s between now and Sunday

Posted on 30 September 2009 by Drew Forrester

It might be a first in baseball history, but the O’s are faced with a “must-win” game in one of the next five days. Yes, it could very well be the first time EVER that a team in last place and light years behind the first place team has the must-win label applied to them [...]