Dan Farkas sent me a blog comment today and chastised me for not blogging about Sunday’s O’s win over Cleveland the superb pitching effort from rookie Brian Matusz. I tried to explain to Dan that I was “off” on Sunday and, therefore, didn’t really pay any attention to Matusz’s gem.  With that in mind, I couldn’t ... Read More »

A husband and wife are sitting on a beach in Hawaii and a bottle washes up on shore. The wife looks at her husband and says, “Are you going to open it?  There might be a genie inside.” The husband says, “Yeah, right…” Curious, he goes ahead and opens the bottle and much to his shock - and ... Read More »

So…this is what it’s like to go into the season with real, legitimate championship hopes? The view sure is good from here. Robbed of that hope by the baseball team for, oh, I don’t know, going on 12 seasons now, we football fans in Baltimore can sit back and enjoy the next 13 days as the Ravens ... Read More »

Not sure if anyone on the post-game MASN broadcast is going to bring it up (evidently not) but I will:  Nolan Reimold misjudged the Andy Marte home run in the top of the 9th inning and wasn’t able to get to the fence quickly enough to make a play on the ball.  And I like Reimold ... Read More »

Just before the end of Wednesday morning’s show, my pal Mickey from Union Square chimed in to instigate a 10-minute on-air tete-a-tete during which he defended the Orioles and their rebuilding while chastising me for my decision to root for the Yankees when the baseball playoffs start in October. He called me “a front-runner.”   What I ... Read More »

Christina Kim wanted to communicate with her fans.  She’s the one that opened the Twitter account. And now, she’s feeling the wrath of those some people she welcomed into her own little private world.  Welcome to the complexities of social media, Ms. Kim. For background purposes, Kim was a member of the U.S. Solheim Cup team last weekend, a ... Read More »

I hope you all get the chance to read Rex Snider’s two blogs this week on “the foundation” of Baltimore sports. He took his nephew to Ravens camp and to an Orioles game. You won’t be at all surprised at the “treatment” his nephew received from the two franchises. The Ravens treated him like a king. The Orioles treated ... Read More »

For as long as I can remember, we - the great unwashed - have always begrudged athletes and celebrities who get preferential treatment because of their status in our community. While we wait for a table at the fancy restaurant, they pass right through to the seat overlooking the water. When the concert is sold out for ... Read More »

So, Rex Ryan disrespected the Ravens?  And Paul Kruger?   Really? And people in Baltimore are offended.  Some - if my e-mail inbox is a good judge - are greatly offended, in fact. Really? I don’t get it. It’s not a big deal on any or all accounts.  That is, if you ask me. Rex bristled at the fact that the ... Read More »

That’s one lollygagger gone.  Good riddance to Aubrey Huff.  I know, he wasn’t exactly presented with the ideal circumstances here in Baltimore, joining the club in 2007 and becoming part of one of the worst three-season runs in club history. As Jay-Z says at the beginning of ‘Hollywood’ — “It ain’t for everybody…” But Huff’s career has been plagued ... Read More »