SB Nation User Blog: Oriolebird88

This is beautiful! I wish times were different and im am really pissed that i don't have memories...

Oriolebird88 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:38:15 -0000

This is beautiful! I wish times were different and im am really pissed that i don't have memories like this!

Orioles frustrating again!

Oriolebird88 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:33:11 -0000

The Orioles leave their fans frustrated again! The orioles have this promotion out where they will be selling 500 tickets for a dollar to certain games. Figuring it was going to be a Tuesday night (Sept 15th) game against the Rays where there will probably be 5,000 people there a local radio station in town (WNST) decided that they were going to put together a rally. SEE THE BIRDS. They were going to try and reach that 500 ticket mark and possibly beyond. Since the Orioles web site cost a little more than a dollar with shipping and handling and a convince fee WNST sold them for just two dollars. One dollar goes toward the ticket and the other goes toward the Nick Markakis Right side foundation. With in three hours of the promotion they sold over 500 tickets, so they then asked the orioles (figuring they are doing a good thing by getting people to go to the game) if they could be granted an unlimited amount of tickets for this event which is also going to charity. The Orioles for whatever reason turned them down.

Now this issue leaves me furious and absolutely ticked off. The Orioles stink we know that, but to turn down over 500 fans and 500 dollars worth of charity is absolutely ridiculous. I posted this because the Orioles have once again failed to satisfy the community and to think they don’t even consider this for charity absolutely frustrates me. Once 1 o’clock roles around on Sunday the orioles will have been forgotten for a 12th straight year and this I think would have generated some buzz for them. It was a win win situation and they blew it again. “Wait till they see what the upper deck looks like the rest of the season. I mean this passed weekend we had the lowest attendance in baseball”

Poll

Was it right or wrong for the orioles to turn this down?

Right

19 votes

Wrong

17 votes

36 votes | Poll has closed

hope you all like it

Oriolebird88 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:39 -0000

hope you all like it

Oriolebird88 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:37 -0000

hope you all like it

Just getting pumped for the ravens too. Great video.

Oriolebird88 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:37:24 -0000

Just getting pumped for the ravens too. Great video.

This is a great video

Oriolebird88 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:46:27 -0000

This is a great video

Base Running is ATROCIOUS

Oriolebird88 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:20:19 -0000

After leaving a total of 16 runners on base the orioles fail to convert no more than one run. We seemed to be able to get on base just not knock anybody in. I mean its not like we didn’t have chances they were 0-8 with runners in scoring position. Can someone tell me what Izturis was thinking when there was a ground ball to Teixeira? I mean I probably would have faked the run home and take the out at first rather than take a man out of scoring position! Our base running has killed us this year. But every time we lose I just say to myself “ONE DAY WE WILL WIN” and when that day comes when we don’t make all these stupid mental errors, I will be a happy man.

Totally different subject. I wrote a post last week about how I think that oriole park isn’t loud enough and more people need to get into the games. Well I had some feedback such as people saying they think the people that yell can be annoying and obnoxious. I tend to disagree. I think the orioles don’t want a football crowd at the stadium like it was at memorial stadium, but that is another post for a different day. So I ask you. Would you like a Ravens type of crowd or an Oriole type of crowd to be at Camden yards to root on the birds. And when I say ravens type of crowd I mean they are into every play (paying attention to the game and interested).

Poll

Would you rather have a baltimore football crowd or a baltimore baseball crowd show up at oriole park?

Football (Ravens) Crowd

10 votes

Baseball (Orioles) Crowd

18 votes

28 votes | Poll has closed

Lost Generation of BALTIMORE Baseball Fans

Oriolebird88 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:13:41 -0000

A lost generation of baseball fans in Baltimore. I had posted a comment in a previous post saying how it irritates me when 5 out 20 thousand fans at the oriole games are into the game and watching it. Granted we are in last place and I don’t know maybe it is because we are losing that the fans just don’t watch the game. Or maybe it is Oriole fans themselves that have made this so. I am talking about the passionate oriole fans that grew up in the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s who made Memorial Stadium the world’s largest outdoor insane asylum. Now I know that a lot of us here at the Camden Chat are die hard oriole fans but I am talking about the general fan. Now days you go to the games and people are texting or talking on their phones or even just chatting about what they bought at the mall that day, but fail to tell you what number Nick Markakis is and what the score of the game is and so on. People like that take away the whole atmosphere of a baseball game. That being said, that atmosphere that has been created at Camden Yards (Quiet Atmosphere) to me the people of those past generations I think are kind of at fault. I feel that when you go to games now and you yell people look at you like you have three heads. I almost feel to the younger generation now it is almost a fashion statement to go to the games as opposed to getting loud and getting behind your team when they are down. Trust me fan excitement at the ball games can go a long way. It can almost re energize the players I am sure to an extent.

I just had to rant and it is something that has been on my mind. Sorry if this may be little dis-organized but I had to get it out. Let me know what you think.

Poll

Are oriole fans loud now a days?

Yes

2 votes

No Not at all (To many people don't Pay attention)

8 votes

Sometimes

14 votes

24 votes | Poll has closed

O's making a run for the playoff's?

Oriolebird88 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:54:03 -0000

My dad and i got into a discussion the other day about how long we think it will be until the orioles make a strong run for the play offs. Not a slight run but a legit run for the playoffs? I say if they can bring some of these rookie pitchers up this year; it could be next year but my dad said two years from now. Leave some comments and let m know what you think!!!

Poll

When can the orioles make a legit run for the playoffs?

Next Year

16 votes

2 years

50 votes

3 years

12 votes

4 years

0 votes

Never

3 votes

81 votes | Poll has closed

Orioles abcent in the community again!!!!

Oriolebird88 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:37:18 -0000

I wanted to re post this because from the responses i got it doesn't seem like most people know that this accourance is going on!!! Let me hear more of your thougts and i just want to get this issue out there again!

This really isn't much of a post but it is something that has been getting to me lately. I am starting to get tired of only hearing what oriole players have to say only through masn and the newspapers like the baltimore sun. The orioles really need to fix this problem. I think the orioles are really hurting them selves. One of the reasons we love the ravens so much is because we kind of feel a connection with the players and i just don't feel that with the orioles. I think it is total crap the the Orioles don't allow there players and coaches to speak anywhere else except for oriole owned networks. Like Nick Markakis he has this great new charity foundation and he is not allowed to advertise it anywhere else except through the orioles. It is just frustrating and if anyone from the orioles reads this you really need to get this changed BIG TIME!!!!!!!. Let me know what you think as a fan!

Poll

Do you think the Orioles do there best to connect with the community. YES or NO or Undecided!

Yes

10 votes

No

7 votes

Undecided

3 votes

20 votes | Poll has closed