Fry the Birds
“Every hero becomes a bore at last.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
So, yesterday was opening day or as I call it, massive-downtown-crowding-and-no-parking-spots-in-a-15-block-radius-day. I do not like the Orioles. First off if they would ever have a winning season then maybe I could try to get along with them. Let me go to the beginning. I went to a game in elementary school. This is back when all three of the Ripkens were with the team. Cal Sr. was a coach, Cal Jr. was rocking it and Billy…he was on the team. Anyway this was a night game late in the season and I didn’t realize certain things. 1) The cheap seats can get very cold. 2) Baseball is a long ass game…especially when your team is losing. 3) I was not that much of a fan. Anyway we were in the cheap seats, they lost (8-1) and Billy Ripken was the only one that scored. Sonsabitches. Ever since my relationship with the Orioles has not been the same. Now that I work near downtown it’s only worse. My job is in an area where people can find some good parking spaces so we fill up on game day. Because of the traffic getting out of here can take a while. Now I have to catch the bus downtown which is like trying swim upstream in monsoon season. An ambulance was behind us yesterday with the siren going for 10 mins. I’m glad I wasn’t dying yesterday. The worst part is the team has sucked since around that time. Everyonce in a while it looks like they’ll win, then, they flop. And signing Sammy Sosa…what the hell was that about? I detest the orioles. Since we have the Ravens I don’t even need their sports items when I want to rep the hometown. Where once there was magic there is now only traffic…and more people ordering Frappachinos at Starbucks. The birds suck.
Lol @ you being glad you weren’t dying on game night.
Comment by Miz JJ — April 10, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
damn birds, things have never been right since they got their own movie. oops wrong birds … go yankees.
Comment by Eslocura — April 11, 2007 @ 2:27 am
baseball is pretty long.was watching parts of our series opener the other day and its like 11 and the games still going on and it started at 7
Comment by jdid — April 12, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
a girlfriend of mine went 2 a baseball game Sunday. Yankees lost. Too bad. But she said it was more fun than on tv or radio and she doesn’t like it. Maybe I’ll try it one day.
Comment by GC — April 13, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
I absolutely HATE home games for the Atlanta baseball team -commuters from the ‘burbs (AKA fans) add another hated dimension to the miserable commute through downtown.
I feel your pain.
Comment by jali — April 16, 2007 @ 2:51 pm
I can’t argue with that my man. The birds do suck and it doesn’t help that they play in the Yankees division. BUT, Camden Yards is one helluva a ballpark! Love the harbor too…
Comment by Luke Cage — April 16, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
LOL.
Amadeo, you have to go to a ball game in the middle of summer when it’s hot as hell during the day. After my third or fourth beer I become a heckling beast. On year I even started the wave in Yankee Stadium. True story.
Comment by Dallas — May 10, 2007 @ 2:07 pm