George Sherrill and Adam Jones are so the man.

Is it me, or is someone about to get whacked? Looks like some crazily awesome Orioles/Goodfellas hybrid. That’s the pic I want to sum up the 2009 season.

Let’s handle this.

It’s got the kind of headline that breeds anger. Joe’s comment was that he wasn’t sure if it was the AP or the Herald who wrote it.

Answer? The Herald for damn sure.

How cool is it that Jim Palmer loves and cares about this franchise as much as he does? He was as seeminly happy as I was to be there today…

great day, going to bed happy and appreciative to be a fan of the BALTIMORE Orioles…

Things are going in a positive direction and I’m happy

But Andrew, I want to disagree with you on something. You said:

Generally (and perhaps to a fault) the loss column comes down on the “this is GREAT, where’s the kool-aid pitcher?!” side and generally (perhaps to a fault) Drew and Nestor come down on the “Are you fucking kidding me? This is a fascist dictatorship!” side. There are rarely if ever any actual nuanced opinions stated not just here, but basically in the entire Oriole-based interwebs.

I think you’re off base. While the tenor of the conversation isn’t always completely satisfying, I think it’s basically valuable and fun. I’ll accept the “kool-aid” criticism because I’m admittedly more interested in building than destroying, but to claim that there are “rarely if ever any actual nuanced opinions” seems like a big stretch.

Finally, the last words from me on the event itself run something like this: I went as a fan. I certainly could have had access if I had asked, but I didn’t ask. I wanted to see it from the same perspective as everyone else. And what I saw, I liked.

I did, however, get an email tonight from a fellow media member who didn’t want to post here but who said I could pass along his thoughts about how things went from that side. Here they are:

I received an email that said all media can be on the 3rd floor (the players were on the 2nd) and there was an audio box to record the event, and the email also said all players would be available for interviews after. I recorded the event, walked downstairs showed I was with the media and then was able to get every interview I could. I thought it worked out well.

Take it for what it’s worth. Seems to me like things went the way they went, and a lot of it had to do with where you were standing. C’est la vie.

Really, though: those new jerseys look fantastic. I can’t wait to see one on the new shortstop and the two new veteran starters.