Comments on: Victory: Orioles 10, Yankees 5

By: neal s

neal s — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:53:40 +0000

@Andrew - latest main page post was inspired by this comment. I was just going to put it here, but then I figured it could use more visibility.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:24:29 +0000

I’ve been largely surprised, I guess, by the amount of people outside of Baltimore who don’t understand the traitorade being gulped down greedily yesterday. The only people I heard or read in the past day who seemed to “get” it were Roch and eventually Ken Singleton, who summed it up nicely (and I’m paraphrasing):

“Well, these fans are very, very proud and very, very frustrated”

At first I thought that was a good way of putting it. But then I heard what the Yankee first baseman had to say for himself yesterday and this all changed for me. He went on at length about how much he loved Baltimore and the Orioles and how it wasn’t personal, it was just business.

That got me mad all over again. This guy comes off like the kind of guy that just wants everyone to be happy. He signs with New York and gives this nice speech about how he grew up in Baltimore but loved the Yanks and Don Mattingly and wore his Yankee hat to Memorial Stadium, and had this wonderful account (again paraphrasing):

“People would always say ‘What about Cal? What about Eddie?’, and I’d say ‘Yeah, but they’re no Don Mattingly’.”

FIRST OF ALL, Don Mattingly is no Cal Ripken and certainly no Eddie Murray, the coolest guy to ever play baseball. But come on, is it one way with the New Yorkers and another way with the Baltimoreans?

Dickhead. Oh yes, the hatred is rising again…

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:27:09 +0000

I’m going to the game on Thursday, if anyone wants to meet up.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:16:38 +0000

11. ZAUN’s mask is freakin’ sweet. You guys see that?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:46:03 +0000

Anyone have any ideas about the crowd turnouts tomorrow and Thursday? I’m sort of pulled back and forth on this. One the one hand, it’s not opening day, so the crowds should dissipate except for the Yankee fans. On the other hand, there weren’t that many Yankee fans there yesterday, and the Yankees do seel well even to Baltimoreans. On the other hand…I could do this all day. I hope it’s still so overwhelmingly pro-Oriole. I know it won’t be, or at least not for long, but it was so nice.