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Gentlemanly Means Pursued

Everything Look OK?

Just got an email from Ryan that said he’s having trouble viewing the site. Says the sidebars are all messed up and that the layout is jacked. I’m on a Mac and having no trouble in either Safari or Firefox, but what about all of you? Please let me know if things don’t look normal [...]

Gear Up For Summer ’09

This was a fit of inspiration, one of those things that just clicked in my head so strong that I had to move it up the to-do list. Some background is in order. Back in 2001, a studio out of Amsterdam called Experimental Jetset produced an iconic t-shirt called John Paul Ringo George. Click that [...]

Orioles, Cubs in Talks for Hill

According to a report tonight from the Sun, the idea we bandied about in the comments appears legit: the O’s and Cubs are in talks that could bring Rich Hill to Baltimore. The best part of this is that all we’re talking about is a “player to be named” in return, contingent on Hill’s performance. [...]

New Site: the Countdown

First thing: there’s a new post by Justin below this one, a home for all things Ravens as they march into the playoffs. Make sure to check it out and chime in with thoughts/predictions/etc. Now… I’ve been talking about it since at least October (ugh), but it’s almost time for action. Loss Column 2.0 is [...]

New Site News (Testers Needed)

We interrupt the Mark Teixeira/starting rotation/Ravens playoffs talk with an important announcement and request. The Loss Column 2.0 is ready for beta testing, and I need a handful of you to join me at the new site and poke around a little bit. If you’re interested, leave a comment on this post and use your [...]

Rounding Up the Best of the Rest

Here in the afterglow (for Ravens fans) of Sunday’s big win, I figure it’s a good time to step back for a few and run down some of the news from the rest of the local sports landscape. This is the kind of thing I hope to get around to more often. One thing that [...]

Orioles Uniform Rally: Success

New Orioles Uniforms: Today’s the Day

<a href="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jones_199x253.jpg"><img src="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/jones_199x253-157×200.jpg" alt="" title="Adam Jones in the new Orioles uniform" width="157" height="200" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1942" /></a>I’ll be heading down to Harborplace in a couple of hours to attend the big <a href="http://www.thelosscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/nov12invite.jpg" target="blank">event</a>. Most of the details of what we’ll see have already <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-orioles1111,0,2974482.story" target="blank">appeared in the <i>Sun</i></a>, but there’s no substitute for [...]