During the course of this offseason there were only two “name” free agents I ever thought the Orioles might be legitimately in on: Prince Fielder and Edwin Jackson. The former I always considered the longest of shots, but the more time he spent on the market the more I thought, maybe. The latter, well, that’s [...]

Never mind the Super Bowl. Seriously. If you can muster any enthusiasm for a match between the Patriots and the Giants (which is to say between New York and Boston) then you have something going for you that I neither have nor want. If I’m rooting for anything it’s for one team to win 3-0, [...]

Quick programming note: I’ll be joining a collection of the area’s finest Orioles bloggers onstage today at FanFest to talk about all things O’s. Which, for me this year, figures to be an interesting proposition. Reason being, I’m not sure what I’ll have to add this time around. I’m kind of in “wait and see” [...]

I’m a firm believer that all things move in cycles. Downs for every up, lefts for every right, good times for all the bad. With every reverse, of course, being equally true. We can’t have one thing without another. Indeed, it’s within that constant push and pull that something akin to life happens. Where we [...]

With each passing day of the Orioles‘ Hot Stove season I’m more and more convinced that my Great Awakening — the one where I came to fully understand that it’s folly to view this team through the prism of on-field success — was one of the better things that’s happened to me. After all, if [...]

I have a longer post brewing about all things Hot Stove and Orioles-related but I don’t have it quite formulated yet. I get the sense, however, that things might get active in the next few days. In anticipation of that, a few thoughts (and a comments section that’s wide open for following the developments): – [...]

The other evening I enjoyed beers and conversation with good friend and semi-regular commenter sci. Talk drifted, as it must, to the Orioles. As happens in Baltimore — one of the reasons I love this town — a sixty-something man clad head-to-toe in Ravens gear entered the conversation (uninvited, natch) to offer well-worn but widely [...]

Yesterday’s uniform unveiling wasn’t on par with three years ago (by the way: how the hell has it been that long?) but it was interesting enough: the Orioles unleashed a fairly significant set of uniform tweaks, including the much-desired (by some) return of the Cartoon Bird. I tend to be quite interested in uniform news [...]