You Never Know...

How nice would it be if I got to buy World Series tickets this fall? At this point, anything can happen! I love springtime...

You've been PUNKED!

So there are some times that you don't want to be messed with, and then there are times you're just so relieved to have been messed with... this cracked me up. Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick didn't seem to mind being told that his trade to Japan was just a joke after all.

Really Cold Beer

It can't always be baseball season, I suppose, so I bought some Baltimore Ravens tickets today. Drinking a cold beer in a football stadium in November just doesn't seem the same, though.

A Look Back at the 2006 Baltimore Orioles

Okay, so I'm not usually a sucker for the musical montages, but this was an awesome watch.

Check out this not-so-sappy clip of the 2006 Baltimore Orioles season. (Why do I like it? Probably because it's one of the few musical montages that manages to NOT use Celine Dion. I like her and all, but adding Celine Dion to anything raises the sappiness quotient by a power of at least 10.)

Airing dirty laundry

Seems like the Baltimore Orioles are hitting the extremes as far as drama goes. Jay Gibbons starts complaining about lack of playing time, and manager Sam Perlozzo gives only this statement (from baltimoresun.com):

"Perlozzo said he's spoken with Gibbons and that his office door is open for players to come in and talk. 'I don't have anything negative to say other than, we're trying to do the absolute best to get him right and we've been working on that," Perlozzo said. "The newspaper's not the place to talk about it.'"

Wish the press could have that same attitude about the whole steroid investigation story...

National Nemesis

Okay tonight's the real deal. Think Washington fans will see a win over the Orioles tonight? Well, as much as the Nationals would like to win this one, they just don't have the lineup. Look on the Orioles bench ... Jay Gibbons. Brian Roberts. Miguel Tejada. Melvin Mora. Ramon Hernandez. Aubrey Huff. Corey Patterson. Nick Markakis, Jay Payton. Kevin Millar. I think we will see a repeat defeat.

Will MLB see Sammy Sosa again?

Remember when you last caught a glimpse of Sammy Sosa? It was in 2005, in his one season with the Baltimore Orioles. He’s been wanting to get back into MLB baseball and has been working out at home in the Dominican Republic. Just the other day he was spotted working out at Ameriquest Field with the Texas Rangers, the first big league team to give him a break, way back when he was 16. Sammy stayed with the Rangers for 17 years before moving to Chicago, first with the White Sox, then with the Cubs. Anyway, nobody’s reporting offers, and Sammy is 38, not 16, but personally I’d like to see him back in the game if he’s got a few more swings of the bat in him.

Millar Back for One More Season

The Baltimore Orioles signed their first baseman Kevin Millar to a one year extension of his contract for $2.75 million. Millar has averaged 17 home runs and 67 RBI's over the course of his seven season career. Last season Millar reached base in 103 of the 132 games that he did play by hit, walk, or hit by pitch. Millar has an option for 2008.

Orioles Have Their Work Cut Out for Them

Looking over the Baltimore Orioles' calendar for the 2007, Ryan Sharrow of the Baltimore Business Journal found some tough spots on the schedule. Mainly the first half of it. First off, our birds will be up north to open against the Minnesota Twins. Then it's over to the Big Apple and three games with the New York Yankees. We finally get back to Camden Yards, only to stage our home opener against the reigning AL Champs, the Detroit Tigers.

Y'know what, though? Those are the kinds of games I'd most like tickets for!

One tiny break Sharrow discovered in the 2007 itinerary: 39 of our 73 post-All-Star games will be home games.

Googling around

Major League Baseball is hibernating, of course, so I’m taking the opportunity to catch up on world events, etc. etc. So I’ve been on the internet doing some googling. Only to find out that it makes Google mad if I refer to surfing any other search engine as “googling.” I read that they actually have lawyers stewing over this.

If this is true, and I must caution you that not everything you read on the internet is—sheesh!, they are just being stupid. How is this harming Google? If you were running Yahoo or AOL, wouldn’t you kill to have your name turned into the generic term for websearching?

Hey, Google, quit crying! Here’s a kleenex. I mean, a facial tissue.