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Carllamy last won the day on February 9 2020

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About Carllamy

  • Birthday 04/14/1962

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    Catonsville, MD
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    O's, M:tG
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    Lawyer
  • Favorite Current Oriole
    Adam Jones...no, wait
  • Favorite All Time Oriole
    Chico Salmon

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  1. I've worked security and screening before at a stadium. I didn't work every game, and I certainly only worked at the metal detector I was at, not all of them at the same time. But I've found many, knives, bunches of containers of pepper spray, and more vape pens then you can imagine. But I only remember finding like three or four cans of chewing tobacco. Not that many people bring them into a stadium.
  2. I'm not sure what the disagreement here is. We all know how to sign free agents: You wine and dine them, and then you present them with a "Wow" offer. How many times have we seen this work he past. It is a can't miss strategy.
  3. Here's my deal. I switched from Xfinity, which I liked but their yearly rate increases were killing me. I went to Fios, their rock bottom, slowest, bare minimum home phone, tv and wifi internet service, with a small fee for a "sports" package that includes Fox Sports and ESPN1 and the NFL network. I got to choose 5 optional channels, and one of the ones I chose was MASN. It is $186 a month, and the selling point was that this price will never change. I can get MASN on the tv, but not directly on the internet at the Verizon Fios site. I have to go to masnsports web site, click on streaming. Then a page of internet provider names, like Verizon, Xfinity and Cox appear. You click on your provider, log on, then click on whether you want MASN 1 or MASN 2, and voila, the O's game is on the internet. As I have both internet and tv with Fios I have no idea if you can get it just for the streaming cost, but I would assume you can. And that should be, I expect, less than $186 a month. Funny thing is, when I got the package over the phone the salesman told me I would have to go wifi, which I didn't want because it is unreliable (it's dropped out a few times over the months just to prove me point to me), but it was mandatory, so I got it. The installer guys showed up, and promptly told me that, no, I could have been connected via cable and that, yes, cable gives a faster, more reliable service than wifi. So, there you have it. So now I have wifi, so that I can connect with the tablet and laptop that I don't own.
  4. The O's last week announced they were hiring stadium help for the end of the season through the playoffs. I decided to go and apply. I was in line to have an interview and talking with one of the guys who were running things. He said that they expected about 500 people to apply for positions. Now, who knows how many people actually showed up to apply for positions, and who knows how many they'll hire, but apparently, they were willing to at least talk to 500 people, so that tells you they aren't looking to fill one or two positions.
  5. I'll tell you my memories of the 1983 World Series. My friend Tony and I got tickets for game 1, upper deck of Memorial Stadium, behind home plate. It was a chilly, windy night with a drizzly rain that wouldn't stop. My 1983 World Series scorecard has a big water stain on it because of the rain. The Orioles offense hardly did anything, and we lost 2-1. Whatever network was showing it had sent the Goodyear Blimp for aerial shots, and it was directly over our heads behind home plate. It was struggling to stay where it wanted to in the wind, and it was flying so close to the stadium that my friend kept saying that it was going to crash into the light stanchions and drop onto our heads. And frankly, I had to agree that it looked like it was a possibility. As the Orioles proceeded to win the World Series by sweeping the next 4 games, it was the only O's loss of that series, and I paid good money to be cold, wet and scared of being killed by a crashing blimp to have the honor of seeing the only game loss of that series.
  6. I love long, extra-innings games. I remember years and years ago, my boss handed me, late in the day, two tickets. Said he wasn't able to give them away, did I want them. Yep I did. I had to work late (real estate always works late) but went anyway. Got to the stadium as the 7th inning started. Pulled into lot B or C or whatever, pulled out my money to pay. "Nope," said the lot attendant. Starting in the 7th, parking is free. I parked for free, walked in, got a hot dog and coke, sat down 1/2 way through the 7th. I ended up seeing 9 innings in the game. It went into the 16th inning! I liked the 2nd "7th inning stretch" in the 14th. I liked that in the 14th or around there they announced that they thanked us for staying, told us we couldn't sit in the upper deck anymore, but that we could sit anywhere in the lower bowl. And that the only food available anymore was directly behind home plate. I bought some food, sat directly behind home plate and watched the O's win in 16. Heck of a fun time. Free parking, free ticket, no lines for food. Best seats in the house. Just me and a couple thousand of my closest friends in the stands. Who doesn't like that?
  7. Sounds great. I'll start at $500. Who doesn't want a Frank Robinson bat?
  8. I heard on the radio ,105.7 The Fan, that the naming rights being sold are for the field only, not the park. So it'll still be Orioles Park. So I guess it'll be something like Crave Sex Toy Field at Orioles Park at Camden Yards. In Baltimore, Maryland. United States of America. Earth. Milky Way Galaxy. Univers that Thanos Tried To Take Over.
  9. This may seem like an odd question, but it is legit what I thought of when I saw this thread: The O's sell old used jerseys. I bought one at Fanfest one year, with Ruiz on the back (for the bullpen catcher), and it has 2 sleeve patches: 2014 Post Season is one, and the other is Tom Clancey, to honor Tom Clancey after he died. So, I wonder: Say you get a deal for a sleave patch with Comcast at the end of a season, the season ends, and then Comcast goes out of business. A new deal is struck with Google and the new season jerseys have that patch. Would having a rare, hardly seen Comcast patch, only worn for a month, make a used jersey more valuable, less valuable, or would nobody care and it has no impact?
  10. We haven't had a legitimate #1 starting pitcher since Mike Mussina left at the end of 2000. Come for the tradition! This is Giving You The Bird Land
  11. My favorite Manny Machado story was from a year or two ago, I don't remember which. This actually occurred on camera, so I saw the clip on ESPN or something. Tatis was having some fight or something on the field, and Manny yelled at him something along the lines of "You're the best player in baseball. Everybody knows it. Don't listen to that stuff. The team needs you." (i.e., don't get thrown out of the game) Here's Manny, who every year is in the discussion of "best player in baseball" telling Tatis, a young player, how great he (Tatis) is, and reminding him to think team first. Also, when he got traded to the Dodgers and the Dodgers were in the playoffs, Manny got caught on camera saying "O" during the National Anthem. I love this guy, I love his attitude, and I wish he was a Baltimore Oriole.
  12. Lakins needs to be nicknamed "The Stopper" because he stops other teams from getting shut out.
  13. First, if you want to see some pics (mostly pre-game) of opening day I've posted them to the OH Facebook group Walked to the stadium. Hooters had waitresses handing out chicken wings on the street outside the stadium. O's kind of ran the day like amateur hour, like usual. I needed them to print me a ticket, which I've done at least 8 times now. Still nobody knew how to do it. It took at least 15 minutes. During pregame I was on the flag court, and as usual, that meant the echo from the warehouse was so bad you couldn't hear anything Rob Long or anyone else said on the speakers. There seem to be 2 new people, a man and a woman, the O's are going to use in-game to pump up the crowd interest, but as I could never hear what they said, I can't know for sure. All I know is the entire time they talked she was in the picture, but the top half of his head was cut off, outside the picture frame. I can hardly wait until the O's are 23-52, firmly entrenched in last place and these two are on screen trying to rouse up the crowd "Come on, O's fans, let's get excited!" It's really going to be sad. On the up side Opening Day pins are very popular and always sell out so fast they're hard to find, but this year they actually had people with them in their hands walking around the stores asking "Who needs an Opening Day Pin, and how many?" People were snapping them up. There is a bunch of Opening Day merch I've never seen before (I bought a wooden cup with 30th Anniversary logo burned into it) like cool tee shirts, hoodies, can koozies and such. Two concourse team stores are gone. One is now a Ritas for those who like ice cream, and one has been turned into additional picnic tables for eating. The new wall section just looks like a wall. You get used to it in like five minutes. Hitting with runners in scoring position is bad. Urias had a terrible day. Why is Odor playing? He came up in a bunch of important at bats. I was standing right behind home plate when I saw Cedric Mullins fooled so badly on a pitch that he gave one of the worst swings I've ever seen from an MLB player, so late and weak it was unbelievable. But he also drove in two runs, so... The center fielder for the Brewers played great defense. The shot he caught from Trey Mancini was spectacular. Trey hit a good ball that would have bounced off the center field wall. The center fielder jumped and caught the ball, and smashed into the wall like a sack of cement hitting the ground. Then he bounced off the wall and face planted hard into the dirt. That he held on to the ball was amazing. Nobody standing on the flag court could believe he held on to the ball. We were all amazed, and that's the truth. Mullins made a great play in center. Again I was standing right behind home plate when a drive was smacked into right center, in between Mullins and Santander, slicing away from Mullins. I was directly in line with the drive, so could see it was going fast to the empty gap. I even said out loud "That'll drive in a run." Mullins kept running so fast, he got there, lunged and caught it. From my perfect vantage point I didn't think there was any way he could get there to catch it, yet he did.
  14. Sign him up. SIGN HIM UP. If he makes the team, I still have a chance to get him to sign that game worn jersey I bought!
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