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  1. 04-21-2011 08:10 PM #1
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    "You Can't Kill an Oriole"

    This poem is hanging on the wall in Buck's office. I hadn't heard it before, thought it was cool.

    You Can't Kill an Oriole
    by Ogden Nash ©
    Published: The Home Team (1953)

    Wee Willie Keeler
    Runs through the town,
    All along Charles Street,
    In his nightgown.
    Belling like a hound dog,
    Gathering the pack:
    Hey, Wilbert Robinson,
    The Orioles are back!
    Hey, Hughie Jennings!
    Hey, John McGraw!
    I got fire in my eye
    And tobacco in my jaw!
    Hughie, hold my halo.
    I'm sick of being a saint:
    Got to teach youngsters
    To hit 'em where they ain't.
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  2. 04-21-2011 08:42 PM #2
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    Made this photo of it for anyone interested in using it as a background!

    And here comes Sammy to show me up...
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    I just ran up Colonial Drive in my nightgown.
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  4. 04-21-2011 08:48 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hank Scorpio View Post
    I just ran up Colonial Drive in my nightgown.
    Was that you I heard bellerin' like a hound dog?
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  5. 04-21-2011 09:05 PM #5
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    You can't kill an Oriole...

    ...unless your name is Scott Baker.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulFolk View Post
    You can't kill an Oriole...

    ...unless your name is Scott Baker.
    Or Jon Lester.
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  7. 04-21-2011 09:09 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChaosLex View Post
    Or Jon Lester.
    Or Mike Gonzalez (does suicide count?)
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  8. 04-21-2011 11:12 PM #8
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    This is AWESOME
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    Thumbs up

    You can't kill an Oriole but it seems just about anyone can beat them senseless. They just lost to the Twins masquerading as the Black Night(Monty Python).
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  10. 04-28-2011 08:07 AM #10
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    That's pretty cool. He changed the words to a nursery rhyme (Wee Willie Winkie) to be about the Os. My daughter recites that nursery rhyme all the time. Now I need to teach her this version!
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  11. 04-28-2011 09:38 AM #11
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    I had never heard of it either, until Gary Thorne read it in Buck's office on the pregame show. Pretty cool to think of the ghosts of the past O's hall of famers getting excited to welcome the team back to Baltimore in 1954.
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