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I hate every single person that's ever intentionally or otherwise pulled in front of a moving motorcycle with the right-of-way regardless of the reason. That guy who pulled out of his driveway despite the fact the lane he was pulling in to was at a dead-stop. In other words, he pulled out to block my lane but waited until I was close enough to have to lock everything up. I stopped about 3 feet short, so he's lucky all he got was a dent the size of my boot in his rear driver-side door. It could have been his face. :angryfire:
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Okay, you *just* called me, *after* sending me an email, and requested that I send you my contact info. WTF??!! Texting is not exactly professional and singing telegrams aren't really considered "cool" anymore, so what other contact info could I provide that you don't already know?
That's awesome. Seriously.
On a semi-related note, I hate HATE when someone says, "Hey, I tried to get in touch with you and couldn't!" Really Genius? How exactly? Did you try e-mailing me in the office or my personal e-mail address? Did you call me in the office, my cell phone, or my home phone? Did ya Facebook me? I still have a friggin' fax number for crying out loud!
If you can't get in touch with me you're either not trying very hard or you're a moron.
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No kidding. Worst callers on the planet, but if they didn't have 200 crappy callers, we'd have five minutes of actual Dave Johnson insight followed by storytime with Tom and Phil.
Only thing worse is all of the other local weekend sports talk radio. 105.7 airs mortgage and health talk all morning and the rest of the stations are worse. I was listening to one of the dolts last week and he didn't know what player was coming up when Hughes was sent down despite the fact that Roch had posted it 4 or 5 hours earlier. If you do a sports talk show in Baltimore and are not checking The Orioles Hangout, Roch's blog, the Sun's sports page, and baltimoreravens.com on an hourly basis - you should be fired. Sign up for a text messaging service at least.
Fixed that for you.
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Bel Air must be around the southernmost border of the Oriole's territory. I have never seen one in Baltimore but I've seen them in upstate NY and Quebec.
I just moved north of Bel Air three weeks ago in the middle of Rocks State Park and my son swears he saw an Oriole. He said it looked like it had orange safety paint on its belly it was so bright. I haven't seen one yet. I'll have to see if I can find a feeder.
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I can do without my 2003 Pontiac Vibe GT's "mystery illnesses". First the dashboard gauge cluster quit last week. My speedometer, tachometer, battery meter, gas gauge, and temperature gauge are all flatlined and the light is out. All the fuses look just fine, both in the passenger compartment and in the engine compartment. Then yesterday I stopped to pick up dinner, came out, and my car wouldn't start. Took a hotshot, drove five miles, and needed another. Drove another mile, and it quit. It was the original battery, so I went ahead and replaced it planning to just get it home so I could have my brother-in-law mechanic (aka "The Car Whisperer") take a look and possibly replace the alternator. We determined that on 3 different occassions after replacing the battery that it was holding a charge. That means the alternator's working to some capacity. Now the display on my stereo goes out if I turn on my headlights.
It's either the alternator's working intermittently, a fuse I missed, a bad relay somewhere, or a short somewhere in between. If it's one of the first three my BIL and I can fix it for under $150. If not? Hello dealer!
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Some animal or the wind knocked down the new Oriole bird feeder I put out yesterday:angryfire:
It is broken:(
Gotta ask...is it an Orioles bird feeder (decorated in team colors) or is it a feeder geared toward the species known as an oriole?
Either way...I'm guessing it was the wind. It was crazy up this neck of the woods on Saturday. I kept waiting for my mother to come blowing by on a bicycle cackling about how she was gonna get me and my dog.
(MA! I'm kidding! Love ya if you're reading this!
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How the kids projectile vomit always find me no matter how many times I say "look away" prior to the event.
3 year olds with strep throat, scarlet fever, 102 fever, and vomiting.
Oh...I'm sorry. Scarlet fever is a path we've never been down, thank God. Being the target of projectile vomiting, though? That's me. My daughter made me feel TERRIBLE last year when she had a nasty stomach virus. She apologized in tears and in mid-hurl for, "Getting fro up on your Joe Fwacco jersey, Daddy! I'm soooo sorry! You wuv Joe Fwacco!"
Kid broke my heart that night and the next day when she expressed her relief when I showed her that it all came clean and explained that I love her more than Joe and especially my jersey.
She's a good kid.
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Moving? Sucks donkeys.
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I got an e-mail from a co-worker this morning that said, "Call me when you get a chance." So I did. He had a one sentence, yes-or-no question to ask me. Nothing complicated, confidential, personal, etc.
I said, "Just curious...instead of asking me to call you, why didn't you just ask your question?" He was speechless, like it never occurred to him. :cussing:
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Yup, that's over-pronation, under is the inside of your foot. Makes you more vulnerable for ankle sprains too, so watch out for that. Let us know if you find something that helps.
Pronation is the action of rolling from the outside of your foot to the inside of your foot. Over-pronators roll too quickly/excessively to the inside of their foot. Under-pronators don't roll enough. The easiest way to tell which (if either) you do is to look at a pair of your well-worn shoes from the back...if they're worn to the inside you over-pronate. Worn on the outside you under-pronate.
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Hey, Continental Airlines rebooked my brother's HOU->DCA connection that was supposed to be on Saturday to Monday. However, they did NOT rebook his original first leg, Colorado Springs to Houston, which was still on Saturday. So, I guess they expected him to spend 2 days in the Houston airport. Change fee: $150. Entirely new one-way ticket on American: $124. Go figure.
It's all irrelevant, though, as in his extra 24 hours in Colorado he managed to fall down and hurt his arm and is now not allowed to fly until the end of the week so they can figure out if he has nerve damage. We're hoping he'll get here by Xmas at this point.
Yikes...sorry 2BS. I hope your bro is free of nerve damage and makes it home before Christmas.
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I hate how, after over a month of absence, the Steelers get off the schnide and their fans come crawling back out of the woodwork. You fat, filthy, hairy, foul-mouthed, obnoxious, black-and-gold toting idiots should be ashamed of yourselves. Your husbands even moreso.
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My poor deer:(
It is so slick I can not get food to them .I feel guilty:(
They're wild animals. They'll figure it out.
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Interesting read and I'm not saying it was wrong, but it cites no real medical doctor/institution/etc.
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Sorry to hear about your ride Cindy, its never fun to see something damaged so soon after buying it. Especially when you aren't at fault.
Yeah, I asked a bunch of people at the bar, and several of the staff members. Nothing.
Apparently each of the previous 4 nights, people had had their cars broken into. Might be time for the place to get some security cameras.
Someone actually had the nerve to tell me he noticed an hour before when he got there, but didn't think to tell anyone. Fantastic.
The best part of it, I was at Dick's Halfway Inn in Rosedale for happy hour after work. Not exactly my scene, but its the closest bar to work so we frequently end up there. Its not easy to call the cops, insurance, etc and tell them you are at a place called Dick's Halfway Inn, and not have them assume its a prank call.
I drive by there all the time. It's the greatest name for a bar I've ever seen.
The break-ins, by the way, have less to do with the establishment than they do with neighborhoods. The place is safe during the summer, though, assumably due to the high volume of bikers that frequent the place.
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I cooperated with a telemarketer from my credit card company doing a survey today.I hope I helped out someone with a miserable job. It wasn't half-bad.
I used to harrass telemarketers, but I had a young woman one time hear out what ever goofy schtick I was laying out. When I finished she said, "Look dude. You could have just hung up on me. This is the best I can do right now. You rubbing it in my face was really unnecessary. I'm sorry I bothered you, but I hope no one at YOUR job makes you feel bad about what YOU do for a living."
I apologized profusely. Felt like a giant turd. I no longer mess with telemarketers.
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I was just watching Duff Goldman on the Foot Network and he was wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. I thought he was a Oriole's fan.
I gave him a hard time about it when we met with him about our wedding cake and he said he grew up in Mass.
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That's the kind of attitude that soured this place for me. The atmosphere of sarcasm and negativity is often pervasive and contagious. I think it has a lot to do with all the losing and so is not directly the fault of the posters or staff, but I had become well aware that participating in it wasn't a positive influence on my own outlook and I wasn't doing a good job of ignoring the petty sniping that goes back and forth and focusing on the good. At the end of the day, my interest in the site had been waning for a long time and there had to be some point at which I just cut it off because as long as I was paying for it I kept coming back from time to time. Now my account is canceled so I won't feel any compulsion to come back once I close this session. In a strange way it's kind of a weight off my shoulders. Like I tried to explain, my decision wasn't based on being vindictive, it was just something that's been a long time coming. I thought I should say goodbye in some way after 4 years or so of being around here rather than just silently canceling without a word. Anyway, I genuinely mean it when I wish you all the best of luck and happiness.
If you're not having fun here it sounds like you're clearly making a good decision. Best of luck and happiness to you, too.
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You're right. I don't use this site anywhere near as much as I used to and I've been thinking about delving into ccbill to figure out how to cancel my subscription for awhile. If the staff wants to goad me into taking my money elsewhere, maybe it's time I get around to doing that. I'll miss chatting with some of you all about the O's, Ravens, college basketball and stuff, but it hasn't really been something I've enjoyed enough to be worth paying for in awhile. I wish you all the best. I harbor no ill will, I'm just now fully convinced that my membership in this online community has outlived its usefulness. Peace out.
I was pointing out the flaw in your argument by making a ridiculous statement using similar logic. That's the final straw in driving you to take your ball and go home? LOL. :rofl:
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Blah blah blah. What it comes down to is that I understood them griping when the announcement was made, but when it's generally considered a great move from the perspective of the sports team they're following, it would be at least to be nice to hear "well, I'd rather spend ST in Ft. Lauderdale personally, I like the night life there better, but hey, it's a better deal for the Orioles in Sarasota."
Who asked YOU?!?!
I heard Roch criticize the facilities in Ft. Lauderdale as well as the arrangement last year, so I can kinda conclude where he's at on the topic overall. However, it's a valid drawback to the situation from where he stands.
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I never said they couldn't complain, just that your statement was inaccurate because they aren't forced to do anything they didn't knowingly sign up for. They're entitled to complain all they want at the bar, to their friends, etc. Heck, they can join the Orioles Hangout and post about it in "Short Rants." However, I can very well see how viewers of a tv program (or listeners to a radio program) who are tuning in to be informed about the latest happenings in sports would be a little less than thrilled to have half the time taken up by the broadcasters' rants about what they dislike about their jobs. Honestly, they're probably not complaining about it on their shows because they're so upset and miserable and missing their families (who are just as much not with them if they're in a trendy tourist mecca as if they're in a sleepy inland town), they're talking about it on the air because they somehow seem to think it's cute or entertaining. Most of their listeners don't seem to agree with them about that.
As for the dearth of jobs on the current market, did Roch, Anita or anyone else mentioned in this thread enter the field of sports broadcasting during the current recession? I don't think so. They all made choices in their college majors, past jobs, etc. that led to them being in a field that involves travel. Like I said, we're all allowed to have regrets and vent about them, but that doesn't mean it's a good topic for your sports-talk show.
Semantics really. Based on that principle, from now on, don't complain about anything on this message board because my response is going to be, "Nobody is forcing you to be here." How's that?
Knowing what I know of Roch, he's hardly the type to shoot for "cute and entertaining". I'm sure it's genuine disappointment.
As far as jobs...YOU said "there are plenty of less interesting jobs out there". That's what I was referencing. Plenty of current and former members of the local sports beat have contemplated career changes over the last two-plus years.
Whether or not it makes for good sports talk is a matter of opinion. Many listeners want to get to know on-air personalities. They all do it to some capacity in this market. Even for those who don't care for it, it doesn't diminish the final product any more than commercials do.
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They're not being forced to do anything. There are plenty of less interesting jobs out there that pay more and involve less travel. Besides, not everybody hates business travel. I like it, and so do some of my colleagues who have kids. Of course I like trips to Savannah better than trips to Raleigh, but I understand that Raleigh is part of my job for a reason so I try to make the best of it and find the few fun places to go out there. I'm sure there's someplace they can enjoy themselves in Sarasota, and it will probably fit much better into their limited per diem budget.
LOL...okay then...nobody should complain about their jobs, homes, cars, etc. ever. There are other people who don't mind so much and you could always change.
And I have to ask...what kind of frequency does your business travel involve? I was on the road sometimes 4 days a week at stretches. I think that's somewhat comparable to an MLB beat writer.
Are there people out there who have it worse? Sure. Are Roch and Anita "forced" to do anything? No. What sounds like a dream job to you might actually feel like a 9-to-5 grind to someone else. As far as the "plenty of less interesting jobs" comment...uh, have you seen the job market lately? There are a few unemployed Hangouters that I'm sure would LOVE for you to enlighten them to this alleged wealth of jobs.
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Sports media types are a bunch of crybabies about stuff like this. Every time the Superbowl is somewhere like Detroit it's one article after another about how it's cold and there's nothing to do, and how they should just have it in SD or Miami or Tampa every year.
These people get paid very little to watch sports for a living while being forced to spend significant time away from their families, for crying out loud.
Fixed that for ya.
I worked a job for three years that required I spend 10-15 days a month on the road. Eventually what you're doing for a living becomes irrelevant: Business travel blows. You can't put a price on being able to kick back and relax on YOUR couch, surrounded by YOUR family, petting YOUR dog, and if you're thirsty heading to YOUR fridge for a cold one.
In the case of local sports media who cover a team on the road, it's important to understand that, contrary to what a lot of people believe (including myself until I found out otherwise), they really don't get paid as much as you think. Depending on the outlet, many of those guys are forced to live two-to-a-room in 2-star motels. Their per diem/meal money? Laughable.
Look...I know it's Florida and it's warm and it's hard to imagine someone whining while we're stuck in the thick of winter here in Baltimore. Eventually even the weather isn't enough to stave off the homesick blues. When something like the nightlife and restaurant scene helps you get by and that changes significantly, it's gonna be a bummer. I can't really condemn a real, legitimate journalist like Roch for complaining a little. He'll still go south and do a kick-butt job at covering the team this spring, but I honestly feel for him a little.
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My beautiful "baby" girl's 7th birthday party this afternoon. Good times!Wow...7?!? Congrats bro. Happy birthday to the mini-Bean.
(By the way...I'm getting ready to embark on Week 1 Day 3 of C25K in a few minutes.)
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I wouldn't do that! No, I was bracing myself for impact and my foot accidentally made contact with the rear driver side door of his car. :mwahaha:
I made eye contact with him as I was approaching where his driveway intersected with 24, had my suspicions about his intentions, and they were proved right when at the last possible second he pulled out in front of me to force his way into traffic. I had nothing to do but lock everything in and everything down. I stopped barely three feet from his car. He made a left turn and failed to yield to oncoming traffic and also caused blocked traffic. Thank God I thought quickly enough to avoid having to drop my bike or worse...an impact between our two vehicles.
Guys with lesser restraint than I may have taken it much further than I did.