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Carllamy

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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!
  15. I got a soda cup from the 1996 League Championship series. You know, the Jeffrey Maier series? I don't think my Niece likes me.
  16. When it comes to Hunter Harvey, I think he one thing people need to remember is that I expected him to be a really big deal, so I spent $100 to buy his game used jersey from the Bowie Baysox, figuring the O's would have him do an autograph session one day and I could get him to sign it. We have to keep him around and give him as many chances as possible so that I can get some value out of my jersey purchase.
  17. He has to do something about his long backswing. He keeps smacking catchers in the helmet with his backswing. I've seen him do it at least three times this year, and it is only June. And I listen to most games on the radio. Since I've SEEN him hit catchers in the head three times already, how many times have I missed by listening to the games instead of watching?
  18. I am old enough to have seen Manny Machado, and Brooks Robinson, and Doug DeCinces and Todd Cruz play third for the O's. They were great. I also have seen Leo Gomez, and Melvin Mora and they were fine. But if memory serves I've also seen Floyd Rayford, and Wayne Gross and Ray Knight on the hot corner for the O's. And, even Chris Davis once or twice. So if the O's want Maikel Franco over there instead of Ray Knight, I'm fine with that.
  19. If I'm thinking of the store you mean, then yes, the Authentic Store is open. I got a slice of pizza from the 7219 Pizza Vendor, third base side. The people in front of me got out of line after waiting, as the registers kept shutting down. A manager type walked by and started showing them the completely non-obvious combination of buttons they had to push to make them work. Registers at the Team Store worked fine. The pizza was actually pretty good. The problem is, it was served in a pretty big wedge-shaped box, but when I opened it, there was a tiny slice in it. I was like "What the...?" My mistake earlier. The cow bobblehead is in Memorial Park, not the flag court. I don't know if I mentioned it in the previous post, although it shows in the pictures, they are ensuring social distancing by ziptying closed bunches of seats. Also, I bought an individual ticket. I didn't have to buy two. I ended up talking to a guy near me. He had bought two tickets, and then turned one of them in. I had bought his individual turned-in ticket. I didn't know you could do that. That also meant that I was gong to have to sit next to him. I thought that was stupid in the age of Covid, so I asked the Usher if I could sit in a section of empty seats in the next row back, and he said yes, so that we could be spaced out.
  20. I went to the first game of the double header yesterday - I couldn't stay for the second. I've posted photos on the OH Facebook site for those who would like to see them. Apologies up front. I posted them in chronological order, from when I got there to when I left, but Facebook seems to have scrambled them up upon posting, so their order doesn't always make sense. There weren't the usual outside vendors, either when I got there, or when I left. I bought a ticket at a walk up window. They're using the Will Call windows as well as the usual ones so they can spread out, so that no two windows are open next to each other. The usual in-stadium ticket windows were not open. I told them I couldn't do tickets by cell phone, so they just printed one for me (I took a photo of it). The flag court is closed. For no apparent reason, there is a giant Chik-fil-a bobblehead cow on the flagcourt. Boogs' has a new tower sign next to it, with a spinning circular Pepsi sign on top, like a roadside diner. Team Store now has separate entrance and exit, and they limit the number of people in the store. They still have a supply of Opening Day lapel pins (I collect them). Hooray! Seasons Pizza has been replaced with another place, but that may have happened last season. I don't remember. A lot of places are closed. Many of the normal burger and dog places. The smaller team stores. Much of the upper deck vendors are closed. Ushers carry small signs reminding you to mask up. Even the cops wear masks. There are hand washing stations. The kids gym equipment is gone. The street signs again don't have individual players on them, just logos, or reminders of the new safety rules, like Wear Masks and such.
  21. I was downtown, so I ran past the stadium (didn't have a ticket for the game) and took some photos from outside the stadum. I've posted them on the OH Facebook page. Nothing exciting, other than it was a surprise that they were handing out facemasks to anyone in line who didn't have one.
  22. I thought it would be interesting to look at the 2020 and possible 2021 opening day rosters, just to compare: 2020 2021 C: Severino, Sisco ? Severino, Sisco 1B: C. Davis 1B: Mancini 2b: Hanser Alberto 2B: Jamai Jones, Yolmer Sanchez 3B: Rio Ruiz 3B: Ruiz, Franco SS: Jose Iglesias SS: Galvis, Martin Utility: Velazquez, Valaika Utility: Valaika, Urias DH: Renato Nunez DH: Fill in the blank Outfield: Hays, Stewart Outfiled: Mountcastle, Hays, Santander, Mullins Mullins, Stewart, Smith, Jr. Santander SP: Cobb, LeBlanc, Wojcechowski, SP: Akin, Kremer, Means Milone, Kohl Stewart Zimmerman, Harvey RP: Givens, Bleier, Fry, Armstrong RP: Armstrong, Fry, Laikins Castro, Scott, Carroll, Sulser Lopez, Sceroler, Scott, Laikins, Hess, Phillips Sulser, Tate, Valdez, Wells Aside from a few bullpen pieces, I think 2021 is flat out a better team in a straight, position by position comparison.
  23. I just started a thread with the O's response to an inquiry I sent them pertaining to this issue.
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