NashLumber

I wore my 70s O's cap (black bill, orange front, cartoon bird) to a music festival last night. During a slow moment, the food truck guy motioned for me to come over. He said, pointing to my cap, "they sure are hard to pull for." I nodded. But I tried to give him the reasons why they are fun to watch now. I bet he's feeling like a damned genius today.

I think Wrigley has a similar rule about where the ivy meets the warning track. Some have exploited it to the defense's advantage over the years.

I had the same happen last week. A short in a rigged up cable was the culprit.

I am probably the outlier, but I have my MLB-TV feed of MASN (on my Mac into my HDTV screen) going through my stereo system and I have small Sony shelf speakers about a foot behind me, four feet to the left and right. I run all of this through a Mackie PA mixer and I can gently raise and lower the volume with faders as needed. As of right now, I don't have my hearing aids (I'm a hearing damaged musician) in and I still have no trouble hearing him. When I do have them in, I have the high end frequencies boosted. I just wonder if it's where your TV or device speakers are in relation to your ears. Admittedly, my setup is a hillbilly makeshift home entertainment center using what spare parts I have from my leftover band gear. But it works very well for my needs. Edited to add: Palmer does seem to be much more soft spoken in recent times. His voice is a more low midrange frequency than the play by play guy. When there is crowd noise, I noticed he tends to speak a little louder. I wonder if he has vocal cord issues or perhaps it's just how a guy in his 70s sounds after 40 years of broadcasting ...

I've noticed long pauses from him before. Not sure if it's for effect or that he's truly speechless at times and just prefers the silence tell the story.

The good news is that the pace of the game is much faster today than if they had fireworks after every HR. They would have had to pause to allow the fireworks guy to reload a couple of times already. An old joke, but fits today's derby.

Do we have an Orioles Nickname thread? Not the ones the press or their teammates give them, but nicknames from us. I nominate: Ryan Mountcasual as the initial inductee. He's the most unflappable, nothing-bothers-me player since that other icon of casual, "Complacent" Mark Reynolds.

I have a similar process to make sure I can watch MLB-TV on my Mac Mini through an HDTV screen I use as my TV monitor for streaming movies, baseball etc. I just have to make sure I turn off the VPN for my streaming channels as many of them are not available in the UK (or the same movie choices) which is where I have my VPN set for baseball. It is kind of convoluted. The only game I missed all year was the Wednesday one due an inability to log in. But as mentioned, we tested it with my wife's iPad sans VPN for her MLB account (she uses to buy game tix) and she was unable to log in as well.

When I realized about three years ago I was paying DirecTV $1200 a year just to see six months of Orioles games (nothing on MASN after October was worth my money), I ditched the satellite. For me, it was worth the $69 for a two year Private Internet Access VPN subscription and an MLB-TV subscription, ie. about $140 this year. I've only had one game since opening day that had complications (knock on wood) with the VPN. And actually, after checking my wife's connection w/o the VPN, we realized it was an MLB outage, not a VPN issue. It has been working so well for me, that I helped JustD and Weams last year get connected in this manner.

I would not be surprised *at all* if even with the Apple TV app or on Apple TV channel, the blackout is still in place. I do subscribe to Apple TV (Ted Lasso says "howdy and thanks, Beard") but I may have my VPN on just in case before I fire up the app.

And his high fast ball, climbing the ladder last night was thrilling.

I have no clue what Corn called him, but I dubbed him Kookenhaken. Say Keegan Akin fast to the tune of the song. It's very similar.

Nice to see Bob Weir enjoying the game from behind home plate in these clips, much like Steve Earle the night before. Joking about Weir, but Earle (per the game thread on Monday) was really there.

And tonight, Bob Weir in the house! Just kidding.

Not that I know of. I think it's more of a David Simon connection than the city itself. Simon also cast him in his Treme series. It's funny, the thing that tipped me off that it really was Steve Earle is the way he sort of rolls his head when he speaks, like his Walon character did on the Wire, like when he was mentoring Bubbles or giving an AA speech.

Good catch. Yep, that's him. Someone told me tonight that he lives up there now. His old drummer Will Rigby caught a Durham Bulls game with me this year. We try to do one or two every year. He told me while on tour, they'd try to catch MLB games on off days.

Too lazy to search all 15 pages of the thread, but did anyone note that Americana singer-songwriter Steve Earle was seated in the second row behind home plate? I'm friends of his former drummer in his band The Dukes, Will Rigby. I just texted a video of Steve doing the wave late in the game.

I feel the same as you. I have not read the whole thread, but the one thing I've noticed about retired numbers and statue recipients is that they all had gained World Series rings as Orioles. Mussina did not have that second distinction or achievement. Not solely his fault as only the '96 and '97 O's got into the postseason. Am I wrong about the retired number part? I was only going from what I've seen of those numbers painted on the upper deck in left field. But I know that is true of the statue recipients, a ring AND an MLB HOF induction.

I think the 8 x 10 is where I saw Glenn Tilbrook (when Squeeze were on hiatus) and band a few years after this era. I was still fairly new to getting around in Baltimore then, outside of what was right outside of Camden Yards' gates or Pratt St.

I thought about the new LF wall when I saw this RF wall in Winston-Salem NC last night. Just very strange. CF has some quirks, too. My first visit in some time. I saw Bundy pitch here when the Keys came to play in '12.

This may have been posted after you made your post, but it's the lead story on the MLB page right now. https://www.mlb.com/news/adley-rutschman-called-up-to-orioles

I liked that. But to me, even better, just before that, was how they teamed up with this sequence: Palmer: "He hopes he makes a mistake" crack of the bat Palmer, calmly: "He does." Brown: "That is absolutely walloped to right field! And that's all folks!"

Had to watch the game almost a day behind. Glad I stuck with it. Great, great win. Oh, and over on the MLB main page, there's about 14 stories, none of which are about the walk-off, even though there's another walk-off video for another game. Typcial. But guess what? WIN column!

Reminds me of a quick scene from Ted Lasso as the team examines the pitch at Wembley before their match.

It may have been mentioned, but right field in the old Yankee Stadium had that really low wall / fence. Here's Frank Robinson nearly breaking his neck going into the stands for one. And he makes the catch, much to the irritation of the Yankee skipper.