Guess what I just found out???

[SammyBirdland]

Nah, the last thing we need is for O's fans to get banned from the stadium. We already have enough trouble getting people in the place, can't be keeping out that precious few who want to get IN!

It would be funny for the local news to question the Orioles on why they have Yankees/Red Sox gear in their own ballpark shops for me to trample on. I have a feeling that only us crazy die-hards are aware of this. It would be pretty embarrassing for the O's front office I think, not that they should be strangers to dealing with embarrassment. We'd get to see if the "everybody else does it too" defense would fly with angry Baltimoreans.

[glorydays]

The Orioles do not have that, that is the big deal. Now it's one thing to see them on the concourses, and I still don't like that, but in the official team store in the Warehouse, that is a major no-no IMO.

I guarantee that you will not see any Yankees stuff in the Yawkey Way Store like the Orioles sell Yankees stuff in their official team store.

And it's interesting that they mentioned that stuff about NL teams as that must be something new. I went to see a Braves-Red Sox game I think in 2005 and there was no Braves stuff whatsoever on the concourses or in the team store.

What's funny is the area where it is "OK" for the opposing team's stuff to be sold is getting smaller and smaller every time you post. Next arguement - shirts vs skins!

[BaltimoreTerp]

It would be funny for the local news to question the Orioles on why they have Yankees/Red Sox gear in their own ballpark shops for me to trample on. I have a feeling that only us crazy die-hards are aware of this. It would be pretty embarrassing for the O's front office I think, not that they should be strangers to dealing with embarrassment. We'd get to see if the "everybody else does it too" defense would fly with angry Baltimoreans.

I think someone in the local media could ask the Orioles just about any question about something with the team or ballpark and get people angry. Could be a Brooks Robinson statue, could be the lack of nuclear waste storage beneath the third base line. It all depends on how you ask and how you present it.

[Stotle]

The Orioles do not have that, that is the big deal. Now it's one thing to see them on the concourses, and I still don't like that, but in the official team store in the Warehouse, that is a major no-no IMO.

I guarantee that you will not see any Yankees stuff in the Yawkey Way Store like the Orioles sell Yankees stuff in their official team store.

And it's interesting that they mentioned that stuff about NL teams as that must be something new. I went to see a Braves-Red Sox game I think in 2005 and there was no Braves stuff whatsoever on the concourses or in the team store.

I went to an O's/Yankees game each year I was in NYC and the Yankee store had O's hats and usually a rack of other O's merchandise.

[SammyBirdland]

I went to an O's/Yankees game each year I was in NYC and the Yankee store had O's hats and usually a rack of other O's merchandise.

The difference is that the O's success isn't currently sustaining the Yankee franchise.

[BaltimoreTerp]

The difference is that the O's success isn't currently sustaining the Yankee franchise.

Something has to sustain it...

[Stotle]

The difference is that the O's success isn't currently sustaining the Yankee franchise.

Shrug. I don't see any issue with selling all sorts of MLB merchandise in the stadium. When I was a kid, I bought an Expos hat in Tiger Stadium during an O's/Tigers game.

[SammyBirdland]

Shrug. I don't see any issue with selling all sorts of MLB merchandise in the stadium. When I was a kid, I bought an Expos hat in Tiger Stadium during an O's/Tigers game.

Did Expos fans consistently overrun Tiger Stadium to the point where Tigers fans would prefer to stay home and instead come out when the Tigers were playing some other team? Did the "Let's go Expos" chants dominate the crowd noise on the Tigers' television broadcast of the game?

[glorydays]

Did Expos fans consistently overrun Tiger Stadium to the point where Tigers fans would prefer to stay home and instead come out when the Tigers were playing some other team?

I get your point - but wouldn't other teams just have a ball laughing at us for refusing to sell Sox or Yankee stuff in our team store... when they all do it? The media would have a field day - Leno would be calling us losers. We would once again be the laughingstock of baseball.

[Stotle]

Did Expos fans consistently overrun Tiger Stadium to the point where Tigers fans would prefer to stay home and instead come out when the Tigers were playing some other team? Did the "Let's go Expos" chants dominate the crowd noise on the Tigers' television broadcast of the game?

I shudder to think what cuts in the amateur talent acquisition budget would result from not selling these items.

[SammyBirdland]

I get your point - but wouldn't other teams just have a ball laughing at us for refusing to sell Sox or Yankee stuff in our team store... when they all do it?

No. They might re-evaluate their own practice of doing it.

[OFFNY]

Did Expos fans consistently overrun Tiger Stadium to the point where Tigers fans would prefer to stay home and instead come out when the Tigers were playing some other team?

Sammy, they overrun the stadium because:

A. We have had 13 straight losing losing seasons, and our fans either don´t buy tickets to the games, or they sell the tickets that they have to Yankee and Red Sox fans.

B. The Yankees and the Red Sox have winning seasons every year and playoff appearances almost every year, so their "fans" are more likely to come out of the woodwork wholesale with struts in their steps and taunts from their mouths, either from New York and Boston, and/or from Maryland and northern VA.

Our selling Yankee gear in the team store has nothing to do with the fact that their fans override our stadium, or whether or not they decide to make the trip to OPACY. They are going to come to OPACY for the above reasons, and the only thing that selling Yankee gear in the Oriole team store does is make it a little more convenient for their fans (who can afford to spend the extra money that it costs at the team store as opposed to EBAY and other bargain places) to add some more gear to their wardrobe.

Stopping selling Yankee and Red Sox gear in the team store will not stop them from overriding our park. Winning more games and more Oriole fans coming to OPACY will.

[BaltimoreTerp]

No. They might re-evaluate their own practice of doing it.

No they wouldn't. They would feel that the Orioles were so insecure, and rightly so based on the past decade-plus, that they would mock us. It would draw even more attention to the takeover of the park by opposing fans.

Sometimes these things have very unintended consequences.

[glorydays]

No they wouldn't. They would feel that the Orioles were so insecure, and rightly so based on the past decade-plus, that they would mock us. It would draw even more attention to the takeover of the park by opposing fans.

Sometimes these things have very unintended consequences.

Exactly.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Stopping selling Yankee and Red Sox gear in the team store will not stop them from overrifding our park. Winning more games and more Oriole fans coming to OPACY will.

Exactly. The team wins and/or the fans show up, this isn't an issue.

Just like the "Baltimore" on the jerseys wasn't an issue. That changed...and nothing changed. Because we haven't won.

We win, and no one gives a damn.