Who is Mr. Oriole to you?

[Cumberbundy]

Voted Brooks

[AnythingO's]

How did you just vote for a thread from 2012?

[Bahama O's Fan]

I was born in 78, so I never watched Brooks play. It has to be Cal for me. He is the reason I am an O's fan.

[TouchemAll]

On 10/8/2012 at 9:44 AM, Tony-OH said:

Our demographics around her probably leans us heavily towards people who never saw Brooks Robinson play live. However, with all the things going on with Cal going out of his way to dismiss Brook Robinson as the best defensive third baseman of all time and how he seems to be also going out of his way to "not look like a homer" by slanting his comments towards the Yankees, who do you think is now Mr. Oriole?

I would imagine Cal would be a heavy favorite around here in the past, so now I'm wondering whether Cal's comments over the last few days has affected his standing among Orioles fans.

So if you could choose one ambassador for the Baltimore Orioles, who would it be? Who is Mr. Oriole to you?

This should not even be close Brooks Robinson in my book is the best ambassador for MLB ever.

I never met a nicer MLB player he's my childhood idol and tops in my mind and always will be,

[ReclaimTheCrown]

Can I write-in Welington Castillo?

[Cumberbundy]

https://uni-watch.com/2019/01/15/from-connie-mack-to-mr-oriole-a-conversation-with-dick-armstrong/

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I think what we did was suggest a couple of possible names for the bird and have the fans vote, and the one they chose was Mr. Oriole.

[DrungoHazewood]

4 minutes ago, Cy Bundy said:

https://uni-watch.com/2019/01/15/from-connie-mack-to-mr-oriole-a-conversation-with-dick-armstrong/

It's going to take a lot of explaining to make sense of a guy holding a monkey standing next to an Oriole mascot that appears to have been made as part of a 4th grade art project.

[Cumberbundy]

13 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

It's going to take a lot of explaining to make sense of a guy holding a monkey standing next to an Oriole mascot that appears to have been made as part of a 4th grade art project.

[interloper]

This thread is 7 years old.

 

Stop it. Get some help. 

[Tx Oriole]

26 minutes ago, Cy Bundy said:

I think I voted for Brooks. But of today's players there isn't one. It seems players back when Brooks played were more into the game. Today's players maybe not all  are into it for the money. Started with ARod. 25 million a year. Where Brooks made maybe 100 thousand a year. I know there is a big difference in 1950's and 60's money than today's. But goodness when owners started giving out these big contracts is when it went to hell in a hand basket. IMO Now to get back who is Mr. Oriole has to be Brooks then Cal Jr. 

[Redskins Rick]

It usually as to do with your age and what ERA you got hooked on baseball.

Im old as dirt, so it should be Brooks, but I wasn't an Oriole fan until they drafted the local boy, Cal Jr, and something clicked and I couldn't get enough of the Orioles and they soon became and still are my favorite baseball team, bar none.

Haven't rooted for Cal his entire career, for me personally, its Cal, hands down.

But, I totally get those that want Mr. Oriole to be Brooks.

[Cumberbundy]

26 minutes ago, interloper said:

Get some help. 

Says a guy bothered by Oriole related content, being posted on an Orioles forum, in the appropriate threads, in mid January. Nothing offends the healthy minded like free, pertinent, content. 

[Cumberbundy]

25 minutes ago, Tx Oriole said:

I think I voted for Brooks. But of today's players there isn't one. It seems players back when Brooks played were more into the game. Today's players maybe not all  are into it for the money. Started with ARod. 25 million a year. Where Brooks made maybe 100 thousand a year. I know there is a big difference in 1950's and 60's money than today's. But goodness when owners started giving out these big contracts is when it went to hell in a hand basket. IMO Now to get back who is Mr. Oriole has to be Brooks then Cal Jr. 

Watching Jim Palmer and Brooks beat up on the Dodgers, on MASN this afternoon, makes me feel as if I missed the days when the game was at its best. 

[DrungoHazewood]

1 hour ago, Tx Oriole said:

I think I voted for Brooks. But of today's players there isn't one. It seems players back when Brooks played were more into the game. Today's players maybe not all  are into it for the money. Started with ARod. 25 million a year. Where Brooks made maybe 100 thousand a year. I know there is a big difference in 1950's and 60's money than today's. But goodness when owners started giving out these big contracts is when it went to hell in a hand basket. IMO Now to get back who is Mr. Oriole has to be Brooks then Cal Jr. 

You can find quotes from 1880 that say basically the same thing.  Stuff like "When professionals took over the game everyone was just in it for the money instead of the love of the game and now (1880) it's all gone to hell.  We'll never see players the likes of Joe Start and Dickey Pearce and Jim Creighton, amateurs playing for the love of baseball."

And you'll have no problem finding similar stuff written regular as clockwork with the same theme ever since.  Listen to the professional nostalgists and you'd conclude the whole world has been in a freefall pretty much forever.

It certainly is easier imagining the ballplayers being regular guys who play for the love of the game and their city when they're contractually bound to one team until that team has no more use for them, and they have no input into how much they make besides holding out.

[DrungoHazewood]

42 minutes ago, Cy Bundy said:

Watching Jim Palmer and Brooks beat up on the Dodgers, on MASN this afternoon, makes me feel as if I missed the days when the game was at its best. 

"Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974.  It's a scientific fact."  - Homer Simpson