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Having never been to OPACY, I can't tell you how much I envy you and your wife. But even watching on my iPad I enjoyed it as well. I thought watching the first KC game was time very well spent.

Curious where do you live and how did you become an Orioles fan? Are you say over the age of 50 and grew up in Baltimore? Or are you young and somehow a fan due to a parent or something (that would be tough as the Orioles stunk for your child hood)?

Kudos to you. Maybe we should fly you in for a game like KC did with that guy from Asia last year. They became the team of destiny. If the Orioles make the playoffs in 2015, I vow to crowdsource the money to fly you to the wild-card game. Yes it will be on the road, but you'll be good luck. Then we'll raise some more for the first home game of the next series.

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All I want is at any point in the next 20 days to just have a glimmer of hope. Realistically we should be on a 7 game winning streak. Let's see if we can't cut the lead in half over the next 10 days.

I agree. Just let us feel a little playoff fever the last 10 days.

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Having never been to OPACY, I can't tell you how much I envy you and your wife. But even watching on my iPad I enjoyed it as well. I thought watching the first KC game was time very well spent.

Curious, where do you live, and how did you become an Orioles fan? Are you say over the age of 50, and grew up in Baltimore? Or are you young, and somehow a fan due to a parent or something (that would be tough as the Orioles stunk for your child hood)?

Kudos to you. Maybe we should fly you in for a game like KC did with that guy from Asia last year. They became the team of destiny. If the Orioles make the playoffs in 2015, I vow to crowdsource the money to fly you to the wild-card game. Yes it will be on the road, but you'll be good luck. Then we'll raise some more for the first home game of the next series.

I'm going to Baltimore in a few weeks.

I wasn't sure if I should go to see the Orioles play the Yankees, or the Blue Jays.

Your post encourages me to lean more in the direction of the Blue Jays games, and for this reason:

http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/showthread.php/126588-Undefeated-on-September-28th-when-I-m-at-Oriole-Park

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Having never been to OPACY, I can't tell you how much I envy you and your wife. But even watching on my iPad I enjoyed it as well. I thought watching the first KC game was time very well spent.

Why do you not let me take you sometime. It's not that far a drive.

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Curious where do you live and how did you become an Orioles fan? Are you say over the age of 50 and grew up in Baltimore? Or are you young and somehow a fan due to a parent or something (that would be tough as the Orioles stunk for your child hood)?

Kudos to you. Maybe we should fly you in for a game like KC did with that guy from Asia last year. They became the team of destiny. If the Orioles make the playoffs in 2015, I vow to crowdsource the money to fly you to the wild-card game. Yes it will be on the road, but you'll be good luck. Then we'll raise some more for the first home game of the next series.

If the Orioles make it to the playoffs this year, no need for the Care Package, I'll be the first one there. But thanks for the offer.

I live in Tennessee now, outside of Nashville. I grew up in Arlington, VA and have been following the O's since 1961 so I've known long stretches of good times and bad. I went to college in Texas and kept moving westward, ultimately spending 30 years in LA. The last O's home game I saw was in 1989 when I was in DC for a year on a project. Of course that was before OPACY was built, but I have lots of good memories from Memorial Stadium.

Work got in the way of a road trip this summer, but next year for sure. With luck it will be on a Hangout Night and I'll get to meet some of you all in person.

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at this point, they might as well tank and get a better pick.

They simply aren't going to win enough games to leap everyone.

I think that is poor form.

So does Buck Showalter and his Orioles players, which is the most important thing. ;)

Orioles Still Doing Math While Climbing Division

(By Roch Kubatko)

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2015/09/orioles-still-doing-math-while-climbing-division.html

Showalter, Last Week: "You have 25 games left, you win all 25 of them."

Showalter, Today: "We've got 20 games left, and we're going to try to win every one of them."

There's one, baby.

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I never hope for better draft position.

So if you're a Colts fan, you wouldn't have been rooting for the number one pick?

Oh, there were some dumb Colts, nay, Manning fans who didn't want Andrew Luck.

There were also some Colts fans who did want Andrew Luck, but could not bring themselves to root against the Colts, anyway.

They weren't dumb, they simply found it counter-intuitive to root against the Colts.

I believe that what Weams is/was declaring is that he cannot ever bring himself to root against his favorite teams, under any circumstances ...... and I can understand that.

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