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I can't get over how much Angelos has killed off the fanbase

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interloper
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I get it, but ya know... it's opening day. Allow yourself this one day of celebration that baseball is back. 

Moose Milligan
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Angelos has done a good job of killing the fanbase...and OPACY is still a gem. But I will submit again that the home viewing experience these days is fantastic.  I don't live close to Camden Yard

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Heck, even I don't want to think about this on opening day! lol   

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12 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

You picked a great year to start.

I was 12 and all my friends were excited about them. My dad doesn't care for professional sports, so I had to figure out my own fandom. The next two years should have told me what I was signing up for. 😁

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50 minutes ago, interloper said:

Lol alright wise guy. 35-37*

It's perfectly possible for someone to be 35 at the start of a baseball season and 38 at the end of the season two seasons in the future.

I wouldn't be able to do it, but nearly half the population could.

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44 minutes ago, interloper said:

For me the tanking years were actually kind of fun. I enjoyed watching the new Elias process unfold. The prospects were actually worth following in the minors. High draft picks were exciting. Getting into the international side for the first time in forever. 

Yeah the tanking seasons got me more into baseball than I ever had been before. I’ve followed the NFL draft fairly religiously since the ravens arrived in 1996, but never cared or paid any attention to the MLB draft or our minor league teams until now. Right now, I hardly even care about what’s going on with Lamar and the ravens, or the NFL draft because I’m so focused on the O’s. 

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3 minutes ago, RarityFlaherty said:

Yeah the tanking seasons got me more into baseball than I ever had been before. I’ve followed the NFL draft fairly religiously since the ravens arrived in 1996, but never cared or paid any attention to the MLB draft or our minor league teams until now. Right now, I hardly even care about what’s going on with Lamar and the ravens, or the NFL draft because I’m so focused on the O’s. 

Totally - same!

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2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

It's perfectly possible for someone to be 35 at the start of a baseball season and 38 at the end of the season two seasons in the future.

I wouldn't be able to do it, but nearly half the population could.

Baseball age is determined on a set date.  A season is either your age 35 season or your age 36 season.  So while biologically it is possible it isn't possible as MLB records age.

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2 hours ago, Pickles said:

TBH, if it doesn't, I'd fear the long term and non-baseball effects on attendance are stronger than we may be willing to acknowledge.  

Fanduel & all the other betting non-sense will have the fan base broke by the time they are able Compete.  What betting in sports is doing to everything is sickening. 

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1 hour ago, Can_of_corn said:

That's not true.

They had many plans over those twenty years.

They just weren't good plans for the most part.

Jury is still out on exactly what the current plan is or how successful it will be.

Even if it fails gloriously, I’ve had a lot more fun attending affiliate games the last 3 years than ever before 😅

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2 minutes ago, emmett16 said:

Fanduel & all the other betting non-sense will have the fan base broke by the time they are able Compete.  What betting in sports is doing to everything is sickening. 

Ha!  Well, I won't rant in two threads, but in the thread about the new scoreboard, I made my feelings known regarding gambling.

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