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Wow Stacey. Winning the Mobbies really means THAT much to you that you'd stoop as low as to reach out to a Yankees fan message board?

http://www.pinstripealley.com/2010/11/4/1794833/late-night-open-thread

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I received an email from Stacy, one of the head writers at our Orioles sister-site Camden Chat that I thought was worth sharing with you all:

Camden Chat is currently defending its title as Best Orioles Blog in the Maryland's Outstanding Blogs competition held by the Baltimore Sun. We are currently in second place to a site called Orioles Hangout which, frankly speaking, is our arch-nemesis.

So please, if you want to help me vanquish this horrible foe, vote for Camden Chat here. You can vote once per day until November 12th. If you're inclined to help out other members of the SBN family, Baltimore Beatdown and Testudo Times are also on the ballot for Best Ravens Blog and Best Terps Blog, respectively.

Now you know I'm all about the vanquishing of an arch-nemesis. So vote.

Wow. "Arch nemesis"? "Horrible foe"?

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Wow Stacey. Winning the Mobbies really means THAT much to you that you'd stoop as low as to reach out to a Yankees fan message board?

http://www.pinstripealley.com/2010/11/4/1794833/late-night-open-thread

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I received an email from Stacy, one of the head writers at our Orioles sister-site Camden Chat that I thought was worth sharing with you all:

Camden Chat is currently defending its title as Best Orioles Blog in the Maryland's Outstanding Blogs competition held by the Baltimore Sun. We are currently in second place to a site called Orioles Hangout which, frankly speaking, is our arch-nemesis.

So please, if you want to help me vanquish this horrible foe, vote for Camden Chat here. You can vote once per day until November 12th. If you're inclined to help out other members of the SBN family, Baltimore Beatdown and Testudo Times are also on the ballot for Best Ravens Blog and Best Terps Blog, respectively.

Now you know I'm all about the vanquishing of an arch-nemesis. So vote.

Wow. "Arch nemesis"? "Horrible foe"?

I think we know who the complainer was! ;) Thought we weren't in competition with her site, but we're their "arch-nemisis?"

Honestly, I didn't even know that site existed until this year. I just don't understand why people can't just

At least everyone knows here that we would never, ever work with Yankees board. Yikes man, that's heresy! Orioles Hangout, the place where hating the Yankees is not only a right, it's a requirement. :D

I guess we'll see whether the Yankees board can make a difference against the Orioles Hangout community.

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Wow Stacey. Winning the Mobbies really means THAT much to you that you'd stoop as low as to reach out to a Yankees fan message board?

http://www.pinstripealley.com/2010/11/4/1794833/late-night-open-thread

From the thread...

I received an email from Stacy, one of the head writers at our Orioles sister-site Camden Chat that I thought was worth sharing with you all:

Camden Chat is currently defending its title as Best Orioles Blog in the Maryland's Outstanding Blogs competition held by the Baltimore Sun. We are currently in second place to a site called Orioles Hangout which, frankly speaking, is our arch-nemesis.

So please, if you want to help me vanquish this horrible foe, vote for Camden Chat here. You can vote once per day until November 12th. If you're inclined to help out other members of the SBN family, Baltimore Beatdown and Testudo Times are also on the ballot for Best Ravens Blog and Best Terps Blog, respectively.

Now you know I'm all about the vanquishing of an arch-nemesis. So vote.

Wow. "Arch nemesis"? "Horrible foe"?

What were you doing looking at a Yankees board? Traitor. :D

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