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Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 12 2012 12:24 AM

Through the years, you've always let me down...

The Second Spitter Apr 12 2012 01:10 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

After watching the back end of the O's-MFY game today, it would take a toll on me too. (and that was before an extremely shitty crowd so early in the season. O's fans tossing-in the towel early these days).

Edgy MD Apr 12 2012 05:08 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Yeah, I came home through the Camden Yards station through the three game series. Game one: 35% Yankee garb Game two: 55% Yankee garb Game three: 80% Yankee garb The lack of anybody to identify with kills me and it's been that way ever since Ripken. I saw a few Wigginton shirts in the crowd, an old Mora, maybe a Luke Scott. It's all Jeter.

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2012 06:44 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Hard times in the city in a hard town by the sea ... Oh Baltimore man it's just hard to live -- Randy Newman [youtube]yhdh8kSM7lY[/youtube]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Apr 12 2012 07:10 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Apr 12 2012 07:50 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

"Where's Roberts? Where's Roberts, Andino? Where the FUCK is Roberts?"

The Second Spitter Apr 12 2012 07:58 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Their bullpen is dogshit.

Bunt the First Two Apr 12 2012 08:22 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Bal'more takes its toll on me It's got me in the dumps The pigskin team hires murderers The baseball team hires chumps Bal'more takes its toll on me The picture is unkind The industry has took the jobs And left the waste behind Bal'more takes its toll on me It's getting to my head The flora is all dying The fauna is all dead Bal'more takes its toll on me A US town, all right With southern racial scarring And northern urban blight Bal'more takes its toll on me I'm getting to my point I met this little redhead girl One evening in Fell's Point Bal'more takes its toll on me For I told this girl my dream Of a jewel upon the Chesapeake Of my great revival scheme Bal'more takes its toll on me But we will someday surprise The trampled ghosts of Hampden Like phoenices, arise Bal'more takes its toll on me But I think it could be grand The town of Poe and Eubie Blake Would once more proudly stand Bal'more takes its toll on me Oh, see it now with me! Great ships again would sail to her From every nation free! Bal'more takes its toll on me I saw it in her eyes "I've run on at length," I said "Let me apologize" Bal'more takes its toll on me She said "I think you're dear But soon as I have got the cash My ass is out of here"

soupcan Apr 12 2012 08:41 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Through the years, you've always let me down... ...It took him 3 years to realize he plays for the orioles That's funny.

Frayed Knot Apr 12 2012 10:07 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Lady came from Baltimore all she wore was lace [youtube]KSu44UMcB8c[/youtube] There seem to be like a million covers of this song.

vtmet Apr 13 2012 08:04 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Edgy DC wrote: Yeah, I came home through the Camden Yards station through the three game series. Game one: 35% Yankee garb Game two: 55% Yankee garb Game three: 80% Yankee garb The lack of anybody to identify with kills me and it's been that way ever since Ripken. I saw a few Wigginton shirts in the crowd, an old Mora, maybe a Luke Scott. It's all Jeter. Maybe a few of the older fans in Baltimore can still identify with the Yanks since the Yanks used to be the Baltimore Orioles... 1901–1902: Origins in Baltimore At the end of the 1900 season, Bancroft "Ban" Johnson, president of the Western League, made moves to assert his league as a new major league in competition with the National League (NL). This included changing the name to the American League (AL) and adding teams in Eastern cities. Plans to put a team in New York City were blocked by the NL's New York Giants, whose connections to Tammany Hall gave them the political power to do so. Instead, a team was placed in Baltimore, Maryland, a city that had recently lost its NL team from the late 1800s. Nicknamed the Orioles, they began play in 1901, and were managed and owned in part by John McGraw. Johnson rigidly enforced rules about rowdiness on the field of play, causing a feud with McGraw. During the 1902 season, McGraw jumped to the NL, getting a job as manager of the Giants. He still owned part of the Orioles, however, and a week later the owner of the Giants, John T. Brush, gained a controlling interest in the team. He began raiding their best players until the AL stepped in and took control of the team. In January 1903, a "peace conference" was held between the two leagues to settle disputes and try to coexist. At the conference, Johnson requested that an AL team be put in New York to play alongside the Giants[9] as he always wished. It was put to a vote, and 15 of the 16 major league owners agreed to it, with Brush being the only opponent. As a result, the NL agreed to let the "junior circuit" establish a franchise in New York. The Orioles were chosen to make the move, and their new owners, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, found a ballpark location not blocked by the Giants. Thus, the Baltimore team moved to New York. Baltimore went without a Major League team for 51 seasons until the St. Louis Browns moved in and became the Orioles in 1954. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... _Baltimore

Ceetar Apr 13 2012 08:17 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

I saw somewhere that the Yankees are honoring their 100th Opening Day. Does that mean they're ignoring the Oriole Days? (And the Highlander days even)

Mets – Willets Point Apr 13 2012 08:27 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Ceetar wrote: I saw somewhere that the Yankees are honoring their 100th Opening Day. Does that mean they're ignoring the Oriole Days? (And the Highlander days even) And yet they will still contend that they play in The House That Ruth Built.

duan Apr 13 2012 10:34 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

I get the impression that Baltimore is a place everyone wants to get out of.

Frayed Knot Apr 13 2012 10:40 AM Re: Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

Particularly if your name was Irsay. For others it certainly was for a while as it degraded into an aging, rust-belt, crime-ridden place. Started to make a come-back as they improved the downtown waterfront area of which Camden Yards (open now 20 years) was one of the pieces.