HAPPY OPENING DAY, O’s FANS!!!! 

Beautiful (sunny! sort of warm-ish!) day for baseball! 

Let’s go, O’s!!!

Sexy team-spirited stilettos pic courtesy of the lovely Eleni of BestBloodys! 

Here’s us celebrating Opening Day 2012: 

And yes, it is driving me absolutely insane that I can’t tell what shoes I wore with the above outfit. 

I strongly dislike the angry Oriole bird logo, but that was essentially the expression on my face when I got the text reading: “The Orioles say they explored compromise with Ravens, but are not changing Sept. 5 game vs White Sox. Ravens likely to open on road.”

Eff. That. 

The Orioles have one good season in a dozen years of trying and think they can pull this crap? It’s b.s. (which, when you think about it, is pretty much all we’ve been able to expect from this organization over the last decade). 

They got to the playoffs. Huge, considering they’ve barely been worth mentioning past the All-Star break recently, but the Ravens won the freakin Super Bowl. For the second time since the O’s have done much of anything. 

It was fun having two really good teams in Baltimore, and it was fun to see players from the Ravens and Orioles supporting each other during their playoff runs, wearing the other team’s caps, etc., etc. but this is infuriating and I hope the rest of Baltimore sports fans are equally pissed off about it — and make their feelings known. The Super Bowl-winning Ravens are most likely opening the season away because the Orioles and MLB won’t play nice — and Baltimore fans are the ones that lose.

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti offered to reimburse the O’s for lost revenue for moving the game, but honestly, how many people who are fans of both teams are going to go to the game if the Ravens opener is on a tv somewhere? The O’s would probably be better off compromising and not playing a game in direct competition with a Ravens game, even if it’s away.

Why are the Orioles being so stubborn on this? Because they can.* 

This is why Baltimore can’t have nice things. Or two winning teams. 

Happy Friday, Ravens Fans!

*This isn’t ALL the O’s fault. MLB and the players’ association and the White Sox would also have to buy in, but let’s be for real. If the rest of the world wants Baltimore fans to stop acting like they’re getting a bum deal, they have to stop getting a bum deal. Period. The end. 

True story. 

Sunshiney + winter warm feels like spring! 

Currently have the O’s - Yankees spring training game on in the background. Good background music but a little distracting. Hard to focus on writing football stuff when it doesn’t feel like football outside!

(Source: mlb)

Stress Fest 2013 has been momentarily interrupted by the discovery that apparently there’s now a mini bronze figurine of Earl Weaver hanging out in my kitchen. Love. My family is pretty much the best

Always. 

Congrats to Adam Jones, Matt Wieters, and JJ Hardy on their Gold Glove awards! 

And congrats to the O’s, the only team to have THREE players receive the award! 

So exciting! 

(Photo via MASN Orioles Facebook page)

Back in the beginning of June, I made plans to go to Nashville this weekend. 

I made sure to book my travel arrangements and other activities around potential USC and Ravens games, but the possibility that the Orioles would be in Game 5 of the playoffs never for one second crossed my mind. 

But here they are.

And here I am, excited the O’s pulled off another win, exhausted because the extra innings mean I’ll get fewer than five hours of sleep before I have to leave for the airport, and relieved that the game’s at 5 p.m. so I’ll be able to watch it.

This team, man. Love ‘em. Love this feeling. 

Now let’s go O’s!!!

I was nervous about this, but Chen pitched a great game. 

Go O’s!

(Source: bmoreorioles)