To Keep Things in Perspective
Before I get into this, here's something that might cleanse our collective palates a bit. Here's Socrates, the puppy my wife and I adopted about a month ago:
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Yes, yesterday hurt. A lot. It was yet another punch in the gut by a team that we love.
I personally didn't watch any of the game yesterday. We were on the road from my in-laws' place in Allentown, PA. I didn't even learn of what happened until about 11 PM.
But, and I know it's the coldest of comforts, just think about who we are here at Camdenchat. We've stuck with this team through some verrrrry rough times. Those rough times don't look like they're going to end in the near future, but we still come back for more.
We check this site every day. We watch all the games. We bitch about the idiocy of everyone from Angelos to Fluquette to Perlozzo to Mazzone to Tejada to Chris Ray....all the way down. It would have been easy just to say "Fuck this Team!", and then just concentrate our pursuits somewhere else. But we don't. That's just who we are. That's how we're wired. That's why we're fans.
One blown game isn't going to change that. One blown season, after nine blown seasons, isn't going to change that.
That's why, I think it'd be cathartic if we revisit past disappointments that the Orioles have provided us. I know, it seems like just rubbing salt in the wound, but it's a great thing to put what happened yesterday, what has been happening this season, what has happened for the last ten years, in perspective. It shows that like cockroaches, us Camdensteins cannot be killed.
Here's a poll I've put up with some low points in O's history, including one that occurred years before I, and probably most people here, was born.
So let's revisit, and hopefully laugh at our woeful team. A little bit of the gallows humor is great for the soul.
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Blowing the 1989 season
Then there was the last day of the 1982 season, handing the division to the Brewers.
And the gut punch of being up 3-1 against the Pirates in 1979. I still can't hear Sister Sledge without throwing up in my mouth a little.
Anyone know Davey Johnson's number?
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Sure...
Is Perloser still this team's manager?
As of Monday, 5:41 p.m.
Anyone know Davey Johnson's number?
i gotta go with
Man that was dissapointing.
0-21 sucked but my father had told me not to get my hopes up for the birds that season during ST so it became sort of a game for him and i as far as watching the futility goes.
I wasn't around for the '69 WS loss but that prolly would hove been a tough one.
The Maier Game was pretty pianful also.....wait a second Chanumas are you trying to get me more pissed off than i already am. Bring up all these bad memories. I had finally succeded in forgetting about all this crap and you make a poll out of it. What kind of sick puppy are you.
That it its time to start cutting things again.
Oh and fire Sammy P
by BENNYBIRDMAN on May 14, 2007 10:29 AM EDT reply actions
I know it seems sick....
We've been through a ton of shit from this team, as this poll would attest. But I'm trying to show that, despite all that....despite how much it hurts, we love this team.
We're a lot tougher than any blown 5-run lead in the 9th. or any lost season.
A play that will live in infamy.
I DON'T SEE THE PUPPY.
I voted for the 2005 Collapse. '88 and '89 were brutal, but I was young and innocent and healed quickly... '96 was horrible and maddening but gave me a decade of life-sustaining hatred of the Yankees.
2005? It was like falling head over heels in love, and he loves you back and you're planning your happily ever afters and it's all wonderful until things go quickly south. He dumps you, after which you find out over the span of a few months that he'd been cheating on you with your best friend, gave you the clap, ran a meth lab out of your basement, paid for tranny hookers on your credit card and killed your family pet.
And did steroids. Lots of them.
Yeah, that was a pretty rough summer.
You can't see Socrates?
Here's a link to the gallery on kodak easyshare....does that help?
A play that will live in infamy.
Man....
I tried it now with photobucket. Any better?
A play that will live in infamy.
what she said.
by BENNYBIRDMAN on May 14, 2007 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions
me too voted for that

"If you know how to cheat, start now." ~Earl Weaver
Yeah, that was a rough summer...
But we own that misery. It doesn't own us. Like fellow Titanic survivors, that brings us together. and none of that misery can take away those moments of pure joy in the first half of '05 when we saw the O's in first place.
I know, I may seem pretty insufferable in this thread...but I think this is what I need. It helps to put into place exactly why I'm an O's fan.
A play that will live in infamy.
I wish.
That adorable puppy was found in a google image search for "Theo Epstein", believe it or not.
we can't have dogs
by Scott Christ on May 14, 2007 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
2K5
by NewOrioleWork on May 14, 2007 1:21 PM EDT reply actions
On another note...
by Jonnypops on May 14, 2007 2:01 PM EDT reply actions
1979
I was crushed.
by Chico Salmon on May 14, 2007 3:26 PM EDT reply actions
jeff maier
again, living in north jersey means lots of yankees fans. i was in h.s. back then. i was also the only orioles fan in my school. lets just say i got into a few fights the next couple days. that day after though... man i wanted to skip school sooo bad. i remember not sleeping and just having this huge knot of painful crapiness in my stomach. and i went to school. i didnt even get into the door before the shit hit the fan.
thanks for bringing back the memory though.

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