I grew up outside of Philly and became an O's fan because of Ripken.

I'll be in Baltimore tomorrow, as my flight to Florida has a transfer at BWI.  I will get down there to see a game sometime this year!

Last time I saw a game at Camden Yards was '03...saw, I know.

My folks live in Towson.
Last time I was in Baltimore? Weekend of May 5th.
Last time I was in MD? Last weekend.

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A depressed one at that...it has rained now for seventeen days straight and 26 of 29 days in June and is raining again.  Unbelievable.  Usually we are already in the midst of our three month drought and pushing triple digits every day.  I miss the sun. I miss winning baseball.  

I became an Orioles fan when I was 4 years old. My Dad is a Yankee fan. The reason I became an Orioles fan is because I loved watching Cal Ripken play. After that I just fell in love with the team. My favorite player other than Cal has always been Brady Anderson. I just loved watching him play the game. My Dad always makes fun of me because I'm an Orioles fan. But, I don't care because this is my team and I'm never going to stop rooting for them. I'm an Orioles nut. My friends down here in New Orleans don't get why I root for them. But, I really could careless because they could never understand my connection with this team.

GEAUX EAUX's

If only I had known how it would be...  stupid child, stupid child.  Now I'm stuck.  I feel like I've fallen and I can't get up.

"you will take the ball when I give it to you and give it back to me when I want it back." -Trembley

i grew up outside Hagerstown and went to Towson State.  i even ushered at Memorial Stadium between my junior and senior year.  worked the end of the horseshoe behind the O's bullpen, and every once in a while got to work the players lot and help escort players' wives and girlfriends to the lot.

all-time favorite O's moment, after the '83 series, is Opening Day 1989, beating the Red Sox 5-4 in 11, behind a homer by Cal against Fat Bastard Roger Clemens, and a Craig Worthington liner agains Rob Murphy to win it.  i was sitting on the aluminum bleachers in deepest right field.

I was born in Tehran, Iran.....my parents moved to the states (Knoxville, TN, to be exact) to go to grad school when I was 2.  The intention was for them to finish up there and then we'd all head back to the motherland.

Then, a pesky little revolution happened.  It sort of made it....problematic....to return to Iran.

After they finished up in Knoxville, and then did some additional work up in Scranton, PA, when I was 5 or so.

When i was six, we moved to Baltimore.  A year later, the Orioles battled the Brewers for the AL East until the last day of the season, and that race is what you can all thank for the glory that is my presence here at Camdenchat.

I stayed in B-more for college.  Moved to NYC after graduation, took a year in DC, and find myself back where I started, in Towson.

This is not even a logo of the Baltimore Orioles baseball club

2.5 hrs from OPACY, although Rt. 97 has cut that by almost 15 minutes. I'm 10 minutes door-to-door from the Shorebirds, 3 hours from Aberdeen, 3 from Frederick, 2.5 from Bowie and 2.5 from Norfolk.

So, with the exception of Rookie-level Bluefield, WV, I have the entire Orioles franchise available to me within a 6 hour round-trip of my front door. And I've been to exactly 1 game COMBINED of all these teams this year.

I want a pin on the map! Are we supposed to be able to add these ourselves, because I didn't see any option to do that.

Been to Camden Yards lots of times. I usually make 2-3 trips to MD a year. I was last in MD in April for the Navy-Army lacrosse game.

Stayed in Baltimore until college, then moved to New York in 1988, where I've been ever since (except for a grad school stint in SF).

I get back to Baltimore when I can. Did a play there in 2005. My mom just moved back after living in Upper Marlboro for years, so I'm psyched to see more O's games when I visit her.

As of 10:52 PM EDT

"you will take the ball when I give it to you and give it back to me when I want it back." -Trembley

My dad's not really a die-hard O's fan.  He grew up a fan of Stan Musual and the Cards, but sort of adopted the O's after stan retired since they were the local team.  They're the only baseball team I've ever loved, (although I'm angry at them a good deal of the time).  In general, I do root for teams from Philly (but not the Phillies!) since baltimore's football team moved away before I started to follow sports, and there's no NHL or NBA team there.

Currently, I live in Manchester PA, just north of York.  There are snakes in my house.  It sucks like the Oriole bullpen.  

I live at home with my parents while I go to grad school in Towson.  It's a nice little pastoral, out-of-the-way sort of area, but I can easily jump on Middletown Road, hit 83 and be at the ballpark in about 45 minutes.

As of 3:04 in da P-M

"you will take the ball when I give it to you and give it back to me when I want it back." -Trembley