25 y/o male from NJ. Been a fan since about ‘92 (first time I went to Baltimore). My first and only baseball obsession.

Actually this was done a year or two ago. People posted stuff about themselves along with a pic. I don’t remember what I wrote about myself a couple of years ago but I’m sure none of it was true. Name: Steve Lee. Age: 32, Gender: dude, Location: Orange County, CA, Favorite TV show: Lost, Favorite Music: Wilco, Damian Rice, moody singer songwriter stuff, Favorite Movie: Little Miss Sunshine, Favorite Fast Food: Taco Bell; Favorite Beer: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Activities: spending too much here, Interests: doing less while getting paid more, Educ: Gots some, Political views: I’m for ‘em. I’m on facebook, add me there you’re interested.

I’m Scott, 26, an O’s/boxing/Michigan Wolverines/Detroit Lions/Chicago Blackhawks/Indiana Pacers fan. My favorite artists are Bob Dylan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Cash and the Wu-Tang Clan. My favorite movies include Die Hard, Tombstone, Slap Shot, The Straight Story, and lots of critically acclaimed stuff. I’m your average dude! I’m a superstar at karaoke. I have a girlfriend. Believe it or not, I don’t live in my mother’s basement! I also shower.

Favorite TV shows: Sopranos, Deadwood, John From Cincinnati, Stella, Scrubs, House, Coach, Wonder Years!

25-year-old in Northern Virginia. Despite my username (a high school relic), mostly into metal and hard rock. Into mindfuck movies (Fight Club, Memento, Donnie Darko). Just married this year and bought my first home last year. I’m not into sports much other than baseball, but I’m an O’s junkie.

and yeah, that’s seriously my last name. Stupid parents…

Married teacher and dad of 2, about whom you will read WAY too much in my posts.

O’s fan, Ravens fan, waning NASCAR fan, Caps fan, UMd fan and alumni. BIg-time metal fan, mostly from teh late 80s – The Big Four (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthraz), NWOBHM (Priest, Maiden), and some of the new stuff (Slipknot, Bullet for My Valentine, The Sword).

Former HS wrestling coach for my high school, coach a state champ this year in my last match as an ass’t coach. . Ever want to know about HS wrestling on the Eastern Shore, go here.

I’m 22 (well, I will be in precisely one week). I’ve loved baseball and the O’s as long as I can remember. I didn’t start liking most other sports until high school. I now also love anything Maryland Terrapins and the Skins. I like indie music, particularly pop. And other stuff. I’m about to graduate from college and am not sure what I’m going to do with my life.

Whee. I love art.

27, Banker, Married, 2 chitlins (2 1/2 yrs., 6 weeks), O’s, Ravens (former 49ers, but when my daughter was born I had to change it up because living in DE I wouldn’t get the oppurtunity to take her (or him, now) to many Niners games, still have a place in my heart for them), college basketball fan in general (Not the NBA), pretty much any music is game in my book (Country, Rap, Rock, fave artists: Kenny Chesney, Metallica, Fuel, Daughtry, Toby Keith, Jay-Z, Akon, Three Days Grace, Eminem-still, etc,. I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch), play video games when I get time(Wii-Mario Kart Wii is my go to with Super Smash Bros. Brawl a close second), work on/build computers as a hobby, other hobbies include web building, shootin’ hoops, whiffle ball, driving, playing with my kids. I drive an ‘04 Honda Element. That should do it.

I live just north of York, PA and I’ve been an O’s fan since ‘82, when I was 5. The first O’s game I went to was on June 27, 1982 (Thanks retrosheet.org!). The O’s beat the Tigers 13-1 although all I really remember about it is that the O’s won big, Jim Palmer pitched and the Oriole Bird beat the living snot out of a guy in a Tiger suit several times during the game.

Although I started following other sports later in life, I’m equally psychotic about the Philadelphia Eagles, who will drive a man to drink, and also a fan of the Flyers and Sixers.

I’m now 31, and have been married for 6 years. My wife and I have 3 cats, and I’m some vague sort of business/marketing writer guy.

I like watching horror and sci-fi movies (huge star wars nerd), reading horror novels, and listening to 80s guitar rock and cheesy pop punk stuff. Van Halen is my all time favorite band. I was introduced to them during the Sammy years, so I don’t have a strong antipathy towards Hagar, but I agree that they’re better (and put on a better show) with Dave.

My secret talent is getting attacked by animals. I’ve been bitten by a poisonous snake, lab rats, and attacked by a chicken. Someday, I hope to have been bitten by all the members of the Chinese Zodiac.

A saucy, hotblooded heartbreaker from South of the Border. I first fell in love with O’s when my ex-boyfriend, Rodrigo Lopez started pitching for the team. Then, much to my surprise, one month after I dumped ‘Rigo, so did the Orioles! Right then and there I knew my real soulmates were those boys in Orange, Black & White. ‘Rigo was a cheapskate whose idea of taking me out was going to bowling alleys around the Los Angeles and Baltimore areas despite the fact he was making well over a million each season. Sometimes he got so cheap he’d insist we play duckpins – then try to convince me it wasn’t about the money, he was “just trying to practice the breaking ball” – underhanded. I was so sick of him. The O’s treat me much better, even if they lose every season. I love Baltimore! I love the Orioles!

31, Software developer, live in Carroll County, MD, but grew up in Mo-Co. Orioles baseball is the only sport I really care about. My wife and I have an almost-two year old boy. His name is Cal.

29 years old, live in Baltimore. Spent my juvenile delinquent years loitering at Glen Burnie’s finest establishments (Honey Bee, Denny’s, Star Billiards), but have been a city girl for 10 years. Got my love of the O’s from my grandparents and my dad. From the time Camden Yards opened in 1992 he and I went to every first night game, but the tradition stopped spring of 99 when I was away at college. By the time I graduated the Orioles were so awful that my dad said he’d rather wait until the weather was warmer to go.

Work for the Feds coming up on 3 years in August. Unlike mostly everyone on here who listens to bands I’ve never heard of, I listen to pop music with some r&b thrown in. If they play it on MTV hits I probably enjoy it. From middle school through college I loved country music so I still listen to that every now and again.

I’m a casual Ravens fan, but I’ve never been to a game in person and really I just like drinking beer with loud people cheering at a TV. I always tell myself I’m going to try to become a hockey fan, but so far it hasn’t worked.

Guess that’s it.

30 years old. I’m a Catonsvillian, with Mrs. Rayford, my french bulldogs Bonkers, Knuckles and Billy Ripken, a fridge full of beers and an office full of records. I work as a buyer for a comic book distributor. Unlike Steve, I never grew out of punk rock (currently listening to: Discharge, Gaslight Anthem, Bikini Kill). I like finding new places to smoke at Camden Yards. I occasionally type something astoundingly profound up here, but most of the time I just talk shit. I feel like I’ve always loved losing baseball teams, having been born in Atlanta and moving away from there just in time for the Braves to make their first World Series since 1958.

Why Floyd Rayford? I remember pulling 6 or 7 of his ‘87 Topps card back in the day, and just thinking it was totally cool that there was a guy out there who played catcher and 3rd base. Plus, he was black. Black catchers rule!

Oh, yeah, I like bacon a lot. I mean, “more than I like my wife” a lot.

And it’s really time to reverse 30+ years and put “Baltimore” back on the road unis. Hell, I’d be into the old all-orange unis every once in a while as well.

I’m 24, born and raised in Pikesville (shudder), now I live in Brooklyn. O’s fan from birth. I’d be disowned if it were any other way. Confession: I went through an intense Brady Anderson obsessive phase as a youngster. I work at Sports Illustrated Kids magazine and I am mostly comatose until baseball season. I look harmless but I get incredibly surly about baseball, I curse a lot and have had a few dangerous encounters at Yankee Stadium since moving to NYC. I love the Ravens and I hate all sports gear that is pink-ified for girls.

I’m in the book, so feel free to look me up!

I moved to Towson from suburban Chicago in 1983 where, contrary to what you might think from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, nobody gave a shit about either of the baseball teams in town. Impressed that the Orioles beat up of my hometown team in the playoffs and caught up in the excitement of World Series fever, I jumped on the Orioles bandwagon and have mostly regretted it since about 1987. A friend of mine in middle school lived next door to Ken Singleton who was very nice and played catch with me once. My best friend didn’t live too far from Eddie Murray who used to answer his door on Halloween dressed in his Orioles uniform. I attended Loch Raven Senior High and left in 1990 never to return except to visit my parents.

I’ve lived in New York City since 1994, although I’ll be temporarily exiled in a few months. I used to attend almost all of the games the Orioles played in New York (I only missed two of them in 1997), but I’ve found better ways to spend my time since 2002 or so. I also like the Green Bay Packers (there was no football team in Baltimore when I lived there and my Dad is from Milwaukee), which used to be worse than liking the Orioles and now is much better.

aka Dr. Enloe. 41, currently Brooklyn, but moving to LA in a few weeks. Married for 15 years to the lovely Mrs. Z. Grew up in Towson on Aigburth Road, hon. Started on the O’s with my Dad in the late 70s, and got to see Boddicker pitch ALCS Game 2 (take THAT, LaRussa you prick!) in ‘83. My only other pro team in any sport is the Redskins, owing to their excellence and the Colts’ departure during my formative years. Music: all kinds, a bit eclectic, but mostly bands you’ve heard of. First it was classic rock, CSNY, billy joel, journey, bill withers, parliament; then REM & U2; now it’s ben folds, indigo girls and other adult contemp, gary jules, cake, some beastie boys even, just none of the CRAP that those KIDS TODAY are listening to. All time fave movies include The Sting, The Godfather, My Cousin Vinnie, The Fugitive, Casablanca, and yes, Bull Durham. I like Pinter, Stoppard, Sondheim and Frayn, and I have a soft spot for early Rice-Lloyd Weber collaborations (Evita and JCS). I have also been known to shower on occasion.

but that’s not the name I was born with. My birth name is one of those weirdo non-amurcan names from a country who routinely comes up on the news when Fox needs a nice “crazy muslim leader” soundbite. A teacher in the first grade recommended I have a more “normal” name, thus Houman was gone, and Michael was born.

I’m 33. I don’t even remotely feel responsible enough to be 33. I’m married, with no kids (though my wife is desperately trying to change that). I moved around a ton as a kid, but my ‘rents settled in Timonium. I went to a ridiculously overpriced and overrated college here in Baltimore, and then, after stints in NY and DC, find myself in Towson, working for a telco.

I love all sorts of bands and have a TON of albums. Radiohead is and will always be A#1, but the other likes routinely change. Currently, I’ve been listening to the new REM album, along with the Duke Spirit, Dusty Springfield, and some Miles Davis. Oh yeah, and I just got this really cool album of Kraftwerk songs done on a nintendo system.

My first true O’s memory was the last weekend of the ‘82 series, when we came back to almost overtop the Brewers. Even though Palmer got bombed on the last day, a nascent 7 year old fan was born. I’m a bit meh about most other sports, but I follow the Ravens and the Sixers sporadically.

My fave movie of all time is the Big Lebowski. I really wanna go to Lebowski-fest in Louisville, but my wife’s a big spoilsport.

I’m an unrepentant comic fan, though I don’t really buy them anymore.

Name: Marianne, also known as Greta.

Age: 28

Gender: Lady

Profession: Politics (field director on a state senate campaign, currently).

Music: Beethoven, Albert King, Pearl Jam, The Roots, Nighthawks, Stravinsky, Wilco, Miles Davis, BB King, Radiohead, Bartok, U2, Junior Wells, Aretha, De La Soul, Brahms, vintage Micheal Jackson and other stuff that is awesome from the classical, blues, rock, r&b, rap and modern jazz genres.

Movies: Big Lebowski, Silence of the Lambs, Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront, Rear Window, American Beauty, Usual Suspects, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams (suck it, haters!), Good Will Hunting

TV: The Wire, Keith Olbermann

Bio: Born and raised in Bmore. Grew up in Hamden/Roland Park (the nebulous area by the Rotunda on Roland Ave and W. University Pkwy) and a little later in Towson. Raised in the Church of Memorial Stadium, along the The Roman Catholic Church. Both religions fucked me up good, but I chose to stick with the Orioles thing, with Cal Ripken as my personal Jesus. I’ve lived in Boston coming up on 10 years now and I actually don’t hate the Red Sox at all.

Trivia: I’m running a 5K next weekend and I have a graduate degree in cello performance.

Like Jess - a Catons-villian. Like Stacey - a fed. Like all of you—warped about those guys in orange & black.

Born in Arbutus, made it all the way to Catonsville by way of NC and NYS. Married the Babe of our Time. Have two weirdly wonderful little ones - each a pole marking an end of the autism spectrum, so that’s my main obsession. To release the steam I flee into the other two obsessions- baseball and music.

Improv music - jazz and jambands. No scale left un-run! No guitar left un-noodled! Wail, babies, wail!! Every hundred new bootleg recordings makes me want a hundred more - it’s like ballgames, can’t go to too many. On the jamband boards, I’m stringjamjazz.

Made one accurate sports prediction in my life. Looking at my Eddie Murray ROY card when it was new, I told my buddy “This guys going to the Hall of Fame.”

My name is Peter and live in Webster, NY (Rochester). As you can tell by my log-in name I’m a die-hard. I fell in love with the O’s when their Triple A team was here. I spent many a summer nights at Silver Stadium watching future O’s like Murray, Ripken, Mussina, Boddicker, Schilling and B-Rob when they were Red Wings. I was upset when the Red Wings dumped the O’s, but it was actually a good deal for this city (getting the Twins).
I watch every game that is televised on MLB Extra-Innings (4 years running) and got a dog last year named Ripken. I’m married, spent my 1-year anniversary in Cooperstown watching Cal & gwynn go into the Hall, and we are expecting our 1st child (son in September) and I’ve gotten the VETO on naming him Cal—i guess the dog did it.

I’m a fan of: the Atlanta Falcons, NY Rangers, Sacramento Kings, Virginia Tech football team & Syracuse Orange basketball team.

I work in the Physical Education field/early childhood field. Part time I am an umpire for high school baseball and Babe Ruth leagues (& some slow pitch softball).

Favorites:
Music: Buffett, Springsteen, Moxy Fruvous, & a classic The Beach Boys
TV: Baseball Tonight (most ESPN shows), Law & order: SVU, How I met Your Mother, Cheers, MASH, All in the Family
Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams, Slapshot, Bull Durham, Crash, Juno

I’ve only posted a few times, because of grad-school, but plan on trying to contribute more often

Right now, I am procrastinating from finishing my grading.

55 PowerPoint projects were turned into today, and they’ll want their grades tomorrow. They’ll get them sometime next week.

Greetings. Two months shy of 33. Male. Married with 16-month old daughter. Grew up in Columbia, moved to Ohio for college, back to Baltimore in 1997 where I played a lot of clamorous saxophone, been living in Queens since 2001. Now I teach (I’m procrastinating grading too) and play music. Orioles fan since childhood. Fond memories of Memorial Stadium … my parents would take me to several games a year but I think we only saw the Orioles win once (I thought I might be a jinx). Equally fond memories of listening to Jon Miller on the radio, which was perpetually on. Favorite player: Ed-die. Happy to have you folks to keep me company while I listen to Os games through the magic of the internet.

I’m a guy. 24. Grew up in Laurel as an O’s fan my whole life, but now I live in Rockville which I guess you’d have to call Nationals territory even though it’s MARYLAND. Assholes.

I am also a HUGE Capitals fan (grew up playing hockey in this area), a big Maryland Terrapins fan (went to UMD) and a less huge Ravens/Wizards/DC United fan.

I’m not married but I do live in sin with my girlfriend of 3+ years and our pug, the 14 pound sex ruiner.

Favorite Bands: Coheed and Cambria, Interpol, Cake, 2 Skinnee J’s, The Roots.

25, male. Grew up and still live in wild, wonderful Carroll County. Graduate student studying how to procrastinate and not get a job until the very last minute. Always been an Orioles fan, although I don’t really know how I got hooked on baseball – my parents and brother don’t care about sports at all. I like sci-fi (star trek), mountain biking, IPAs, and alternative country. Even though I’ll always love Baltimore, my big dream is to one day move out west, to New Mexico or Wyoming or Montana.

Aaron, male, 27 years old.
Currently residing in Greencastle, PA, after spending some 12 years of my life living in the wasteland of northern Indiana, spent the first 14 1/2 years of my life in Hagerstown, grew up an Orioles fan, mostly via the Suns being first their single-A, and the double-A affiliate, I can safely say I was ticked when Bowie took my team.

Musically, I’m mostly into hardcore, punk, and metal, some stuff that’s currently been spinning for me – Terror, Hatebreed, Set Your Goals, MxPx, Zao, Converge, Pantera, Seventh Star, Integrity, Life In Your Way and a bunch of other stuff, I used to be in a band, we played some shows, did some things, made some music, and it still exists in the ether that is myspace

Favorite movies are Back to the Future, Boondock Saints, Field of Dreams, Major League, Dirty Work, and Friday.

I went from 1995 (2130, actually), until last year, (the Mora bunt game agains the Yankees), without getting to a game, but since I’m back in the area, I plan on making it to a few more…I’ve been to one this year, and and will be at the Sunday game against the Nats.

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Grew up in Wheaton and went to HS in DC.

Became an O’s fan for sure in 79 when I came home from the Navy. (Took awhile to transfer loyalties from the Senators, even though they didn’t exist anymore.)

Probable highlight as an O’s fan, ordering and getting tickets to WS in 83. I took my dad to his first WS game. Had to do it on crutches, as I’d torn my ACL playing basketball a couple of weeks earlier.

Split time between Portland, OR and Bellevue, WA. (My home is Oregon, but my job is in Washington.) 20 years in the PNW as of last month.

Redskins, Terps and Portland Trailblazers. I also tend to root for the Packers, as my dad commutted every week between DC and Green Bay for about 12 years and I also spent time working up there. (Hint: don’t ever play any games or contests involving drinking with folks from Wisconsin. I was fresh out of the Navy with my apprentiship in drinking and could barely hang with those people. )

Too many movies I like to list, but if it has era accurate firearms in it, or zombies, I’ll probably like it. I could get along just fine with Marianne’s play list, but I wouldn’t mind adding some celtic, afro-pop and root/folk music to it.

U of M grad (History) plus a couple of graduate degrees (Environ Science & MBA) I picked up out here. Favorite pasttime (besides sex with my wife) is sitting out on the deck, admiring the bucoholic view of the Oregon countryside, reading a book while enjoying a glass (ok more like the whole bottle) of wine and maybe an occasional cigar. Favorite hobby is probably the volunteer mentoring and teaching I do. Started off a reading tutor and have spent time working with kids from pre-school (Headstart) to grad school (TA in a Soils course). I currently am doing Junior Achievement and am on the board of a non-profit science education group (Wolftree / beoutside.org). As often as it happens, I’m still amazed at how a group a 4th graders can do good science in the field and then relate back what they learned.

I am originally from Fallston MD. Spent some time in the military which was interesting in that I got to talk sports with a variety of fans. Seriously, one of the best guys on my boat to talk baseball with was this kid from the Bronx. Yeah he was an asshole but this kid could tell you the opposing team’s lineup for every Yankee’s World Series Games. I’ve never met someone that knew baseball better than that kid. I’m back in Catonsville as a 27 year freshmen at UMBC. Anybody else see my Dawgs sweep the American East Title? Georgetown got lucky…. Back to reality. I got season tickets to the IronBirds which is awesome seeing kids like Markickass work their way up the system. Keep an eye on Matt Angle. Sick tiny little fielder with a great eye at the plate. Reminds me of B-Rob.
I have no luck with sports, however. I left for bootcamp in week 6 of the Raven’s Superbowl season. I told my old man that they would go all the way because I would miss the Superbowl by a week. He told me I was a dumbass and get my ass on the plane. Damn if I was fucking right. When the Terps won the NCAA tournament, I was living in a shithole apartment in North Charleston, SC. Half of our development was partitioned off with barb wire, separating the projects from us. I was working shiftwork so I taped the game and planned on watching when I got back. Came back to the apartment and everything was gone. The TV, inflatable Budweiser Couch, the fucking refrigerator. everything. To this day, I have never seen the entire Maryland-Indiana final. I figure when the Orioles make it to the World Series, I will get and die from cancer just prior to the final game. Watching this revitalization of the Orioles is fantastic though. Seriously, has anyone consider putting Andy MacPhail in charge of the entire city? Considering how he has turned the losing tradition around on this team, I would like to see how he would tackle the heroin trade. I love the Birds…but I honestly never thought they could reverse the trend. We are witnessing history people!!!

I am not at liberty to tell you much about my job, but I used to be a lobbyist and am still in the field of political science/government agency.

Sorry for the long post.

31, attorney, former Capitol hill rat, Married (no kids), born in Baltimore, livin’ in Chicago. My first game was opening day 1977, making me a little over four months old at the time. And yes, I was at the ‘79 series and still have the O’s ‘79 Pennant banner hanging in my office.

My folks were season ticket holders and my dad’s a Birds fan from the days before batting helmets. Memorial Stadium is still the greatest place to watch a ballgame. No one, absolutely no one, could slow a game down like Eddie Murray in the batters box. Rick Dempsey is my all-time, bar none favorite baseball player, ever-est. And as much as I idolized Cal growing up, his brother Billy was more my role model.

I lived back in DC for four years after college, played and coached hockey out at ARC ICE in rockville (and for that matter all over DC), before leaving for Chicago for law school and eventually marriage as well.

In my spare time I run a University of Michigan Sports Blog called Maize n Brew for the same network as Camden Chat, play hockey, and live two blocks from Wrigley.

I’m about to go collect my 3rd and final degree, an MFA in Creative Writing, Concentration Poetry, tonight at George Mason University; previously Boston College (2003) and Villanova (2001, Go ‘Cats!) I’m originally from Baltimore, went to Calvert Hall (any other Hall guys here? FTD!) am married to a girl who never saw a baseball game in her life but is slowly “getting it”, collect toys (really) read and write a whole lot of poetry and other things (besides poetry a lot of genre fiction, fantasy and to a lesser extent sci-fi) and loads of comic books. I’m pretty much a geek. Musically, I dig Great Big Sea, Blues Traveler, Uncle Earl, Ellis Paul, Elvis Costello. Movies..Lord of the Rings, other geek movies, absolutely anything by the Coen brothers but especially “The Big Lebowski,” “The Searchers” and other westerns.

23, recent college grad, future architect, M, in good ol’ Carroll County.
I have always been a baseball fan and Orioles fan my entire life. They haven’t won a championship since I was born, but I still have hope that one day we can overtake the evil empire and its twisted sister.
Played baseball ever since I was 5. I’ve coached a few teams as well. I still play and have been a part of jv and varsity high school as well as D2 and D1 baseball teams.
Music, I play guitar and am a fan of country and classic rock for the most part.
I post because I love to converse and debate with others. There aren’t too many “diehard” baseball fans that I see everyday that would be able to hold their own with some of the conversations we have on here.

i am very open minded i like meeting cute boys i like healthy stuff, good vibes and i do not have time to waste time so i like to have fun and i make it fun some things i like in no particular order are beastie boys, dogs, dancing, snoop dog, art, sushi, aerobics/weights, tom petty, jazz, good company, deep down and dirty hard hitting house music, and most everything that falls in between. i am looking for a guy that has a good head on his shoulders with a firm sense of his self and an appreciation for honesty and harmony. i enjoy someone who can coinside with my values and ideas about what the future holds. i also enjoy someone who is financially secure and does support enviornmental reservation- may it be with recycling or donations. in addition someone who can dance the night away or appreciate art in its finest form. not much to ask for.

49 Yrs, Married, 2 Chimps, 9 monkeys, 3 Dogs, and our kids are all grown, gone, and hate me and the wife!
Live in rural Cecil County, 1 mile from Delaware and 2 miles from PA.
O’s fan since I was weaned, first game was the ‘66 WS win vs. the Dodgers 1-0!
My grandfather has season tix to Memorial Stadium through his bank, so as kids we saw every Colts game every year, and about 15-20 O’s games a year. We moved from St. Michael’s in 1967 to Wilmington, DE for my dad’s job, and my Dad went out and spent $200 on a huge antenna ( a ton of $$$ in those days ) so we could watch O’s and Colts games on our first color set when I was 9.
Formerly a touring deadhead, I love the jam bands, reggae, and a little Sinatra now and then.
Dig good movies, especially murder mysteries, and Lost and Medium are my fave TV shows.
My wife trains monkeys and chimpanzees for the entertainment industry, and we have a real nice business…just got back from a commercial shoot today in NYC for Anti-Monkey Butt Powder.
You can check out our non-human primate family here:
www.cognitivechimps.com

I’m Dave. i have a blog (http://bottomfeederbaseball.blogspot.com/) where i write about the nats and the O’s. well, mostly Nats since i write about the O’s here. i also am the beat reporter for the Nats at another website (http://www.dcsportsbox.com/main/) if you care to check that out.

i’ve been an O’s fan since i was a kid, and that goes back some time. how long? Mark Belanger left me tickets one night after he hit me riding my bike delivering papers one afternoon on his way to Memorial Stadium. my mom jokes that i was the only thing he hit all year.

i ushered at Memorial between my junior and senior yeat at Towson State, behind the O’s bullpen in left. i also helped attend the player’s lot on occasion that summer and got to escort the wives and girlfriends to their cars. heady stuff for a college senior.

so even though i write about the Nats, i’m still a O’s fan at heart.

non-baseball: married, no kids. my wife is an accomplished sports photographer. we have a cat, named Butters—yes after South Park. i play bass and sing in a semi-original rock band. you’ve never heard of us. my five favorite bands in history are: The Police, The Eagles, Kiss, Stone Temple Pilots and Van Halen. i live in Alexandria, VA. and work at a big law firm in DC. i used to be good at golf, but don’t get to play near enough anymore.

the first player jersey i ever owned was a blue Bert Jones. i still have it, although it certainly doesn’t fit.

25 years old, Baltimore native. Living in Columbia, soon to be Silver Spring. I’ve been an O’s fan since I was ten, and I am the guy behind the NumerOlogy (http://www.oriolesnumbers.com) site, and by extension, the Orioles Card “O” the Day blog (http://oriolescards.blogspot.com).

I’m one of the last single friends in my group, and I keep busy by acting in community theatre shows (I was an English and Theatre major at Washington College in Chestertown). As you might guess, I’m also a diehard baseball card collector. My first stop out of college was a marketing internship with the IronBirds, and I’ll have Billy Ripken stories to tell in due time.

Anything else? I’m a rasslin’ fan, and recently won ringside seats to WWE Backlash at the Arena from 98 Rock. I listen to most rock from the 60s onward, and my favorite band is Pearl Jam.

I also think I might become the first man to tear my rotator cuff playing Wii Tennis.

Glad to finally be on board here at CC!

I’m 20, grew up in ellicott city and go to Maryland Institute (photography). I listen to bands that I don’t even know and a lot of jazz and classical and stuff and I think I’m the youngest guy on here. I like the o’s best and then the wiz, skins, terps, etc…

and I am an Orioleholic. But it’s not that bad, really. I can stop any time I want. Although I do watch games alone. And sometimes in the morning. Still, really, I just come to these CC meetings to make friends…although yeah, I secretly enjoy seeing other people who’ve got it worse than me. I mean, I know I can quit.

My actual last name sounds close enough to Titov (a fairly common Russian name) that Russians sometimes hear it that way when I introduce myself. I am from the Greater Chicagoland Area and went to (early) elementary school with Cubs announcer Jack Brickhouse’s daughter Jean – but so what, the Cubs sucked relentlessly, which wasn’t much fun to rebel against, so I hated the White Sox instead, to the amusement/dismay/indifference of the Greater Titovland Family, who were mostly WrightSox fans (and still are).

I’m, ahem, more chronologically advanced than most o’ ya – although I think ElktonFan is in my ballpark, so to speak – but the good news is I get to say stuff like, ahem, Shut up, milk-sucker, I Saw Ted Williams Play. Oh, and You think THAT was a shot? I Saw the Mick Hit One. And I did. Although truth to tell, I had dropped my popcorn and was picking up the box when he made contact. I heard this WHACK, and all I actually saw was this incredible arc into left field…accompanied by people in Comiskey making an awed w-o-o-o-o sound. Which was something to hear, I don’t mind telling you.

We moved to VA when I was in 3rd grade, and the closest MLB action was Baltimore, which served as my back-up favorite team until promoted, and with a vengeance, in the 1970s when what had been the most successful franchise in sports was taken over by a criminal scumbag who, while somehow avoiding actual incarceration, turned the team into his personal Freakshow and Humiliation Theater for players and managers. I have neither uttered nor written this individual’s name since.

After h.s. in New England, college in CA and grad school in DC – plus several visiting stints at fine establishments of learning in France and the Soviet Union – I have worked in the ed biz more or less continuously, in the US and USSR/Russia, as a teacher (Russian, English, Russ Lit, US history & govt, Russ-Amer relations); exchange program administrator (both directions); and think tank functionary (wanna hear me think? wanna see me tank?). I also write a bi-weekly column on Russ-Amer stuff for The Moscow Times (please patronize our advertisers).

Music: Yes. C’mon, I haven’t heard of most of the stuff cited above: I’m old and 10,000-miles-away-worth of culturally challenged (been here since ’94, though I get 2 mos. plus-minus in the US annually, Xmas and summers). Think 60’s-70’s college music (though I skipped Woodstock, thanks) and some eclectics thrown in. Oh, and another reason 2632 should go out with me: played cello as a callow yout’, up to the VA state string orchestra level. Heard Rostropovich; met Ozawa (one uncle was a music prof at Northwestern). But no, she just won’t go for it. I don’t know what I said.

Filums: If Old, then Long List, right? Easier by directors, I guess: Lindsay Anderson ("If…" in particular); Coen Bros. (no losers there; glad to see so much support for "The Big Lebowski"); Tarkovsky ("Solaris" particularly). All time fave, maybe not unexpectedly, is a Soviet picture: "Afonya" (1975)—the only Soviet film which combined comedy, drama and genuine criticism of Soviet reality (it had scenes cut out in several places for screening abroad, but still had émigré audiences cheering when shown in SF, I recall).

Personal: Name’s Nina, and we’ve been dating since, um, 1995 – though she says ’94 (I’m not going to win that one). No plans to marry (it’d be the 2nd lap for both of us), especially if Sharapova decides to dump Roddick. Actually, I feel more protective of Sharapova than hot for her, at this point—now that’s old, you’re saying, and you may be right.

I’ve enjoyed CC no end these last two years: you can’t imagine what a difference having MLB to watch and CC to complain to has made for an expat trapped with only soccer on his TV (OK, some pretty good hockey and very good basketball). I have a list of dislikes many of you are really tired of hearing about – but in order to alienate the other half of you, here they go again:

I am permanently aghast/offended/etc. at/about/on top of Petey – I mean, the reason I joined the O’s front cheering ranks back when was to (a) protest and (b) get away from contemptuous, demeaning, assh#le ownership. But as a generous man, I also find room in my heart to loathe bad announcing (Ferd! Manfroo!! Really!!! Sux!!!!); the NYBosSawkees franchise ("Obnoxious douchebaggery is our middle name"); Bud the Pretend Commissioner (who alternates among See No Evil, Hear no Evil and Evil); the stupid, pathetic National Punk League ("Whaddaya mean? Every 9th batter is supposed to be a joke! It’s, y’know, strategy and tradition!" Yeah. For strategy: ask Earl. Under tradition, please see Connie Mack, who explained why the DH made sense in 1…9…0…3.)

Welp, I’d really like to pad this out a bit longer, hee-hee, but since most of you wisely stopped reading and got back to your lives at about the "Greater Chicagoland" part, I don’t feel this thing’s been a burden on anyone. I write so much because it’s more exciting than my two actual sports outlets here: (1) the treadmill and stationary/recumbent bikes at my (pardon the phonetic Russian) "feetness kloop"; and (2) running to the bus stop during snowstorms, desperately trying to stay ahead of the wolves (I’m in an outlying suburb) who have to eat too, you know.

Go O’s!

Bryan, 27, Oklahoma City. Conceived in Maryland born in S. Williamsport, moved to Oklahoma. Married with first one on way. I work for a bank. Can handle just about any music except Britney Spears, Fergie, etc. Basically everything in my wife’s car makes my ears bleed. REK, James McMurtry, Bruce Robison, Max Stalling and Ray Wylie Hubbard are some that are more my speed. Not a big going to the movies guy but watch some when I have time. Just saw No Country for Old Men so guess that shows you I’m a little behind. Mostly I just mow the yard, watch the O’s on Extra Innings, play softball/golf, and bbq. BBQ-ing is actually more of a sport than golf. Oh…almost forgot…I had to listen to my wife complain about me wanting a this for nearly a year. But when her dad found it for me at a farm sale she couldn’t say know…so without further delay…I would like to introduce you to my new summer project.

I’m not very computer savvy so that pic may not show up.

(Thanks for the template 2632!)

Age: 30

Profession: Disability Services professional at a state college; teach Political Science at various colleges as an adjunct

Music: Anyone else on last.fm? Here’s my profile, which is heavy on The Hold Steady, Josh Ritter, Flaming Lips, Kathleen Edwards, Pearl Jam, Wille Nelson, Jayhawks, New Pornographers, Wilco, Bruce, Radiohead, Tom Petty, My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Bright Eyes, The Bad Plus, Patty Griffin, and randomly good jazz, broadway musicals (Sondheim!), and classical.

Movies: Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,

TV: I’ve stopped watching TV, but watch complete series at a time on DVD. Lost and The Office are the only current shows we’re watching. Currently working my way through Northern Exposure (season 3), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (finished season 4), and Angel (finished season 1)

Books: Check out my LibraryThing profile for my favorite authors and a lot of the books I’ve read.

Bio: Grew up in a small town south of Rochester, NY. Fell in love with the O’s when they won the series when I was turning 6, just as I was beginning to get into baseball and watching their AAA Red Wings play at the local stadium that my user name is taken from.

My favorite Orioles team had to be 1989. Even though they didn’t go as far as the late 90s teams, they were so much fun to watch and it was during my peak time of baseball excitement, the age of 12.

My favorite Orioles moment is, of course, watching Cal break the record. I was sitting in a dorm lounge with 20 or so other guys (no Orioles fans among them) and everyone burst out in applause when Cal hit the home run. It was hard holding back tears when he took the lap around the stadium. It meant even more because I had just moved away from home for the first time and was going through the typical minor depression of not knowing anyone and feeling out of place.

Currently live in Syracuse (Go Chiefs and Orange!) with the wife, a 19 month-old, and another on the way.

Random stuff: I like to run and to garden. I get a little obsessed with my fantasy baseball team. Team Zissou has taken the title 2 years in a row and is in good position for another run this year. Choice Orioles always play key roles on my team as they are usually undervalued. 2006 was Bedard and Chris Ray. 2007 was Bedard. 2008 is Nick, Brian, and Sherrill.

44yrs, putting me in the DH with bad knees category. I’m out in Sonoma County in northern CA now, after growing up in Reston / Herndon VA and then 12 years in NYC. My dad grew up in Essex. He still lives in Baltimore – walking distance from OPACY. He is a longtime Os fan and a lot of it rubbed off on me. I still have bats and hats from games at Memorial Stadium I went to with his father, who worked at Glenn L. Martin in Middle River. I work a wicked cool job at a CAD software company out here in Marin. I moved out here 14 years ago to get closer to the future Mrs. Typozzz, which worked out pretty well except for having to watch most East Coast games in the late afternoon, when I’m supposed to be working. I’ve gotten interested in the A’s since I can follow their farm system locally and I can get down to spring training games in Arizona. I’ve got a lot of history with the Orioles though – they are a more compelling team to follow.

What? Still reading? OK. Music: Beasties, Elvis Costello & the Attractions (and nobody else) Clash, Who, Skynyrd, John Prine, Dylan and De La Soul (3ft High and Rising only.) After that don’t bother.) Movies: Blazing Saddles. Greatest guilty pleasure: watching Roadrunner / Coyote cartoons with my kids. I know I’m supposed to be responsible for developing them into fine young people, but that shit is just funny.

Living in New Orleans, grew up in Lancaster PA, in Phillies territory. Rooted for them in ‘80 when I was just discovering baseball (couple years older and I might have become a Pirates fan, yikes) but discovered the Os thanks to a good friend. ‘83 I was an Os fan and heavily outnumbered. After high school I moved away and the strike happened and I kinda ignored baseball until recently. Became a Saints fan so I know all about losing year after year.
Now I’m a rocket scientist and am almost done renovating a house about a mile from the French Quarter. Bought it after the storm, it didn’t flood but the roof blew off and it was being renovated by a Yankee artist with no knowledge of carpentry etc.
Oh, and I’m living in sin with a Y*nkees fan from NJ. Only girl I’ve been with who doesn’t think baseball is stupid. We’re planning on going to a game at OPACY and in the Bronx. I also want to go see baseball games in the DR, Japan, Cuba, etc.

I’m going to be working with Kerry King of Slayer next week for a day or two if anyone’s into them. i’m not, but it might be cool to someone else. i might be able to snag something for someone if your a big fan. no promises, but its possible.

I’m 32, born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. I’m a master control operator at an ABC affiliate down here and I’ve worked at various TV / radio stations since I was 18.

I became an Orioles fan in 1987. I like to tell people I didn’t pick them, they picked me. I just knew I was an Orioles fan from the first time I watched them (we got HTS down here back then). We lost over 200 games the first two years I was a fan, so I am a dyed-in-the-wool die-hard fan.

The Orioles have always been my 1st love (I have a slew of ex-girlfriends and an ex-wife who will testify to that). When we got an NHL team in 1997 (Carolina Hurricanes) I really got into that as well and have had season tickets since ‘98. I also have season tickets to NC State football.

During the couple of hours a year I’m not watching games, I like playing poker and watching TV. House, Law & Order CI and Scrubs are some of my favorites. After all that sitting on the couch, I go to the gym a few times a week to keep from ballooning.

As far as music goes, the music snobs laugh at my IPod playlist. I love 80’s music – the cheesier, the better. On the way to work tonight I was jamming to “Invincible” by Pat Benatar. That song never fails to get me jazzed up.

“And with the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice”.

From your lips to God’s ears, Ms. Benatar.

but I just spent ten days in England where baseball is banned.

I am Dany, just turned 29 (yesterday) and I currently live in the dank shithole of Boston. This August I move to LA or NYC.

I grew up outside of Philly, but whereas all of my friends were Phillies fan, I latched onto the O’s thanks to Ripken and the fact that I could catch a lot of games on channel 43.

I currently work in music marketing -working with bands as big as Bloc Party, The Decemberists, Interpol, John Mayer (blech) and Justice all of the way down to local bands and bands that will be big in a year. I spend a lot of time on the road and it’s pretty much the best job ever.

But I’ve received a request, so…

Real name is Dave.

“Sluggo” is the name of stand up comedian Ron White’s dog. I know there are at least 2 or 3 other fans on this board. The “2.0” comes from the fact that after the relaunch I found that the name was already taken, by someone at the Oakland A’s board, of all places. I call for a meeing of the subcommittee!

Discovered the O’s somewhat late, when I went to college at the University of Maryland. Interesting times in the team’s history. Earl II: Revenge of the Perm, Cal, Sr., 0-for-April, and finally, Frank Robinson somehow keeping them in 1st for 160 games.

Strange thing is that if I favoured anyone up until that point it was the Jays, being that I’m originally from Toronto. Although the Jays didn’t even become a team until after my family had moved to NY (Long Island, to be specific). Confused yet? Didn’t make much sense to me at the time either. But anyway, here I am, still in NY, where I’ve been ever since I finished college.

Now some people living in places other than the O’s sphere of influence have formed “non-aggression pacts”, if you will, with the local teams. I believe 2632 has done this with the Red Sox (my thoughts on THEM can be seen in the picure to the right). I’ve done this with the Yankees. Yeah, I know what some of you must be thinking. But it’s the only way to keep the blood pressure reasonably under control. Trust me on this one, I’ve done the research.

And to complete my history with the AL East, my mom, now living in Sarasota has become, much to my annoyance, a newly-minted Rays fan.

Moving on to other sports, in hockey I’m an Islanders fan. No roundabout trips or ambiguity there.

In football I like both the Dolphins & the Chargers. Saw this great playoff game between them in the early 80s and it stuck with me ever since. Kellen Winslow, Sr. must have lost about 15 pounds in OT alone.

I’ll go for anyone in basketball other than the Celtics and/or Lakers. I’m old enough to remember not giving a damn the LAST time they dominated their conferences at the same time.

College sports don’t interest me at all.

Let’s see? What else?

I read all kinds of books. I get caught up in certain types of books & read a bunch of things on that topic. Right now I’m into biographies. Just finished the one on John Adams that they based the miniseries on. Top quality, if you have the time for that sort of thing.

I also watch a wide selection of TV shows. Right now I’m going through my tapes of obscure British SciFi shows that I got off of PBS many, many years ago. Classic Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Blake’s 7, etc.

With music I’m a bit more selective. Although I may take a passing interest in other types of music, what’s really stood the test of time for me are groups like the Beatles, Stones, Who, Floyd, etc. And after the “this or that” thread I feel the need to offer this disclaimer: Please do not take this as an attack on any other form of music or those who listen to it!

Finally, as for my job, I work at a college libarary on the late afternoon/evening shift. Having been a night person since before I can remember (perhaps becoming a Ray’s fan is my mom’s form of revenge), the hours are pretty good. But now that I think of it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy

Hi, I’m Colin.
I’ve been lurking since prolly like the end of the ‘06 season, and finally decided to sign up for a for-real account with a fancy name and password which I’m sure to forget.
I’m 25 and I live in Hampden. There’s an uneasy mix here of older professionals who have moved back into the city, some hipsters, and a few young men aspiring to the “thug lyfe.”
I love the O’s, but I have begun to wonder if I secretly hate them and sub-consciously want them to fail. I work at Daedalus Books in Columbia, until August when I will move from Baltimore to Bloomington, IN to do my MFA in Painting. ‘Cause that’s a good idea.
Onward!

Who cares? I might why would I ruin my anonymity and ability to trash anything and anyone I want without them having recourse or the ability to find me. Motherfuckers!!!!

I’m Joe. I’m twenty years old, I’m from Silver Spring, MD. Baseball, Football and Hockey are basically my three favorite things in the world, and I really don’t like discussing which is my absolute favorite. I’m fiercely proud to be an Orioles fan, along with a very die hard Green Bay Packers fan, and a diehard Washington Capitals fan, and sort of a lightweight Wizards and Terps fan.

Countless random people on the street come up to me and tell me I look like either the dude from Knocked Up (Seth Rogen) or the dude from Superbad (Jonah Hill). Us, stocky curly-haired Jews need to stick together after all.

Movies: Children of Men, Boogie Nights, Saturday Night Fever, This is Spinal Tap, Knocked Up, Hoop Dreams, Judge Dredd, American Psycho

Music: The New Pornographers, The Who, Sufjan Stevens, Jimmy Smith, Spoon, Marvin Gaye, The Shins, Guided by Voices, The Exploding Hearts

Television: The Wire, The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development, The first ten seasons of the Simpsons, David Letterman, The Daily Show

Hey my name is Timmy, I’m 19 years old and a freshman at the University of New Orleans (I might transfer to Towson after this year). I’ve lived in New Orleans (AKA The Big Easy or Chocolate City Whatever You Prefer) all of my life and still have faith that my city will come back better than ever. I am completely obsessed with the O’s and baseball. I couldn’t tell you the last time I didn’t think about baseball (even in the off-season). Ever since I was a little kid I would memorize baseball stats and people would always refer to me as Mr. Encyclopedia. I have been an O’s fan ever since the mid 90’s, back when Ripken, Anderson, Alomar and Moose were all playing. My Dad is a huge Yankee fan who can’t understand why I love this team so much. I am also a proud season ticket holder of the New Orleans Saints. I haven’t missed a game in years. My favorite hobbies include writing about baseball, talking about baseball, playing baseball and Longboarding with my friends. My favorite movies are Field of Dreams, Rudy, Bull Durham, Miracle, and Eight Men Out. After I graduate from college I want to become a radio broadcaster or beat writer for a baseball team.

I’m from and living in Annapolis….moving out in August, but not leaving the area, getting my associates in the winter. I’m probably gonna transfer somewhere and get a degree of some sort….

I’ve been an O’s fan as long as I knew what baseball was. I remember Cal Ripken a lot and Brady Anderson was really cool too because I was left handed.

I admit though I wasn’t really a sport fan until I started getting heavy into football during middle school. Didn’t start watching baseball until high school and I’ve liked it more and more every year. I’ve recently gotten into scorekeeping…

I’ve been to 4 games this year so far, we’ve won 3 of them. The loss was that extra inning game to Boston on that Friday night before Manny hit his 500 HR. The Pirates one honoring Earl Weaver was the most fun though.

yeah…

I’m not getting too personal I guess.

you can find out anything you want about me…you have this picture and I’m telling you that my screen name is used on other things. .... but are you gonna look, man? Are ya?