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 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.