thanks for everything SC. Sure we’ve had our disagreements, but this is one hell of an O’s blog that got me through ALOT of terrible baseball when I had literally nobody else to relate to. Hopefully you’ll still be stoping by to say howdy and bring your unique consise form of cold reality that you do so well. You did a bang up job, sir. Best of luck in your future endeavors.

PS – Let me also be the first to say congrats to Stacey. Give ’em hell.

This is become my go-to spot for O’s commentary and chat, and I thank you for getting it started.

Hope to see you around here.

But being a member of this site regardless. I can’t even explain how much enjoyment I recieve from this site, how informative, intelligent, and funny the articles can be.

There was never a question of whether the site was in good hands while you were here, and during this year. Thanks for helping the site grow to what it is today.

I honestly don’t know what I would do without this blog. None of my friends are anywhere near as serious a fan as I am and I think my now-fiance would have broken up with me long ago if I only had her to complain to about this team. So, much appreciated.

Unrelated, but I had dinner randomly with the guy who runs the Wizards blog on here a while back (can’t remember his name) and he had nothing but good things to say about you. Meant to bring that up a while ago, but forgot.

But surely you’re still going to comment on CC, right?

Also, out of all the possible fill-ins, could you really not find anyone better than Stacey? I mean honestly?

Always dug your posts. Good luck with the new endeavors!

I"ve only been here for two seasons and in those two seasons I’ve learned more about Orioles Baseball than I had in my previous 20 years of fandom.

That’ll do, pig.

This is a great community and I’m proud to be a part of it. Thanks for getting the ball rolling, SC. Hope to see you around.

Je vous espère de retour souvent.

I’ve already said to you how I feel about you leaving, so I’ll leave it at that.

To everyone else, I may be taking over for SC, but as far as I’m concerned this will always be his blog. When he told me he was leaving I almost started crying. Those of you who came on board this year and haven’t had much exposure to SC are really missing out. He is not only a knowledgeable fan but also a brilliant, hilarious writer. Like some above have said, I learned more about baseball in the 4 years that I’ve been here than I did all of my other years combined. A lot of that is because of Scott’s writing, but it’s also because being around other great fans challenged me to actually learn rather than rely on soundbites and traditional wisdom. I’m a better baseball fan because of SC and Camden Chat.

I love this community and I’m honored that Scott considers me worth taking his spot. zknower, duck, and I worked very hard this season to make CC the best it could be, and we’ll continue to do so with all of your help. And hopefully SC will show up every now and then to talk some trash and use a few references that go over my head and give us Bill Pullman’s Independence Day speech.

Thanks for running the site.

I always enjoyed your analysis and will miss having you around. In fact, I already missed having your around before you formally announced your departure.

Seriously. Thanks for starting this blog, nurturing this blog, and growing this blog. And thanks for picking well for your successor. Stacey’s really, really good at this.

And thanks for adding me at the bottom of the page. Don’t know why you did it, but glad you did.

Camden Chat became my primary source of news about the O’s a couple years ago. I appreciate the hard work you put in to make it that.

PS – I think Stacy is going to do just fine.

I’d been missing your posts and wondering when this shoe would drop. All other sports are the ugly sisters of the resplendent queen baseball, so I can’t say I understand your choice, but I wish you all the best.

Thank you for creating this site. I’ve only been “seriously” commenting on this site since spring training of this year, but following for about a full year now. There are wonderful people on this blog, and it is a great site where I can learn, cry, hooray, sulk, get pissed off, etc. We’ll win a bunch of games for you next year!!

Good luck to Stacey. I know this site will continue to be one of my favorites.

And good work to duck, zknower, and Stacey since the All-Star Break. It was neat seeing different post game reactions, multiple links and quotes.

My main memories of boxing were detesting that my dad would watch most any bout on TV or cable. I can understand the attraction now. Too bad it has to be one or the other. We’ll miss you, but I think the blog is in good hands.

Air Supply? Really? Really?

1. I knew the SC era couldn’t last. Look, people pay me to write stuff. As the years went by, and you kept writing your stuff here for free…Briefly put, you’re really good, and that’s both made CC what it is and drawn the ganglia it has.

2. Key-ripes, [bleep] boxing. But please let me/us know when you start contributing elsewhere.

3. The Big Ten sucks. Face it, it’s America’s CrapConf, has been for years.

4. If you were here, I’d sing you The Daniel Cabrera Song and my version of Fiddler on the Roof, starring A-dam Ea-ton— two contributions I recall you enjoyed. (Oh, and “the artistry formerly known as prints.”) Since you’re not, just hum ’em and pretend.

We’ll miss ya, bud. And remember, there’s a garret apartment in NE Moscow where you’re always welcome.

….but glad you’ll still be writing on the interwebz. You’re a ridiculously talented writer and you damn well better come over and post the occasional guest Story/Fanpost.

Thanks for letting me play in the sandbox for all these years.