that was some weak cheese. But it’ll show up as a hit for “the Captain” in the box score. ANd is throw in the dirt to Teixeira on what was a routine play will not.

Like, are you being ironic? ’Cause I think he gave it up to Matsui.

Flat Breezy really put on some poundage this winter. Holy pearl.

I noticed that at the end of the game, must have discovered Boog’s.

Vice President Joe Biden was in pretty classic form in the MASN booth. “I couldn’t make it in pro sports, so I figured, ‘What the hell? I’ll be Vice President.’”

He says hell more than anyone i’ve ever met..

And also, I haven’t felt this good as an O’s fan in a while, especially after hearing the fellow fans boo their hearts out at teixeira. Good job fans who could make it to the game.

That’s what I decided during today’s game and immediately texted 2632 informing her.

For barring out New York fans by making people buy packets instead of single games.

The crowd was awesome this afternoon.

I’m so mad I missed the rest of this game due to having to go to class. Screw class. This game must have been awesome. Haha… Eat it Tex.

There’s only a video of Matsui’s home run on mlb.com. W T F, mate?!?

from Pinstripe Alley

The hatred for Teixeira was admittedly surprising. Yes, he grew up near Baltimore, but so what? Manny Ramirez grew up in New York City, yet never received more vitriol than any other Red Sock. Can you fault a guy for wanting to play for the most storied pro team in American history?

God I love seeing the Yankees lose

My thoughts:

- I doubt the TV captured the intensity of the Teixeira-booing. Good lord that was awesome.
- The Orioles parking attendants were in terrible form. I was sent around in a Kafka-esque circle three times, with no lots with any space and no way out to go find my own parking.
- Boog was out signing autographs at Boog’s. The Yankee fan in front of me asked who he was. Even his fellow Yankee-fan friend rolled his eyes. I said it was Boog and he said “who?” I told him he didn’t belong at a baseball game and he got mad. It was funny.
- Izturis’ HR was debatable, but it was the first debatable call that went the O’s way. There was one tag at home and two fair/foul calls that looked like Yankee-favoring bullshit to me (though admittedly I didn’t have a great view). So I consider the HR to be evening things out.
- I want to believe in the new Adam Jones. I really really do.

Great win, great opening day for the O’s. Although I did not watch the game here in Bloomington, Indiana, I still used it as an excuse to avoid doing work.
I take it the weather in Baltimore was reasonably good? It was actually snowing this morning out here in God’s country (and He can keep it). Snowing.
But baseball’s here again, and we are teh winnar. And Izturis, of all people, hits a home run. Didn’t see that one coming.

Win on Opening Day and suddenly everything seems to be possible. I love it.

I made it down to the stadium at about 3:20pm and by that point even standing room only was sold out. I thought it was going to be a failure, but then there were scattered single seats and I ended up sitting in the “EA” row in section 72 (just inside the foul pole in left field) – the EA row being where people with wheelchairs end up, so I kind of felt like a jerk, but the ticket window dude could clearly see I was standing and still sold me the ticket, so I didn’t feel THAT bad.

There were small groups of Yankee fans and they made a little noise, but nothing near what the home fans were putting out. I was expecting the usual half-and-half (or worse) but we’re probably talking 85-90% O’s fans. You probably can’t realize how much Teixeira was booed if you were watching on TV.

The 7th inning near-meltdown scared me. The insurance runs gladdened me. And seriously… Cesar Izturis with the homer? Really? I love baseball!

And now we can all breathe easily, because we know that no matter what, we won’t lose every game.

I have to say that booing Teix was the most fun I’ve had in all of 2009. My whole family other than my mom and sister have extremely hoarse throats. I thought I heard the boos dying down a little in the 7th, but in the 8th inning, with a chance to tie the game, that must have been the loudest we got since the introductions…..

What a great game. I came back extremely impressed with JOnes and Izturis. In the third, I was kind of pissed at Cesar because he got beat really bad on a hit run, but I was really happy with him by the end of the game. Jones walked after either a 0-2 or 1-2 count, with a lot of fouls.

Here’s a question: WHat is the salary difference between the winning and losing pitcher of the game?

Just got home from the Yard this is what i noticed:

Brian Bob- You can have my wife anytime you want her, just say the word sir.

Adam Jones- This dude is fast……no man I mean he is really F-ing fast. On that three bagger he hit it was like he was just gliding around the bases. And 2 walks. WTF!!

Cesar- “He hit a dinger! HOLY SHIT HE HIT A DINGER!!!!” That courtesy of the little old lady that was sitting behind me.

Guthrie-I love Guts but I really thought that he was going to get SHELLED today. Man I’m glad I’m an idiot.

Z A U N – What more can you say other than Z A U N!

MelMo-Great play on the ball hit down the line somewhere in between beer 7 and 8. This is the kind of playoff expirence we’ll need come September. Yeah I just said it.

The Fans- I’m sure we all have seen it sometime in the last few years. Birds get up early on the MFYs or the PHN and then around the 6th or 7th you can feel the tide start to change. Today I could see that happening. 8th inning, Yanks get a man on, all thoses pricks in their Jeter jerseys getting that pricky smerk they tend to get on their pricky faces and then BAM! DOUBLE J shuts the f-ing door on them and the place comes alive like I remember from when I was a kid.

TODAY WE OWNED THE YARD.

I can’t stress that enough to those of you who weren’t there today. When the the fans had to step up they did I have never heard that place boo like they did today. Regardless of how this year turns out the tide is a changin’ folks get on board now the next 10 years are gonna be fun.

“There was a play early in the game, a hit-and-run by the Yankees, where Izturis went to cover the bag on a steal. That should be Roberts’ cover with the righty up. Jeter put an ugly swing on it and poked it through the gaping hole at short. I was worried that we were in for some vintage O’s incompetence.”

It’s not set in stone that every time a righty is up the 2bman covers on a steal and when a lefty is up the SS covers. While that is true in general, the situation and the hitter determines who will cover. Jeter is a guy who likes to go to the opposite field and the defense determines who will cover based on that and how the pitcher/catcher is going to attack him. If the SS broke to cover it’s probably because they determined before the pitch that he would be covering. That wasn’t just “vintage O’s incompetence” – just bad luck.

Or he wins a WS with them, and then he’ll be a real Yankee

I guess there haven’t been any REAL Yankees in about a decade, huh?

I hate base stealing.