How Old Are You, Camden Chatters?
Following a conversation from the Open Thread of 8/21/09, here is a poll to see how old we are at Camden Chat. Each option is a range of ages, rather than each one being a specific age, in case people don't want to get too personal (also the poll would be like 60 questions long). If you so desire, you can proclaim your exact age in the comments.
Okay, have at it!
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Ugh
My age group contains the number “30”. Suddenly I’m depressed.
by PhilR8 on Aug 21, 2009 3:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
heh, sorry
I wasn’t sure about how to do the age groupings… I didn’t want to offend anyone and tried to be inclusive, but I also didn’t want the poll to be too long.
by O Nina on Aug 21, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
ha ha!
Conversely, MY age group include the number “26.” Well done, Nina!
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It should have been 24-29...I'd feel better about it too!
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
by BPinOK on Aug 21, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I guess I'd better get used to being in the group with '40' in it
Me and Melmo.
"I hate seeing Bedard go, but I think the O's may have gotten the better end of the deal" -- me, 2/8/08
by CoachOfEarl on Aug 22, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've always wondered if there's anyone my age or about my age on CC
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 3:13 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm 16
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
you said you were 17 in the open thread
by O Nina on Aug 21, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I suffer from chronic Buttonitis
My posts will only deteriorate in quality.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My goodness
that’s an intense case of Buttonitis… one year in a matter of hours (minutes?)!
by O Nina on Aug 21, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
buttonitis?
does it mean you decide to change your age for no clear reason?
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That movie was odd.
Very good, but very odd.
"He's a gazelle." -Adam Jones on Nolan Reimold.
by LenaO on Aug 21, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
F Scott Fitzgeralds stuff should all be burned
And yes I am bitter from all the times I was forced to read and write papers on the Great Gatsby. So lame.
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 21, 2009 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
sacrilege!
it’s not his fault they took a short story and made a boring movie out of it.
this side of paradise is gorgeous. gatsby is superb.
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 21, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm reading TSOP right now
because I never read Gatsby in high school. I was supposed to, but didn’t. It’s quite alright so far, but it’s been a slow read. Once you start relating to Amory, it gets better. But count me as one that doesn’t get excited about “beautiful sentence structure”
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 22, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I base my opinion on the books i had to read
Not the short story turned into a almost 3 hour movie. Then again, i’m not really a fan of much literature. Although I always enjoy Steinbeck for some reason.
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 22, 2009 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
he wrote the great American novel.
if there is one.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 22, 2009 1:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
depends on who you ask...
you, of all people, should know that some folks consider fear and loathing to be the great american novel!
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 22, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72
was like, the greatest commentary on American Politics.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 23, 2009 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I probably need to change my signature,
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 23, 2009 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the catcher in the rye
it’s like the Matt Wieters of books
Librarians are hiding something
by dfa on Aug 27, 2009 1:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
nice pun dude
"Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me," he said. "I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out."
by WestcoastO'sFan on Aug 27, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i had to read the prince and the pauper
thou hated the old english
"All major leaguers can see the ball and hit it. But what separates the great ones is that they can see the ball and hit it were they want to hit it."
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 30, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
someone needs to break your fingers, son...
gatsby is genius and f. scott is buried in rockville!
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 22, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gatsby is one the worst books I've ever read
Along with the Scarlet Letter and Atlas Shrugged
"I hate making excuses. If I suck, then I suck. And I suck. That's the way I'm playing. If you suck, you suck. You have to take responsibility in this game. Right now, that's the way I feel. Yes, I suck." - Jose Guillen/quote of the year
by getxstoked on Aug 23, 2009 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Moby Dick for me
I skipped 2/3 of it my HS senior year. Maybe that’s why I got a C- on the book report, huh?
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm pretty sure I never finished that either.
Thank God for Cliff’s Notes.
Oh, and a Passage to India sucked ass, too.
"I hate making excuses. If I suck, then I suck. And I suck. That's the way I'm playing. If you suck, you suck. You have to take responsibility in this game. Right now, that's the way I feel. Yes, I suck." - Jose Guillen/quote of the year
by getxstoked on Aug 23, 2009 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
scarlet letter...
is of an era of lit i find hard to digest. putting gatsby w/ atlas shrugged, though…ouch.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 24, 2009 7:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i thought it was awful
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 21, 2009 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have so many thoughts about Fitzgerald
Gatsby is great. Tender is the Night is one of the best novels ever written. His short stories are generally disposable, with a few gems, and Benjamin Button is somewhere in the middle. Not obvious hack-work but not some of the really good stuff like The Ice Palace and Bernice Bobs Her Hair.
The film is fucking terrible.
by pipkin on Aug 22, 2009 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
the film of gatsby?
if so, i agree. one of redford’s more forgettable roles. that says a lot.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 24, 2009 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've never seen the Gatsby film
But I haven’t heard anything good.
Forrest Gump 2 sucked, though.
by pipkin on Aug 26, 2009 12:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You're like Doogie Howser but with lawyers
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes
Except that I actually breezed through high school in eight weeks, making me superior.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude, don’t screw the integrity of the data.
Huff has gone back to being Huff. Deal with it.
by birdman on Aug 21, 2009 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
and you got to be a dreadknock??
im older then you and they never let me :(
"Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is grand salami time!"
by WestcoastO'sFan on Aug 22, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
what is a dreadknock?
other some postition in Camden Chat
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 22, 2009 8:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
above crimson gaurd
i guess baltimo is actually just in the crimson guard but… still
"Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is grand salami time!"
by WestcoastO'sFan on Aug 22, 2009 9:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It has something to do with GI Joe
SC is a fan.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 22, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Because I am actually 16
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 23, 2009 5:19 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
its "dreadnoks"
maybe thats why they didnt let you in.
now, he’s 11 years younger than me and I haven’t reached the level he has. I feel like such a failure…
(btw, dreadnoks were bad guys in GI Joe. they were your typical punk/biker gang/red neck stereotypes)
Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.
by daveh873 on Aug 23, 2009 8:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am 18 and I'm a freshman at the University of South Florida in Tampa...
Go O’s : )
by Tetris on Aug 21, 2009 3:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Let me know if you ever take a class by a Dr. Mackay (Astronomy)
That dude is off the chain if you actually get to know him (I guess that may not happen since its such a huge school).
"I have seen the future and his name is Matt Wieters." Keith Law
by Reddrummer9187 on Aug 21, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ll just say I fall in the 21-25 range…
by Johnny_S on Aug 21, 2009 3:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Titov and duck need to get in here to balance things out
Too much youth right now.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 3:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
i just balanced it more than either one of them could :)
GET OFF MY LAWN
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 21, 2009 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
duck was more of a joke
But I seem to recall Titov mentioning at some point that he is at least over 50.
Titov’s way with words and half-Russian wit strikes me as a skill acquired with age.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think Titov is the oldest
duck isn’t even that old. He’s just a curmudgeon.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
duck ages like beer
Badly.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
i age like fine wine
but i’m in the 21-25 range so who knows
by twistedlogic on Aug 21, 2009 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm raging at the dying of the light, dude
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
And just who the hell rec'd that comment, anyway? Twice? :)
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
make that 3 :)
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 23, 2009 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i rec'd it!
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 23, 2009 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Of course you did
Jim Palmer: "I said to Nolan, 'Why do you run every ball out like that?' and he said, 'Why wouldn’t you?' "
by duck on Aug 25, 2009 8:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i'll take that as a compliment
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 25, 2009 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
what the hell is curmudgeon?????
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
do I even need to pull up 'let me google that for you'?
by kba26 on Aug 21, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Even better for this one, hit dictionary.com
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Aug 21, 2009 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dictionary.com
"He's a gazelle." -Adam Jones on Nolan Reimold.
by LenaO on Aug 21, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Actually, to make it clickable...
… http://lmgtfy.com/?q=dictionary.com
"He's a gazelle." -Adam Jones on Nolan Reimold.
by LenaO on Aug 21, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I only go there when I want to hear a pronunciation
Googling “define: curmudgeon” works a lot better in my experience. Plus it provides you a lot of latitude for those uh, “questionable” Scrabble words.
by PhilR8 on Aug 21, 2009 4:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
just googled it
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
yah that's 100% duck
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Don't be an ass
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i meant it in good humor
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hope the O's keep losing
So that you learn the ways of sarcasm and dry humor.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
sigh
youngins these days
"Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it is grand salami time!"
by WestcoastO'sFan on Aug 22, 2009 6:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not according to the poll.
But then he probably hasn’t voted yet.
hakkaa päälle !
by timg56 on Aug 21, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
He lives in Russia
So he keeps slightly different hours than most of us.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i think hagerbush is over 50 too
because i think he’s talked about seeing boog et al.
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 21, 2009 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are probably a handful or two
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 21, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hagers is up there.
Man’s taken a lickin’ & he’s still kickin’. He’s a rare gem, that one.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
by OEutaw on Aug 21, 2009 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
haha
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
who else voted 14 and under
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 21, 2009 4:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Christ, you're all a buncha ankle biters.
I’m going to join duck & tell you kids to GET OFF MY LAWN.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
by OEutaw on Aug 21, 2009 4:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
if that thing bounces up here again, i'm keepin it!
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 21, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Okay, I've actually said that.
But I’m pretty sure I was still in my twenties.
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
by OEutaw on Aug 21, 2009 7:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
btw...
on that point anyone see gran torino? anyone else surprised how much they kept on pushing the “get off my lawn” bit?
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 22, 2009 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There are so many quotes I love from that movie
but most of them are probably not CC appropriate :-)
by Timmy L. on Aug 22, 2009 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Especially now that we know we have at least fout 14-or-under readers!
by O Nina on Aug 22, 2009 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
age appropriateness ain't got nothin to do w/ it...
i believe he’s referring to the, uh, un-PC language empoloyed by clint eastwood’s character.
maybe not, though…he’s a salty motherfucker.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 22, 2009 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It okay...
in quote form… however, if you were to say them as in your opinion they might be bannable.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
by dayzd toe on Sep 2, 2009 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I really liked Gran Torino
It was a classically funny and over-the-top melodrama. Once you keep that in mind it’s exactly what it was trying to be and quite entertaining.
by pipkin on Aug 22, 2009 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
was it intentionally melodramatic?
did you stick around long enough to hear clint’s theme song that he wrote and sang? ugh.
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 24, 2009 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
one of the worst movies in the history of cinema
i hesitate to even use it in the same sentence with the word “cinema”, actually. i certainly won’t call it a “film”.
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 23, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
now, now, doc hollywood...
certainly you have a greater depth of knowledge of your industry. there are WAY more worse movies than that!
"If they pitch to you, make them pay."
--Diamond Dave to the Phenom
by j.q. higgins on Aug 24, 2009 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just watched Doc Hollywood the other day
Certainly not a masterpiece, but MJ Fox is so cute in it. On a MJ Fox note, what a inspirational guy, my Dad has Parkinsons for about a year and a half now, but MJ has had it for so long and still keeps doing everything.
"You don't EVEN KNOW who Nick Markakis is"- .....My 4 year old daughter to another kid.
"Fly Eagles Fly..Miss you Dawk."
by O's21girl on Aug 25, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Apparently, I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
At age 25 I appear to be in the mode. At least for now.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Aug 21, 2009 4:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
We are all part of the same compost heap…
Fight Club FTW!
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Y'know, duck...
If you’re “with it” enough to use FTW in the proper context, you’re not that old. No matter how bad you want all the rest of us to get off your lawn. :)
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Aug 23, 2009 7:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I have no idea what FTW means
and I fall in the 21-25 range.
by O Nina on Aug 23, 2009 8:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
for the win
Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.
by daveh873 on Aug 23, 2009 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Fuck The World
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
by dayzd toe on Sep 2, 2009 11:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gee, thanks
Jim Palmer: "I said to Nolan, 'Why do you run every ball out like that?' and he said, 'Why wouldn’t you?' "
by duck on Aug 25, 2009 8:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ah, a nice normal distribution is appearing.
Huff has gone back to being Huff. Deal with it.
by birdman on Aug 21, 2009 5:19 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
23 here
hoping to see an Orioles world title in my time on Earth.
What up?
by snakethejake on Aug 21, 2009 5:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I know, right
That’s all I really ask for. Just let me feel the jubilation for once in my life.
by PhilR8 on Aug 21, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I had a thought
that all baseball fans get to see at least one great thing in their lifetime. I’m talking the lifetime they can remember and enjoy. Not when you were in the womb or two or something. I’m just hoping getting ot watch Cal play in his prime wasn’t mine.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
by BPinOK on Aug 21, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If that's mine I'm going to feel royally ripped off
no offense, Cal
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
My braves fan friend got to see one world series win and SWORE the next time they made the playoffs he was going to buy tix no matter where they played…well…that’s worked out well for him so far.
Don't let the sunshine fool ya. - Townes Van Zandt
by BPinOK on Aug 21, 2009 5:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
well i've seen nothing
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 24, 2009 6:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
24 here
Penny: "Yes, dinner’s here, and I’m having some. I’ve been having leftovers at the restaurant for four days, and I just wanted something different. So sue me!"
Sheldon: "Forgive me, Penny, but that would be the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit."
~ Big Bang Theory
by Aldoran on Aug 21, 2009 5:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I can't believe how young some of you are
I normally hate people under 25
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 21, 2009 6:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
we love you too stacey ;)
Penny: "Yes, dinner’s here, and I’m having some. I’ve been having leftovers at the restaurant for four days, and I just wanted something different. So sue me!"
Sheldon: "Forgive me, Penny, but that would be the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit."
~ Big Bang Theory
by Aldoran on Aug 21, 2009 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Take a look at the age distribution ....
… and then imagine how the past 11 years must feel for those of us who remember watching the O’s win World Series.
hakkaa päälle !
by timg56 on Aug 21, 2009 6:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
23
been reading this site since i was 21.. i think
(i know you all care soooo much)
by ccbecker86 on Aug 21, 2009 6:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Whippersnappers.
"Believe it or not, I read the paper." - Nick Markakis
by 2632 on Aug 21, 2009 7:26 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The data is sad...
most of us here have never seen the Orioles win?
I used to be able to say to annoying RS fans that, “at least my team’s won a World Series since I’ve been alive”.
Those were the days… sigh
From the Land of Pleasant Living...
by OEutaw on Aug 21, 2009 7:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Older than Mora but younger than Griffey
I find it very satisfying that there are still successful players who are older than I am.
by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Aug 21, 2009 8:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Dam...
Some of you guys are older than my parents
"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."Joe Namath
by Civardi on Aug 21, 2009 8:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well you're 14
Not that tough of a feat.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 22, 2009 2:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Never realized I was old before
Only six of you are older then me? Really?
AARP sent me a card but I thought it was an error, apparently 35 is retirement age on CC
by O! on Aug 21, 2009 11:14 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I have gotten AARP cards since I was 24
"You don't EVEN KNOW who Nick Markakis is"- .....My 4 year old daughter to another kid.
"I'm a Country Boy"- ......Alan Jackson
"Fly Eagles Fly..Miss you Dawk."
by O's21girl on Aug 23, 2009 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yo tengo viente y siete anos
Or, ya know, 27. Same as Chris Ray, New Aubrey, Lou Montanez, and Brian Bass. What a veritable fantasy team.
"The United States is the New York Yankees of countries...powerful and respected until the year 2000." - Homer J. Simpson
by Brotz13 on Aug 22, 2009 12:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
hey!
i was wondering who was the other dude in my group.
43.
"The single best thing any rebuilding manager can do, ever, is trade a relief pitcher in late July for a couple of solid prospects."
— Rob Neyer, July 30, 2009
by zknower on Aug 22, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Its the VIP bracket
The rest of these people gotta wait years to get in.
by typozzz on Aug 22, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn straight
41 in DA HOUSE!!!!!
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm the big Sean Taylor
21, yessir.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
by jobe on Aug 22, 2009 4:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
33
EDDIE!! EDDIE!! EDDIE!!
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
by BrianS on Aug 22, 2009 8:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I am 20, and I voted for the appropriate age group.
I really wanted to say I was 21 almost as I wish I WAS 21.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 22, 2009 9:12 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
48.......
But I don’t look a day over 45…….hehehe
by O'sFan_ on Aug 22, 2009 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I think I take the title as the youngest CCer at 13 and 2 months
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 23, 2009 9:18 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.
"We're not the other teams' farm system." - Andy MacPhail
by duck on Aug 23, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
27
Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.
by daveh873 on Aug 23, 2009 3:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I'm 28, closer to 30 everyday
"You don't EVEN KNOW who Nick Markakis is"- .....My 4 year old daughter to another kid.
"I'm a Country Boy"- ......Alan Jackson
"Fly Eagles Fly..Miss you Dawk."
by O's21girl on Aug 23, 2009 9:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hear ya...
I’m 28, and find myself leaking the phrase “GET OFF MY LAWN!” almost everyday.
Jioe Flaacco, Hon!!! "He’s like a live JUGS machine."
by dayzd toe on Sep 2, 2009 11:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good Sign?
As of right now (August 24) the majority of fans according to the poll are between the ages 21-25 (including myself.) And the range from approx. 20-30 is pretty much the entire poll.
I think that’s a pretty good sign. I was born and raised an O’s fan and grew up watching the Orioles of the 90s with Cal, Robby Alomar, Brady Anderson, and Raffy. But the other half of my childhood/teen years were the O’s of the 2000s- which is pretty much perennial 4th place finishes and just flat out really, really bad teams. I mean c’mon… Jason Johnson was the ace of our staff in 2001 and 2003. That’s bad.
But the poll is showing that the majority of Camden Chatters are college/post-grad fans in their 20’s. Orioles fans have stuck by our team through the darkest and worst era of our glorious history. I think having such a young corps of fans speaks well of us…
Go O’s in 2010!
by Camden_33rd on Aug 24, 2009 1:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
And the range from approx. 20-30 is pretty much the entire poll.
There are nearly 50 people over the age of 30, though.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 24, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah....
but there’s about 41 people over 30. But just 21-30 alone makes up (so far) 52% of the poll; and 72% is everyone under 30 (I’m basing this on the number of votes per age- not adding up the percentage for each age listed.)
My whole point though, is that it’s good to see that almost 3/4 of Camden chatters are under 30. I don’t really care about the age 30, I’m just saying that that means that most are really young. Which is a good sign.
by Camden_33rd on Aug 24, 2009 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
of course
this is also a poll on a blog. The demo for people that frequent blogs is probably dominated by 20-30 year olds.
Matt Wieters can get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop in under one lick.
by daveh873 on Aug 24, 2009 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's a lovely bell curve
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 24, 2009 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
can someone with excel but this into a pie chart or something
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 25, 2009 8:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
*put*
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 25, 2009 8:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm bored
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 25, 2009 8:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Now who wants to really go overboard
and load the data into Mathematica?
by kba26 on Aug 25, 2009 9:05 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
pass
i have a mathcad graph of it tho. its a sweet bell curve
by twistedlogic on Aug 25, 2009 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Mathcad was always my least favorite
followed closely by Matlab.
by kba26 on Aug 25, 2009 9:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i love matlab
used for different stuff tho. mathcad has its uses occasionally.
by twistedlogic on Aug 25, 2009 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I used Mathcad and matlab when i was still in engineering
but once i transferred to chemistry it was all mathematica.
P.S. Wolfram Alpha is awesome.
by kba26 on Aug 25, 2009 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i dont use a lot of mathematica
hardly use mathcad either. almost all matlab and other software.
by twistedlogic on Aug 25, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
it's age-ism I sez
How come the 20somethings get to be orange and the 40somethings have to be fuscia?
Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08
by 33 on Aug 25, 2009 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree with this in principle
But you’re bound to have more younger fans on the internet anyway.
"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether." -Jim Palmer
by Baltimo on Aug 25, 2009 7:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
whats the deal w/ duck and zk
they get so p’oed when someone is on their lawn. It’s rather strange.
"Hey ump, how about a warning? Sure. Watch out you don't get killed". -Moonlight Graham talking to an umpire after two straight pitches at his head
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Aug 24, 2009 6:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
before some youngster suggests its a 40s thing...
come onto my lawn. Stomp a mud hole in that baby, so I never have to mow.
Yours,
41
Has there ever been a cooler Oriole than Eddie Murray? I mean, just straight up cool. Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08
by 33 on Aug 25, 2009 7:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
18
and starting college in like 2 weeks
by NickMarkaces on Aug 27, 2009 5:43 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Holy crap, how'd I miss this poll? Must be the old age dementia. Oh, and another thing: how'd I miss this poll?
Thx to several people above for kind words about age and wit. P.j. O’Rourke coined a nice book title along those lines, and when I remember it, I’ll be sure to pass it along.
Oh, one more thing. If I had a lawn in Moscow, I would DEMAND you keep off it.
Final other thing: “Gatsby” remains the Great American Novel. P’haps that’ll stand some elaboration another time. For the moment, however, I just wanna say “This Side of Paradise” is lumpy crapola— and I will elaborate on that! Ahem:
What is remarkable about this onetime best-selling book — which could well be described as a coming-of-age-without-coming-of-age novel — is not that Fitzgerald produced it when he was all of 24. Nope, the amazing thing here is that the same writer produced “The Great Gatsby” a mere five years later.
“This Side of Paradise” is a mess: it is as uneven, affected, feebly pretentious and relentlessly immature as its hero, the tiresomely self-conscious young Minnesotan-gone-to-Princeton Amory Blaine. (One suspects, in fact, that had Fitzgerald abandoned his muddled third-person narrative altogether and rendered the work instead as Amory’s diary the result would have been considerably more readable — or the book’s structural and methodological flaws considerably more forgivable, at least.)
That the novel was a roaring success upon publication in 1920 — it was to prove the most popular book, in terms of sales, ever produced by its author — presumably speaks to the public’s recognition of something new and revealing in it. Okay, Amory Blaine may well have been the original Jazz Age prototype; and the drinking and shameless smooching (etc.) that he and his prep school and Princeton friends indulge in at various points in the novel were probably, one can accept, a revelation to see in print (and likely a titillating one) for an American audience raised on McGuffy’s Readers — and ready for some sort of Great Departure after the Great War. Welp, here it comes:
“On the Triangle trip Amory had come into constant contact with that great current American phenomenon, the `petting party.’ None of the Victorian mothers-and most of the mothers were Victorian-had any idea how casually their daughters were accustomed to be kissed.”
To the reader at a remove of some 80-plus years this is, of course, very small beer. What was alarming frankness in 1920 tends to read now, in the best cases of the Paradise narrative, as unalarming quaintness. While this is not exactly Fitzgerald’s “fault”, so to speak, it is also true that the use of “shocking revelations” of this type — scandals specific to a place and time — represents a risk a writer takes: the march of history may or may not reveal something lasting and/or universal in such episodes. In any event, the price the reader pays here, in slogging through the meandering narrative which surrounds Amory’s adventures in quaintness during the nascent Roaring Twenties, is very, very high for payoffs of such modest proportions. I mean, come on:
“For years afterward when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he also lost the power of regretting it. Eleanor was, say, the last time evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that held him with wild fascination and pounded his soul to flakes.”
Yikes. I don’t care what New Generation you’re talking about, can a flake-pounded soul really represent much of an innovation to anybody? (Can it represent ANYTHING to anybody?)
There are things to like, even admire, here and there in Paradise. Fitzgerald gets off a few of the wonderfully epigrammatic lines that were to become a trademark (e.g., “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.” “Sometimes I wish I’d been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.” “It’s better to leave the blustering and tremulo-heroism to the middle classes; they do it so much better.”) And the political incorrectness of some of the narrator’s observations is, in its now-curious way, refreshingly, bracingly funny:
“Slowly and inevitably, yet with a sudden surge at the last, while Amory talked and dreamed [which is about all Amory ever does-MT], war rolled swiftly up the beach and washed the sands where Princeton played. Every night the gymnasium echoed as platoon after platoon swept over the floor and shuffled out the basketball markings. When Amory went to Washington the next weekend, he caught some of the spirit of crisis which changed to repulsion in the Pullman car coming back, for the berths across from him were occupied by stinking aliens-Greeks, he guessed, or Russians.”
Nothing like a little wretched refuse to remind you there’s a war on, I always say.
Anyway, most of the novel consists of young Amory’s elaborate ponderings — romantic, philosophical and egotistical — which are as forgivable as they are forgettable. I’ve forgotten them already. At some level, in any case, Fitzgerald himself had to recognize the ridiculousness of this pompous character — who was, of course, a not-very-disguised version of himself. For how else, if not as commendably self-deprecating irony, are we to take this observation?
“Amory was in full stride, confident, nervous, and jubilant. Scurrying back to Minneapolis to see a girl he had known as a child seemed the interesting and romantic thing to do, so without compunction he wired his mother not to expect him, and sat in the train and thought about himself for thirty-six hours.”
In the end, in any event, one comes back to the initial Fitzgerald vs. Fitzgerald comparison with something like gaping wonder. In Paradise almost nothing works: form, content, narrative stance, dialogue, character development, pacing — you name it, it’s a problem. Yet in Gatsby, five years later, everything works — everything. If there is to be a Great American Novel, it will have to supplant Gatsby for the honor. While it is hard to see how Fitzgerald got from point A to point B, the fact is that he did — and without point A the journey could not have begun. So while “This Side of Paradise” hardly deserves a place in the national literary canon, it surely deserves our respect, and indeed our gratitude, for what it led to.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Aug 30, 2009 12:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow, we have 8 people 14 and under -- and that doesn't include Westie (right?) Jeez, that may explain a lot...
Too much youth, not enough oldth! By cracky!
OK, get outta here — I SAW you looking at my lawn!!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Aug 30, 2009 1:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
no that does
not include me!
"Chicks who dig home runs aren’t the ones who appeal to me," he said. "I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I’d rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out."
by WestcoastO'sFan on Aug 30, 2009 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm at like the last 50 pages of TSOP right now.
I hope it gets to a point.
Grapes of Wrath has to be the American Novel.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Aug 30, 2009 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nope, that's one of the (myriad) problems of TSOP-- there ain't no discernible point. The thing just stops. (Finally!)
Are you reading it for a class…or did you lose a bet? Just curious.
I read it because I recalled that when we read Gatsby (senior year in h.s.), the teacher, who was actually very good, made all kinds of noises about how much better we’d get it if we’d read TSOP, in which Fitzgerald did so much “paving the way” or something.
What a crock. While I’m sure writing TSOP helped Fitzgerald hone his craft, any specific connection with Gatsby escapes me.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Aug 31, 2009 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just reading it because I've never read Fitzgerald
and TSOP seemed like a good place to start. I guess i should just get on with it and pick up Gatsby. Gatsby just makes me bitter because I failed a semester of english because I had a hard time reading it. Fitzgerald really does have a way with words, I can tell that much.
“But Amory loved himself in Eleanor, and what he hated in her was only a mirror”
I don’t regret my time spent reading TSOP at all. A waste of time, but a good waste of time.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Sep 1, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
"A waste of time, but a good waste of time." -- well said!
For what it’s worth, I didn’t like Gatsby much the first time through. It seemed to be about people very far removed from me (as a h.s. senior), and the book became one more reading assignment to get through.
When I picked it up again — by chance, several decades later, on a night when I was trapped in a south Russian city with nothing to read — I was stunned by both how tightly constructed the novel was and how well Fitzgerald had captured the dark side of the American Dream (and this was long before the Wall St./ Madoff version).
So maybe if you let Gatsby gather some dust for a while…
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Sep 1, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Damn Titov
It took me so long to read that I had to move up to the next age bracket :)
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
by Stacey on Aug 30, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Shoulda read it in hyperspace...or dog years. Can't figure out which would be quicker. Or maybe I just can't remember...
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
by Titov on Aug 31, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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