Another season in the books

and the toast was in honor of being awarded a new contract from some branch of the DoD. But I was silently toasting to Camden Chat. No lie. If I’m gonna get a little drunk in the office, it’ll be for you guys.

Thank you to the mods for providing an entertaining and informative forum to follow our favorite abusive addiction. And thanks to Esskay, Andrew, and James for their awesome fanposts. It’s becoming increasingly likely that I will be moving to NoVa soon so I hope we can arrange a CC game day next spring.

I’m pretty sure we’ll all find something to post about during the offseason to keep the content going. A recap of each player who played for the O’s this year would be kinda cool.

Each one of you rocks the occidental world.

;(

No special mention of “Hey! Ho! Leyland must go!”. He’ll always hold a place in my heart.

the hard work everyone puts in here is much appreciated. I had a long summer at work, but the weekly features, gamethreads, previews and wraps kept me in the loop.

thanks, guys.

I’ve really had a blast doing the game thread stuff and all the nice words from everybody are pretty awesome. CC is a great place and everybody who comes here and contributes makes it so.

Even if you are an infrequent contributor who feels like you don’t add much, believe me when I say that it’s great just to be surrounded by Orioles fans. If you love the O’s enough to be on this site, then that’s something we’ve all got in common. And besides, as today’s Bird Droppings shows, off-topic diversions are half the fun!

but it’d be quite easy and not very time consuming to mention me. Just sayin’.

it has really grown and we’ve gotten a lot of new people participating and we’re better for it (unlike other periods of time in the past when new members just didn’t mesh)

I’m glad to see I fixed this problem

I don’t comment much (I think never might be more appropriate). But I read what you lunatics write almost everyday and I love it. It’s become one of the highlights of being an O’s fan. Thanks for all the work you all do.

I only go on occasional commenting binges these days, but I’m nearly always lurking — if not daily, four or five times a week — so I appreciate everyone’s hard work and the great community that makes this place a daily destination.

Stacey, Duck, ZK, all of those who have contributed writing and/or analysis, and all the commentors throughout the season (as well as the off-season, now). This site, nay, community has reinvigorated my Orioles fandom after patiently suffering through the previous years filled with fail. It was quite the revelation to discover a site dedicated to the O’s with so much information, knowledge, and logical opinions.

(Plus CC is far and away the best way to kill time at work! How in the hell did I deal with work previously?)

Although apparently I hear there are a few lurkers who do some stuff on here now and again, is that correct?

I found the site about a few weeks into the season after looking for good blogs that talk about the Os. I got the itch after Weaver’s Tantrum was promoted through Rob Neyer’s Sweetspot and I found it to be rather disappointing. So I found this place. Lurked for a while and enjoyed the humor and finally decided to jump in.

I’m sure it’ll help me get through the long, cold winter months without baseball.

Had to spend a lot of time overseas this summer, thank god for the internet so I could see CC

and thanks everyone else for reading and most of all for not being scarred for life by my writing. I think we’ve all found something really, really amazing in this dusty corner of the ’verse and it is a complete honor to help even a little bit.

I haven’t been able to post much since I got a new home/job but I still read every day. The beginning of this year was terrible and if I didn’t have someone to laugh about it with, a part of me may have died. The second half of the season was spectacular, and because of the terrible start, no one seemed to notice or care. Except here of course! Bright days are on the horizon. Go O’s!

This place really is amazing. I think when Buck talked about the Orioles having such an informed fan base, he must have been lurking. One request: continue allowing profanity. When you’ve got Sox fans visiting b/c their site won’t allow cursing, that to me is a compliment. As the sign in my office reads: “Swear Words Help Me Think.” Words I live by.

Underneath everything
Camden Chat
Knows the

Importance of
Terse vocabulary.

then consider me Miles Davis: Thanks to everyone for making this a fun place to go to talk about the Orioles and other stuff.

Seriously, though, I have tried on several occasions to find an Orioles blog that is engaging, informative and fun. I think that search is over. I added Vonnegut to my signature; I’m about to pass 100 posts… if I add a mildly entertaining picture to my profile, you guys might be stuck with me and my lurking and streaky contributions for the long haul.