Give us a giant backpack and send us off to kindergarten, because Camden Chat turns 5 today

I’d settle for a middle-tier first baseman.

Searching for “Happy Birthday” images on Google turns up some very interesting results, even with safesearch on moderate. So no weird or ironic images, just sincere well-wishes!

I was just going back and reading some really old things on the site. Some of them make me feel all kinds of weird, unidentifiable emotions, like this one from May 1, 2005: http://www.camdenchat.com/2005/5/1/12341/50733

Post-game thoughts: O’s 7, Rays 5

This team refuses to lose, and refuses to be shut out…of our hearts.

Who is this Brian Roberts? Make it eight homers for both him and Tejader, and Brian Bob broke the game open with a three-run jack that put the O’s ahead in the bottom of the eighth. I was a little worried when Gomes led off the top of the ninth with a pinch-hit homer, but Ryan kept his composure and shut it out.

I’m pretty sure this team has no idea they aren’t supposed to be doing this.

So that was some April, wasn’t it? Roberts hits .380 with eight homers, Mora recovers from a miserable start to tear the cover off the ball, Tejada is hitting everything and hard, Javy Lopez is getting it done. Hell, Chris Gomez is playing like a viable platoon first baseman. Where is this coming from?

And the pitching, my goodness. Lopez, Chen and Bedard – where’d you come from? Todd Williams?

It’s hard not to get excited about this team. They’re exciting. I expect to win every game now. That’s wrong to do in its own way, but that’s how fans of good teams feel, right? You expect to win. It’s a blow when you lose.

16-7 for April. First place. Our Baltimore Orioles. How about it?

lawlerskates

Happy Birthday, Camden Chat! I love you and everything you do for this depressed fan base.

i like carrot cake the best!! especially in cup form.

I read the post and thought, “Rhymeapalooza? Why don’t I remember Rhymeapalooza?”

Then I looked at the date and realized that’s when I was in Hawaii.

Here’s hoping we preside over some glory in the near future.

The fact that we even got through the horror that was the 2005 collapse (in every conceivable way) is incredible. It’s hard for me to believe this site started five years ago. One of the first things I posted was the steroid hearings where Palmeiro wagged his finger. And John Maine got sent down in camp and for some reason I always remember the Maine and Ray Miller photo I used.

I think I’m perhaps most proud of my two Brian Roberts haikus. Suck it, Mike Stanton!

This will be my third season of reading this blog, and it’s been invaluable.

I’ve only been here a minority of the time. Yeah 2005 was a bad year. I’ll tell you what though, it really made me a fan. I didn’t watch much of 2006 or 2007 (I spent summer 2006 going across the country) either. If I knew of this site, I would have stayed informed. I think I first read about Adam Jones on this site and I thought “huh? We actually got some good young ballplayers from the two trades? Maybe I should watch this team and stick through a rebuild”

This site has made me a better fan. I hope I didn’t say the same thing last year.

I was at the game with the rhyming thread and I was a pivotal part of the Melmo thread (which i vividly remember) I feel special.

I would have been all for it had we been lauding Felix, or Wieters, or Nick, but Mora? Hell no.

Yes, 2005 sucked dead elephant. But that was then. And this, as I believe the saying has it, is now. And we’re just getting nower (and Knower!) as we cruise into our First Winning Season Since, um, this neuron loss thing is really starting to bother me, y’know…

Birthday Event: Tag-team No-rules Wrasslin’! Sid/D-Cabs (Fat Slob and El Giganto) vs. Crow Crowley/Adam Loewen (F*ckin’ Lucky and The Disappearing Man). Who ya got?!?

And I’m not going to do it because it’d come off as a copycat.