This Saturday from 11am-6pm is Baltimore Orioles FanFest at the Baltimore Convention Center. The event actually starts at 10am if you are a season ticket holder, as you can enter early for a season ticket holder-only Q&A with Buck Showalter and Dan Duquette. The complete schedule of events can be found here. Don't mind the upside-down part, I think that's so you can fold the paper you print in half or something.

Initially, I was planning to try to facilitate a site get-together, but I have since discovered that I get a press pass for the event. I'll be acting like a real journalist for the day, except with better eating habits and fewer polo shirts. Also, I have never been to FanFest before, so I couldn't say when is a good time or where is a good place to try to meet up and hang out. Don't let that stop the rest of you from planning to hang and get some lunch or whatever strikes your fancy. There are going to be a decent number of CCers roaming the premises.

Yours truly will be representing this site on the Bloggers fan forum from 5:25-5:55 alongside several other O's fan bloggers. I can't offer any guarantees that this will actually be interesting, but hopefully it will be. At any rate, by the time the blogger panel happens, most of the other parts of FanFest will be winding down, so maybe you can come listen.

Whether you're going to be at FanFest or not, be sure to follow me on Twitter - @EatMoreEsskay - as I will be planning to fire off tweets for anything especially noteworthy. I'm not planning to live-tweet each and every comment from every panel, but I will try to pass along funny anecdotes or interesting answers when I can. Also, I will be tweeting when players or coaches are meeting with media back stage and people can send me questions, which I may actually get the opportunity to ask.

Let people know if you are going to be there in the comments. Maybe I will see you there!

Please note this isn't in response to anything specific that has happened so far, but given the general tenor of a few conversations in the open threads so far this off season and experience from off seasons past, I thought it appropriate to throw out a few guidelines for the next few months. 

I know that without much actual baseball to discuss, we tend to get antsy and the open threads take on a life of their own as any and all subjects get argued and people get heated. I know that some of you think this is a hoot, but a lot of other people, myself included, do not. It creates a tense atmosphere and a hostile environment for anyone not in the group who participates in these heated off-topic discussions. You might not care about that, but I do. I want everyone to to feel as welcome as possible, and that doesn't exactly create the kind of atmosphere that I'm interested in having here. 

So, as the off season drags on and the randomness of the open threads ensue, here are some quick guidelines:

• If you find yourself typing something that makes you think, "Should I be typing this?" the answer is probably no. 
• Address the argument, not the person. That means you are not at liberty to tell people they are stupid because they disagree with you, or that they should go to hell, or anything else inflammatory about a person. This line gets crossed way too often around here and I'm putting down the hammer. 
• I know some of you think it's adorable to purposely bring up controversial topics, but do us all a favor and use some discretion. 
• If you find yourself and another person saying the same things over and over and over to each other with no new information, be the bigger person and just stop replying. 
• If Eat More Esskay, Andrew_G, duck, zknower, the long lost 2632, or I tell you to chill out, chill out. Seriously. And if we ask that a certain topic be dropped or not discussed, pay heed. 

The SB Nation iPhone app is now available in the App Store! And it's Free!

Now you can stay on top of all the latest news and commentary for Camden Chat and all 300+ SB Nation blogs from your iPhone. With the SB Nation iPhone app you can:

• Get the latest, breaking sports news as it happens
• Customize your news with your favorite teams, sports and blogs (including Camden Chat)
• Get notified of updates to the stories you choose to follow on SBNation.com, regional sites, Baseball Nation, and MMA Nation
• Read and reply to comments

Here's how to get it:

Go to the App Store on your iPhone and search for "SB Nation"

-- OR --

Go here and click "Download Now"

FAQ

1. An Android version of the app is coming soon. Hopefully by the end of the year
2. The app is free
3. Comments are basic read-and-reply, but SB Nation has plans to enhance them in future updates
4. You can use your existing SB Nation user name and password to log in to the app

Any questions, feedback, comments? E-mail support@sbnation.com.