Do you live close enough to the O's to see them regularly?

by zknower on Sep 9, 2007 12:44 AM EDT Comment 30 comments

Just curious.

I was wondering what the makeup of fans is here. I know there's a big NY contingent, and some folks out west, and of course our esteemed founder is in the Twin Cities. For those of us out of town, CC is a great way to catch up on the local mood regarding the team. But for that to happen requires locals to be here as well. And fortunately there are a bunch of them on the site. Just what is the ratio of locals vs out-of-towners is what I was wondering.

So take the poll. I had to pick an arbitrary distance, so I picked an hour. Anyone who's regularly driving more than an hour to a baseball game is being damned faithful. But if you live in Harford county and it's just over an hour, and you consider yourself local, then answer accordingly.

For bonus points, state where you actually live in the comments. This has been done before, but it's always nice to update the files...

Poll

I live....

close enough to see the O's pretty often if I want (within an hour of C. Yards)

17 votes

farther than that

21 votes

38 votes | Poll has closed

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And of course, I'll go first.

Brooklyn! REPRESENT!

(with occasional stints in LA).

I was once a kind and honest orthodontist experimenting with electric brainwave stimulation.

by zknower on Sep 9, 2007 12:46 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Columbia, MD

For another month, then I'm moving down to Nats territory in "North Bethesda" ('sup Rockville?).

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by CStoneNo37 on Sep 11, 2007 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I live in Massachusetts

or Maine, depending on whether people are forcing me to study. That kind of prevents me from getting to O's games, amongst other things.

"True friends stab you in the front."-Oscar Wilde.

by NHZ on Sep 9, 2007 12:47 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Potomac holdin it down.

by Baltimo on Sep 9, 2007 1:04 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

geography

Didn't somebody recently post a graphic of where all the posters live? In any case, as of next week, Anaheim.

by birdman on Sep 9, 2007 2:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

College Park, MD

I'm a senior at UMD, and hope to move far, far away from this town as soon as possible (i.e., when I graduate and get into grad school somewhere else).

but yeah, i don't go to o's games any more. the benefits don't outweigh the costs.

by pipkin on Sep 9, 2007 2:38 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Smallsbury in da HIZZ-OUSE

Where I'm respected in tha hood like a 'G'.

"Where you are now, you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like..." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

by duck on Sep 9, 2007 7:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

z? where ya been?

For a bigger non-animated version Click here.

But I live about an hour and a half away... so regular to me is 3 or 4 games a year. I'm the pin in DE.

The Birds have officially packed it in. -Me

by dayzd toe on Sep 9, 2007 8:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I still want my pin!

"Where you are now, you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like..." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

by duck on Sep 9, 2007 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

your pin

is in there... look at the static map... it's more obvious, but it is also on here. Salisbury, right?

The Birds have officially packed it in. -Me

by dayzd toe on Sep 9, 2007 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I saw your DE one

and got jealous.

You're right, it's on the static map.

"Where you are now, you can't even imagine what the bottom will be like..." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club.

by duck on Sep 9, 2007 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

look closely...

it's on the animated one too.

The Birds have officially packed it in. -Me

by dayzd toe on Sep 9, 2007 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

if I counted correctly

you're pin #25 to appear.

The Birds have officially packed it in. -Me

by dayzd toe on Sep 9, 2007 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Got it.

"And I'm respected in da hood like a 'G'..." - Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. & FNM

by duck on Sep 9, 2007 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

No, no, I remember the map from earlier

... I just was more interested in seeing the in- vs out-of-state ratio straight up.

I was once a kind and honest orthodontist experimenting with electric brainwave stimulation.

by zknower on Sep 9, 2007 12:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

B'more

Close enough to hear Da na na na da da CHARGE through my living room window.

"Today, it's like there is rock bottom, fifty feet of crap, and then me."
Rachel Green understands how I feel about the Orioles.

by Stacey on Sep 9, 2007 12:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Boston.

As a student and software tester. I averaged 10 games a year when i lived in towson though. managed to get to 6 at camden yards (5 in a single 6-game home stand) and 2 at fenway this season, despite living in boston.

by Lou on Sep 9, 2007 2:33 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Boston, MA.

Brookline, to be precise. A 7-8 hr drive from Camden Yards. I usually make it to 3-4 games at OPACY a season. This year's totals:

OPACY: 3
Fenway: 2
Shea: 2
Citizen's Bank Park: 1
Pawtucket: 1
Lowell: 1
Portland: 1

"It would behoove the Orioles to play better." - Jim Palmer

by 2632 on Sep 9, 2007 6:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Sterling, Virginia

It's about an hour 15 mins w/o traffic (like that ever happens) and I make it to 6-10 games a year, so I voted "close" on the poll.

by punkrawka on Sep 9, 2007 6:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

if i lived in b-more

i would buy season tickets, but i live in portland

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by westcoastOfan on Sep 9, 2007 6:42 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I live in the second rate

one horse town of Boston, and since I've been there, I make it to Baltimore once a year for games. Actually, I am in a hotel in Linthicum now after I saw Saturday and Sunday's games.

"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job." -Brooks Robinson

by exitfare on Sep 9, 2007 8:30 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Still Moscow, and still not on the Hudson...

But I get back to the States for 4-6 weeks every year (sometimes more) and make it down to OPACY occasionally from either the family dacha in N. Pa. (Towanda area, on the Susquehanna) or the 'rents place in upstate NY (now switching from Ithaca to Ro-cha-chester).

The best place to spend the worst home losing streak since 1953 is on a beach in Spain.

by Titov on Sep 10, 2007 2:21 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

East Side

The 3, which runs down to Pratt Street, runs right by my house. It would let me off a 2 minute walk away from Camden Yards. But I don't go cause we suck and this organization pisses me off.

by NewOrioleWork on Sep 10, 2007 3:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

New York City

From 1995 to 2001 I saw most of the games the Orioles played against the Yankees and the Mets in New York, including all but one of them in 1997. Starting around 1999 I began to wonder if I wanted to see the Orioles with such frequency, but kept going to most of the games anyway.

After 2001 increased (but ineffective) security and ticket prices made going to Yankee Stadium a major pain in the ass, so I starting going a couple of times a season rather than a couple of times a series. I haven't seen them at Yankee Stadium this year (I saw them in Baltimore), but I will on the 19th.

by yurizanow on Sep 10, 2007 10:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

New York, NY

But I usually go down to Camden Yards 5-6 times a season. I don't attend games at Yankee Stadium anymore. I've hit Shea during Interleague.

by Jonnypops on Sep 10, 2007 1:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Chicago for the past 3 yrs

Born and raised in the burbs of Baltimore and have lived in the area for 19 of my 26 years. My parents still live in Cockeysville, so I go back a few times a year and always try to catch a game or two.

The O's always play one 4 game set a year at the Cell since I've lived in Chicago, so I usually go to at least two games per series. The O's are apparently one of two teams the Cubs have never played.

by Cockeysville Crony on Sep 10, 2007 5:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

You're only 26?

I guess with the name Crony I figured you to be older than me. Makes me think of an old curmudgeon telling kids to get off his lawn. You know, like duck :)

"Today, it's like there is rock bottom, fifty feet of crap, and then me."
Rachel Green understands how I feel about the Orioles.

by Stacey on Sep 11, 2007 9:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs