Orioles giveaway from a few years ago./Ben Penserga
Dear lord if they served Chick-fil-A at the Yard we’d be there even on off days.
My son sitting in Buck Showalter interview chair. Kinda has that “Buck” look
Classic Buck.
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It’s part of our charter that any time someone posts the Billy Ripken card, we have to re-blog it.
Stella
Not that I can drink it, but I appreciate a park that offers more than just Bud Light, Miller Light, and Coors Light.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, Maryland
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I see what you did there.
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this picture is the best. GO RAVENS!
Nice. Also DARK KNIGHT RISES!
Just watched Matt Wieters get tossed for arguing with home plate umpire #88, Doug Eddings.
As a former catcher, I just want to say that you have a working relationship with the umpire, and it’s in both of your interest to make it a good one. It’s their job to get the calls right, and it’s your job to protect them from errant pitches. A good catcher knows where the umpire is located at all times (sometimes the umpire lets you know with a hand on your back).
A very good catcher uses that off-shoulder angle the umpire needs to call pitches to their advantage. By angling your shoulders and hips, you can make the glove disappear from the umpire’s view and create the illusion of a strike. The whole point is to encourage the umpire make an instinctive call based on perception instead of actuality. Whether it’s wrong or not doesn’t matter; whether it’s in your favor or not does. Called “framing” a pitch, this puts the umpire in a catch-22 if they call it wrong: they can’t reverse the call, or look incompetent.
That said, umpires and catchers are always at a friendly cat-and-mouse game. It’s not in the best interest of the catcher to get bad blood about an umpire, simply because you’ll get a tighter strike zone both at offense and defense.
Pro catchers know this. Very, very rarely do you see a catcher get tossed from a game. So when Wieters started quoting Bull Durham, I’m guessing that he used a very “romantic word” (thanks, Susan Surandon!)
Either that, or you argue the integrity of the strike zone, which is what I read from Wieters’ lips.
Or you ask the umpire if they’ve got money on the game. That’s a big no-no.
Nice take on Matt Wieters’ early shower in Toronto Tuesday night.
Bored as hell at work
How could you be bored working at OPACY?!
christinenicole asked: hey! I saw the (?) on your post about the Ravens/O's cornhole boards. they are custom -- my friend made them. :)
Well they are awesome and so is your friend.