Baltimore takes its toll on a guy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Through the years, you've always let me down...

[Guest The Second Spitter]

After watching the back end of the O's-MFY game today, it would take a toll on me too.

(and that was before an extremely shitty crowd so early in the season. O's fans tossing-in the towel early these days).

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I came home through the Camden Yards station through the three game series.

Game one: 35% Yankee garb
Game two: 55% Yankee garb
Game three: 80% Yankee garb

The lack of anybody to identify with kills me and it's been that way ever since Ripken. I saw a few Wigginton shirts in the crowd, an old Mora, maybe a Luke Scott. It's all Jeter.

[Frayed Knot]

Hard times in the city
in a hard town by the sea ...
Oh Baltimore
man it's just hard to live
-- Randy Newman

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Where's Roberts? Where's Roberts, Andino? Where the FUCK is Roberts?"

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Their bullpen is dogshit.

[Bunt the First Two]

Bal'more takes its toll on me
It's got me in the dumps
The pigskin team hires murderers
The baseball team hires chumps

Bal'more takes its toll on me
The picture is unkind
The industry has took the jobs
And left the waste behind

Bal'more takes its toll on me
It's getting to my head
The flora is all dying
The fauna is all dead

Bal'more takes its toll on me
A US town, all right
With southern racial scarring
And northern urban blight

Bal'more takes its toll on me
I'm getting to my point
I met this little redhead girl
One evening in Fell's Point

Bal'more takes its toll on me
For I told this girl my dream
Of a jewel upon the Chesapeake
Of my great revival scheme

Bal'more takes its toll on me
But we will someday surprise
The trampled ghosts of Hampden
Like phoenices, arise

Bal'more takes its toll on me
But I think it could be grand
The town of Poe and Eubie Blake
Would once more proudly stand

Bal'more takes its toll on me
Oh, see it now with me!
Great ships again would sail to her
From every nation free!

Bal'more takes its toll on me
I saw it in her eyes
"I've run on at length," I said
"Let me apologize"

Bal'more takes its toll on me
She said "I think you're dear
But soon as I have got the cash
My ass is out of here"

[soupcan]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Through the years, you've always let me down...

...It took him 3 years to realize he plays for the orioles

That's funny.

[Frayed Knot]

Lady came from Baltimore
all she wore was lace

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There seem to be like a million covers of this song.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy DC wrote: Yeah, I came home through the Camden Yards station through the three game series. Game one: 35% Yankee garb Game two: 55% Yankee garb Game three: 80% Yankee garb The lack of anybody to identify with kills me and it's been that way ever since Ripken. I saw a few Wigginton shirts in the crowd, an old Mora, maybe a Luke Scott. It's all Jeter.

Maybe a few of the older fans in Baltimore can still identify with the Yanks since the Yanks used to be the Baltimore Orioles...

1901�1902: Origins in Baltimore At the end of the 1900 season, Bancroft "Ban" Johnson, president of the Western League, made moves to assert his league as a new major league in competition with the National League (NL). This included changing the name to the American League (AL) and adding teams in Eastern cities. Plans to put a team in New York City were blocked by the NL's New York Giants, whose connections to Tammany Hall gave them the political power to do so. Instead, a team was placed in Baltimore, Maryland, a city that had recently lost its NL team from the late 1800s. Nicknamed the Orioles, they began play in 1901, and were managed and owned in part by John McGraw. Johnson rigidly enforced rules about rowdiness on the field of play, causing a feud with McGraw. During the 1902 season, McGraw jumped to the NL, getting a job as manager of the Giants. He still owned part of the Orioles, however, and a week later the owner of the Giants, John T. Brush, gained a controlling interest in the team. He began raiding their best players until the AL stepped in and took control of the team. In January 1903, a "peace conference" was held between the two leagues to settle disputes and try to coexist. At the conference, Johnson requested that an AL team be put in New York to play alongside the Giants[9] as he always wished. It was put to a vote, and 15 of the 16 major league owners agreed to it, with Brush being the only opponent. As a result, the NL agreed to let the "junior circuit" establish a franchise in New York. The Orioles were chosen to make the move, and their new owners, Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, found a ballpark location not blocked by the Giants. Thus, the Baltimore team moved to New York. Baltimore went without a Major League team for 51 seasons until the St. Louis Browns moved in and became the Orioles in 1954.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_Yankees#1901.E2.80.931902:_Origins_in_Baltimore

[Ceetar]

I saw somewhere that the Yankees are honoring their 100th Opening Day. Does that mean they're ignoring the Oriole Days? (And the Highlander days even)

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Ceetar wrote: I saw somewhere that the Yankees are honoring their 100th Opening Day. Does that mean they're ignoring the Oriole Days? (And the Highlander days even)

And yet they will still contend that they play in The House That Ruth Built.

[duan]

I get the impression that Baltimore is a place everyone wants to get out of.

[Frayed Knot]

Particularly if your name was Irsay.

For others it certainly was for a while as it degraded into an aging, rust-belt, crime-ridden place.
Started to make a come-back as they improved the downtown waterfront area of which Camden Yards (open now 20 years) was one of the pieces.