It was one year ago today Baltimore Orioles fans and local media outlets were starting to recognize that there was something special about last year’s team. The day before, on May 6, 2012 the Orioles outlasted the Boston Red Sox in a grueling 17-inning, six-hour epic that just might have been the defining moment...
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That big collective groan you may have heard or felt reverberating throughout the city last night and this morning was for the loss of one of contemporary Baltimore’s most loving and well-loved citizens, everyone’s friend Mick Kipp (City Paper‘s “Best Pirate,” 2004). I can’t remember the exact moment I met “Mick the Pirate” because...
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42: The True Story of an American Legend Directed By Brian Helgeland A few hours after seeing the new film 42 on its opening day here in Baltimore, I watched on television as another number 42, New York Yankees’ legendary reliever Mariano Rivera, finished off the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. Rivera is the last...
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(Orioles mega-fan and Section 8 mainstay Charlie Vascellaro reports from spring training in Sarasota.) Greetings from Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. What a difference a year makes. I remember looking at the Championship Chandelier in the lobby of the main entrance to Ed Smith Field last year and thinking how sad it was that...
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(Orioles mega-fan and Section 8 mainstay Charlie Vascellaro reports from spring training in Sarasota) I know it’s early, really early. It isn’t even March yet. But…I like the Orioles’ chances this year. The Yankees and the Red Sox look vulnerable, especially the Yankees, and the Orioles look hungry. In a dream like sequence down...
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There was a synchronicity to the timing and turn of events surrounding Earl Weaver’s death. The O’s skipper died at sea on an Orioles fantasy cruise ship, while the Baltimore Convention Center prepared to host the Orioles’ FanFest the next day at home. Weaver’s death seemed to be a cue for the Orioles team...
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