Dearest Red Sox Nation,
On behalf of all Baltimore Orioles fans, I would like to take this blog post to personally thank you for your visit to Oriole Park at Camden Yards during the April 30th – May 2nd series defeat of your beloved Red Sox.
Though I am aware that a great number of your loud mouthed fans come from within the local areas of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, or anywhere other than Massachusetts, I would like to thank those fans that spent their hard earned money on Baltimore’s fine dining, hotels and of course your tickets to the beautiful home of the Orioles, Camden Yards.
You helped fund local businesses while watching your team be defeated by the talents of Miguel Tejada, Nick Markakis, Matt Wieters and the entire Orioles roster.
I know what your thinking, who am I, a fan of a team with just five wins in the entire month of April, to talk smack to you? I’m the guy that has rooted for my team through a difficult 12 years. However, you didn’t start filling Camden Yards until after you won a World Series and I expect that if that Sox have a few down years, you will soon disappear.
Your team built its recent success around two of the game’s biggest steroid users in history and your fans have taken the honor of most obnoxious opposing team’s fans from the New Yorkers.
This year, Boston built a team around a crappy line up and expected to compete with the Yankees and Rays in the East. Papi is an old bum, Youkilis looks like a lumber jack, Lackey hasn’t pitched up to his contract, Drew can’t hit his weight and Pedrioa is your only guy producing.
While the Orioles won’t compete this season, it’s been fun to wrap up our homestand with a series win in a full ball park. You always rile up our fans to out cheer you and I appreciate your funds for our local business. It’s a tough economy out there.
Enjoy your trip back to Boston and come back again soon!
Sincerely,
Zach
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I’m telling you, it’s all Mark… The Orioles’ good luck charm!
I guess I'm not the cooler!
We ended up sitting 2nd row behind home plate from the 5th inning on.
I kindly asked Ortiz how his "investigation" was going into that positive steroid test.
settle down with the steroids stone throwing when you have Tejada on your team ass clown.
Typical Red Sox fan. I don't have to say anything else.
Welcome to BSR. You entire team's recent success has been built around two steroid users.
I think Miggy should get his eyes looked at…
We had a bunch of guys who took steriods. Of course, that's not the argument you genius. Brian Roberts took them. The difference is he didn't pull the stunt your savior Ortiz did.
Your boy Ortiz had the nuts to deny he took them and tell the nation that he would investigate how he could have possibly tested positive.
What's going on with the investigation?
Oh, that's right. The media sucks off your beloved Sox and would never ask him a legit question about it.
What part of Northern Virginia are you from?
I hear Ortiz and O.J. have teamed up to conduct their investigations. O.J. Is going to help Ortiz find out how he tested positive and Ortiz is going to help O.J. with his investigation.
Bruz
It has nothing to do with that.
Every team had guys that juiced.
The point is Mr. Ortiz told us all that he would get to the bottom of his positive test.
Some of us are just wondering how it's going.
I know…But I have no reason to believe any of them with their "confessions"…Not Roberts…Not Pettitte…Not McGwire…None of 'em…When I say that, I don't mean to imply I wouldn't have tried them, too, if I was a player in that era — especially with my management team turning a blind eye…Hey, heckling the opposition is all well and good (just ask Bossman Junior)…But at the end of the day, Clemens and Raffy and Big Papi ain't no different than Bip and Pettitte…
Matt,
Thanks for stopping by…after this embarrassing weekend, I doubt we'll see you again. If you stopped by our city and spent your hard earned money, THANKS! If you're just the typical bandwagon fan from NoVa shame on ya…If you're going to cherry pick, pick a team that wins more than a couple of championships every 86 years. Also, thanks for that great playoff game last year. It was one of the most dominating performances our Ravens ever had. Good night, safe travels to you!
Matt,
Thanks for stopping by…after this embarrassing weekend, I doubt we'll see you again. If you stopped by our city and spent your hard earned money, THANKS! If you're just the typical bandwagon fan from NoVa shame on ya…If you're going to cherry pick, pick a team that wins more than a couple of championships every 86 years. Also, thanks for that great playoff game last year. It was one of the most dominating performances our Ravens ever had. Good night, safe travels to you
Webt Friday night, had a blast. Sat 2 rows behind some bozo standing up all night and screaming "let's go Red Sox. His date was an Os fan. End of game she ripped ugly Sox jersey off and put an Os jersey on him. I am still hoarse from trying to out-shout him. Saw several Sox fans pulled out by cops. Nice to see Os fans HAD ENOUGH ! and taking back the yards !!
They always rile up the Orioles fans. That's one of the best parts!
Hey I posted on Matt's website…didn't hear anything from him…odd?!?!?
That's not weird. Red Sox fans only come out when they win.
Stop, please, everyone, with the "my steroid user is a better man than your steroid user" stuff…"it you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'"…Lets leave it at that and move on…Please?
I don't believe any of their confessions either. Pettitte "tried it once"? Sure. Roberts the same.
But again, that's different from what I'm saying with Ortiz.
The guy sat there and denied it and said something happened besides him actually taking steroids to cause the positive test.
And then there's silence.
It's beyond laughable to think that Ortiz would have the stones to sit there and say that he didn't take steroids even though he tested positive for them.
And the media has decided to turn a blind eye to it.
They are all liars. They all cheated. In fact, I'm of the opinion that almost every player of this era dabbled with HGH or steroids. To me, the burden is on them to prove the didn't do it, not the other way around.
But Ortiz is different because he decided to deny it and blame it on something else that doesn't seem to exist.
It's almost as if they "teach" the Orioles' fans how to cheer. While the Red Sux fans were in full force, I believe I actually heard Oriole fans cheering when our pitchers had two strikes. Wow.
I have to be quite honest- what gets me angriest after the Orioles lose to the Red Sox or Yankees is the lack of sportsmanship their fans show. Once after the Yanks actually lost to the Orioles, Yankees fans were yelling "You still suck" after the game. AT Camden Yards. I think we can all agree that what burns us the most sometimes isn't the losing, but the way Orioles fans are constantly degraded and ridiculed by Boston and New York fans.
So why in God's name have we turned around and done it to them? Are we so shallow that when we win we just turn it around on them in the exact same way? Let's be bigger than that and take joy in our own win without rubbing it in our opponent's faces or playing some sort of moral superiority. The only way we can truly be above those Boston and New York asses is to not behave like them when we win. We should be better than that- we should be better than them.
I am ready for whatever comes my way, so let me have it…
In theory I have no problem with what you are saying, but I long ago stopped feeling like some fan-bases consistently act worse or better than others. All fan-bases have classy folks, and all have morons. Thanks to blog, message boards and talk radio the idiots are heard more clearly. We are never going to have an O's or Ravens fan base that acts the way we want them to. It is passion that makes fans great, but that same passion at times makes them go off the deep end.
Zach's letter made Zinno's "E-mail of the Day" on The Fan!
Shocker!
105.7, the flagship station of the Orioles read an email from Zach, the ultimate Oriole apologist, and deemed it the email of the day!
I bet they make some poor intern scour through all the emails ripping the team to find that one email that puts a nice positive spin on a 7-18 team!
I'd love to send them an email and have it read on the air.
Would never happen though.
Zach
I've called 105.7 plenty of times along with 1570, 1090, and 1370 and talked to pretty much every personality on the Baltimore airwaves.
105.7, along with it's ridiculous spin on the Orioles, has WAY too many commercials and provides zero in depth talk about anything. Scott Garceau always saying how the Orioles are at a disadvantage because they play in the AL East is the same type of propaganda that you accuse NST of except on the other side of the spectrum.
And by the way, I think Nestor is a complete tool.
The reason stations let me talk is because I know what I'm talking about with regards to facts which seem to escape many callers.
I don't stumble around trying to get to my point and I have an opinion I stand behind. And when I'm wrong (rarely) I will call up and talk about it.
I've been approached (unsolicited) by a few different entities about possibly getting into radio and none have been related to NST in anyway.
The Orioles still have the worst record in the league so pardon some of us who aren't exactly doing cartwheels.
It's funny that I've been accused of doing cart wheels in this instance. We both agreed with my piece on the Red Sox fan. My article had nothing to do with Orioles propaganda.
I'll agree with you on your assessment of Garceau. But I don't think you will find a more bi-partisan media personality than Mark Viviano. I can't say the same about his co-host. But he's really the only reason I tune into 105.7
As far as NST goes, I'm glad to hear your opinions of Nestor. The station makes its living on bashing the Orioles. They were making money this weekend selling anti-ownership t-shirts!
…they wonder why they don't have credentials.
This just in !! News flash from an unknown source (BFD) looking in from CF camera angle at Yankee stadium, proof as to why the Os picked up this dud Atkins. Seeing his face while at bat after seeing trembles smile after Wieters HR, mystery solved !! Adkins is the long lost illegitimate son of Trembles.
My post clearly made an assumption about what your email was about.
I'm glad it wasn't what I thought it was.
As far as NST goes. They make valid points about many things but they don't know how to act mature about it and it shows.
However, the discontent amongst the fan base is very real. NST doesn't reach many listeners due to the fact that it's got about as much power as Garrett Atkins so their bashing really doesn't affect many fans.
Wink – This is like 3 days in a row. I think you are bucking for a BSR T-shirt!
The email was my post bashing Red Sox fans. It was pretty much the only positive story about the Orioles on the airwaves today. Everyone was still ripping Dave Trembley for not pinch hitting Luke Scott or for his reaction in his post game interview even though the Orioles swept the Red Sox.Did one of your boys from WNST tell you that 105.7 only airs fluffy Orioles stories?Email 'em or call 'em. They might not give you your 40 minutes of fame like Rex and Ray do when you call into Nasty's propaganda station, but that's because you can hear them more than 4 miles outside Towson, so their audience is a little bigger.
Much like NST, you wouldn't be hearing half as much from Ol' Bruz if the O's hadn't fallen in to such a state of dis-repair over the last decade…You guys all know that "Bad news sells papers"…I still say give Nestor his due…I don't see bee ay el or the fan or anybody else putting together road trips to NFL games or puck busses or any of the other innovative stuff he's done from that small-signaled radio station…
Someone else has noticed Atkins and his permagrin too!
I've always though of taking one of those trips. Have you been on one Bruz?
I just have an issue with a radio station that makes profit on criticizing the Orioles. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but Nestor selling "Free The Birds" shirts to fund his business is a little over the top.
And I have an issue with a huge corporate station making a profit off of peddling a terrible product and having yes men promote even though deep down they probably don't believe what they say. And they have a MUCH larger audience and budget to play with.
Haynie is the Viviano of NST. He thought they would be .500 and doesn't bash them except to just talk about bad play.
Bruce is employed by the Ravens so you don't get anything but perfect stories about how great the Ravens are from him too.
What time is Haynie on?
WBSR I like it. With Mark and I on the air waves, we'd be the only station to cover both sides of what's going on.
I must confess, Zach and I talked about this today…I don't know why I listen to The Fan. Yaffie is an idiot, Bruce Cunningham IS Ron Burgandy, both physically and mentally, Scott Garceau is bad…I like VIviano, and I have some modicrum of respect for Zinno and Kahn – I can't believe I just said that. Can't get NST at all. I've listened to 1370 before, but again, the AM thing is not good. You guys need to start WBSR FM. Mark could be the Jim Rome of WBSR.
Z Man….Never been out with Nestor…His Roadies came along after I got married and started having children…Sounds like a fun time…
In a related note…Never a big fan of BAL, but their 6.00 PM slot is now just horrible…