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Opening Day 2008

It looks like Opening Day 2008 is going to be a gray, drizzly, and cool affair today.  Nonetheless, I will be there to partake in my (anticipated) lone baseball game of the year.  Barring other circumstances, I am keeping to my rather harsh self-imposed exile from Camden Yards.  Why should I spend my money on [...]

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Late Christmas Gift

A late Christmas gift has come today to Ravens fans: Brian Billick has been fired as head coach of the Ravens.  While not terribly surprising nor the only solution to the problems the Ravens had this year, I think there were too many examples his Billick’s mismanagement of this team.  Poor clock management, poor offensive [...]

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How My Dogs?

As most folks have read, Michael Vick received a 23 month prison sentence for his participation in a dog fighting ring.  While there is so much I can rant about with this–the expenditure of federal dollars for a criminal prosecution for dogfighting with so many other problems in our (local) court system–I will forgo that.  [...]

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Embarrassment in Purple and Black

Is it some sort of strange bit of karma that in the rare moment when one of my local sports team gains the national spotlight, it tends to coincide with the worst possible performance by the team?  The O’s had the harsh eye of the national spotlight turned on them, along with the butt of [...]

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Thoughts on World Series 2007

Another World Series is upon us, and this year the Boston Red Sox face the Colorado Rockies.  Already one game into the Fall Classic, and the Red Sox have already won Game 1.  All indications seem to be that the Red Sox are going to continue their roll that began with the sweep of the [...]

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