A Baltimore Fan’s Last Nerve
I’m in a lousy mood after Baltimore’s dropped three of the first four at home to Boston. So don’t peck at me about low attendance.
Category Archives: Patrick Smith
.50 Gets You a Frosty & 6 Weeks of MLB.TV
For the low, low price of one ice cream headache, you can watch the rest of the season wherever you go.
Read moreThe Olympics That Wouldn’t End
Please tell me the Olympics are almost over. Every night with the swimming? I haven’t seen this many people swim since Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters starred in the Poseidon Adventure.
Read moreLoose Change: Work is for suckers, Bob Horner, Airport Noise Generator
You want that on a roll or with crackers?
Read moreA 600-Foot Can of Corn
I fired my best fastball to him, low and away, and he sent it soaring over everyone’s head to straightaway center field. The ball was hit as hard as anyone has hit a ball off me in my years as a pitcher. Just absolutely smoked.
Read moreLoose Change: A Tough Week
It’s not been one of our better weeks here in the United States. Our hearts are with our friends in St. Paul, Baton Rouge and Dallas.
Read more“I Used to Play a Little Ball Myself.”
Every couple of years, I see it happen again: somebody lies about playing minor league baseball. Why do so many men lie about doing this? And why don’t we call them on it?
Read moreWhere are Jeff Nelson and Norm Charlton?
The most entertaining Orioles brawl, we all know, happened in 1993 when Mike Mussina beaned Seattle’s Bill Hasselman after M’s starter Chris Bosio threw behind a couple of Baltimore hitters.
Read moreColorless, Odorless Nolan Reimold
You know how your power company has to add something to natural gas so that it has a smell and you can recognize it if there’s a leak? No one’s done that to colorless, odorless Nolan Reimold. There’s a Reimold leak in the Orioles’ clubhouse that has put GM Dan Duquette to sleep.
Read moreThe Padres? Losers.
The team claims it didn’t mean to insult the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus on Saturday. But their half-assed apology stinks as bad the team itself.
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