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Monday, April 07, 2008

Baltimore Sun: 4-0 since disappearing act of ‘Orioles Magic’

If something seemed like it was missing at Camden Yards last week, you deserve points for your observational skills.

The campy “ Orioles Magic” song that hearkens to the days when there was a “thundering roar from [Section] 34” got scratched after Opening Day.

In the past four games, the Orioles have darted out of the dugout before the first pitch to “Click Click Boom,” a song by the rock band Saliva, which might or might not have been inspired by former Oriole Roberto Alomar.

The concept of never-say-die Orioles Magic seemingly expired years ago, and now the song has taken at least a temporary hiatus from pre-game at Camden Yards.

Uggh...Just pull something off ‘A Date With John Waters’ and be done with it.

Repoz Posted: April 07, 2008 at 07:52 AM | 17 comment(s)
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1. Shooty: Now rated AAA by Moody's and S&P! Posted: April 07, 2008 at 08:42 AM (#2733224)

The Orioles should base this season on Season 4 of The Wire. Intermittent flashes of hope spiralling into tragedy. They could have White T-shirt giveaway night and Lake trout sandwiches and McNulty souvenir flask day and Freeman miniature fruniture auction. I would drive down for a free McNulty souvenir flask.

2. Bicycle RepairMan Posted: April 07, 2008 at 08:59 AM (#2733228)

Look out, the Orioles are on top of the AL East!

Somewhere Nieporent is trying to convince himself he aint dreamin!

3. DKDC Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:12 AM (#2733233)

Their PECOTA playoff odds have climbed all the way up to 2%.

They'll be under .500 for good before May.

4. Dan Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:13 AM (#2733234)

Haven't the Orioles had the lead in the AL East for a few weeks in April in each of the past few seasons?

5. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:22 AM (#2733238)

John Waters overall has pretty good taste in music, as strange as that may seem to hear, but he hates Stevie Wonder, so I can't get fully behind his aesthetic.

6. RB in NYC (Now with Christmas Spirit!) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:29 AM (#2733243)

Their PECOTA playoff odds have climbed all the way up to 2%.

You know a projection system doesn't think much of a team when they're 4-1 and still project to be 21 times less likely to make the playoffs than a team that's 0-6.

7. DKDC Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:30 AM (#2733244)

Haven't the Orioles had the lead in the AL East for a few weeks in April in each of the past few seasons?

Not in 2006 or 2007, although they hung around .500 well into May both seasons.

In 2005, they led the division as late as June 23rd, and were only half a game back as late as July 18th.

They finished 21 games back.

8. Repoz Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:41 AM (#2733253)

John Waters overall has pretty good taste in music, as strange as that may seem to hear, but he hates Stevie Wonder

Mainly because Wonder has refused to go see any John Waters films...

9. Belfry Bob Posted: April 07, 2008 at 09:57 AM (#2733264)

I thought John invented Polyester's Odorama 'scratch-n-sniff' cards specifically for Stevie...

10. Shooty: Now rated AAA by Moody's and S&P! Posted: April 07, 2008 at 10:01 AM (#2733268)

Mainly because Wonder has refused to go see any John Waters films...

Oof!

I could have gone my entire life without seeing a man screw a chicken to death. Really.

Also: John Barth! Just because he never gets mentioned in Baltimore threads.

11. Harold Reynolds: An Erotic Life (AG#1F) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 10:01 AM (#2733269)

I can think of few worse band names than "Saliva".

12. jolietconvict Posted: April 07, 2008 at 12:07 PM (#2733380)

I can think of few worse band names than "Saliva".

Smegma

13. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 12:27 PM (#2733411)

MILLAR: We're gonna play to one song, and one song only. "Lady Humps" by the Black-Eyed Peas. [sings] "What you gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside your trunk? I’m-a get you, get you drunk, get you drunk off my lady humps. My humps, my humps, my lovely lady humps."

MORA: I am not playing to anything that references 'lady humps'. I don't even know what that means.

MILLAR: NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS! But it's provocative!

14. battlekow Posted: April 07, 2008 at 12:31 PM (#2733418)

There's also Sheer Smegma.

15. Rocco's Malfunctioning Mitochondria (Brickhaus) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 12:41 PM (#2733428)

Queen Carlotta approves of this thread.

16. The Milton Bradley Effect (Voxter) Posted: April 07, 2008 at 12:48 PM (#2733441)

TREMBLEY: If I hear 'Ya-mOrioles Magic' one more time, ya-mo burn this place to the ground.

17. fear and loathing in birdlives Posted: April 07, 2008 at 01:44 PM (#2733528)

Mark Lowe must live with the fact that he allowed Luis Hernandez to gain his first hit of the season in a game winning situation.

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