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My brother and I attended the O's 9-6 drubbing of the D-Rays on Opening Day and we only have one item of substance to report: Baltimorons love their light beer and cigarettes. Now, I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but thousands and thousands of mostly twentysomethings were completely hammertime yesterday afternoon. Much moreso than the usual Orioles game.

It looked like only half of the sellout crowd of 46,000 were in their seats at any given point. The rest were either out on the concourse or Eutaw Street boozing it up like I've never seen before. Carl Crawford was getting heckled from the upper deck. Fans were getting pelted with peanuts. Chants of "[Bleep] the Yankees" were going up all over the place. People were too drunk to get The Wave started properly. Women and children definitely should have been put to bed.

Chris mentioned that it was enough to finally make him more of a Nats fan, but I thought it was kind of great. It felt like a imagine a European football game would be like. So, for now, I'm sticking with the O's as my No. 1 and the Nats as my 1A. As long as that's allowed anyway.

Here's some league-wide stuff from the Opening Day that was...

 Not a good sign for Barry Lamar

· SD Spotlight says throwing a syringe at Bonds ain't cool. 

· Ducksnorts says Mike Piazza has still got it.

· Nomar to the DL already. C.C. Sabathia too.

· Anna Benson withdraws her petition for divorce.

· Fire Joe Morgan can't believe David Wright is only batting 5th.

· Tony LaRussa helped Jimmy Rollins extend his hit streak to 37.

· The Dugout was at the Astros opener and picks Roy Oswalt for NL CY.

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• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  4/5/06 4:25 PM | Permalink

  I'll put up $2500 if someone can actually stick him in the ass from the stands with a needle.