Sports Weekend

It's a sports weekend: Orioles baseball on Friday, Maryland football on Saturday.

Last night D- and I went to Camden Yards to see the Baltimore Orioles play the New York Yankees.

I have season tickets to the Orioles. And by season tickets I mean I split a 13-game season ticket plan with two other guys. So I end up attending 4 or 5 Orioles games a year. That' about right for me.

In the spring when we divvy up the tickets, I usually avoid taking the tickets for the Yankees. Not because I harbor particularly strong feelings against the Yankees but because whenever the O's play the Yankees, 4 billion Yankees fans come streaming out of the woodwork just like the cockroaches they are. They're loud and obnoxious and take over the ballpark. They all come dressed in their stupid Yankee costumes and strut around like peacocks. And these are nice Maryland Yankees fans. I shudder to think what dyed-in-the-wool New York Yankees fans are like.

But this year, scheduling conflicts forced me to pick the Yankees game as one of my four. Fortunately, the O's clobbered them (including a nifty 8-run third inning) and those 4-billion Yankees fans got to go home all sad and dejected. It was kind of a twofer for me.

This afternoon, we're heading down to College Park to see the Maryland Terrapins play Temple. I've never been to a Maryland football game; we're going with the parents of A-'s roommate. Should be a good time and we'll get to see A- play in the Mighty Sound of Maryland for the first time. He tells us that because today is 9/11 the band won't be as "active" as they were last week.

I'll take pictures.
K-