13 days ago by Chris Owen

We have reported a great deal here about the Costa Concordia grounding from a variety of angles, trying to bring the most accurate information possible about that tragic event. In a developing story of this magnitude, that’s not always an easy task and many questions still remain unanswered. The wor ...

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20 days ago by Patrick Smith

When you’re a fan who paints his face and assumes some kind of persona, you’d best be a fan of a winner. In search of low-impact Friday evening novelty, my wife and I found ourselves at what can only be described as a pep rally last night. Two nights before Baltimore took on the Patriots in the AFC ...

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30 days ago by Patrick Smith

Luke Scott, the teabaggin’, gun-totin’ Okie, is no longer Baltimore’s problem. He will toil this season in the climate-controlled comfort of Tropicana Field. The Tampa Bay Rays have signed Scott to a one-year deal, with an option for 2013. As if 15 years of losing wasn’t enough burden for Orioles fa ...

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31 days ago by Patrick Smith

When’s the last time you bought a program at a game? Do they even sell them anymore? Do they still come with those little golf pencils? When the Orioles come back to Camden Yards in April, I might have to visit the guy perched in the little wooden booth out on the concourse. He’ll wear an apron with ...

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45 days ago by Erin Hooley

Well, since there are only a few days left, here are some photos… Yes, I went there. Nick Vigil, the Standard-Examiner’s football MVP, said his favorite NFL team is the Denver Broncos. “I like Tim Tebow,” he told me. “I’m a big fan of him.” This just seemed natural. I already mentioned to Patrick Sm ...

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51 days ago by Patrick Smith

So, the Rangers, huh? I guess it’s time we all faced the facts: the Rangers aren’t going away. Despite a loaded five-man rotation, Texas bid $51.7 million just to talk to Yu Darvish’s Japanese team, the Pacific League’s Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. FIGHTERS: “For six trillion yen, we will give you ...

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57 days ago by Patrick Smith

I suppose it doesn’t take a lot of general managerial talent to spend the boss’s money. When Arte Moreno or Jeff Loria says spend, their GMs follow orders. It’s the bargain hunters and the finders of unheralded treasures – that’s who gets movies made about them. I’ve been rolling my eyes at the Orio ...

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57 days ago by Filip

Windowsill by Patrick Smith (Vectorpark.com) is now available for the iPad. An adventure puzzle game filled with peculiar objects, it is your task to resolve abstract but yet logical puzzles to progress from room to room. Our post from 2009: The world is populated by objects and beings but it is the ...

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57 days ago by Filip

Windosill by Patrick Smith (Vectorpark.com) is now available for the iPad. An adventure puzzle game filled with peculiar objects, it is your task to resolve abstract but yet logical puzzles to progress from room to room. Our post from 2009: The world is populated by objects and beings but it is the ...

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59 days ago by Patrick Smith

I’m trying hard to muster some kind of anger, some kind of vitriol at Ryan Braun. (Much red-faced grunting) Nope. Can’t do it. It feels too soon. The guy says he didn’t do it. And reports are that there’s some weirdness around his positive test. We don’t even know what he tested postive for. So mayb ...

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