AA Days at Camden Yards, June 16-18

by IanB in MD on Jan 3, 2009 9:06 PM EST Comment 14 comments

Happy New Year!

Notice to AA folks in the mid-Atlantic region: For the first time in a long time, our New York Mets are playing baseball in Baltimore. I live in Baltimore, so I'm ten kinds of excited.

The Mets are coming to play the O's on Tue-Thu, June 16-18. All games start at 7:05 pm. I think Mets fans in the mid-Atlantic region should think about getting together to enjoy the lovely stadium in Charm City.

Anyone interested in going to a game should let me know. I can get some tickets lined up on each night. I plan on being there, anyway, so I might as well have some company.

(The same month, the Mets are coming to Washington on June 5-7 for a weekend series. I think my brother, Catsmeat PP, will be the for a couple games with me and maybe some of my loser friends who decided they are Nats fans. If there is interest in that game, maybe I can work on something for that.)

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The Orioles games will require me to miss some work

but I might not be too upset by all of that. We’ll see how it works out.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 3, 2009 9:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Whatever

You’re gonna be in town for the Nats games. It’s OK.

Remember the last time we were at Camden Yards for a Mets game? We yelled like mad when the Oriole Bird was in our section, so ‘he’ came over to eat your Mets hat.

Also, I think that’s the game where Dad learned how people in Baltimore pronounce the word “coke.”

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Jan 3, 2009 10:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

How do they pronounce

‘coke’ in Balto?

by BobbyV_Incognito on Jan 4, 2009 1:10 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, the Oriole Bird was a dick

Bobby V – the Ballmer pronunciation of “coke” is something along the lines of “cayouke.” Hard to spell, but once it’s in your head you don’t forget it.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 4, 2009 11:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

It's like this

Im not hooked on phonics, so I don’t know how to write out the phonetic way the people of Baltimore pronounce “Coke”, but it’s like this:

The ‘co’ is said like “coe”, making the ‘o’ more pronounced. The rest is the same like the rest of us. The thing is that our father didn’t believe me. When the vendor came up to our section yelling “Coe-ke, Dite Coe-ke” he nearly lost it.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Jan 4, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You know what's really funny?

Until you mentioned the vendor selling Diet Coke, I thought you guys had been talking about drugs at the game. Soda never even entered my mind.

by BobbyV_Incognito on Jan 4, 2009 12:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I forgot about "dite"

they made it a one-syllable word.

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jan 4, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Well hell! That's great news! Makes me feel like...

I'm a baseball fan. What did you expect?

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Jan 3, 2009 9:42 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Baltimore

I really want to come down for those games, but it’s tough to leave town during the school year since Kim’s a middle school teacher. More likely will be the Mets’ series in Washington in mid-July if anybody wants to meet up for that.

by Eric Simon on Jan 3, 2009 10:22 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

It's on!

If you want to set up an AA day during that series, I will help.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Jan 3, 2009 11:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I live in DC

so I’d definitely go to the Nats series’ – possibly the Baltimore one, depending on what I’m doing this summer

by cjmulrain on Jan 4, 2009 10:53 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Cool.

We’ll keep you in the loop.

"The people of Houston are spending money like oil's selling at $40 a barrel."

by IanB in MD on Jan 4, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmm

Love to come down for the games at the O’s (especially since Camden Yards has been on my list of places to go see a game for the longest time) but weeknights are tough as others have mentioned. At this point the weekend series against the Nats seems more likely.

by JoshNY on Jan 4, 2009 1:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs