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Inside The Ballpark - Baseball Humor Blog

August 26th, 2008

Instant Replay is in, Oriole fan wants ‘96 ALCS replayed

What’s that you say? My home run wouldn’t have counted? Be gone with instant replay!Photo: Newscom

Instant Replay has officially made its way into Major League Baseball. Some say too soon (me), some say too late (Baltimore Orioles fans). Remember the 1996 ALCS? OK - well, how about game one of […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 0 comments

August 20th, 2008

VIDEO - Coco Crisp goes over the wall

Boston Red Sox outfielder Coco Crisp tried to haul in a blast off the bat of Ramon Hernandez but was unsuccessful. The Baltimore Orioles catcher notched a three-run homer as Crisp went flying over the wall in left-center field.
You can hear the MASN play-by-play announcer’s comparing Crisp’s attempt to an Olympic event. Hernandez’s […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 3 comments

August 15th, 2008

A celebration in Baltimore

There’s some sort of a celebration, or at least a milestone, that should take place early next week in Baltimore. The Orioles organization is getting ready to celebrate the fact that 50 million fans have watched a game at Oriole Park.
I know what you’re thinking. How could that many people watch a horrible […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 0 comments

July 23rd, 2008

Remember Jay Gibbons?

Do you remember the former Baltimore Orioles slugger Jay Gibbons? Yeah, he was one of the guys named in the infamous Mitchell Report. And yes, he was out of a job for most of the first-half of this season - that is until the independent Long Island Ducks picked him up.
Well, lucky Mr. […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 0 comments

June 17th, 2008

Mitchell Report players blacklisted?

Just a week ago, there was a story running around through various media outlets that former Baltimore Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons was begging teams just to let him play in their minor league system via a letter. No one gave him the opportunity. However, on Monday, Gibbons signed a deal with the independent […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 0 comments

June 5th, 2008

Thursday 10 - Biggest draft busts

With the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft kicking off today, I figured I needed to post some material relating to the draft. So today on the ‘Thursday 10′ - I give to you, the ‘Biggest Major League Baseball Draft Busts.’ You’ll notice that most of these guys were a number one overall […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 9 comments

May 29th, 2008

Thursday 10 - Worst MLB debut seasons by All-Star players (since 1988)

After seeing all of the hoopla surrounding Jay Bruce’s debut this week in Cincinnati, I started to wonder if he will turn into the franchise-type player everyone expects him to be. Then, I started to think about some of the players that are great now and wondered what their debut seasons were like. […]

By Tony Baldwin -- 7 comments