{"id":17651,"date":"2012-05-18T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=17651"},"modified":"2012-05-18T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T16:52:16","slug":"annual-post-about-why-washingtonians-should-root-for-the-nats-and-hate-the-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2012\/05\/annual-post-about-why-washingtonians-should-root-for-the-nats-and-hate-the-orioles\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual post about why Washingtonians should root for the Nats and hate the Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than try to build a narrative about the Washington Nationals series with the hated Baltimore Orioles, I think I’ll just make it short: The Baltimore Orioles and their owner Peter Angelos voted against D.C. baseball, “acquired” 90% of the Nats TV rights and kept the Nats off of most D.C. area cable systems for almost two whole seasons. The archives of this are at Peter Angelos<\/a> is a coward and MASN Sucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some other asides:<\/p>\n

“Washingtonians” who root for the Baltimore Orioles probably also root for Iran and North Korea too.<\/p>\n

Nobody actually says, “I want to be a Baltimoron<\/em>!” but when a Washingtonian wears the orange and black, that’s what they’re saying.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping Preakness keeps the Baltimoron factor in Nationals Park lower this weekend.<\/p>\n

As for real Baltimoreans<\/em> who root for the Angelos team — well, the Ravens must be a lot of fun. Too bad Angelos doesn’t believe in you and has to get a subsidy from D.C.<\/p>\n

The reason the O’s have a bird on their cap is Baltimore won’t let them put a B on it out of fear of association.<\/p>\n

White-panel caps never looked good. The bird face logo looks minor league.<\/p>\n

For the fans who haven’t chosen one over the other, mixing Nats and O’s attire is awful. Pick one or none! Pick the right one too.<\/p>\n

The Orioles will probably take the series, knowing my luck, they’ll sweep.<\/p>\n

I’ll be there Saturday night, in the press box for blogger night amongst the O’s loving DC sports media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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