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Baseball: Former Baltimore Oriole Jay Gibbons Gets a Second Chance

Each one of us have personally gone through trying times in our lives, when we get knocked down and it’s not so easy to get up. Sometimes we don’t want to get up...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 478 reads 1 comments
Baltimore Orioles Draft Preview: Great Expectations?

The Orioles, despite their better than expected start to the 2008 season, are knee deep in a rebuilding phase. The front office led by Andy MacPhail has dedicated the franchise to a long and ...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 676 reads 1 comments
Yakees-Orioles: One for the ages

A couple years ago I attended a Yankees/O’s game much like Tuesday night’s game. Back and forth, crappy starting pitching, comebacks, blown leads, and rain delays...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 450 reads 0 comments
Hey Milwaukee - need a closer?

It’s been widely speculated that the Orioles are waiting for the July trading deadline to spin a few more trades that turn current players into more talented farmhands. No trade chip is more valuable then that of George Sherrill...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 136 reads 0 comments
A New Feeling For the Baltimore Orioles: Pride

Take a curmudgeony manager, a stubborn GM, inexperienced pitchers, and a mish-mash of old hitters and this is what you get—last place in the AL East...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 186 reads 0 comments
A Winning Roadtrip for Baltimore?

Sure would be nice. If Daniel Cabrera can guide the O’s to victory today, they will wrap up the seven game trip 4-3 which is very respectable given their struggles against the central and the west in past years...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 243 reads 0 comments
Everything You Need to Know about Nats Park

I interrupt my normal O's coverage to bring you an in-depth look at the Washington Nationals' new ballpark in southeast DC. I imagine that a lot of gamers out there are going to want to flock to the new stadium to check it out...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 496 reads 1 comments
Orioles-Mariners: Welcome to Bizarro World

Here’s Daniel Cabrera’s line from last night vs. the Seattle Mariners: Wait a second…no walks? Let me take another look…yup, no walks...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 325 reads 1 comments
Orioles-Yankees: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad for Baltimore

I work with a pretty intense Yankees fan. Life’s been good for him the last ten years or so. He told me in passing that this past weekend’s O’s/yanks series would be an incredible ...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 244 reads 1 comments
MLB: It Is Actually HOW You Start That Matters

What are the differences between the good teams and the great teams? What allowed the Red Sox to dig out of that 3-2 game hole against Cleveland last year and go on to win the World Series? ...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 172 reads 0 comments
Baltimore Orioles: Surprising? Yeah, a Little

Fast-forward through spring training, three opening days, Rich Harden staying off and then going on the DL and then you’ve arrived to today. Did I miss anything? Oh yes; the Orioles surprisingly hot start...

Written by Brian Markham about about 1 year ago 209 reads 0 comments

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Brian Markham Article Archive

Baseball: Former Baltimore Oriole Jay Gibbons Gets a Second Chance

Baltimore Orioles Draft Preview: Great Expectations?

Yakees-Orioles: One for the ages

Hey Milwaukee - need a closer?

A New Feeling For the Baltimore Orioles: Pride

A Winning Roadtrip for Baltimore?

Everything You Need to Know about Nats Park

Orioles-Mariners: Welcome to Bizarro World

Orioles-Yankees: Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad for Baltimore

MLB: It Is Actually HOW You Start That Matters

Baltimore Orioles: Surprising? Yeah, a Little

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