Orioles Sweep the Yankees

[JohnKleeb]

First time such an event has happened in 5 years. Yaaaaaaaaay.

[cruadin]

1. Congrats to the Os---well done!

Man, it must REALLY suck to be a Yanquis fan right about now.

[JohnKleeb]

2. We nearly did it last weekend in New York

too but a bad luck play got them a run in and Sierra later hit a three run homer, other than that, its been good luck all the way for the O's. If we had swept them last week in New York, it would have been the first such instance of this since 1986 when The Earl was manager, I miss the EArl :(, even though he never managed in my life time.

[cruadin]

3. I must be a couple years older then. The first game at Fenway .....

my dad took me to was against the Os in 1967--the Impossible Dream year. Yaz and Rico and Tony C. were the names on everybody's lips and Jim Longborg seemed like he couldn't lose. But I still remember the Baltimore team.

Frank Robinson was still playing the outfield for Baltimore, with Brooks Robinson at third, Louis Aparecio at short and Boog Powell at first. I can't remember who pitched, but we sat near the visitors dugout and I remember thinking that Boog Powell looked like a friggin' giant. He seemed big, even standing next to George "the Boomer" Scott, who was no midget.

[JohnKleeb]

4. Yeah I was born during that brief period known as the Ripken Sr Years

Billy Ripken had only been in the Majors for not even two weeks by the time I was born, I turn 18 this summer. 67 was the year before they hired Earl, Earl was the best manager the team ever had. If everything holds up, this year will be a 1989 redux, those O's were called "Why Not", nearly made it to the playoffs too, and would have had the league had the wildcard system.