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Things have been rough for the Baltimore Orioles for quite a few years now (ok, more than a decade, but who's counting?) and just a couple games into 2008, it doesn't look like there'll be a massive turnaround anytime soon. 

Opening Day was a "sell-out," meaning all the tickets were sold but only a handful of diehard fans and/or people with nothing better to do showed up. The days of eagerly anticipating the start of the baseball season are long gone for most people in Bmore. And the O's did(n't?) disappoint, springing out to an early lead and then letting it slip away, as they are so wont to do (or so I hear - I kind of stopped paying attention about, oh, maybe ELEVEN years ago).

Then last night (or so I saw on the little strip across the bottom of the tv this morning) they won. Woo-hoo! Finally! Too bad they won in front of the smallest crowd in Camden Yards history (and really, isn't the loss of fan support a bigger loss?). Aubrey Huff, who infamously talked so much crap about Baltimore on the radio in the off-season, had a great night, probably because there was no one in the crowd to boo him this time. 

I would love to see things improve because I would love to have a major league team to care about again, but if things keep going like they're going, you're not going to hear me begging for someone to take me out to the ballgame.