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Put Some Birds On It

This is a knockoff from Portlandia, but if you've been to a game recently, you have probably seen this. Adam Jones and Robert Andino up in New York City putting Oriole bird stickers on anything and everything. Your browser does not support iframes.

They played like Iron Men...

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Joy R. Absalon-US PRESSWIRE - Presswire On a night to celebrate the Iron Man, Cal Ripken Jr., these Orioles played like a team of iron men. In front of a sellout crowd of 46,298 the Orioles brought the magic to Camden Yards. Before the game started, the crowdes gathered to see the unveiling of the Cal Ripken statue in the new Legends Park depicting him fielding backhandedly, as he had so many times between 1981 and 2001. Emotions ran high, and the crowds gave him and all the other O's greats who were there: Brooks, Eddie, Earl, and Jim, a standing ovation. Then the game began. The Orioles jumped to an early lead with an RBI by Adam Jones that scored JJ Hardy and then a three run shot by Matt Weiters to the left field wall that just barely got over Raul Ibanez's reach and into the stands. Robert Andino and Mark Reynolds added two more solo-shots to bring the Orioles up 6-1 by the end of the 7th. Things got scary in the 8th. Jason Hammel was plunked in the 4th with a b

The O-mazing Mark Reynolds

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Tom Szczerbowski - Getty Images Mark Reynolds for all intents and purposes was having a lack-luster season, lot of strikeouts, not a lot of homeruns, and a few too many errors. Then August started. Since then Reynolds is batting near .320 with 8 home runs (4 of which were in the recent Yankees series), 16 RBIs, and has been walked 16 times. His play at First Base has also been very impressive (except when he got tossed when the umpires made a bad call, but we won't go there). If he keeps playing this way in September, the Orioles will increase their power in the line-up. Let's Go O's!