True devotion: blogging about the Orioles
Blogging about the Orioles isn’t for the faint of heart.
The team, which opens the 2008 season tomorrow, used to have about 30 blogs focused on it, according to baseballblogs.org.
That was on a par with the San Francisco Giants (30 blogs) and Seattle Mariners (31), but well below the rabid followings of the Boston Red Sox (145) and New York Yankees (112). Even some teams without the Orioles’ pedigree or in smaller markets had more blogs about them, such as the 3-year-old Washington Nationals (34) and the Minnesota Twins (39).
And while those numbers are ever-changing, some of those Orioles blogs have dried up since last season, evoking an image of the Wizard of Oz tinman rusting in mid-chop. Who can blame them? After 10 consecutive losing seasons, it takes a lot of effort to blog about a team that everyone expects to be lousy - even in March, when by baseball’s cliched tradition, hope springs eternal.
For a blog titled Fourth Place Birds, the no-hitter that Boston pitcher Clay Buchholz threw against the Orioles last year seemed to be the final straw on Sept. 3. Its final post: “OK, getting no-hit sucks. Especially by a rookie. Especially in his second major league start. Especially when I was convinced he was overrated. And yet that wasn’t what bothered me about this weekend. … No, it was Sunday’s opportunity to still win the series despite Saturday’s debacle and they blew it. Bases loaded, none out, and you don’t score?”
Or as the blog Camden Crazies put it more definitively in its last, bitter gasp last fall:
“Step 1. Give Dave Trembley a contract extension. Step 2. Lose 30-3 the very same day. Step 3. Win 3 out of your next 21 games. Step 4. Start the likes of Tike (bleeping) Redman. Step 5. Let Jim “9.00 ERA” Hoey Pitch! Step 6. Quit Blogging.”
Tags: orioles, radio
Monday 31 Mar 2008 | Freddie | Uncategorized
It would have almost been worth it, except the guy was an incredibly annoying little squit who treated his girlfriend like crap, and frankly I would pay money to never be in the same room as him again.
Needs some diacritical marks to make it look more exotic.Andouché
Great list of things to do if you don’t want to get the job
No, it’s a type of cajun sausage.
I upmodded it because it reminded me how recruiters can be bitchy.
“By now you all know that resumes should be printed on nice, neutral paper in soft tones like eggshell or gray.”Are we back to the 1980s? Who sends paper copies of resumes anymore? Well, I guess my grandma does, and this person, if he/she ever gets fired. Tip: email your cv…
If you’re 5′9, blonde, with a great smile, I don’t see how a photo could hurt.
“References available upon request” is a nightmare? Like, you wake up at night in a cold sweat when dreaming about it?Get a life. The only resume nightmare worth mentioning is if the person reading your resume is such an unmitigated ass as the person writing this article.Edit: By now you all know that resumes should be printed on nice, neutral paper in soft tones like eggshell or gray. However, I had one candidate that must have thought I needed my day brightened up because she sent hers printed on paper with a smiley face border.Shit, someone call the ICC. This is like a fucking war crime. Anyone who wants to wish someone else a nice day obviously doesn’t deserve a job, much less to live and interact in a free society. That bitch needs to go to jail for at least two lifetimes for having the gall to suggest that the recruiter should have a nice day.
“A friend of mine told me of a time when she received a resume at her new company from someone she had fired from her previous employer. “I’ve seen something like this happen too. A bloke I’d worked with applied to a mate of mine (who’d also worked with us), and was claiming sole credit for software I’d written, and systems I’d put in place.
Lame. This is common sense and they didn’t give any LOL examples.
Dude, I love putting “Domino’s Pizza Delivery” on my resume. It lets the recruiter know that I’ll risk life and limb to get my job done in 30 minutes or less.
Nothing like getting a resume that says:”Detailed Oriented”
Half of the things were “I hate creativity”
You should be recognized by being the person who shows up dressed for an interview at the agreed upon time.
A long time ago I knew an HR rep who sorted through resumes. She said policy dictated that they throw away any resume that had a picture attached. The reasoning was something like they didn’t want to be accused of only calling in attractive people for interviews.