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		<title>Earl Weaver and the Ravens: Let Us Now Praise Baltimore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl Weaver always knew how to pick his moments. The man who was the ninth winningest manager in baseball, who took his Baltimore Orioles to four World Series (victorious in one), won six division titles and notched five 100-win seasons, had a virtuoso&#8217;s sense for how to play the keys of his lineup—inserting precisely the right situation player to bat against precisely the right pitcher, or pitch to precisely the right batter, because he knew better than those players themselves how they fared against southpaws, in hot weather, on Sunday afternoons after an extra-inning game of more than 12 innings the night before. He knew when to pick a fight too—when to bait an umpire or tear up a rule book or hurl a third-base bag in order to fire up his team or gin up the fans and likely as not get thrown out of the game for his troubles, which happened nearly 100 times in the course of his fiery career. It was that sense of not only how to play the game but when to exit it that seemed to be on display this week when Weaver, 82, died while aboard an Orioles fantasy cruise, just two days before the Baltimore Ravens upset the heavily favored New England Patriots to advance to the Super Bowl. The fans who had been mourning the passing of a well-loved legend were suddenly whooping in the streets and thronging from the bars in much the way they did after all of Weaver&#8217;s championships so many years—decades, actually—back. It would hardly have suited Weaver to have done things the other way—checking out in the midst of a football celebration and spoiling the city&#8217;s fun. (MORE: Remembering Art Modell, Former Owner of Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns) Much has been written both since and before Weaver&#8217;s passing about his pugnacity, the finger-in-the-eye combativeness that seemed so suited to the city in which he was lionized. The 5-ft. 7-in. manager with the low-budget team always seemed to be punching above his weight, just as Baltimore—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2343973&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Er, Go Orioles? For Now, Why Not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I&#8217;ve been around awhile. A New York resident for more than half my life, I was born in Baltimore and drank deep from the keg of Orioles love and lore. I watched the &#8217;66 Series sweep over the Dodgers, attended the first two games of the &#8217;71 Series loss to the Pirates and the last three of the &#8217;83 victory over the Phillies, even wearing an O&#8217;s cap in the fight cage that was old Veteran&#8217;s Stadium — an act of mortal folly if ever there was one. My grandfather once paid on-the-gold-standard dollars to watch Babe Ruth play. As a pitcher. In the Baltimore minor league system. So we&#8217;ve got history, B&#8217;more and me. Of course, for the past 14 years, ever since the O&#8217;s fell to the Yankees in the &#8217;97 League Championship Series, that history has been bleak. The seasonal drill for Orioles fans in that time has been familiar: hope for the best, wait for the crash, anticipate fourth place and accept the growing likelihood of fifth. There have been teases: a .500 record after 126 games in 2002, followed by a 4-32 flameout so breathtakingly, jaw-droppingly, gobsmackingly awful that it was more performance art than sport; a first-place run from mid-April to June in 2005 leading to the inevitable plunge and a 74-88 fourth place finish. The team&#8217;s sub-.500 streak now stands at 14 seasons and counting. (PHOTOS: Roger Maris&#8217; Record-Breaking Season: 61 Home Runs) So how much does it matter that as of sun-up on May 7, the Orioles were sitting at 19-9, for first-place in the AL East,  a .679 winning percentage and the best record in baseball? To the rational mind it matters not a whit — especially when only 17% of the season is in the books. For a modern-day Orioles fan, 19-9 guarantees only that the team can do no worse than 19-143 when all the games are finally played. (And indeed, last night, an exhausted pitching staff gave up 14 runs en route to a football-like 14-3<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=keepingscore.blogs.time.com&#038;blog=33268979&#038;post=2338600&#038;subd=timekeepingscore&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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