First Annual Battle of the Birds

We had a cool opportunity recently to take photos at a charity golf event to benefit Urban Young Life and FCA. Matt Stover and Brian Roberts organized two teams consisting of Ravens and Orioles players. A lot of great players showed up; Markakis, Flacco, Koji, and of course, the mighty Steve Hauschka just to name a few. Aubrey Huff was clearly the individual at the event...



Jonathan Ogden gave one of the best lines of the day. Arny asked what was the difference between football and baseball. Ogden's response, "Guaranteed money."



Look at Buck's perfect hair. If I were a gutsier guy I would have asked him to call my brother and say "Miguel Tejada throws to first."


I was very impressed with the number of Orioles that showed up on their day off. I'm sure the Urban YL and FCA folks are appreciative. More pictures can be found here.

Baseball Season Has Arrived

My new desktop photo...




Welcome back O's. It's good to see you again. A few more pix here.

O's Game

Wifey and I didn't have very big plans for Sunday until a guy at church walked up to me and handed me 4 Orioles tickets and a parking pass. So the two of us along with Sarah, Kirby, and Jeff made the trip to downtown Baltimore through lightning and rain to watch the O's break a 15 game losing streak on Sundays.




Luckily I thought to bring the trash bags before we left. The other big highlight of the day was getting to see our umpire friend from my Bachelor Party. It was the same dude!


After the game Jeff and I yelled at him and waved our hands in the air to get his attention but I think he probably just thought we were drunk. All the pictures are here.

Bachelor Party Baseball

On Saturday a bunch of us celebrated my bachelor-hood by playing 1 1/2 games of baseball and attending an O's game later that night. Thank you to Brody for taking many of these pictures.





This is our umpire friend who did some dancing for us and thought Brody had been drinking.


It was a very fun day, thanks to all the fellas that came out. You can view the complete set of photos here.