Say what?
Well, that explains Matthew Boyle’s experience.
Bullpen Bar sits between Pickles Pub and Sliders Bar & Grill. Outside each of the brick-faced bars, on the days of Orioles Games, each bar puts out barricades about 20 feet from their front doors. Shoulder-to-shoulder crowds of fans from each team—the Orioles, and in the case of Saturday night, the Red Sox—pack into three bars and the barricaded-off space in front before each game. Inside and outside of each, bartenders serve “cheap beer”—or so the $6-per-tall-boy-cans are advertised on big signs—while hotdogs, sausages and other pastime favorites are sold by each and by vendors who set up tents across the street. The blue collar culture—and really friendly people—are what make Baltimore baseball games so much fun, and there’s no better place to kick off an adventure into Camden Yards than here.
But on Saturday night, after my brother and I finished off our beers at Bullpen and began walking across the street to the stadium, planning to make our way to our seats after getting inside, chaos broke out. […]
All of a sudden—literally as my brother and I walked out of Bullpen—everything went haywire. What were peaceful marchers holding up signs turned into violent rioters. Innocent fans standing by were confronted by the rioters, who physically and verbally threateningly engaged many of them—and then the protesters got even more violent.
All of a sudden, beer bottles and cans, and other projectiles were lobbed by the protesters into the crowds of fans. To get those projectiles, the protesters stole them forcibly from the bartenders and vendors set up outside each of those three bars. One beer can whizzed by my brother’s face, missing him by about six inches, and more flew all over the crowded area. […]
As projectiles continued flying everywhere from each part of the crowd—like a war-zone—another black man then charged into the crowd of Red Sox and Orioles fans standing outside Pickles Pub and tore the metal barricades apart throwing them into the now-crowded one-way pass where the assaulted station wagon was a moment ago.
My brother, at this point, was screaming at the group of five or so police officers. “Why aren’t you doing anything? They’re hurting people! They’re hurting people! They’re violent!” he yelled at them as they continued ignoring him and not engaging or attempting to stop the violence.
a Sunday stomp
i expect so much better from baltimore
jk
onetime home of the unironic Bullets. on account of that bullet-thing. Philly’s got one too, but they chose not to flaunt it.
they just needed some burundi music
#isisisislam news
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Thanks ISIS Advocates (The Nation of Islam) For their Support…
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What Really Happened to Harry Reid? Part 5
What Baltimore truly needs is large swathes of the city composed of boarded up businesses apparently. You know, for justice.
I remember leaving Chicago. I remember leaving the northern suburbs of Milwaukee.
People leave and they aren’t replaced with other productive folks. They’re replaced with unkempt lawns and check cashing joints.
Damn, Geoff.
What was it I saw last night on Twitter, something like.
The poor are rioting.
The rich are partying.
The middle class are buying ARs and ammo.
So far none of this has reached ’67 – ’68 levels. But summer is yet to come and there are people who want to get into the Guinness book.
That’s what worries me quite a bit. A) It’s not even hot out yet but we’ve already had lots of mob violence and B) the last couple summers have already been insanely riotous.
[…] Police stood around and did nothing even as they turned violent outside the Orioles/Red Sox game. […]
Everything is going according to plan.
The Cylons had a plan….
Thankfully, it’s a trivial matter for any law-abiding Baltimorean to legally obtain and carry a handgun to defend themselves and their property as they see fit, right?
When Washington fiddled While Baltimore Burned
If SNL wanted to be relevant again (hah!) all they’d have to do is act out “The Emperor’s New Clothes” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
So, not her own stuff that is being destroyed, nor that of anyone she cares about or is under contract to care about and protect. Whereas those doing the destruction must be those she cares about and/or those she is under contract to care about and protect.
Got it? Now apply that right on up the political food chain. Justice is being done, but justice only for those who the politicians in charge care about and feel protective for.
I was going to say 1992 Los Angeles levels.
In any case, we’re still in the pre-season exhibition matches…
The paid protectors learn just who is being protected.
The Vikings never got as good a deal when they ransacked European cities.
They only invented the Danegeld. It took Al Sharpton to perfect it.
I dunno. I think Rollo thought he got a pretty good deal.
The Danes had too much white privilege.
Rollo’s smart; he swore to depend Paris against his brother — not his nephew.
King Charles, I mean the mayor, is walking her statement back saying she meant that in giving peaceful Parisians room to do business, the viking were free to loot and destroy. oops, I mean. . .
Ragnar is born again and Paris will see Bjorn again.
It’s all much ado about Cnuting, i’nit?
On a more somber note, it appears the destroyers weren’t given enough space.
The general disarray in B’more can be exemplified by the decision 1 hour before first pitch to cancel the game with the WhiteSox tonight. Of course, that’s far too late for many of the patrons who are already on the road, probably caught in traffic jams too in their attempt to arrive for the start.
The mayor, the governor, the police chief all seem to be a day late and 20,000 troops short while public order disappears and the city goes to the verge of burning down. This is what comes of contemporary Democrat rule, we can vouch, while doubting that in Nancy D’Alessandro’s daddy’s day there’s no way in hell this shit would have passed without skulls a-crackin’.
Is it time for the Great Heathen Army yet? I mean, bugger Paris, leave it to the Muzzies. Let’s go for Angleland!
GeoffB wrote: …Justice is being done, but justice only for those who the politicians in charge care about and feel protective for.
Late Roman Republic stuff, eh?
Wayall Shee-it, sdferr, if you were the mayor, the governor or the chief of police, which would you rather have, rioters in the streets or the civil rights division of the United States Justice Department crawlin’ up yer ass?
> if you were the mayor,
the governoror the chief of police, which would you rather have, rioters in the streets or the civil rights division of the United States Justice Department crawlin’ up yer ass?<dat be black on black forsurezal. now the rethuglican gov?
It’s a good point ye make Ernst. But speaking of Wayall reminds me of Mayall fer some weird reason.
Man, that first period was intense. Only solution for that is more hits.
I know you are being rhetorical but, I would hope a mayor cared more about their city and constituents than what Miss Lynch thinks in DC.
Paris is too good for them. I say chase them all out of the middle east and their brothers in Southeast Asia can take them in.
Iz are childrun looting?
I bet Lt Giardello would start cracking heads.
Didn’t they assassinate him?
so black mayor check, black police chief check, black city council check. it be whitey’s fault. ok
Aliens, James Bond, someone is always after him.
Not good at all. Before long this shit is going to get out of hand.
and they don’t know why.
is it ok to discriminate about violent places in the proggtard world?
This is what happens when you don’t let the police shoot the first a-hole who starts waving a brick.
Maybe a molotov cocktail, if you’re one of those soft types.
Conservatives, Unleash the Awesome Power of “No”
But only if you’re prepared to smack down the temper tantrum that’s sure to follow.
This is what happens when you elect the assholes waving a brick.
The gallows humor for tonight is listening to the Baltimore newscasters sadly talk about how much rebuilding will be necessary.
Ain’t nobody rebuilding shit, you fucking retards.
Detroit on the Chesapeake Baby!
black power ask rhodesia
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phew
They’ll do it the Detroit way, the Democrat way. With tax money extorted/extracted from outside the City and build monuments to the glorious leaders who did the extraction. Jobs though? No, except for good union government ones, not a lick, just a promise[ary-note].
Oh-oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
No…it burned down.
This year’s blockbuster!
Don’t hang with jaybirds Stephanie.
Since today’s empty stadium game seems to have become a topic of general interest (I mean, even Limbaugh is talking about it), and since I happen to be a fan of the O’s, I’ve thought more than usual about the peculiar circumstances and the possible phenomena we fans are about to witness.
So, to begin, I’ll relate an old and famous story, one among many famous stories told about Earl Weaver. I’ll gist, for the sake of brevity.
The O’s are playing the Blue Jays in Exhibition Stadium late in the seventies (Jays founded ’77), and the crowd is both small, as well as unusually quiet for a typical baseball crowd. Earl notices. He notices how quiet, and how weird that is. So he stands up on the retaining wall at the edge of the dugout, leans up on the roof of the dugout and bellows at the top of his lungs (he had very good lungs) : “SHUT UP!”
The Jays fans instantly go completely silent. They’re so out of touch, they don’t get it at all.
In light of this traditional story, I’d suggest this: That Buck Showalter choose an appropriate moment in the proceedings to do exactly that. Get up on the wall, turn to the empty stadium and bellow “SHUT UP!“. The cameras will capture it. And the viewers either will, or more probably won’t, get it. Those who do will rejoice. Those who don’t will just make something up.
But maybe the players can benefit from the absurdity.
“(he had very good lungs)”
Ahyep.
for a second there i thoughtcha mightabeen linking “Manager’s Corner”, a classic of the type
by the by for the curious, this empty stadium game today is MLB.tv’s “free game of the day“. only just gotta sign up to get it.
Foul balls bouncing in the rows of empty seats.
A real barn burner.
And rolling.
Baltimore torches itself and then later on Chisox for six in the first.
Samardzija is Sebian for barn?
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