A few notes from Palm Beach and the NFL Owners Meetings:

1. Ravens coach John Harbaugh will toe the rubber at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as he throws out the first pitch for the O's-Yankees game on Sunday, April 20th. (I didn't warn him to expect to be booed by the 35,000-plus Yankees fans that will be there to witness it in three weeks).

2. The Ravens have been awarded four compensatory picks in the April 26-27 Draft. The Ravens get picks number ...

Ok a few predictions and other sports related stuff..

AL EAST: RED SOX

AL CENTRAL: TIGERS

AL WEST: ANGELES

NL EAST: ATLANTA

NL CENTRAL: BREWERS

NL WEST: PADRES

AL WILDCARD: CLEVELAND

NL WILDCARD: PHILLIES

WORLD SERIES: TIGERS over the BREWERS...why not!

ok enough of that....Cabrera for the ...

For the second straight season, the Orioles Communications Department has denied me a season media credential. 

Don't fret, I still get to cover games, but once again I have to file my request on a game-by-game basis for "the right" to sit in the press box and report on the team and the game(s).  That's nothing more than an exercise to aggravate me -- "make him go through the process of asking for a credential every time he wants to c ...

Happy Opening Day! As much as I dread watching these games in August, Opening Day always puts a smile on my face, and even gives me a glimmer of hope. Call me crazy, but I'm a sucker for the smell of Boog's, tearing through pistachios like I was a diabetic and there was insulin on the inside of that shell, and the whole ball park atmosphere in general...

As for today's poll, this one's simple...just give me a number and justify it...

With Kevin Mi ...

So, now they’ve gone over the line once again – mainly because they’re so ill-informed that they don’t even know where the lines between professionalism, accountability and the media are -- and their big man in charge “privately” berated Drew Forrester and told him to “pass the message on” to me that I won’t be invited back into their ballpark for the second consecutive year.

But now that they’ve called us, berated us, insulted us and pulled my media pass yet ...

Yep, you can tell it's opening day of the baseball season in Baltimore. Everyone is all hyped up, the field is ready, the vendors are ready, the fans (maybe 39,000 of them) are ready, and the weather is ........well, it's raining!

I have never been to an opening day game. I used to have a 13 game plan and  had opening "night" tickets. Opening day was normally sold out weeks before the season started. Now, I hear there are thousands of tickets remai ...