Comments on: Conflict with Orioles could force Ravens to open on road

By: warhawk04

warhawk04 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:40:29 +0000

Are people serious when they ask why not Friday? If theres a Thursday night game that is probably the start of a weekend 4 game series.

By: ballboy48

ballboy48 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:25:02 +0000

Just move the Baseball game to the afternoon, or have the Ravens open up Friday, or Saturday!

By: aces79

aces79 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:01:23 +0000

This is Karma this shows that the Ravens aint the real Super Bowl champs “FIXED”

By: zeekey2013

zeekey2013 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:54:43 +0000

As an orioles fan I can say that the stadium will be empty anyways. Unless if they’re making a run at the postseason. If they do all the bandwagon fans will come and almost have a sell out

By: whitemike55

whitemike55 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:24:40 +0000

Am I the only one wondering why they wait so long to begin doing the schedule? I mean it normally comes out in the 3rd week of April.

Do a Saturday day/night double header and problem solved.

By: Cereal

Cereal — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:23:19 +0000

The only certainty here is that Peter Angelos, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, is the worst franchise owner in the history of pro sports.

By: alwayslogical

alwayslogical — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:18:42 +0000

The NFL should just respond by scheduling 4:25 games every Sunday in October in the cities where this could be an issue for logistics for MLB playoffs.

By: ravgt

ravgt — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:16:58 +0000

And, PS, not that this is on popint, but who can forget that Sunday in Oct., 1992 when Deion Sanders played for the Falcons against the Dolphins in Miami, then flew by private jet to Pittsbuirgh for the Braves game against the Pirates in the NLCS. Bobby Cox made him sit out the game but he showed up on time. Now there’s an idea, see if the Pirates have a game at hom on 9/5/13 and let the Ravens play the Steelers at Heinz. They sure as hell won’t have any conflicting traffic problems .

By: movementarians

movementarians — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:58:22 +0000

Given the popularity of the NFL and poor ticket sales of the Orioles over the last decade… I would say that Rodger has all of the leverage.

By: ravgt

ravgt — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:57:07 +0000

I grew up in Atlanta, In 1969, the Braves were in the playoffs against the Mets and had a Sunday , 1 pm game at Atlanta Stadium, also home of the Falcons. The Falcons had a home game scheduled at the same time against Johnny U and the Colts. Falcons moved their game to Grant Field at Ga. Tech, and they played both games simultaneously. 125,000 fans watching football and baseball at the same time, a mile apart. No big deal. So traffic was bad. Big woop.

By: CKL

CKL — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:42:51 +0000

jessieboom says:
Mar 18, 2013 12:13 PM
Why can’t you play on Rosh Hashanah? We already play on Thanksgiving & Christmas.
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This and as others have mentioned a political convention forced the change the prior year, which is extremely silly IMO. At least this time there are legitimate logistical issues.

By: vikings1packers0

vikings1packers0 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:40:06 +0000

The way they are dumping their supporting cast from the greatest beat down in 9er history it’s funny they want to play any games at home. They will certainly catch hell from the fans when trailing during the game. Good for them. At least the murderer is gone from that roster.

By: nickster31

nickster31 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:40:05 +0000

As a Dteelers fan, I am the LAST person thst wants to give the Ravens any kind of break, but please be serious.

This is THE NFL. The ONLY sports league in America that anyone cares about. This isnt just a regular game, this is opening weekend, and not just opening weekend, but opening weekend for the Super Bowl Champions. This is an afternoon long event, with concerts and happenings all over town.

Sorry baseball, you lose. In less you WANT the NFL tk really go head to head with you, move the game.

I am pretty sure the celebrating of the Super Bowl is more important than a regular season game for the people of Baltimore.

By: goodellisruiningtheleague

goodellisruiningtheleague — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:36:27 +0000

All oyou saying “Just make the game friday…” you do understand the Orioles play at home Friday night too right?

By: hrmlss

hrmlss — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:35:56 +0000

They could play Minnesota on the Thursday opener in Minneapolis, the only way the Viking’s will ever get to host that game! The irony of this is they will move the Raven’s game and then it will sprinkle and the Orioles game will be post-poned.

By: funshipm174

funshipm174 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:31:29 +0000

Meant to say-

*Baseball is the cure for my insomnia*

By: funshipm174

funshipm174 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:29:33 +0000

Base is the cure for my insomnia, but what’s right is right. Goodell needs to pay up and take care of the Orioles and they will find a way to move the meaningless game.

By: brickwilly

brickwilly — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:20:25 +0000

I remember the Lions and Tigers playing home games simultaneously and their stadiums are next to each other with scattered parking lots.

By: jacktheraven

jacktheraven — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:16:32 +0000

NFL should move the game to Wed. They did it last year. It’s the 1st game of season, who cares?

By: MCxShow

MCxShow — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:13:17 +0000

Why not play the game Friday night?

By: eatitfanboy

eatitfanboy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:05:11 +0000

bigbluenationdb says:
Mar 18, 2013 1:51 PM
Why don’t they just move the O’s game to 1 or play a double header on Wednesday. It can’t be that difficult to figure out.
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Both teams will be playing night games in different cities on Wednesday night. Neither team will likely be in Baltimore until early Thursday morning.

By: spabula

spabula — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:03:10 +0000

Most likely the orioles and white sox have a series in Chicago at some point, switch the series around so they would be in Chicago that week or weekend

By: eatitfanboy

eatitfanboy — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:02:05 +0000

This doesn’t make any sense. I remember a couple of years back Philadelphia had 3 events going on simultaneously (two games and a concert) and everything worked out fine. All THREE venues were in the same basic parking lot.

The days when Camden Yards was an automatic sell out are long gone. I wouldn’t anticipate more 15-20k for a Thursday night game against the White Sox.

I think someone is making mountains out of mole hills here.

By: lovefootball4life

lovefootball4life — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:54:07 +0000

Good ahead and disrespect the Ravens. They will turn around and use it as fuel just like they did with the disrespect during the post season last season.

By: bryonschultz

bryonschultz — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:54:00 +0000

First world problems…..

By: blarkins111

blarkins111 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:46:07 +0000

Because both the Orioles and White Sox are in different cities playing games the night before, they would need MLB, MLBPA, and White Sox approval before moving it to a day game.

They would also need this approval before moving it to a double header on the weekend.

Both teams will be in the middle of 20 straight games with no days off, so it’s not likely they approve a move.

By: turdfurgerson68

turdfurgerson68 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:45:21 +0000

What’s wrong with playing on Wendsday? The greatest in NFL history was played on Christmas Day.

If not Wendsday, how about Friday night?

By: buckeye2280

buckeye2280 — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:41:45 +0000

First off to the idiots stating that the NFL just play the game and let the Orioles play in an empty stadium, you need to check yourselves. There are rules about events being played at the same time as others. The baseball schedule is released for the year way before football is so unless the NFL decides to release a schedule set in stone before the current year is even done, they can not reserve dates before the MLB sets its schedule. Its happened here in Cincinnati in the past. The Bengals had to move start times of games due to Reds games. The NFL can move the game to Wed and Holiday be damned just like they tell all the Christians on Christmas. Or they can play the game sunday.

The Orioles also can tell the Ravens to pound sand. There are more issues playing Double Headers then some of you idiots realize. Pitchers are on 5 day rotations. What happens when you play 2 games on the same day? Oh thats right that just messed up the entire rest rotation for the team. This is why MLB does everything they can to avoid Double Headers.

MLB owes the NFL jack and crap. This is the NFL’s problem and its up to them to move the game into a time slot that doesn’t affect the Orioles.

By: skinsrollyou

skinsrollyou — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:33:58 +0000

Buck is taking the birds to the world series baby!

By: flyeredup

flyeredup — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:16:29 +0000

The Orioles will be 42 games out of first by September.