Tuesday, October 5, 2010

The Only Good Thing About Your City: Baltimore

We still making these? Cool, I guess.

Baltimore. Setting for one of the best TV shows of all time ("The Wire"). Home of two professional sports teams in the Ravens and Orioles. I've also got it on good authority that Baltimore has crabs.

National Football League (NFL)-
Baltimore Ravens- Going with the classic mantra of "one good deed deserves another" The Ravens were formed in 1996 after relocating from Cleveland (yeah, the Cleveland Browns didn't exist for three years, you can make the argument they still don't). Baltimore until the '96 season had been the hard luck case of the NFL after having the Colts leave them in the middle of the night in 1984. The Ravens are known mostly for their hard hitting defenses and their superbowl in in 2000 lead by Linebacker Ray Lewis and Running Back Jamal Lewis (their starting QB was Trent Dilfer, which proves that if anyone can win a super bowl if they have a future hall of fame running back behind them and all they really have to do is not fumble the snap and handoff). Also worth noting, RAY LEWIS STABBED AND KILLED A GUY.

Major League Baseball (MLB)-
Baltimore Orioles- Winners of three world series titles (most recently in 1983) The Orioles were once the team that had Cal Ripken Jr, they have since imploded into the worst team in the AL East. I mean, they're pretty bad, like, The Cleveland Show bad. They hired Buck Showalter as their manager before the all star break and managed them to a 31-21 record so, maybe, next season they'll just be mediocre rather than just outright bad.

There really would be more to this if I found either team the least bit interesting, but all I could really think about was making a bunch of Wire jokes and even those sounded bad when tied in with anything about the Ravens or Orioles.

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