You tell me what's worse, watching the Orioles lose or the Yankees (and their adorable fans) strutting out of town after handing the Birds their latest Yankee Spanky. It's a lethal combination for longtime Baltimore baseball fans. I guess we should be used to this annual event by now, but it still drives me crazy.

You think Peter Angelos owns the Orioles, wrong the Yankees own the Orioles. Only once in the last 20 years have the Orioles won the season series against the Steinbrenner's.

In 1997 Davey Johnson's Orioles won 8 of 12 against the Bronx Bombers. We should have had a parade because 1997 is the only time in the last 22 years the Orioles got the best of the Yankees.

When Camden Yards opened 20 years ago the Orioles called it home but the Yankees claimed it. The Yankees record at the Yard is 103-55, so they win over 65% of the games they play in Yankee Stadium south, and many like the last 2 extra innings wins are like dying a slow death for Oriole fans.

How bad is it, Mariano Rivera, who had 2 saves in the latest 3 game sweep, needs only 4 more saves to become Camden Yards all-time save leader, and that includes Orioles! The home team plays 81 games a year, Rivera plays 18 a year max at Camden Yards but he has 40 career saves in Baltimore the most ever by any player in a visiting ballpark.

If something special happened in Baltimore's downtown ballpark a Yankee likely did it.
Last game winning Home Run Nick Swisher on Wednesday night; he's also the last guy to hit a bomb onto Eutaw Street.

The last pinch hit grand slam belongs to Yankee catcher Jorge Posada. Yankee Mark Teixeira is the last opponent to hit 3 Home Runs in a game (he was a Ranger at the time).

Yankees Francisco Cervelli and Brett Gardner hit back to back Home Runs last year and the last opponents to go back-to-back-to-back…. funny you should ask how 'bout Yankees Robinson Cano-that Swisher guy again and Andruw Jones who hit three in a row in the lost summer of 2011.

Derek Jeter hit the last lead-off Home Run on Tuesday night and the last player to hit a walk-off Grand Slam at the yard would be the Yankees Alex Rodriguez. No that wasn't the night he had the 6 RBI game and it wasn't the night that the Yankees Danny Tartabull set the Camden Yards record with a 9 RBI game.

CC Sabathia has the best winning percentage in Camden Yards history (min. 10 starts)
He's 10-1 in Baltimore. Home and road C.C. is 16-2 against the Orioles the highest win percentage by any opponent since the Orioles came to Baltimore in 1954. And let's just say that returning Yankee Andy Pettitte traditionally beats the Orioles like a rented mule.

You get the picture the Yankees have had a lot of big nights in Baltimore. Walk-off home runs, bloopers that fall in, Oriole errors, shaky starters and bull pen meltdowns, some how some way the Yankees get fat in Baltimore. They love the old act on Broadway but it's damn depressing in Baltimore Hon.