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    Kyle Goon: With poorly timed ticketing changes, the Orioles have ruffled the feathers of their most loyal fans
    Amid a dismal season after a trade deadline sell-off, the Orioles have announced season ticket program changes that will push more fans to commit to more games or lose their privileges. It has curdled some of the team’s most loyal buyers, who wonder what good all their dollars are doing.
    The scoreboard encourages fans to get loud during a game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Md. on Friday, May 30, 2025.
    Letter: When the student becomes the teacher
    Kerry Graham doesn't have kids, but feels like a grandma now that her former students are becoming teachers and have students of their own.
    Snapshot of Baltimore summer at Riverside Pool
    Baltimore City’s Recreation and Parks Department operates 19 public pools through the city — all accessible for free by signing up for a BCRP Civic Rec account.
    Riverside Pool on a summer Saturday.
    Jon Meoli: Cedric Mullins’ departure illustrates one of the Orioles’ greatest challenges, and so does its timing
    Adam Jones’ six-year, $85.5 million extension in May 2012 was the last the Orioles signed to keep a young player from reaching free agency.
    Cedric Mullins left Baltimore with a .744 OPS, 101 home runs and 139 stolen bases in 784 games.
    Jon Meoli: Colton Cowser’s search for his approach carries outsize importance for the Orioles
    Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser completes his special handshake with strength coach Trey Wiedman before a game at Camden Yards last month.
    Kamala Harris doesn’t owe us anything
    Kamala Harris wants to fight tyranny from outside an elected office, but that's not good enough for some people.
    Former Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed by Stephen Colbert on the July 31 episode of "The Late Show."
    Kyle Goon: It’s time for O’s young stars to prove they are who they were supposed to be
    It's time for Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Jordan Westburg, Jackson Holliday and Colton Cowser to prove they are who they were supposed to be.
    Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday and shortstop Gunnar Henderson leave a Grapefruit League game against the Detroit Tigers in February.
    Feud between Anne Arundel judges heads toward finale. Unfortunately, they dragged me into it.
    The two-year feud between two Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges heads toward a denouement this month, when a disciplinary commission considers complaints against one of them. Unfortunately, they dragged me into this.
    The sign outside an obscure office building near Annapolis points toward the Anne Arundel County Orphans Court.
    My vacation threw off my healthy eating. Here’s how to get back on track.
    After eating healthier, I had a little too much fun with food in New Orleans. A registered dietitian explains how to get back on track after a vacation.
    Illustration of feet on a weighing scale surrounded by various fruits symbolizing health and diet
    Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ pitching moves over the last year illustrate their singular challenge
    The margins are too fine for this team to traffic in anything other than the highest-caliber arms available.
    The Orioles acquired Trevor Rogers at the 2024 trade deadline, and he looks like a major part of their plans in 2026.
    There’s a body in the Inner Harbor, and other reminders that life is unpleasant
    The discovery of a body at the end of Pier 4 is not a cause for mirth, despite wry comments about water quality and swimming. It is a reminder that the Chesapeake Bay is a place where life sometimes ends.
    Baltimore City Fire and the Baltimore City Police Underwater Recovery Team work to pull a Silver Cab from the Inner Harbor on Thursday, July 24, 2025.
    Jon Meoli: The Savannah Bananas give Camden Yards the life it deserves
    Put aside the dances and songs and the nonstop spectacle and the bananas — so many bananas. It was vibrant. It was nonstop fun. And it was full.
    Members of the Savannah Bananas pose for a photo ahead of Friday’s game against The Firefighters at Camden Yards.
    Kyle Goon: With deadline deals, Mike Elias is asking for faith in 2026 he hasn’t earned
    The Orioles traded nine big leaguers for 16 prospects, all in the minors. It doesn't set them up for a successful 2026, unless you believe the front office is going to surprise us all this offseason.
    A sparse crowd watches Orioles starter Dean Kremer pitch during Wednesday’s game at Camden Yards.
    All wars end. Then there’s Market House in Annapolis.
    For such a small building, the Market House in Annapolis contains a big history of fighting. It was the first fight of Mayor Gavin Buckley's administration, and here at the end eight years later, it looks like it might be the last.
    Willie Hughes serves up drinks to a bar full of late lunchers at the Market House. He's been working there for a year after moving to Annapolis from Iowa.
    Jon Meoli: Making sense of a massive Orioles deadline sell-off
    Center fielder Cedric Mullins and first baseman Ryan O'Hearn cross paths Wednesday during the eighth inning of their final game with the Orioles.
    Kyle Goon: Getting a WNBA expansion team to Baltimore is a big dream. But here’s what it would take.
    Let’s imagine a world where our resources and alignment match our hunger for WNBA basketball in Baltimore City.
    FILE - Chicago Sky's Angel Reese looks to pass during the team's WNBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
    Jon Meoli: The Orioles’ pre-deadline homestand, with hot bats and bullpen turmoil, is what this stretch run will look like
    Jordan Westburg, right, and Gunnar Henderson had a strong homestand as the Orioles offense showed a return to form.
    Would-be saviors of Pimlico’s lost barns aren’t ready to call it quits
    It’s never easy being Don Quixote, the mad Spanish knight who tilted at windmills aboard his noble nag, Rocinante.
    Demolition crews got started Thursday at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore, starting with the barns along Winner Avenue. Work was expected to be finished by the end of July.
    I’ve been widowed for 10 years. This is what his death taught me about life.
    Grief, faith, time and therapy have taught me it’s OK to be OK, or even really good, just as much as it was OK not to be OK in the thick of mourning my late husband.
    Columnist Leslie Streeter with her late husband Scott Zervitz on their wedding day in 2010 in Palm Beach, Fla.
    Kyle Goon: With an uncertain Orioles future, Cedric Mullins feels fans’ love in throwback performance
    Cedric Mullins made franchise history, becoming the third Oriole to hit 100 career home runs and steal 100 career bases. Even as he nears the possible end of his time with the Orioles, fans’ appreciation of him is peaking.
    Cedric Mullins hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning Saturday night to become just the third player to reach 100 home runs and steal 100 bases for the Orioles.
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