PLENTY OF ROOM FOR FANS TO NEST AT ORIOLES PARK

I know it’s early in the baseball season and MLB ballparks are not as full on a spring weeknight as they will be on a weekend, or even more so, once summer is in full swing. But, is there any reason that the wonderful setting for baseball in Baltimore, Orioles Park at Camden Yards, had just 9,129 people in attendance for a Monday night game this week against Eastern Division rival Tampa Bay?

Folks, there were 9,129 people rattling around in a stadium that holds 48,262. Elementary math tells me that’s 39,133 empty seats for a game that was played on a comfortable 60-degree spring evening. Is that an indictment of the Orioles, the lack of a draw in the person of the opposing Rays, or both? That's awfully sad for a baseball-rich city like Baltimore to have less than a 5-digit attendance figure for any game.