A month of baseball has brought a lot of joy for those Orioles fans who really, really don't like the Yankees.
No one could ever hate any team in sports more than my 12-year-old self hated the Yankees. That was the year of Jeffrey Maier, forever shall his name be reviled. From that wrongly-called moment was born a loathing that burned with the fury of a thousand suns.
What can I say? It was a formative year and a formative sports experience. I believed then, and still believe now, that if not for that blown call, the Orioles would have gone on to win the World Series that year instead of the Yankees.