Birthday Wishlist
I just turned 25 and I thank you for the energetic HAPPY BIRTHDAY you all just mentally gave me.
However, it got me thinking, now I am half way to 50 what in my personal world of sports (that I follow so sorry NBA fans and NHL guys I would be lying if I said I paid attention) has gone on since July 24th 1987?
Here are some answers I found out.
For my beloved Orioles: they have 0 World Series wins, 2 playoff appearances, and 12 different managers. Oh yeah, and at some point in my life DC got a baseball team I heard.
For the Redskins: Super Bowl wins….1 (I was born in July remember that), 8 different head coaches and 9 if you count Gibbs 2.0, and 24 different starting QBs. Looking up all this stuff raised another question in my mind, how in the world do I even like sports? Look at those numbers again – it’s just depressing. Because I am a glass half full kind of guy, I decided that after a good long cry I would never look at those numbers again and look forward to the future at what could happen in the next 25 years, and I came up with sort of a wish list that either the Redskins or Orioles can make come true whenever they see fit.
Redskins:
- Get to a Super Bowl. I am not a greedy person just get there and give me two weeks of non stop Skins talks on sports channels.
- This one is to RGIII….please be good. I have never had a QB and frankly I want to know what its like.
- Play one game at RFK. Just one. I never got to feel it shake in the glory days and I want that.
- Have at least one dollar beer Sunday Funday at FedEx. This is a long shot but a guy can dream.
- If Dan Snyder happens to sell the team that may be a perk.
- Put something…anything that is associated with the Redskins in the actual city of DC.
- Let’s draft some more people in the next 25 years huh? I love the NFL draft. I would love it more if my team participated in it.
- More touchdowns because that means more Papa Johns Monday toppings.
- Establish an identity of some kind. The Steelers have been the same team since 1970 and it’s worked out for them.
- Beat the other NFC East teams more then they beat us.
Orioles:
- Get to the playoffs. If you happen to meet the Yanks there and happen to beat them and Matt Weiters (who will play for the next 25 years) happens to hit a home run that some little 12 year old Orioles fan pulls over the wall, who happens to be my son before the outfielder to catch it, then I would die a happy man.
- Find an Ace. I am hoping its Dylan Bundy.
- Get Jim Palmer out of the broadcast booth. He is awful and I can no long listen to him reference himself as if he can still pitch.
- Once the MASN deal runs out, bring back HTS. More Sports Your Sports….HTS!
- Never build a new stadium…..EVER.
- Rebuild the farm system because minus 2 players it’s awful.
- Drop my name down on the Warehouse as if it were Cals 2131. Once again a long shot but a guy can dream.
- Don’t go back to the old hats ever again, stick with the cartoon bird.
- Spend some money to get a big free agent. Going to have to over pay a bit because you have sucked since 1983 other then two seasons, but still shell out some cash.
- Make sure Rafael Palmeiro has no affiliation with the team what so ever and block his face out during all Orioles Classics games shown on MASN.
Sports have a way of getting inside us and being part of our every day lives, so no matter how old someone is they have dreams for their respective teams.
I just hope my next 25 years are better, because frankly they have been a nightmare not a dream.
6 Comments
Nice but sad read unfortunately. I’m 33, my parents came to dc in 78 for work, I was born 6 months later. I feel your pain, maybe even more so than you. I remember the redskins winning 3 superbowls, though the first one I was 4 and I barely remember that but I do remember those players. It’s definitely a sad tale this sports town in the last 20 years and if you throw in the wizards it gets even more sad. How these franchises have all made bonehead decisions over the last 20 years is beyond me. Always chasing the quick fix and never having a long term plan and yes, I’m talking to Gibbs as well. All of them passed on chances to become great, they had it there. Trading Stan Humphries who took the chargers to the Super Bowl was a big mistake. Inheriting a playoff team in 99 and blowing it up a mistake. Firing Marty (mistake) we could have been the chargers of the 2000s that he built. Not investing the OL for what seems like 20 years till this draft, mistake. Trading for Mark Brunnell (mistske in long term thinking) and cap wise. Drafting the wrong Rogers in 2005 (mistake!) should have drafted the one with the D in his name that plays in Green Bay, maybe you’ve heard of him?
I still think trading away Jason Campbell was a mistake. He was just starting to get it and all he needed was a team like we have now around him. Let’s face it the team he took over in 07 was Brunnells old a$$ team that was falling apart and did in 09. Campbell got blamed. All the free agents we signed, most were mistakes, especially #92. We could have gotten 3 or 4 players and had a better team with that money.
Trading for McNabb and not keeping JC as a restricted FA to compete with Grossman was a huge mistake and trading for Jamaal Brown. We’ll never have those 4 draft picks back that we lost there for our future. I admit I wanted McNabb when we got him, but I didn’t think we’d boot him after one freaking year. If that was the plan, then ShanAllen shouldn’t have made the deal to begin with and should have kept Jason to see what happened in 2010 with him.
That does finally bring us to today though and hopefully brighter days are ahead with the drafting of Griffin and actual signing of WRs to help out our Yiung qb. Something we failed in with Ramsey and Campbell or at least we didn’t do the right things with the wrs we signed or drafted or we drafted the wrong guys. Pretty clear today though that Brandon Lloyd is one heck of a wr and Gibbs and company handled him wrong.
Anyways I’m exited about all dc sports as even the orioles right now(I still have a little soft spot for them). We made the right make trading up for Griffin. Had to do it or at least the shanahans had to because right now their record is worse than Zorns.
Side note…checked out your forums. Good stuff! How long have the forums been around?
It’s not my forum, I found it in 2000 while in computer class and became addicted. Had to change my forum name Once because I wasn’t active for like a year but Sean Taylor’s death brought me back in 07 and I’m addicted. Lol
Thanks for the comment!
I think things are finally starting to turn the corner (hopefully). Harper/Strasburg in DC and the Nats are rolling and have a dominant pitching staff.
Shanny seems to have a plan in building lines, and RGIII could be legit.
The Caps are still a contender, and just need to get over the hump.
The Wizards….well the Wizards at least seem to be trying to build a playoff team. Still remains to be seen.
I am excited for the next few years in DC sports though…that is for sure.
Don’t forget about the day that Orioles fans can rejoice. When Peter Angelos no longer has any connection or power with the team.
You have two Super Bowl wins – the first was against Denver in the 87/88 season – http://www.thehogs.net/History/SBs/SuperBowlXXII.html. Watching the Ravens tonight, I’m finding it difficult to be an O’s/Redskins fan!