my "Opening Day" experience

greetings Free Advice gang,

as you all know, i was scheduled to join local media from the Pa. midstate and Md. area for Opening Day 2005 at Camden Yards.

however, the day got off to a bad start when i was called at 8:30 a.m. and told our credentials hadn't come in the mail. after a few calls, we learned (THE DAY OF THE FREAKIN GAME) that credentials aren't given to "small papers", and that "small papers" have to apply for credentials on a game-by-game basis.

As a result, we didn't go.

Amazing that on the four forms we had to fill out (beginning as early as January) to get credentials, not one of them said "small papers" had to apply for credentials on a game-by-game basis.

I do not have high regards for the Oriole front office at this point (considering that we talked to TEN different that morning, none of whom relayed the message of what we were calling about onto each other).

Oh well.

Later crew,

Pitz