Melanie Newman

I did not.

I think that's the first birthday that I have not been at a ball field since I was probably 17.

So that's not usual for me to get to have off.

But this will actually be my first series of the Orioles three opponent homestand.

So kind of excited that we get to dive back in with the Jays matchup.

That was so funny enough.

That did also line up for my birthday last year.

And the minute that it popped up on the calendar, I was super bummed.

But we have another one coming up in about two weeks when the Orioles return home again.

Pete Alonso has been so good about wanting to really partner with a couple of our local shelters.

So I will be making up for lost time with dogs.

I mean, first of all, I love that you were already diving into just the fact that it's almost absurd that everybody is still in it right now.

This is not the way that we expected the ALEs to look this year.

But I think everybody's going to take certainly a very, very big gift horse right now to be able to say that.

And I think in particular, if Jays fans want to look at

What has not gone right for Baltimore?

Go back and look at actually their last Tampa series in Tampa just a week ago, because that is exactly what we were seeing for those first six, seven weeks of the season was every time they put a piece together that hadn't really been working previously.

Another one that had been fine would fall apart.

So we saw it game one.

The starter just was not there.