Originally Posted by TWA4Ever
There is no professional baseball team with the name "O's" (and why is it possessive, anyway?) either in their articles of incorporation or their contract with Major League Baseball. If you pursue the conclusion of shortening the name of the Baltimore baseball team, then when they play the Tigers, are they playing the T's? And when they play the Twins, are they playing the T's again? How about the Angels and the Athletics? Are they playing the A's both times? Rangers and Red Sox? R's??
What about when they play the Blue Jays?
Just call them Baltimore. That is the city they play in. That is the city they represent. Though they have, for some reason, been embarrassed to wear that name on their uniform for decades.
And, Analise, I have lived in Northern VA for 12 years. I went to my first major league game (a doubleheader vs Pittsburgh) at Ebbets Field. I have gone to the ballpark in Baltimore to see the "Y's" bash them at least a dozen times.
The Orioles haven't worn "Baltimore" on their away jerseys since some marketing genius decided that referencing Baltimore was far too limiting when stitching "Orioles" on the uniforms would allow the team to call the entire Washington-Baltimore region home. Much like Peter Angelos fearing that the move of the Expos to Washington would impact his revenues. I guess times haven't changed all that much.
You do realize that the media and even the team happily refers to the club as the O's, right? It's interchangable with "Orioles".
Oh, and I would take the train from midtown Manhattan to Baltimore. Your overall travel time should be much shorter than getting from midtown to LGA and then from BWI to the Inner Harbor.