The Baltimore Orioles may have not have gotten a lot of respect in the past decade because of their win-loss record; however, the team and their immaculate home — Oriole Park at Camden Yards — became a topic of conversation during the sometimes-heated-but-done-for-show Sonia Sotomayor hearings in Washington D.C. to become the nect Supreme Court justice.
A transcript:
Cardin: “You are a hero to the Baltimore baseball fans. Let me explain. [During] the Major League Baseball strike [of 1994-95], you allowed the season to continue [without the use of replacement players] so Cal Ripken could become the Iron Man of baseall in September 1995. We just want to invite you, as a baseball fan, to an Oriole game, and we promise it will not be when the Yankees are playing, so you can root for the Baltimore Orioles.”
Sotomayor: “That’s a great invitaition … You can assure your Baltimore fans that we have been to Camden Yards. It’s a beautiful stadium.”
(thanks to the Washington Post’s Baseball Insider)
For those of you who didn’t know, Sonia Sotomayor has a huge role in stopping the last MLB labor strike. ** She issued the preliminary injunction against Major League Baseball, preventing it from unilaterally implementing a new collective bargaining agreement and using replacement players. Sotomayor’s ruling ended the 1994 baseball strike after 232 days, the day before the new season was scheduled to begin. The Second Circuit upheld Sotomayor’s decision and denied the owners’ request to stay the ruling.
** — from Wikipedia.
