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>> OBVIOUSLY, IN TALKING SPORTS WE'RE NOT TALKING LIFE AND DEATH, WE UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUS SITUATION OUR COUNTRY FACES, BUT STILL, YESTERDAY IT HURT, SUPPOSED TO BE OPENING DAY, DIDN'T HAPPEN WE DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WILL. BUT THE OR-YEAR-OLDS STILL FOUND A WAY -- ORIOLES WORKED TO FIND A WAY TO CONNECT WITH THE FANS THANKS TO THE ANNOUNCER, RYE YARN WAGNER. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. >> THE VOICE OF CITY FIELD FOR THE METS. >> WHO IS THE GRANDSON OF HOWARD COSELL, RYAN WANTED TO ENGAGE WITH FANS WHO SO DESPERATELY MISSED THEIR ORIOLES. HE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARKE. >> YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, NUMBER 25, MAKDOX. >> IT TOOK OFF IN A WAY, I DON'T THINK WE ANTICIPATED. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ADDED THE VIDEO COMPONENT. MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF CABIN FEVER SETTING IN PEOPLE BEING STUCK AT HOME AND RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO DO. >> ALL DAY LONG THURSDAY, HE CALLED THE VIDEOS FANS PROVIDED. MORE THAN 70 OF THEM. THE RESPONSE WAS ALMOST OVERWHELMING. >> IT WAS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DAY, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS MORE THAN THREE OR FOUR-MINUTES THAT WENT BY WE DIDN'T HAVE SOME TYPE OF INTERACTION. >> A VIRTUAL DAY OF FUN HE HOPES HE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO AGAIN SOON. >> THE ANSWER IS NO, I HOPE WE YET BACK TO BASEBALL IN A FEW WEEKS. I DON'T THINK THAT IS TERRIBLY UNREALISTIC. TECHNOLOGY NOW IS WE ARE ABLE TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. >> NOW IT IS MY TURN. YOUR ATTENTION, PLEASE, ANGELA, NOW BATTING FOR THE ORIOLES, A ONE-TEAM BACK UP CATCHER AT WOODFIELD, ELEMENTARY, NUMBER 11, PLEASE WELCOME -- >> PETE GILBERT, WBAL, TV 11 SPORTS. >> PETE ALW

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