It will be just like this. But with beer.

Around this time next Thursday (October 2), the Orioles will be arriving at OPACY to prepare for the first game of the ALDS.

If you live in the New York City metro area, and don't have plans to travel down to Baltimore, I invite you to watch them play in my backyard in Brooklyn!!

We will be offering:

a (roughly) 16-foot by 9-foot HD projection of the game onto my neighbor's wall

stereo surround sound

hot dogs fresh from the Weber grill

a cooler full of beer and soda

popcorn and peanuts

a fired-up potbelly woodstove if it gets chilly

the finest lawnchairs you can buy from Target

relatively short bathroom lines

an external Orioles flag to help you find the building and taunt our Yankee-loving neighbors

an indoor television experience if the weather doesn't cooperate.

Start time is TBD, but should be roughly an hour before first pitch. If somehow the Thursday game gets scheduled for the afternoon (still waiting on MLB for this), we'll move the whole experience to Friday (I'm assuming that at least one of the two games will be an evening start).

Show of hands if you're coming, please! And while I'll do my best to keep this fanpost up to date, please also drop me an email at zknower {at} earthlink [dot] net with "backyard birds" in the subject line. This way, I have an easy way of sending you my address, which I don't want to put on the internets. (Plus, if there is a last-minute change, I can email everyone at once.)

We are located near the Gowanus Canal on the border of Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens. Closest subway is the F/G to Bergen or Carroll.

Hope to see you as we kick off the postseason—BROOKLYN STYLE, YO.

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