Talk about how the O's 2012 season really started on the last day of the 2011 season

( Gene Sweeney Jr.,The Baltimore Sun / September 28, 2011 )

As much fun as this season has been so far, the good times really started last Sept. 28. That's the night Robert Andino's RBI-single capped a two-run ninth inning that not only handed the despised Red Sox a 4-3 defeat, but pretty-much eliminated them from the playoffs (they were officially eliminated a few minutes later, when the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Yankees and secured the wild-card spot for themselves). A happier flock of birds hadn't been seen in these parts for years.