Well on our last vacation we and several thousand other members of Red Sox nation went to Camden Yards to watch the Red Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles.  Great game, too bad we lost 2 of 3 (damn Gagne).  Anyways, for those who haven’t been Camden Yards is a beautiful ballpark.  Great views and very accommodating.  What stood out most, besides blowing a 3-1 lead, was the Cal Ripken Jr tribute that was played on the big screen in between one inning.  What stood out was one clip they had of Cal when he said something like the following:

“What is the best thing about being remembered.  Isn’t being remembered enough?”

The guy seems to be a truly class act.

 An aside.  It was really nice to Kevin Millar stick it to the Sox that Sunday.  If anyone has to do it, I’m glad it was him.

Carl Ripken Jr. was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend.  MLB.com did a nice summary of his speech.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070729&content_id=2117722&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Every baseball player today should be forced to watch or read his speech.  For that matter any pro or amateur athlete should too.