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blid last won the day on March 27 2010

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    Cedric Mullins
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    Nick Markakis

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  1. I know there is debate about if he had consent and stuff like that and I don't want to get into those arguments, but as I understand it there is gopro footage of some of the stuff he did with women he rendered unconscious. I believe no team is going to go out on a limb signing him when there's a risk something like that could get leaked.
  2. Another reason Ledo Park would be funny is because Ledo Pizza is pretty polarizing. I know it has a lot of haters among my social circle, but fans also. I'm glad I have both gotten to live in Italy for a little while and eat pizza there, and that I ate at the original Ledo. I could always go back to Italy, but no one can ever go to the Ledo Restaurant at Adelphi again, so I think that's the higher honor!
  3. I absolutely love Ledo Park at Camden Yards. I like the pizza, it's a local chain, and it's absolutely absurd because they'd be more likely to sponsor a little league team
  4. The Macphail/Duquette years with Buck were good while it lasted. I got to go to a playoff win! We swept the Verlander/Scherzer/Price Tigers! That's not nothing. Some teams haven't had that kind of success that recently, and we're already back near the top. Oops. Some article I read the other day credited Angelos and I was too young to remember. I stand corrected!
  5. I always like the tricolor black back/white front with orange bill hat for the Orioles, so even though I prefer the cartoon bird I think this is a good look overall.
  6. I liked Peter Angelos in some ways. Local Baltimore guy through and through with some interesting pro-labor roots for an owner (I personally admired his refusal to field replacement players and thought it was cool when he brought the Cuban baseball team in to Baltimore). Plus, he was willing to actually spend at times and he was in charge when we got Camden Yards. Problem was, he meddled and the product on the field was always the worse for it as we all know. Then on the other hand you've got John Angelos, who was basically an embarrassment, but who at least let Mike Elias build up the team into one of its most promising positions ever.
  7. Don't like the sound of this. Seems less like a Baltimore kid wanting to own the team and see it win than a billionaire who wants the status of owning a team to go with the monetary appreciation sports franchises tend to have. Specifically says he won't be in it to lose money.
  8. At his age, he might want to spend right away...
  9. He's literally just reading off the team's recent record at the stadium they were currently visiting. There's petty, and then there's punishment over this is. Baffling? Deluded?
  10. I appreciate the tradition enough to not outright hate it or care too much, but it is so out of touch with the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland, it's bizarre.
  11. To offset losses and clear gambling debt from other bets. For gambling addicts the richer they are the more money they're going to play with. Even the very wealthy can get in trouble.
  12. Maybe... I don't know though. I see your point but if you don't trust the outcomes of games anymore to be legitimate you might quit watching. People love to righteously boycott things now. Players, managers, umpires all live in the same world we do. They are increasingly likely to have been exposed to gambling in their lives which will leak into the game.
  13. Why? It's happened before and it's always been a risk that it would happen again. That's why MLB took such a hard stance against the Black Sox and then Pete Rose. The massive proliferation of gambling is only going to compound the pressures that lead to this sort of thing, making it basically inevitable. Tim Donaghy is proof that yes this can and does still happen. Yes, it's actually pretty incredible how well the NBA swept that under the rug, since it likely was more widespread than just Donaghy, but I don't think any league could get away with something like that today with all the social media and general societal distrust.
  14. This is all well and good until you have a massive scandal that demolishes the integrity of the sport. It's only a matter of time.
  15. Sports gambling has advanced so rapidly...not that long ago you needed to find a bookie, or there were only certain places you could place a bet, and now not only is it available right at your fingertips over your phone, but there are nonstop ads for gambling everywhere you turn, in the stadium, on TV, online. Did you all see that little dust up Bradley Beal got into with some fans? They were screaming at him not because the Wizards lost a game but because they lost their bets. Things could get ugly when some gambler is losing their house, their marriage, etc and blaming a player for it. The casinos and apps must be taking a lot of people's money and ruining a lot of lives if they can afford all these ads and buy off all these state regulations. The MGM casino at National Harbor was the most expensive political campaign in Maryland history, dwarfing the governor's race. It's strange to me how wide gambling has gone with very little pushback.
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