Angelos declined Ripken's offer to join team

[VeveJones007]

****ing ****!!!

[Dwight Schrute]

[Avsfan]

[Camden_yardbird]

Someone should tell Angelos that the team actually needs to return to prominence before credit can be had for them actually doing it.

And he needs to take every step possible to make that happen. If that means hiring Ripken, it needs to happen.

[dslats715]

Agreed. I mean, if you could think of something lower than where we're at right now, you could think of something like...Wieters breaking an arm, Nick tearing up his knee, Matusz blowing out his arm...

But I don't think ANYONE could have thought of something like this.

This is just going to toss more gasoline on an already massive fire. MacPhail apparently was ok with it. Angelos kiboshes it. Not only did he trump a MacPhail decision, but that decision involved Cal Ripken Jr, Iron Man.

[PrivateO]

Agreed. I mean, if you could think of something lower than where we're at right now, you could think of something like...Wieters breaking an arm, Nick tearing up his knee, Matusz blowing out his arm...

But I don't think ANYONE could have thought of something like this.

Exactly. I am literally in shock by this, as over the past few years, I had really high hopes that Angelos had indeed given MacPhail full reign on all baseball decisions for the Orioles.

Not only is this just a completely insane move, but you disrespect the fans, and even more so, you disrespect Cal Ripken. He was always supposed to be the hero of the Orioles. His group would come in, buy the team, and win.

If true (and I will still hold out some hope for it to not be), this was one of the biggest blunders in terms of PR and baseball decisions for this team.

[Sports Guy]

Agreed. I mean, if you could think of something lower than where we're at right now, you could think of something like...Wieters breaking an arm, Nick tearing up his knee, Matusz blowing out his arm...

But I don't think ANYONE could have thought of something like this.

Yep...If this is true, this is the worse possible scenario for the Orioles.

First of all, it shows AM doesn't have total control.

Secondly, they are really going to get slammed nationally.

And lastly, it is going to push more and more fans away.

[Big Mac]

Sometimes I think Angelos makes Stalin look like a reasonable guy...

[BarclaySouthway]

According to 3 sources. Good Lord, there's gonna be a fan revolt.

I don't think Cal or, god forbid, Rick Dempsey is gonna work some kind of miracle with these guys, but it can't hurt having Cal around. I severely underestimated Angelos' ego here. He's a sociopath.

For all the talk about what the Os need to do to improve, could it possibly as simple as PA's ultimate passing?

I think I'm leaning that way.

[berto]

Wow. I don't know what to say. If true, this is just terrible and I am salty about it. Didn't think we could sink any lower than we already. This couldn't come have come out at a worse time.

[dslats715]

According to 3 sources. Good Lord, there's gonna be a fan revolt.

I don't think Cal or, god forbid, Rick Dempsey is gonna work some kind of miracle with these guys, but it can't hurt having Cal around. I severely underestimated Angelos' ego here. He's a sociopath.

For all the talk about what the Os need to do to improve, could it possibly as simple as PA's ultimate passing?

I think I'm leaning that way.

I hate Ego above all things. For someone to turn down a legend/fan favorite, purely because he may "steal" credit if the team returns to glory is just despicable.

[The Wedge]

A guy like Rosenthal doesn't get to the position that he's at (like it or not) by getting crap info from bad sources. Leave that to the guys like Pro Football Talk and stuff like that...those are the examples of bad sports reporting.

Of course he doesn't, but that doesn't mean that one his sources can't take advantage of that, either. I'm not saying I can't or won't believe this, it's entirely plausible, but there are parts of it that seems odd, or maybe taken out of context. Like, the part about Angelos not wanting Ripken to possibly be seen as a scapegoat seems likely, and maybe he said something that sort of said that along with a comment about his getting credit, and it got misconstrued...that sort of thing.

It really could go either way, but like I said, either way, this is pitchfork and torches stuff.

[dslats715]

Of course he doesn't, but that doesn't mean that one his sources can't take advantage of that, either. I'm not saying I can't or won't believe this, it's entirely plausible, but there are parts of it that seems odd, or maybe taken out of context. Like, the part about Angelos not wanting Ripken to possibly be seen as a scapegoat seems likely, and maybe he said something that sort of said that along with a comment about his getting credit, and it got misconstrued...that sort of thing.

It really could go either way, but like I said, either way, this is pitchfork and torches stuff.

Losses had me depressed, but stuff like this turns up the anger.

Just want the team to succeed so much, and reading crap like this is just brutal.

[Avsfan]

Rosenthal and Angelos are like Seinfeld and Newman...


I can see Ken in the news room...."OOOOHHHH ME! ME! PICK ME! LET ME WRITE ABOUT IT!"

[Fist Bump]

Yep...If this is true, this is the worse possible scenario for the Orioles

It could get worse. Cal could accept a job from the Yanks.