Moose Milligan

No...no, no, no. Guys, read up on what an at-will state is. Not just for this KB situation but for your own benefit, too. It's stuff like this that keeps good people at bad companies with bad management because they're too afraid to make a move. John Angelos can't do dick here.

Calm down, I was giving you a hard time. I'm telling you that I don't think there's anything that JA could do to make it hard for KB to peace out and go find new employment. First, Maryland is an at-will state. The employer or the employee can terminate with or without cause and with or without notice. Second, KB most likely doesn't have any specific trade secrets from the Orioles that he could go to, say, the Miami Marlins and damage the Orioles brand while broadcasting from Miami. It's not as if he's a salesman who's threatening to take his book of business, relationships and deals from his current employer to a competitor. There's nothing that John Angelos can do.

Non-competes are pretty much jerk-off clauses designed to intimidate people from leaving their job and working elsewhere. Clearly, you fall into that category. They're usually not upheld in court. There are non-disclosure agreements which are in place to prevent people from sharing private company information, but that's about it. While I've made my opinions about his PBP duties known, he's a class act and in no way deserved what happened to him. While his tweet tries to deflect some of the attention and he's putting on a good face for the public, I don't believe for a minute that he sticks around here into next season. Someone will come through with an offer to blow him away. This whole situation is probably the best thing that could have happened to his career.

After shadow banning him for 2+ weeks?

Fairly confident that he'd have found a new gig. People like him.

Oh look, another Frazier thread.

A buddy of mine who is a Yankees fan had the nerve to text me last night with a link to some KB stuff along with something like "I knew they were going to screw their season up somehow." All I did was take a picture of the standings and highlighted where the Orioles are and where the Yankees are and sent it back to him with "Not as bad as the Yankees have screwed up theirs."

This is gonna hurt. Do they know that there’s a new King Felix?

The grid today sucks. All NL Teams and Marlins/D'backs in there. No awards or number thresholds. I've got 3 so far, but it's been a struggle.

Yankees subreddit though! They must always get what they want over there.

Someone wanna tell mr splash, er, Batman here again how agents work? Or how Boras has clients that are playing for a lot of different teams?

The obsession with “the model” the Orioles are supposedly going to choose is one of the stranger obsessions on here. It’s my hope that Elias does whatever he thinks is in the best interest of the franchise no matter what. In that light, there are no models.

I didn’t say you were wrong. I just said the horse is dead. I hope you don’t think you’re original by pointing to the A’s and Rays as evidence, too.

The “Orioles will never win anything until they spend money” horse has been beaten into a bloody, unrecognizable pulp.

Whew, precious streak intact.

Thanks for breaking down how translation works, Dave. Appreciate it.

And some of you guys wonder why Bautista makes me nervous. If you didn't understand after game 1 of this series and if you don't get it now, I don't know what to tell you.

Do they still do this cheesedick intro during day games? I suppose so.

We need like 5 more runs.

OF COURSE. Of course. Cano is pretty useless lately.

Isn't every day a good day for a quality start, Dave?

You are! Positive Firestone today!

SWAMP DONKEY

Dave Johnson talking about how Adley doesn't work a count makes me wonder if if Dave Johnson has ever seen Adley play.

You can't walk a guy like Singleton. IIRC, they did in game 1 and it lead to some ****ery. That's a guy you gotta get out.