TradeAngelos

You now there was someone who has been saying this was going on for the past like 20 years, only to be talked down to like he was crazy. Over and over and over again. Year after year after year. Wonder who that was? Angelos family pocketed a cool extra 500m over the last 5 years, and then took the money and ran away as fast as they could (trying for ANOTHER 600M on the way out!!) Gotta love it right guys!! He just kept spitting right in the fans faces and told you all it was raining, and (most of) you bought it hook line and sinker. But hey he threw a few million into the DR so that makes it all better. Pocket change for this scumbag, but it worked! Look at the "investments" he is making they all said!! The Orioles don't make any money. MASN never made a penny. And we should all just be happy with the scraps the Angelos family tossed outside to us. Anyone who thought otherwise was just an idiot.

Wish Hyde would have left him in but we surely didn't want his arm to fall off after 82 pitches. He could have put his feet up and still struck out the side that is how easy it was today.

The name has already been chosen. Someone here mentioned it right after the sale in one of those threads, and I have claimed it as my own.

I will oblige when the paperwork is finished and it is official.

Seems like the time to get this done was before the season started. I doubt anything of this magnitude would happen in season, although I would obviously welcome it.

It was a very long and arduous process. You have to get it on the desk of the big man and hope he finds the kindness in his heart to oblige. But it was all worth it. I, too, did not want to be labeled a scoundrel by my username anymore.

108 wins. It's the Rubenstein Effect.

Despite the gloomy weather, the sun is shining bright behind those clouds in Birdland on this glorious day. I have been waiting for this moment for over 2 decades. I never thought this day would come, but our new owner has my absolute unwavering support. Any slander of this great man will not be tolerated. He can do no wrong, and is responsible for saving baseball in this city. I know these things take time, but I hope the upper management at OH will expedite my request in a timely fashion. The pitchfork is in the dumpster, and the pom poms have replaced it. I truly believe he is the missing piece this franchise has been looking for, and will take us to the promised land eventually. Let's go O's.

It's the new OWNER not the TRADE that makes people think hey maybe we aren't going to be 29th in payroll anymore! Maybe you can get that through your thick skull, but probably not after reading 5 pages of this stuff. I have never heard such complete nonsense from one person. On and on and on oh yeah we just going to be throwing money all over the place!!! No one EVER said anything of the sort, but you have to make s#$%^ up to try to back up your ridiculous arguments that are based on absolutely nothing that almost no one agrees with. We get it, you think the payroll should stay at 100m forever, and ANYTHING above that is just not even worth entertaining because it will never happen. You must be fun at parties. I and most of this fanbase are going to choose to believe that maybe....just maybe a new owner will actually not steal money from the fanbase anymore, and maybe just sign ONE premium pitcher, not go on a wild west spending spree that will never end! I'm just so glad you are here to keep us all in line and make us realize that absolutely nothing has changed, when in fact everything has changed.

I expect league average at a minimum. With all the young talent we have for dirt cheap that puts us in a position to win a WS every year for the next 4. Is that too much to ask? Are we running at a loss at league average? Normally I would use all the money that "hasn't" been spent in last 5 yrs as leverage for more, but we know that last owner just stole all that money and it is gone now. Johnny isn't as dumb as we all thought, he hoarded hundreds of millions of cash over last 5 yrs and then took off and ran with it.

I'm as happy as it gets right now. Funny you have to claim otherwise. The beautiful part about this ownership transition is how every single know it all about what this team and market can afford is going to be blown straight out of the water in the coming years, and all the delusional homers who bought into this small market nonsense are going to look foolish. That's why you hate people like me, because we are going to be proved correct while you are are going to be proven wrong. Sit back and watch. You see this is an actual good thing if you can put your ego aside and admit what some of us have known all along. You just wanted to believe so so much.

Couldn't agree more. That is why it is so frustrating to read this stuff. We have never been a small market team, but this fanbase has been beaten into submission over and over again by former ownership so bad they just can't wrap their head around this. I hope they prepare themselves for what is coming, they might have a nervous breakdown if we actually start spending at the ......middle of the pack level.

I'm not brilliant I just haven't been brainwashed like you all apparently have been. And beaten into payroll submission with scars that might never go away. I know you are perfectly fine with (still) living in total fear due to what your captor has done to you over the past 30 years, but I am not.

There were reports that all (major) spending was frozen until deal went through. I think what we saw in the 48hrs afterwards lends credibility to that notion.

Committed to running 150m payrolls?.....it's not 2015 anymore. That would still be below league average (in 2024 that is). The question should be if they are committed to running 200m payrolls, not 150m. 200m in 2025 and beyond will still only be 12-14th overall. It's like this fanbase has been in a payroll coma for a decade and just woke up. Wait how much do players cost now? And these teams are spending how much?? Wow! So much has changed.

At least one person gets it. Maybe the other 500 around here will get it one day.

Hope he doesn't cut that lettuce let it flow baby, let it flow.

Angelos has absolutely ruined this fanbase. The damage will be felt for years to come. Some might never recover.

He was arguably the best pitcher in baseball in 2021.

A whole 100m payroll?? All the way up to 24th overall!! Definitely no headroom left. God this is going to be a long process with this fanbase. It's going to drive me nuts.

I was told his numbers were "declining". Guess not.

You can still get 15-1 for them to win it all if you act quick.

Signing a #1 pitcher to a market rate deal does not mean it is raining money, or we are putting ourselves in a bad financial situation. That is what teams trying t win a championship d all the time. I know it is an unfamiliar position to be in, but if we are trying to win it all these are the moves that need to be made. We could afford TWO of him and still wouldn't have a league average payroll. We have all our young players dirt cheap for 4-5 more years, now is the time to actually be an "average" payroll team by adding top end starter(s). We have so much cheap talent to offset huge deals it is not funny. Let's start using it to do just that.

So you think a 30 yr old former Cy Young winner with a 1 whip is not getting a massive premium contract this offseason if he just doesn't implode? Declined from what? A Cy Young winner to just a normal TOR starter? Because all careers go in a perfect linear path with no ups or downs. If it ticks a tiny bit up at 30, it is a clear sign of impending disaster. WE HAVE MONEY NOW. We don't have to worry about not ever signing a FA again if in yr 6 or 7 the contract doesn't look great. Stop living in the past and recognize the future and where we are going with new ownership.

Offer him 6/210 extension, he is getting 35m on FA market easy. If you have to go to 7 years do it. Let's send a real message to everyone.