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The Orioles and probably no other team is signing that a__wipe Bauer. It is laughable to even keep bringing it up.

What doesn’t make sense to you? The fact that last year’s team won 101 games? Or that the pitching was pretty good? This is complete and utter nonsense. I suspect it was started by agents of Austin Hayes or Ryan Mountcastle. They have a right to be disappointed. Cowser can play left field on the is ball club. Hjerstead can play right field. Mullins will get most of the whole season if he stays healthy, I suspect Santander will be traded before the all star game.

Bottom of the order not so quiet in game 4.

It is the 4th game of the year.

Hyde pinch hit for Gunnar. This will be a popular decision here. LOL

I am pretty sure they didn’t want him to get booed. It would have been a bad look.

https://www.masnsports.com/blog/natty-boh-making-triumphant-return-to-camden-yards Roch has a nice breakdown of the local food available at Camden Yards this year. I was very excited to see Squires Pizza. I am a big fan but don’t get a chance to get to their place too much anymore. I highly recommend it. Any other suggestions on the other local flavors are welcomed.

Thanks

I am sorry but it doesn’t scream anything like that. This team won 101 games last year. There is no reason to trust the roster they have put together shouldn’t be just as good if not better. Holliday is 20 years old with very little AAA at bats. He will be up sooner or later. Westburg and Urias are major league quality players. Both things can be true that you can be concerned about wins and the make up of the roster in the short term and the long term. Holliday being on the opening day roster versus in May isn’t going to make the difference in whether they win the World Series or not.

RIP. You can't say he didn't have incredible timing. They announce a sale of the club just months before, say it will be finalized by opening day, and he leaves this world the Saturday before.

You are correct but I do like my cup of ice with it. Since I don’t drink alcohol it isn’t that expensive for me to drink soda at the ballpark.

I am team Pepsi guy all the way. However, I can resume buying a Pepsi outside the stadium and carrying it in the ballpark as I did when Coke was served before. If this is the worse decision made by management during the off season I am ok with it!!

I listened to one inning today on the radio of the newest broadcaster, Ben Wagner, and thought he was real good. Welcome to Baltimore Ben.

It certainly does but I will say the change in ownership is as much of a motivating factor for the extreme interest in season tickets. Trading for Burnes also hasn’t hurt.

Yes agreed this just doesn’t make much sense. To be generous you are talking about $300-400 per day per person to send them to Florida. I don’t know how many people they need for these broadcasts but lets say 10 you are talking maybe $100K for them to be there a month. It is a bad look.

Well said Frobby. To put it another way it could have been worse. See Bob Irsay. For those who think the Angelos era was the worst in sports history aren’t old enough to remember Bob Irsay. I am glad they are gone but they didn’t do everything wrong especially the last 5 years.

Just to join in with the old guys on this thread. I was born in Oct 1959. My first memory of baseball was the 1966 World Series. From that point on until shortly after college in 1983 we were in just about every pennant race. I certainly took it for granted. My 36 year old who is a huge Oriole fan certainly has seen a different history than I did. I don’t know in this modern era if we can have as sustained success like that but I haven’t been this optimistic it could be pretty good for another good run.

It would have been very difficult for the Angelos to have paid the estate taxes and kept the Orioles in their family even if they wanted to. Add the fact that Baseball would still have had to approve the transfer from his estate to one of the family members which I don’t think they would have any stomach to do and the fact none of them have any other significant outside source of income other than the Orioles it seemed highly unlikely to ever stayed in their family. To say the least this looks like a real happy ending.

It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall today in the warehouse listing to the phones ring off the hook. I am sure they sold a few more season ticket packages than a normal Friday.

That is just not true. Angelos made that wrong assumption and didn’t return his agents calls for months. That is not hearsay but something I know for a fact. By the time they got back to his agent the Orioles had been dismantled and Mike felt it was better to go try to chase a ring. He never wanted to leave but Angelos thought he could get him cheap the second contract in a row.

You bet he has been vetted for quite a while now. Deals like this don’t happen with out much due dilegence from both sides. I suspect by opening day he will be in full control.

Rubenstein is a Duke graduate so not shocking Grant Hill would be involved. Grant is one of the real good guys.

Seems to me there is something else going on with MASN because why would Roch stop writing. To me if this was the same deal all he would say is he couldn’t comment on this and continue to write his daily articles.

He can try but he would have ZERO chance. You think MLB wants anything to do with anyone named Angelos any longer?

The big key is he has plenty of income streams besides the Orioles. Unlike Angelos. He is buying an asset who’s foundation in their farm system has not been stronger than the 1970’s. Are they going to spend like the Dodgers? No, but they don’t have to. I just want them to retain their developed good players and throw in a good free agent for a place of need. They are probably not going to buy the top free agent like a Ohtani but again they don’t need to. The Orioles haven’t really had a decent owner since Hoffberger when the game was very different. Edward Bennett Williams by the end of his tenure facing his mortallity and was making decisions against a clock. Jacobs buys the club based on his Real Estate fortune that collapsed soon after he took over because of the real estate market evaporating. Angelos buys them out of bankruptcy and he does spend some money but makes decisions like he knew something about running a baseball team. He never let baseball people run or build an organization. Then for the last 5 years he has been incapacitated and his outside source of income dried up. His son runs it like a $1 store. This may become the best of times ahead for this franchise.