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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.

I was at the Caravan today in Laurel with Cedric Mullins, Brandon Hyde, Chase McDermott, and Coby Mayo. All were very personable and pleasant to speak with. Everyone involved was very friendly.

I read this today and like you said not much new there. I was intrigued when I saw Peter Angelos picture on the front page of the WSJ. John may want to maintain control when Peter passes but I doubt he has much control on that. The fact that nothing like a sale will happen before Peter’s passing is really a no brainer. The Rubinstein information to me has to be more than just he wants to buy it and there is nothing else to it. Where there is smoke there is fire and there seems to be a lot of smoke.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

This $600 million into this stadium should make some pretty exciting updates. Kind of like having a new stadium with all the charm of the great footprint of this existing building.

It depends how the Orioles are owned. If they are in Peter and his wife jointly she can get half the stepped up basis.

Yes you can’t avoid the capital gains taxes if Peter Angelos sells or transfers his ownership while he is still alive.

Mike Elias could have reached out and said “Scott, how much would your client Gunnar be looking for to sign a long term deal?” Boras replies, .”Mike about $500 million over 8 years.” Thanks Scott I will inform ownership. Next phone call from Boras to Elias, “Mike any feedback from ownership,” Ownership is still considering the matter. Etc.

If he does I could care less. If he runs the team by offering competitive contracts to the home grown stars and adds a player or two in free agency that fills in needs that is all I care about. It is the owner’s right to maximize his profits.

He said he receives daily calls about his clients. Which was a joking answer to the question. He doesn’t say he has received contract offers. Gunnar says he isn’t aware of one. I believe Gunnar. JA isn’t offering any long term deals. Hopefully there will be new ownership sooner than later and this situation will change.