KBO sends letter to MLB, accuses the Orioles of breaking protocols

[Gurgi]

Now where are they gonna turn when the North invades? The RedSox wont save them. Everyone knows the Orioles fight best!

[DrungoHazewood]

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/19/the-koreans-are-really-serious-about-keeping-the-orioles-out/

Kind of hilarious.

How long does it take to print up some St. Louis Browns credentials?

[NCRaven]

Good for them. They've now banned the only team in Major League Baseball that cares even a little bit about players in the KBO. It's a good thing they don't allow the players to organize. If I played in the KBO, I'd be mightily pissed if the league banned the only team that had an interest in ever signing me.

[weams]

Now where are they gonna turn when the North invades? The RedSox wont save them. Everyone knows the Orioles fight best!

We have Alan Mills.

And Tony Pente.

[DrungoHazewood]

Good for them. They've now banned the only team in Major League Baseball that cares even a little bit about players in the KBO. It's a good thing they don't allow the players to organize. If I played in the KBO, I'd be mightily pissed if the league banned the only team that had an interest in ever signing me.

There have been thirteen MLB players born in South Korea, and none of them have ever played for the Orioles.

[crissfan172]

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/19/the-koreans-are-really-serious-about-keeping-the-orioles-out/

Kind of hilarious.

They could have at least learned how to write it properly in English. :rolleyestf:

[Don Quixote]

How long does it take to print up some St. Louis Browns credentials?

Someone should alert them to the Yankees' historical AKA....

[NCRaven]

There have been thirteen MLB players born in South Korea, and none of them have ever played for the Orioles.

Thirteen? Out of how many thousands that players that have been in MLB? Clearly this is an under developed market. If I was a Korean player, I'd want every team possible scouting me. Duquette was making that market a priority now, in the present. What we did there in the past doesn't matter to the players there today.

This hurts the players in the KBO far more than it hurts the Orioles. No excuses. The O's FO should have researched any rules in place for recruiting or signing players from Korea. But, it's not like supposedly well run organizations like the Angles haven't made this mistake in the recent past. A new market for a new staff that was just getting up and running. More worried about the assessment of the kid's skills than I am that they made a procedural mistake.

[olehippi]

And after one inning of play, the score is:

Silly KBA ...........1

Dumb Orioles......0

[BaltimoreTerp]

And after one inning of play, the score is:

Silly KBA ...........1

Dumb Orioles......0

Actually, i think its more like -125,800 to -125,900

[weams]

Korean Shower Gangs

http://www.amazon.com/Afghanistan-Diaries-Anthony-J-Pente/dp/1591138965

[malkusm]

Actually, i think its more like -125,800 to -125,900

No way, neither team's pitching is anywhere close to being that good.

[weams]

Kim Seong-min -550,000 Baltimore Orioles +525,000

[Remember The Alomar]

Kim Seong-min -550,000 Baltimore Orioles +525,000

And considering that he's a teenage kid who's now banned from playing in his country and the Orioles are a multi-million dollar organization, that's horrifically depressing.

[Can_of_corn]

Looks like the O's are still in on him. Good for Kim at least.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-orioles-still-plan-on-signing-south-korean-17yearold-kim-20120322,0,2977584.story?track=rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The Orioles are still waiting for clearance to be able to follow proper protocols to sign Kim, and once the team receives permission it will pursue another contract with Kim.