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An Oriole fan ragging on the Blue Jays about their minor league spring training facility is very much the pot calling the kettle black. Insert "Orioles" for "Blue Jays" and the reports regarding field conditions could easily be pre-Sarasota Orioles. If I remember correctly, a visiting team refused to play a spring game on one of the O's minor league fields because of safety concerns. These situations may be a byproduct of a local government owning the field and the ML organization supposedly in charge of all upkeep. Anyway, I found it ironic that O's fans are ragging on the Blue Jays for this given the O's recent spring training history. I don't like the Blue Jays, but come on! :)

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An Oriole fan ragging on the Blue Jays about their minor league spring training facility is very much the pot calling the kettle black. Insert "Orioles" for "Blue Jays" and the reports regarding field conditions could easily be pre-Sarasota Orioles. If I remember correctly, a visiting team refused to play a spring game on one of the O's minor league fields because of safety concerns. These situations may be a byproduct of a local government owning the field and the ML organization supposedly in charge of all upkeep. Anyway, I found it ironic that O's fans are ragging on the Blue Jays for this given the O's recent spring training history. I don't like the Blue Jays, but come on! :)

Yeah, I think Ken Rosenthal stirs the pot a bit myself.

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