Anyone On Here With Close Connections To Ownership?

[section18]

If anyone on here has close ties with anyone in the FO or with ownership please reply.  I know someone and will try to call them today. Anything positive would be great right now. Signing Lance Lynn and Mike Moustakas would change a lot of fans outlook.  Is anything close? Ticket renewals and FanFest time is near.  We need to hear something positive! Not out of town rumors.  Straight from the top! If only two respond that's okay.  If I reach my source I will respond later.

[UpstateNYfan]

It would seem like many, many here must have substantial inside connections to back up all their claims and displeasure with this off season. I just believe it is baseball in general is killing the off season. Things happen slower and slower each year. It is a reflection of the game itself...deep counts, pitcher changes, 3 plus hour games...

[Ohfan67]

Peter and I have a standing Wednesday night make-your-own nachos date, but we have an agreement to not discuss the Orioles. I can say that he prefers medium spicy. 

[Tx Oriole]

5 hours ago, section18 said:

If anyone on here has close ties with anyone in the FO or with ownership please reply.  I know someone and will try to call them today. Anything positive would be great right now. Signing Lance Lynn and Mike Moustakas would change a lot of fans outlook.  Is anything close? Ticket renewals and FanFest time is near.  We need to hear something positive! Not out of town rumors.  Straight from the top! If only two respond that's okay.  If I reach my source I will respond later.

If I was related to ownership I would not won't to admit it. 

[Babypowder]

Signing lance Lynn and mike moustakas would not change my outlook. 

[Tx Oriole]

2 minutes ago, Babypowder said:

Signing lance Lynn and mike moustakas would not change my outlook. 

Would like to have Lynn in the rotation. But that won't happen.

[Luke-OH]

A clear plan is all I ask for.

[Tx Oriole]

3 hours ago, UpstateNYfan said:

It would seem like many, many here must have substantial inside connections to back up all their claims and displeasure with this off season. I just believe it is baseball in general is killing the off season. Things happen slower and slower each year. It is a reflection of the game itself...deep counts, pitcher changes, 3 plus hour games...

Well maybe the goose that laid the golden egg has died. Maybe owners are wising up. Don't want to pay a player 300 million 7 year contract. Baseball  is the greatest game in the world. 3 plus hour games don't bother me at all. 

[interloper]

There's a sad lack of insider knowledge on this site and within the media. Credit to Angelos, he's got the Warehouse locked up tight. Then again, when you have no plan or idea of what the hell you're going to do in the offseason, I guess there's not much to keep secret. 

[spiritof66]

So far as I can tell, those who have "close ties" with ownership constitute a pretty small club. John Angelos, Lou Angelos and Brady apparently aren't responding.

It's hard to imagine that anyone in the Orioles organization doesn't understand the terrible position they're in, both on the playing field (so far --  it's still 2 1/2 months until opening day) and as a public relations matter. Coming off a  late-season swoon and a last-place finish. Virtually nothing done to improve (other than by subtraction) a starting rotation that was dead last in the ML in ERA and WHIP, and last in the AL in innings pitched. Attendance 23rd in MLB. Continuing complete inaction, with no apparent plan -- ever -- to realize on Manny's value,, and so far failing to conclude a trade for Manny because their demands exceeded the rvalue of a one-year rental. Taking the same head-in-the-sand approach with Schoop. An unwillingness to rebuild (or even to discuss that possibility), with no announced (or apparently, unannounced) strategy other than to say that last year's last-place team plans to be competitive.

Does anyone in the Warehouse need to be told that, as of the 12th of January, this team is  real bad and that its fans are, let's say, not overly optimistic about what lies ahead?

[24fps]

43 minutes ago, phillyOs119 said:

A clear plan is all I ask for.

In an environment as dynamic as building an MLB organization, any plan would necessarily have to be subject to change at a moment's notice.  And given the amount of money at risk there's no advantage that I can see to public openness beyond a certain, very easily reached, point.

Furthermore, I don't think anyone who posts here is in a position to say there is or isn't a plan.  Nobody likes being in the dark including me, but as fans we're not owed clarity every step of the way.  

[Luke-OH]

1 minute ago, 24fps said:

In an environment as dynamic as building an MLB organization, any plan would necessarily have to be subject to change at a moment's notice.  And given the amount of money at risk there's no advantage that I can see to public openness beyond a certain, very easily reached, point.

Furthermore, I don't think anyone who posts here is in a position to say there is or isn't a plan.  Nobody likes being in the dark including me, but as fans we're not owed clarity every step of the way.  

That's true and fair.  I don't want or need specifics of any kind.  I just want a general direction and actions that support that general direction.  I'm fine if the general direction changes, as long as there is a good reason for it. 

[24fps]

4 minutes ago, phillyOs119 said:

That's true and fair.  I don't want or need specifics of any kind.  I just want a general direction and actions that support that general direction.  I'm fine if the general direction changes, as long as there is a good reason for it. 

It strikes me that there was a very clear plan in place - to take advantage of a competetive window from 2013 to 2018.  In retrospect it looks to me like it began a year earlier than expected and is ending year early as well.  Under the circumstances it's reasonable for there to be some uncertainty IMO.  

If you want to argue that a good way to remove a lot of that uncertainty is to resolve any questions generated by DD's and Buck's contract status, then I'm right there with you.

[Camden_yardbird]

I am telling you it's a power struggle issue.  I realize other teams aren't making moves, but with the Orioles it's power issue.  Lame duck GM.  Lame duck coach.  Overactive aging owner.  Two sons.  One former player confidant.  Okhams razor.

[Redskins Rick]

19 minutes ago, 24fps said:

It strikes me that there was a very clear plan in place - to take advantage of a competetive window from 2013 to 2018.  In retrospect it looks to me like it began a year earlier than expected and is ending year early as well.  Under the circumstances it's reasonable for there to be some uncertainty IMO.  

If you want to argue that a good way to remove a lot of that uncertainty is to resolve any questions generated by DD's and Buck's contract status, then I'm right there with you.

I think there is a bit of uncertainty within MLB because of the slow off-season and that just adds fuel to the already high paranoia that exists in OH during the off season.