Despite speculation, Orioles not on the market to be moved or sold

[mdbdotcom]

5 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

They're drafting up the papers to be sold as we speak.

Moving to Montana  soon.

[DrungoHazewood]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

They're drafting up the papers to be sold as we speak.

They're not going to be sold, they're merging with the Nats.  That'll solve the MASN problem, and the Lerners and Angeloses will be compensated for the loss of O's MASN revenues out of the expansion fees for Austin and Portland.  The new Baltimore-Washington Nats will play in DC, except for two Frank Robinson Classic home games each in Montreal and Baltimore every year to celebrate the franchise's rich history.  Highly-placed sources in the Illuminati have confirmed all the details, it'll happen as early as next year.

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

They're not going to be sold, they're merging with the Nats.  That'll solve the MASN problem, and the Lerners and Angeloses will be compensated for the loss of O's MASN revenues out of the expansion fees for Austin and Portland.  The new Baltimore-Washington Nats will play in DC, except for two Frank Robinson Classic home games each in Montreal and Baltimore every year to celebrate the franchise's rich history.  Highly-placed sources in the Illuminati have confirmed all the details, it'll happen as early as next year.

What a yin yang that'll be.  Half of me won't know how to live with the other half of myself.  I suppose it'll come down to who's got the 13th player on the 25 man roster as a battle for who really wins.  

[LookinUp]

And another article responding to an OH thread. Beautiful. 

[Can_of_corn]

34 minutes ago, mdbdotcom said:

Moving to Montana  soon.

Going to be a dental floss tycoon?

[TonySoprano]

10 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Going to be a dental floss tycoon?

 

[weams]

1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

And another article responding to an OH thread. Beautiful. 

It happens every day. Not just articles. Threads elsewhere. 

[Hallas]

2 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

They're drafting up the papers to be sold as we speak.

Anyone check Von Paris for unusual activity?

[Going Underground]

40 minutes ago, Hallas said:

Anyone check Von Paris for unusual activity?

Looks like the Oriole Bird is the first one moving to Nashville. 

 

[Sessh]

3 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

They're drafting up the papers to be sold as we speak.

.. but we all know what will happen to those papers. They will go to where many other papers have gone to die; Peter Angelos' desk. They'll sit there for decades long after he's gone because that desk will never die even if all the papers on it do. Somehow, the Davis contract made it through all the rubble. Very unreliable, that desk.

[Tony-OH]

3 hours ago, LookinUp said:

And another article responding to an OH thread. Beautiful. 

If you write an article about the Orioles and its not discussed on the Hangout, it didn't really matter now did it?

Seriously though, despite the fact that it's still looked down upon by some in the local media, the Hangout remains the place to find out what's important to be discussed or addressed with the Orioles. It's power is having so many great and knowledgeable posters and collectors of information working on Orioles information. This is crowd sourcing with a heavy sprinkle of some really smart people from all kinds of lines of work.

This is why I scoff at the people who were giving me a hard time about posting this article. I didn't agree with the article, nor did I think the team was going anywhere, but now we have the entire situation out being discussed enough that "Orioles officials" had to comment.

Sometimes I think people forget I've been doing this for 20+ years now. Not my first rodeo.

[Greg Pappas]

On 8/13/2019 at 7:02 PM, TINSTAAPP said:

Somebody should tweet at her that her singing sucks and country is the worst genre of music.

 

4 hours ago, TINSTAAPP said:

Sounds more and more like it's John's wife who's pushing the Nashville move while everybody else is either ambivalent or resistant to relocating the team. 

You seem to have an unhealthy issue with John Angelos' wife Margaret. 

 

[Going Underground]

35 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

Looks like the Oriole Bird is the first one moving to Nashville. 

 

And now a bobblehead of the Oriole Bird with a fiddle. I guess they didn't want him with the new name of the team yet. The Nashville Fiddlers.

 

 

And the new logo. 

[$Greatness$]

Man... this is all a business. If it makes business sense, the Orioles will be outta here on the first thing smoking. While I want to believe that the rich history of the Orioles will forever stay in Baltimore, the times have changed but the money game hasn't. I wouldn't be surprised if they stay or go. And all this "We're not going anywhere" is nothing more than coach speak. The Front Office isn't going to show their cards IF something is really in the workings. I just pray nothing is in the works because I love my O's.

[DrungoHazewood]

3 minutes ago, $Greatness$ said:

Man... this is all a business. If it makes business sense, the Orioles will be outta here on the first thing smoking. While I want to believe that the rich history of the Orioles will forever stay in Baltimore, the times have changed but the money game hasn't. I wouldn't be surprised if they stay or go. And all this "We're not going anywhere" is nothing more than coach speak. The Front Office isn't going to show their cards IF something is really in the workings. I just pray nothing is in the works because I love my O's.

The money exploded in the 70s and 80s, as teams realized they had to have cash to afford free agents and cable happened at the same time.  There has been one major league team move since the money went crazy.  One.  And they played in a French-speaking province that MLB couldn't figure out a way to blackmail into building them a free Mallpark to replace a terrible old crumbling multipurpose half-dome.

It would be astonishing if MLB was so craven as to allow Camden Yards to sit vacant so Nashville or Las Vegas can try to start something the Orioles began 137 years ago.