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Honestly I don't ask for much:    -- be accurate and correct (she was)    -- pronounce the players names right (she did)    -- don't be bland/boring/sleep inducing like Melanie Newman i

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I'd hate to rush someone.  I think they should have to publicly announce at all the various levels and earn their way to the majors.

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Article in the Athletic implies that the tweets the Orioles didn't like we're in relation to other sports teams, sometimes sarcastic.   During the Ravens playoff loss to Buffalo he said it was "sickening".  He joked about Brett Gardner doing sage ago the Orioles "for the past 75 years".  All pretty mild stuff, but I guess the Orioles felt it was unprofessional as a rep of the organization and counselled him and he kept on doing it 

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1 minute ago, SteveA said:

Article in the Athletic implies that the tweets the Orioles didn't like we're in relation to other sports teams, sometimes sarcastic.   During the Ravens playoff loss to Buffalo he said it was "sickening".  He joked about Brett Gardner doing sage ago the Orioles "for the past 75 years".  All pretty mild stuff, but I guess the Orioles felt it was unprofessional as a rep of the organization and counselled him and he kept on doing it 

So why not let him go before the season started?

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1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

So why not let him go before the season started?

No idea.  The Gardner tweet came on the road trip just before the home opener so maybe it was a last straw?  Technically he was sort of  fired "before the season" since his job is only at home games and he was fired a few hours before he was to take the mic for the home opener.

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18 minutes ago, accinfo said:

Something happened or was brought to someones attention that isn't in public cyberspace that we don't know about or probably never no about.  

That’s what I think.   You don’t fire a guy an hour or two before the home opener based on tweets that are months/weeks/days old.   

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27 minutes ago, SteveA said:

Article in the Athletic implies that the tweets the Orioles didn't like we're in relation to other sports teams, sometimes sarcastic.   During the Ravens playoff loss to Buffalo he said it was "sickening".  He joked about Brett Gardner doing sage ago the Orioles "for the past 75 years".  All pretty mild stuff, but I guess the Orioles felt it was unprofessional as a rep of the organization and counselled him and he kept on doing it 

The Orioles calling someone unprofessional is hilarious.

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