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2 minutes ago, Going Underground said:

How can Rubenstein have power if the sale of the Orioles hasn't been approved?

He’s making statements… see @Sports Guy post.

 

Since we heard of Rubbenstein a month ago or two ago…this may have all been done preemptively. The vote may be a formality and they have assurances that they have a minimum of 23 votes to approve the sale.

They speculated that the MLB front office is doing cart wheels and happy to see Angelos go 

Angelos and Rubenstein both releasing statements is telling 

 

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I wish my buddy @weams was here to see it. But, I know he’s smiling from up above. 

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I don't want to get too far into this because we can go down into a rabbit hole that I do not want to get into here, but diversity of thought and ideas from people with different backgrounds certainly

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Well, then… And if this turns out to not be real, don’t kill the messenger!    

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1 minute ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

In John Angelos' mind he's going down as the hero in this story.

He’s my hero 😂

He replaced his father and hired Elias to rebuild the system. That worked.

Not he’s getting their family out …. I’m as excited as I’ve been about the team in probably 20 years

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2 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

He’s my hero 😂

He replaced his father and hired Elias to rebuild the system. That worked.

Not he’s getting their family out …. I’m as excited as I’ve been about the team in probably 20 years

Family is still going to be quite involved I think. 

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It's hard to imagine why Angelos made so many unforced errors in the media over the last year or so. Literally all he had to do was shut up, let Elias cook, sell the team, and ride off into the sunset. If he did that, he would have probably gone down a hero around here.

Instead he came out and yelled at reporters, and threatened to raise ticket prices, and cried poor, and took Kevin Brown hostage, and released a fake news lease announcement with the Governor, and lied a bunch. Weird choice, Johnny!

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4 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

In John Angelos' mind he's going down as the hero in this story.

I totally understand the disdain for the family but I will say that if you look at it objectively, they have done a lot to modernize things in the last 5 years.

This organization was in the mid-80's prior. I think most of the disdain for the family should be aimed at Peter, bless his old soul. His refusal to evolve operations whatsoever kept us all in the stone ages for a long time.

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2 minutes ago, interloper said:

It's hard to imagine why Angelos made so many unforced errors in the media over the last year or so. Literally all he had to do was shut up, let Elias cook, sell the team, and ride off into the sunset. If he did that, he would have probably gone down a hero around here.

Instead he came out and yelled at reporters, and threatened to raise ticket prices, and cried poor, and took Kevin Brown hostage, and released a fake news lease announcement with the Governor, and lied a bunch. Weird choice, Johnny!

Staggering hubris...

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Rubenstein agreed to a $1.725 billion deal with Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos on Tuesday to purchase a stake in the Major League Baseball organization, multiple sources said. The deal includes MASN transferring to the new ownership group. The Angelos family will stay involved, although Rubenstein will become the designated “control person” once the deal is approved by MLB owners. This could happen by late spring.

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Love that he thanks Kostka, haha. 

I hope this begins a new era of getting along with the already relatively softbally press around here. It's not that difficult. Just recognize everyone is doing their job, be as transparent as you can, and stay out of the spotlight as much as possible. 

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