The Oriole Way

The city of Baltimore used to love baseball. The Orioles were a great team and people never liked facing us. We worked had and hustled and always ad good teams. That was the Oriole Way. Camden yards is an awesome place to play and watch a game. Baltimore fans are so passionate about baseball. But none of this matters when you have one of the worst owners in all of sports. In 1993 Angelos purchased the Orioles for 175 million dollars. Everyone thought, ok we have a new owner and we are going to have a bright future. Ha-ha that was a joke. Since 1997, the year that the orioles went wire to wire and should have gone to the World Series we have had TEN straight losing seasons. For any sport team that is embarrassing. You might think that it’s because we don't have the players but that is entirely wrong. It all has to do with the front office. A sports radio station in Baltimore called 1570WNST had a protest called Free the Birds (http://www.freethebirds.net/). This is when a group of fans from the Baltimore area went to the Orioles game for a couple of innings and cheered and protested. But after a few innings all of them just got up and left. The sad thing is that Angelos doesn't care as long as he gets his money. That’s all that he cares about. He doesn't spend money at all. The Orioles have had great trade offers and we turn them down. For example we could have traded Tejada for Brad Lidge and Roy Oswalt. Now come on Angelos. Tejada is overrated and oswalt is one of the best pitchers in the game. Here is what really got people pissed off. During the year 1570WNST was promoting the Orioles by telling people to go to a bar right across the street after and before the game. They made signs and promoted it well. But since WNST is not the flag ship station of the Orioles Angelos actually made them take the poster down even though it was promoting the Orioles. Now what a terrible owner. All he does is care about money and likes to sign washed up guys. For example Rafael Palmerio, David Segui, Sammy Sosa and a lot more older players. And not to mention the 3 just named all took steroids. It's sad because people in Baltimore want the Orioles to do well so badly. But it will never happen. I listened to a speaker yesterday who used to work for the Orioles and I asked what he though about the whole situation, and all he sad was there is no more Oriole Way.