If No Baseball, How Can We Support Angelos?
Major League Baseball officials had pointed toward the Aug. 18-19 owners' meeting in Philadelphia as the target date for announcing the relocation of the Montreal Expos for 2005. However, as ownership groups in the District and Northern Virginia have seen before, MLB has been quick to postpone such targets, and appears to be stalling again, with sources saying MLB has pushed any decision back to late August or early September.
Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos remains steadfastly opposed to the Expos moving to Washington or Northern Virginia and is probably the main reason Commissioner Bud Selig hasn't announced a decision yet. I wonder how many millions of dollars MLB will have to give Angelos to get him to release his greedy and unethical broadcast grip on our town?
If Angelos succeeds in keeping the Expos from us -- and we hope Selig doesn't cave to strong-arm tactics -- how can Angelos expect support from us for his baseball team, or his recent Rosecroft harness racing acquisition? Does he really believe he'll be supported in our town in any business endeavor, if he wins this petty fight? Does he think so little of our character?
From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... l31_2.html
Lets remember: The Orioles are the guests here: the Griffith family allowed the St Louis Browns into Baltimore only because the Nats TV sponsor, a Baltimore beer company, threatend to drop them otherwise.