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And with that, I give you, Forch’N Telling.

Peter Angelos, I think that it’s time you just give up, and Free The Birds!

For those of you who don’t know who Peter Angelos is, he’s a lawyer who resides in the Baltimore area, who since the 1980’s, had gained notoriety as well as a very large bank account in civil class action suits, most notably against Phillip Morris, the tobacco company.

Angelos has made hundreds of million dollars off of these suits, but his most notable accomplishment, is that he is the owner of my team. The end all be all of Forchiness… The Baltimore Orioles.

Angelos bought the team in 1993, and since 1998, The Orioles have finished with a less than .500 record in each of the eleven seasons.

That’s right. Eleven years in a row. The Orioles have won less than half of the 162 games that they have played.

Now this is something that has a direct effect on the fans who have supported the team throughout this time, myself included.

Even through the leanest years losing baseball teams have always had the support of their fans because they never broke one sacred rule, they always fielded the best team possible. Well this is not the case with the O’s.

Angelos is not willing to spend the money to field a team of even semi-all stars.

Now don’t get me wrong, the team has a number of potential superstars on the roster, which in a few years have a chance of being real assets to the game of baseball, but let’s face facts. Once they are stars, Angelos won’t pay the money to keep them in Charm City.

Ask anyone who knows me well, and they will tell you that as a fan of the O’s, I practically bleed Orange, and to have to watch the team that celebrated years of being one of the most respected teams in baseball, with a great and celebrated history practically flush down the toilet, I feel like puking out shards of my own intestines.

Case in point.

Capt. Campbell and I went to see the Orioles play against the Toronto Blue Jays this past Tuesday, which was the first time that The Captain had ever went to a pro baseball game, and I was disgusted to see the O’s Blow a lead in the bottom of the ninth.

Nothing new for the Birds, but it was the way that it was done.

The pitcher hit a batter with the bases loaded and walked in the tying run.

Then the O’s falter in extra innings, and lose.

This has been the story all year.

Now of course, the management of the Orioles will say that this is a rebuilding year, and fine, I can accept that Excuse, with one problem. This is the third straight “Rebuilding year” for the Birds.

Is next year going to be no different?

In May of 2009, A Sports Illustrated article reviewing owners of Major League Baseball franchises rated Angelos as one of the five worst owners in the United States. The article notes that the methodology “was not scientific” and “weighing heavily in the decision was the team’s success or failure on the field.”

And it’s true. in sixteen years of owning the team, he has failed to field a winning team 13 of those years! Do the math! That means that since Angelos took ownership, The O’s have had a winning season 18.75% of the time.

This is unacceptable.

Mr. Angelos, I know you’re never going to hear this, or hell, read this on the website, I am small potatoes compared to you, and you are not going to care about what I have to say, because you have made it clear that you do not care about your fans what so ever.

But why not just sell the team to someone who will actually care about building a winning franchise?

When you start thinking that making money is more important than appeasing the people who actually support your business, then maybe you should step down.

There’s a reason why the Yankees, The Cubs and the Red Sox have such successful teams, and that’s because they have owners that actually care about the fans, and Mr. Angelos you don’t care. That’s more apparent than anything.

I remember a day where the term “Oriole Way” meant something other than losing, Baltimore has a rich history, as a team, and has one of the most beautiful stadiums in Baseball.

The Oriole Way used to mean something. Cal Ripken, Jr. Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray, Jim Palmer, Earl Weaver, Frank Robinson, Elrod Hendricks, Davey Johnson, Hoyt Wilhelm, Rick Dempsey. These are all men who represented that.

There are some players on the roster who exemplify that today, but one man can not carry a team. It takes nine players to field a team, and until you can get the right nine players, you don’t deserve to own the Baltimore Orioles…

But that’s just my opinion…. What do I know???

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