Worst owner in professional sports?

Yep...Peter Angelos. What a schmuck. O's have been terrible for close to a decade. The entire time, they were in need of solid, young pitching. They FINALLY get it with Bedard, and hopefully Cabrera can develop. What's the smart thing to do? Most would say, surround them with some solid veteran talent to continue nurturing them and go get some bats. Nahhhh, let's get rid of him and start from scratch again. Here's to another decade of losing! Way to go O's!

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Agree. I grew up in Baltimore, going to see the O's at old Memorial Stadium all summer, and they have been an absolute embarrassment for the past decade.

Angelos is definitely one of the Top 5 Worst Owners.

 

I grew up in Baltimore too and remember Memorial Stadium games. Fun stuff! My parents, who live in Oakton STILL have partial season tickets to the O's. So depressing what he's done to that franchise.

 

Cool. To this day, I'd rather go to Memorial Stadium than Camden Yards. Guess that just proves I'm old. I'll never forget the summer of '83 and all the 9th inning comebacks with Eddie Murray and the rest. Too bad that was 25 years ago!

 

I saw many a game at Memorial and even got a "Give that fan a contract" from Rex Barney for catching a Jay Buhner home run ball one-handed (had my beer in the other) in the left field bleachers. Truly, fond memories...

BUT!!!! Memorial stadium sucked compared to Camden Yards!

 

You're my hero!! Re: stadium. Maybe it's because the O's were actually good when they played at Memorial Stadium. I get that the new stadiums are beautiful and convenient and all, but they lack the character and history that places like Yankee Stadium, Fenway, Wrigley and old crappy stadiums had. Just like places such as Veterans Stadium were like plastic jungles, ick.

 

Don't forget our new nationals stadium. It is also one of a first in design in new baseball stadiums. Very contemporary yet using the stone of our buildings and monuments.

It will have the largest score board. Also it's seating is supposed to be even more fan friendly with many new types of entertainment for the fans of course spend more money and enjoy themselves while doing it.

It will be interesting if all the hype matches the reality when open Personally of what I have seen so far this is going to set another level in baseball stadium design and entertainment. Now if we can only get to it in the first few years until all the infrastructure is built around it in the next few years. It will certainly change the face of that part of Washington in the years to come.

Lee gives this whole picture two thumbs up. They are getting rid of the industrial buildings and we can't seem to build enough of them around here is a so called family oriented county Something is major wrong with this picture

Lee j

 

Oh before anyone asks I Have been an Nationals fan from day one

 

I know, I know, that intellectually and aesthetically. Gorgeous park. It's the emotional aspect of the older parks, that's all.

 

That's a better way to say it, Steve. But the park still does carry a history with it--it's where Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Eddie Murray and Boog Powell played. It's where World Series were won. So that's part of the Park's legacy itself. Camden doesn't have that history yet--all it has is Cal Ripken's consecutive games record.

And I still do prefer the older stadiums that are less glamorous, with the icky stains of peanuts and beer left over from the 1950's with all the rich history that goes along with it.

The personal memories do make it irreplaceable, though--skipping school to go to Opening Day, getting hundreds of autographs when you could lean into the visiting team's club house, Butch Wynegar yelling at me, Tony LaRussa promising to sign a ball but never coming back to do it, Earl Weaver putting on a show, Eddie Murray's ninth inning come from behind homers, weeknight games with my Dad during the school week when the place was less crowded, sitting with Wild Bill's section in college, listening to Chuck Thompson call the game....ahhhhhh....