In what has been one of the more storied feuds in the Baltimore business community, Baltimore Orioles owner and prominent attorney Peter G. Angelos and First Mariner Bancorp CEO Edwin F. Hale Sr. have fought via the state court system for almost eight years. But with his time at First Mariner possibly coming to a close this year, Hale had the opportunity to mend fences with Angelos.
BALTIMORE ORIOLES WHAT WENT RIGHT: Rookie RHP Daniel Cabrera emerged as an anchor in the rotation. Miguel Tejada and Melvin Mora were one of the more productive shortstop-third base duos in the game, with Tejada providing power and Mora hitting for a high average. LHP B.J. Ryan continued to be one of the best setup relievers in baseball. RHP Rodrigo Lopez, once considered an afterthought as a starter, was stellar out of the bullpen and now is back in the rotation.
, according to Nielsen Research. Through the team's first 26 games of the 2011 season, the household audience in the Baltimore market overall is 24 percent larger than it was last year. That means an average of 61,208 area homes tuned to Orioles games this spring.
The Baltimore Orioles will pay the state $913,000 to settle a long-standing dispute over advertising revenues as part of a deal approved Tuesday night by the Maryland Stadium Authority. The settlement, which must be approved by the state Board of Public Works to take effect, also modifies the team's lease, ensuring the authority will see revenue from the advertising located behind home plate in Oriole Park at Camden Yards in coming years, though less than the authority believed it was owed.
The Baltimore Orioles are ranked 20th out of the Major League's 30 baseball teams in popularity, according to a Harris Interactive poll released this week. That's down from last year's ranking of 17th. The poll was conducted June 14 to 21. But hey, at least they beat the Washington Nationals (ranked 27th). At first that was a surprise to me considering the poll was conducted during the Steven Strasburg Era. After all, you'd think a phenom pitcher would give the Nats, who also came in last year at 27th, a few more points. But baseball in D.C. is still young and the fanbase is fickle. And while Strasburg may be a rock star here, nationwide, he's just somebody you don't want pitching against your team.
The Ravens' M&T Bank Stadium is dark, pitchers and catchers report in 29 days and Baltimore Orioles' baseball season unofficially kicks off this weekend with the first wintertime FanFest in four years. Saturday marks the event's return to the Baltimore Convention Center, its home until 2007. That year, FanFest was moved to Oriole Park at Camden Yards and held just before Opening Day due to a conflict with a Ravens home playoff game.
There might not be crying in baseball, but there's certainly been a lot of hand-wringing for the Baltimore Orioles this off-season. Facing the team's recurring role as fourth-place finisher in the American League East division, the Mitchell Report's revelation this winter that several recent or current squad members had taken performance-enhancing drugs during their careers, and the off- loading of star players for a band of unprovens, the marketing department's task of selling Orioles baseball this year could require a little more finesse than usual.
Not only did the Orioles spank the New York Mets 11-0 Saturday in their final spring training game, the team left preseason with a bang by surpassing 100,000 in attendance for the first time in Orioles history. In the club's first spring in Sarasota, Fla., the team drew 102,219 fans for an average of 6,815 fans per game. That's a 39 percent increase from 2009 when the team played in Fort Lauderdale. The figure also represents the largest increase in Major League Baseball this spring, according to an Orioles news release.
* IT'S GOOD IF ... Brian Matusz and Chris Tillman start at least 60 games combined. Matusz, 23, and Tillman, 21, made a combined 20 starts in 2009. Gaining a full season of major league experience is important for the youngsters as the Orioles' long rebuilding process moves into what the organization hopes are its final stages.
The Maryland Stadium Authority and Baltimore Orioles have reached an agreement on more than $800,000 in disputed rent the team never paid but the authority believes it is owed. State auditors raised the issue in a report released Thursday, criticizing the authority for its sluggish response to the issue. The $812,000 went unpaid in 2007 and 2008 and covers a portion of the stadium advertising revenue the team pays the authority as part of its annual rent. The team's rent those years totaled $12.6 million.
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