Orioles Say Nationals Are Welcome to Share TV Pact – AP/The Post
Things are really heating up over a television package for the Nationals. Peter Angelo$ took out a full page ad in the Sunday Post (I have not seen it yet, has anyone put it online?) to clear up some “misinformation” about what is going on. DCRTV had this to say:
Three weeks to go until opening day, and still no local TV deal for Washington’s baseball Nationals. The Baltimore Orioles took out a full-page ad in Sunday’s Washington Post to counter the “great deal of misinformation” that the team’s owner, Peter Angelos, is trying to torpedo a local TV deal for the Nationals. “We have repeatedly advised Major League Baseball that we would welcome the Nationals to our regional sports network (Orioles Television) and are prepared to televise Nationals’ games throughout our television territory.” The ad added that the Orioles are “prepared to offer a fair and appropriate fee to the Nationals in the many millions of dollars annually for the telecast of their games.” Orioles TV is carried by area broadcast TV stations…..
So, it sounds to me like Angelo$ is saying that it is MLB/Nats fault for no deal, because they have not excepted his terms, which is not far off from “why do you make me hit you?!” logic. How reassuring to know that Big Daddy Baltimore Boss Man knows what is good for us! I have seen what Angelo$ has done in Baltimore, I do not want to see him to it in Washington too. The Wash. Examiner’s Jim Williams’ has more in today’s Wash. Examiner: On media – Will we get our Nats TV?.
The Sun also chimes in: Angelos takes out ad to get point across.
Finally, on the field, the Nats beat Baltimore (AP/The Wash. Examiner) again in spring training, 11 – 4.
Always a friendly rivalry – Florida Today
I don’t know if this reporter in Florida reads the wire or other Web sites, but right now the Nats and Baltimore are hardly friendly rivals with all of the obstruction to a TV deal coming out of the warehouse. This got picked up by wire services too. Closer to home, in the Falls Church News-Press another writer makes a similar point. So what if the players don’t feel it — they do not even live here yet!
Vidro hurts elbow, sits out exhibition – The Wash. Times
Jose Vidro is day to day with a hyperextended elbow?
Do the Nationals Really Know the Man in Charge? – The Post
When a reporter asks him who is the best player he ever managed — perhaps Vladimir Guerrero, or Joe Morgan or Cal Ripken? — Robinson shakes his head and sticks his thumb into his own chest, as if to say: “Me.” Indeed, you can look it up: He was player-manager in Cleveland in 1975 and ’76.
That is pretty funny and to date — true, Frank Robinson is the best player Frank Robinson ever managed. Someday, Vladimir Guerrero may surpass him, but until he does, Robby is right. I like the Gordo Cooper bravado.
An Early Show of Support – The Post
The Nats sold 50,000 tickets in the first six hours of single-game ticket sales. On Sunday, my fiancee contributed by giving me a pair to the exhibition game vs. the Mets!