Angelos was wrong and right

[jbooma]

Peter Angelos was right so far based on his assumption that the nats will take about 25% of his tickets sales away.

Where he was DEAD wrong that he area couldn't handle two teams.

Last year the O's before opening day sold 1.8 million, not to shabby, this year it is 1.5 million ok so a little down.

The nats have sold about 1.8 million.

So in Peter Angelos warped mind 300K = 1.8 million fans :laugh: :laugh:

DC and Baltimore are now on pace to sell more then 5.5 million tickets combined, which would put them right around the Bay area and Chicago, and behind only NY.

GO NATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skinzfan4life]

I agree, especially after the first season once the nats become more common place, both teams should and will more thne likely survive and thrive in this area. The area can handle it and the geographic rivalry that has become DC vs Bmore will help, because people from here will say lookj a team can survive in DC and teh Bmore fans will say we can do it with or without you. So i think this does more good then bad.

[TheDoyler23]

The O's, even with the addition of Sosa, are behind last year's pace but that's ok. I think lost of people are takign a wait and see approach. Barring injury, Palmiero will be going for his 3000 hit and Sosa his 600th homerun, and both will generate plenty of interest during the season.

[jbooma]

Originally posted by TheDoyler23
The O's, even with the addition of Sosa, are behind last year's pace but that's ok. I think lost of people are takign a wait and see approach. Barring injury, Palmiero will be going for his 3000 hit and Sosa his 600th homerun, and both will generate plenty of interest during the season.

I do think the O's fans are not happy the fact they didn't help the pitching at all.

If the O's are good Camden Yards will be full, but Angelos doesn't want to make them good anymore.

[TheDoyler23]

Originally posted by jbooma


I do think the O's fans are not happy the fact they didn't help the pitching at all.

If the O's are good Camden Yards will be full, but Angelos doesn't want to make them good anymore.

Well, the FA market stunk, especially when (.500 record) Pavano got 41 million and 4th starters like Benson got 25+ when the Mets panicked.

In the mid 90's, the O's were bringing in 3.5 million people, and that's w/o running 15 promotions. He stands to make a HELL of a lot more money in a winner. Yes, that begs the question, "The hell was he doing for the past 6-7 years?" That boils don't to bad drafting, worse FA decisions, and that fact that the organization tried to patch a sinking ship that didn't have a foundation to begin with!

[shambone]

Angelos is a moron. He scrapped his team for 5 years to display that his franchise's value will suffer if a team went to Washington. If he was soooo afraid of Washington leaving his market, he should have done the smart thing and MOVED HIS TEAM TO WASHINGTON. He would have kept both markets for a long time. Baltimore would be WAY DOWN the pecking order for a new team, behind Charlotte, Portland, and maybe even Hampton Roads. He could have kedpt the market, but he fought rather than adapted. Now he's 300k tickets behind the city with no real baseball fans. @#$#% him.