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Originally Posted by crewsor
All things considered, I think this is a good thing. Good for D.C. fans who deserve a team if they will support it, and I believe they will. Good for Oriole fans, (read me), because it may force Angelos to put a competitive product on the field.
There is a reason monopolies are discouraged. For too long the Orioles have had a huge market to themselves, providing no incentive to field a decent team.Witness eight consecutive losing seasons from a once dominant team.
When you are the only game in town people have no choice. Now it becomes a battle for the intermediate market, and the only way to win that battle is to have the more desirable product. I think there is plenty of consumer money in the Md., Vir., markets to support two teams. So I say bring on the Senators. If nothing else it will give me another D.C. team to root against besides the Deadskins.
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That's not true. Angelos has spent the money (Albert Belle as a great example) however the signings his management team have made with that money is the joke. Seems if anything he needs to find a better judge of talent.
I understand some owners thinking about throwing money out and getting high priced bums, after awhile they see it as a loss and stop, when in reality they need to fire the people signing the bums and get better judges of talent.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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