The news source is MASN, which Angeles owns. That said, I think MacPhail has control of the team player-personnel wise. I can’t think of any moves that reeked of Angeles since MacPhail came aboard. I’ve said this before a million times, but the fact that Angeles has been meddlesome has not been his biggest problem. Angeles’ worst leadership quality has always been the constant amount of turnover he has caused within the organization the last decade or so. The O’s end up having a new GM every 2-4 seasons because of his inability to find a talented GM . And the GMs he has hired have been lame as hell which has caused him to (rightfully) reject some, but not all, their stupid ideas (I mean Jeremey Burnitz! Come on, although Angeles didn’t technically reject that deal since his analness about Burnitz’s physical cause his agent to back out and sign with the Pirates instead). MacPhail seems to be better than the other sorry ass GMs that Angeles has hired. Hopefully, I’ll get to see another winning Orioles team in my life time.

but I think maybe Angelos has finally changed. He is a very successful man and it has to have been killing him to not succeed at this. Since MacPhail has come on board all signs have been that Angelos finally gets what needs to be done to be successful as an owner.

Would certainly help.

…and that’s the one I’ll take. As previously mentioned, Angelos owns MASN and while I like Kubatko, I have little reason to believe he’d speak truth to power. Isn’t that Sports Journalism 101? Don’t piss off people who could fire you and still not know how to pronounce your name? And what is MacPhail really going to say? Essentially his words are meaningless…either he is effective or he’s not, because he had to know going in Angelos is Angelos. Plus he’s had two other ownership groups that were no peaches either.

I think Angelos’ biggest problem is recognizing that success in and of itself isn’t transitive. While I have no doubt his legal skills are solid and his ability to manage a law firm are even better, he pretty clearly has shown he has no idea how to be an owner of a baseball team. He doesn’t give enough rope to some guys (Wren) or gets caught up in meaningless power struggles with others (Gillick, Johnson, Miller). Then he doesn’t see that Thrift was clearly passed his prime and Flanagan wasn’t up to snuff. It would be funny really if wasn’t so damn sad that 11 years has been filled with such little joy that I am curious of how the minor league rotations will shake out than investing time in wondering if a meaningful September is even possible. For me the Townshend draft was the end…he overruled the GM in 96, signs Belle with little input from Wren and years later supposes he knows more than the scouting director. It’s just comical in a way. If anything PGA’s absence is a result of his health, which you have to figure can’t be all that great considering he’s older than the country. I’m sure the last 11 years grate on him moreso than anyone else, but not doing things dumb doesn’t mean you are smart. I’m not saying that PGA or whoever took over Joe Foss’ job don’t deserve any credit for getting talented guys like Jordan on the ship, but PGA is still a long way from getting anywhere beyond the blind squirrel finding an acorn notion with me.

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I think the real indication of Angelos changing is the moves that have been made, specifically both the Tejada and the Bedard trade. In years past, I don’t see the Orioles moving them, but rather going out and adding a second tier aging free-agent in the hopes that if absolutely everything breaks our way maybe we can compete.

I also noticed Andy seems to go out of his way to continually praise Angelos. Anytime he makes a move, he seems to make a point of giving Angelos credit in one way or another, which probably can’t hurt him keeping his autonomy.

to change. Guys that old don’t change – the ego is to big at his age – it’s in the driver seat and it’s not moving.
The deadskin’s midget owner says he’s going to change every three months or so – dude just paid Albert " the headstomper’ Hayneswothless $100 mil large.