Baltimore Orioles fans react to team reportedly turning down lease option at Camden Yards: "Portland Orioles, coming soon", "Bye Bye Orioles!"
The Baltimore Orioles will not be exercising the five-year option in their lease at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, according to a report from the Baltimore Sun newspaper.
The Orioles' current lease expires at the end of 2023, and is reportedly planning to "secure a longer-term, more comprehensive stadium agreement," according to the Sun.
BREAKING: The Orioles won’t exercise the five-year option in their lease, which now officially expires at the end of this year. The team hopes to have a new long-term agreement by midseason, a source told @sunjeffbarker. baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md…
The city of Baltimore Stadium Authority and the Orioles have been operating under a lease extension signed in 2021. The extension was added to the original lease that dates back to 1992, when the team moved from Memorial Stadium to Camden Yards.
While the Orioles insist that the team merely seeks a longer-term arrangement under a new lease, the news left Baltimore fans wary of what having the Orioles essentially being a free agent organization could mean.
the orioles leaving baltimore would be one of the worst things to happen to baseball in a very long time twitter.com/nathansruiz/st…
♂️@NathanSRuiz @sunjeffbarker Bye Bye Orioles!! 👋 🙋♂️
Midnight, 6 months from now: twitter.com/nathansruiz/st… https://t.co/S44Y2C97u0
While there would be uproar from around the league if the Orioles were to explore moving, there are a number of american cities that would welcome the "Birds" should they choose to take flight.
The Orioles to Nashville, etc. rumors seem to hold more and more weight as time goes on.
And for anyone who thinks it isn't possible, I bet a lot of people in Oakland, San Diego, Montreal, and St. Louis didn't think the moves would ever actually happen. twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/st…
Portland Orioles, coming soon twitter.com/nathansruiz/st…
As gonna be sad when Orioles move to Vegas!!! twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/st…
Baltimore Orioles fans have long loathed the Angelos family that owns the team. A city with a reputation for supporting the team strongly has had to deal with a long barren run bereft of success from the organization they support. Thursday's stadium news had Angelos haters venting.
For the love of god can someone buy Orioles so we don’t have to deal with this Angelos BS anymore twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/st…
Someone buy this team twitter.com/NathanSRuiz/st…
The Orioles are finally getting good and their fans are going to have to worry about losing their stadium.
Brutal for Baltimore twitter.com/nathansruiz/st…
Oriole Park at Camden Yards has long been held as the Gold Standard of MLB stadiums after the era in which baseball and football largely shared facilities around the United States. Built exclusively for baseball and the Orioles, the ballpark has influenced all MLB stadiums that have followed for the past 30 years.
While many Orioles fans are panicking, others have faith that the team isn't going anywhere.
The O’s are certain to get this hammered out. The ONLY thing I could (MAYBE) see getting in the way of a new agreement would be a very messy family lawsuit over the succession of the Orioles, leading to unstable leadership and decision making. But how likely is that, honestly? twitter.com/nathansruiz/st…
Baltimore Orioles see opportunity in reworking their lease
The Baltimore Orioles and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore issued a joint news release on the long-term viability of the team in the city it has played since 1954. The release expressed “commitment to creating a long-term, multi-decade, public-private partnership that both develops and revitalizes the Camden Yards complex as a magnet for sports tourism and leverages Maryland taxpayers’ investment in the property.”
Orioles Chairman and CEO John Angelos noted in the release that the club and state have a “tremendous opportunity to redefine the paradigm of what a Major League Baseball venue represents and thereby revitalize downtown Baltimore.”
Only time will tell what the future has in store for the Orioles and the city of Baltimore.