{"id":213075,"date":"2012-08-31T06:51:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T10:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnst.net\/?p=213075"},"modified":"2020-09-23T02:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T02:03:18","slug":"an-open-letter-to-adam-jones-and-anyone-else-who-doesnt-like-orioles-attendance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baltimorepositive.com\/an-open-letter-to-adam-jones-and-anyone-else-who-doesnt-like-orioles-attendance\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to Adam Jones (and anyone else who doesn\u2019t like Orioles attendance)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was only a matter of time before Adam Jones started popping off on Twitter regarding his feelings about the lack of people standing behind him in centerfield at Camden Yards. It wasn\u2019t as juicy as last year\u2019s advice to \u201cknock the s**t outta the Yankees fans\u201d but he made his feelings well known<\/a> yesterday about the worst crowd of the season to see the season\u2019s most significant game to date.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very apparent that Adam Jones cares more about whether the good people of Baltimore come to Orioles games than his bosses and owner do but still not enough to vest himself in our community enough to recruit people to come and pay to see the team play.<\/p>\n

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It must be a bummer for any Orioles player to endure the emptiness of the home ballpark while finally playing meaningful games and quality baseball.<\/p>\n

In 2012, the price to pay for 15 years of losing and the worst owner in the history of professional sports is what Adam Jones now sees with a fantastic view from centerfield every night: an empty stadium in downtown Baltimore and plenty of green seats to backdrop every fly ball.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been very clear that the prescient message I sent with “Free The Birds” in 2006 \u2013 \u201cif you\u2019re not careful, Mr. Angelos, we might leave and never come back\u201d \u2013 has now become a prophecy. The 2012 Baltimore Orioles are everything you\u2019d want in a local sports team to follow \u2013 interesting, fun, lively and relevant \u2013 and a grand total of 48K came to Camden Yards over four days to watch the best baseball this city has seen in 15 years.<\/p>\n

The empty seats are a glaring reminder of what’s gone wrong with the franchise and the city’s passion for the Baltimore Orioles since Peter Angelos bought — and then wrecked — the franchise.<\/p>\n

Once Adam Jones stops talking out of the side of his mouth and at the end of this run of success in 2012 \u2013 and I\u2019m not betting it won\u2019t end in a parade just yet because I\u2019ve seen stranger things happen — it\u2019ll then be time to invest himself in our community the way he likes to on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n

He got the $85.5 million deal back in May and it\u2019ll be his turn to become a Baltimore resident or not. If he\u2019s really interested in people coming to the ballpark then I hope he\u2019ll spend the offseason with the fans here and be Mr. Oriole all winter.<\/p>\n

Where will he be in November\u2026and December\u2026or January?<\/p>\n

Will he be shaking hands, kissing babies and attempting to become a guy who eventually gets one of those shiny statues out on the patio that no one is visiting these days?<\/p>\n

Will Adam Jones be in the community trying to win back the fans of Baltimore?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not talking sitting at a table in a card shop or swag store charging $50 for an autograph. I\u2019m talking about being a true ambassador for the community.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t about the marketing department. This isn\u2019t about buying more billboards or state-run MASN ads. This isn\u2019t about popping off on Twitter or mandating \u201csitdowns\u201d with people like me who are still pissed about the entire tenor and arrogance of the Baltimore Orioles and Peter Angelos over two decades.<\/p>\n

If the players on the field are embarrassed by an empty stadium, it\u2019s my belief is that THEY \u2013 directly \u2013 are the only ones who can do something about it. We have to care about them and want to invest our money in them. Clearly, Angelos, who is making $100 million this year on the Orioles, has no conscience or concern for the embarrassment of an empty stadium in a pennant run.<\/p>\n

If he did, he’d tell Greg Bader and the ticket department to drop the ludicrous “day of game surcharge” as a first move olive branch.<\/p>\n

But the Orioles’ leaders on the field \u2013 not just someone over there at The Warehouse with an advertising budget \u2013 have to make me want to spend my money and come and cheer for them. Someone has to make me make the immense effort to come and support the Baltimore Orioles of 2013 and beyond with my hard-earned money.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a good question for Adam Jones: where will Buck Showalter be this offseason?<\/p>\n

Every great organization takes its cue from its leader. And as great as Showalter has been at rallying the troops and leading these men into baseball games all summer, he hasn\u2019t exactly been a \u201cman about town\u201d as an ambassador of season ticket sales during the off-season the past two years. And truth is, he knows better because he \u201csold\u201d baseball in Arizona as the Vice President of Everything with the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

And no one is more charming or \u201cbig league\u201d than Buck Showalter. I’m a big fan of Buck. He’s done a great job getting the team winning again but he’s hardly been a reason that people have purchased tickets.<\/p>\n

The fans also realize this as well: by any statistical measurement, what we\u2019re seeing is a fluke for the 2012 Baltimore Orioles. A fluke we\u2019re enjoying, but a fluke. The Orioles have scored 548 runs and surrendered 592. They’re also 72-58 and would be in the playoffs if the tournament started today.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not our job at WNST to \u201crecruit\u201d paying customers for Mr. Angelos. He\u2019s done everything he can do to end my career, my business and wreck the city\u2019s already shaky sports psyche. And at WNST.net & AM 1570 — the leading sports media conversation vehicle by any current measurement on the web — we talk about the Baltimore Orioles about six to eight hours per day. Even now with the Ravens beginning another purple campaign, the Orioles are relevant and interesting enough to discuss and watch on TV every night.<\/p>\n

But for some reason, as a community, we\u2019re not all that interested in coming downtown and participating in 2012 Orioles Magic as paying customers. That much is obvious.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s eerily reminiscent of the Baltimore Colts ownership and quick demise. The Colts won the Super Bowl in January 1971. They stunk for three seasons but by 1975 they were relevant, fun and winning and fans were so pissed at Bob Irsay about the way he ran Johnny Unitas out of town that they wouldn\u2019t even fill Memorial Stadium during the 1976 & 1977 seasons when Bert Jones and the Sack Pack were amongst the best teams in the NFL. They stunk again from 1978 until March 28, 1984 when Irsay brought the Mayflower vans and moved the team to Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

The Orioles aren\u2019t moving anywhere except deeper into the pockets of Baltimore sports fans via our cable television bill and more MASN money. Angelos is printing so much money that he\u2019ll be giving Adam Jones $85.5 million whether we show up or not. And by the time Jones gets to the final year of his deal, it\u2019ll be time for Manny Machado or Zach Britton or Dylan Bundy to get $100 million of Angelos\u2019 money. Oh, and the beers will be $10 at the ballpark and the seats will be $40 by then.<\/p>\n

And someone should tell Adam Jones that the seats behind him are $35.25 next weekend when the Yankees come to town. That’s a bleacher seat. That’s too rich for most people and the empty seats are the result.<\/p>\n

The Orioles have reaped what they have sown in the community. And the Ravens have earned the hearts, minds, wallets and spirit of the Baltimore sports fans. It’s interesting to read Adam Jones’ comments in regard to the local love for the color purple and that no Grand Prix traffic mess would keep Ravens fans away.<\/p>\n

He’s probably right about that.<\/p>\n

As I wrote two weeks ago, I\u2019m starting to believe that Orioles fans and Ravens fans are by and largely two different core fan bases<\/a> throughout the world.<\/p>\n

But don’t blame me. I\u2019m the only guy in Baltimore running a full orange bus to New York on Saturday to support the Orioles vs. the Yankees and eagerly awaiting the Ravens opener next Monday against the Cincinnati Bengals. I have enough love and time and energy for both teams.<\/p>\n

I watch the Orioles play every night. And even though I\u2019ve watched 125 games from my couch this summer, I\u2019m only giving my money to the Ravens.<\/p>\n

But I was in the backseat of my sister in law\u2019s car in Manchester, New Hampshire four nights ago sitting alone with the car off and getting gnawed by mosquitoes listening to WBAL on her car radio while Nate McLouth walked with the bases loaded and following every pitch on mobile via WNST.net\u2019s scoreboard.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all in — in spirit.<\/p>\n

But I will not be giving Mr. Angelos any money this month or in October.<\/p>\n

Major League Baseball says I\u2019m credentialed for all postseason games. If I have a press seat in the playoffs, I\u2019ll be there. If not, I\u2019ll watch from television and see what Joe Buck thinks of Camden Yards if they get that far.<\/p>\n

I hope the Baltimore Orioles do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pulling for you, Adam Jones and Buck Showalter and anyone else who is wearing orange and black. And if people come and fill Oriole Park at Camden Yards, then good for them and good for you. If they feel you\u2019re worth their money \u2013 not just their time — they will.<\/p>\n

But, Adam, you\u2019re battling long odds and you should think before you tweet. And if you want people back in the stadium that’s going to be on you because Mr. Angelos doesn’t really care and it doesn’t affect his ability to write your $650,000 check every other Friday.<\/p>\n

The owner has screwed virtually everyone in the city for 15 years. All of the businesses are gone because they were mistreated. The fans have stayed away because the team has consistently stunk. The community outreach of the franchise is a joke. The owner still doesn\u2019t even greet the men he built statues for so how disingenuous is that?<\/p>\n

And, Adam, if you\u2019re a just a touch jealous of the relationship that Steve Bisciotti has with his players \u2013 sitting courtside with Ray Lewis and Joe Flacco at Maryland games \u2013 then you should’ve spoken up before you took his money.<\/p>\n

All the fans who want to see a packed Camden Yards will get their wish next Thursday. The team already has 40,000 seats sold to get Cal Ripken statues and honor the King of Tufton Road and Aberdeen. Some Orioles Magic vs. the Yankees at a packed house next week will do wonders for what could be for the rest of September and beyond.<\/p>\n

For some, all nights with memories of 2131 or the glory days of 1979 or 1983 or 1996-97 does is make them remember when they DID come to the ballpark regularly and help support the team with their wallets and their hearts.<\/p>\n

And the fans felt a collective “thank you” from people like Cal Ripken and Brooks Robinson.<\/p>\n

Baltimore sports fans have been taken for granted for three generations by franchise owners on all sides.<\/p>\n

Here’s a memo to Adam Jones and anyone else who thinks Camden Yards should be full: the citizens of Baltimore owe you NOTHING in regard to giving you, the Orioles or Peter Angelos more money or disposable income.<\/p>\n

Everyone knows Angelos is stealing $3 per month from their cable bill via MASN. All of us already PAY to watch Adam Jones play\u2026even if we\u2019re not watching the Orioles. Onto itself, that\u2019s a freaking civic joke of biblical proportions and should be offensive to anyone with a brain.<\/p>\n

Now that I truly examine the empty stadium situation, there isn\u2019t any ONE reason people who used to come to Orioles games aren\u2019t coming.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kinda like a David Letterman act. There are at LEAST a Top 10 list of reasons…<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because of the the owner?<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because of the years of losing?<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because MASN is sucking money from our wallets?<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s easier to enjoy what we\u2019re already paying for and just watch the games on TV in HD? (Even if the cheeseball crew who calls the games like state-run TV are almost unwatchable or unlistenable. Maybe that\u2019s part of the plan? If Jim Hunter is so bad and the radio broadcasts of Joe Angel and Fred Manfra are somnambulant, we\u2019ll all rush back to the ballpark?)<\/p>\n

Maybe it simply costs too much money to come to the games?<\/p>\n

Maybe people are vehemently offended by a “day of game” surcharge?<\/p>\n

Maybe the markups and ripoffs on virtually every item inside the stadium is an issue?<\/p>\n

Maybe people don’t want to pay to park?<\/p>\n

Maybe the students aren\u2019t coming because of the Friday night \u201cbait and switch\u201d tactics that Drew Forrester chronicled here<\/a> and here<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because people have kids who don\u2019t care or kids who have school the next morning?<\/p>\n

Maybe kids are playing soccer or football at their schools in September?<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because no one in The Warehouse or on the field has truly vested in the community and the fans here understand that?<\/p>\n

But beating the fans up for NOT coming is not the answer.<\/p>\n

Next Thursday you\u2019ll get more answers. Camden Yards will be packed \u2013 for one night at least. But will they be coming back for the rest of September?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see\u2026<\/p>\n

That’s your job, Adam Jones and the men who are profiting and getting wealthy off of a public trust.<\/p>\n

It’s your job to make me want to be a paying customer.<\/p>\n

It’s not our obligation as a community to further pad your pockets.<\/p>\n

But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to see you win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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