Hello, friends.
Unless there is a last-minute reversal, we have finally arrived at Orioles Lease-mas Eve. Tomorrow is the day where first the Maryland Stadium Authority executive board and then the Maryland Board of Public Works will have to formally approve the second version of the agreed-upon lease that settles the Orioles in Camden Yards for hopefully at least another 30 years.
As you know if you’ve been reading this space, I was increasingly skeptical that anything would actually get figured out before the current lease officially expires at the end of this month. Foot-dragging that seems like it was largely due to the behavior of John Angelos made everything take this long, and once that first version of the deal was blown up before it could even be publicly announced, I wondered if it would be so easy to find an alternate plan.