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Tuesday Bird Droppings: Orioles ownership is in the news again

Good morning, Camden Chatters.

Even as the Orioles enter a (hopefully) successful new era of winning baseball, positioned for perennial contention thanks to a robust farm system and canny front office, there’s one lingering issue that continues to give fans pause: O’s ownership.

It’s been a rough offseason for the Angeloses, from their unwillingness to invest in a team on the upswing — saddling the club with one of the lowest payrolls in baseball — to John Angelos’s ill-advised scolding of a reporter on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The most public conflict involved the well-documented lawsuits that pitted younger brother Louis against older brother John and their mother, Georgia, for control of the team.