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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Another Player looking into buying a team | ||||
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| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 06-22-2001 @ 8:57 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Orioles, Ripken negotiating minor league deal Ripken BALTIMORE -- Cal Ripken Jr. and the Baltimore Orioles are close to an agreement that would bring a minor league team to Ripken's youth baseball/minor league complex being built in Aberdeen, Md., the Washington Post is reporting in its Friday editions. The unnamed team, affiliated with the Orioles, would begin play next season in the New York-Penn League, a "short-season" Class A league. "We've been engaged in this effort for some time," Orioles owner Peter Angelos said Thursday. "It represents an excellent opportunity for Cal and for the Orioles." Ripken, who officially announced Tuesday that he would retire after this season, will be involved in the ownership of the new team, an existing New York-Penn League franchise that will relocate after this season. The league plays a 76-game schedule, beginning in mid-June and running through early September. Ripken's primary interest in the team is as an investment to help fund his planned youth academy and baseball complex that will adjoin the minor league stadium. The centerpiece of the youth complex, a field modeled after Oriole Park at Camden Yards, eventually will host the "World Series" of the Cal Ripken Division of the Babe Ruth youth league. "The spirit of the deal, from my point of view, is that the minor league team raises money for the youth league," Ripken said. "I'm interested in building something special." Ripken said he first suggested the idea of an Orioles affiliate in Aberdeen to Angelos at a face-to-face meeting in the offseason, but has kept himself out of the negotiations since the start of the Orioles' season. Joseph Foss, Orioles vice chairman and chief operating officer, said the Orioles and Ripken's representatives have been working regularly in recent weeks to finalize a deal. "It's not a done deal," Foss said. "But we are very close, and we're optimistic we will have a deal in the very near future." The Orioles will retain their existing minor league affiliates, which include teams in Rochester, N.Y. (Class AAA), Bowie (AA), Frederick (Class A), Salisbury, Md. (Class A), Bluefield, W. Va. (Rookie), and Sarasota, Fla. (Rookie). Although Ripken has made known his desire to run a major league franchise at some point, he and Angelos stopped short of predicting such an arrangement with the Orioles. The Aberdeen team "is really just as an individual case" and not the springboard to a future role with the Orioles, Ripken said. "If anything else happens down the line, I think it would be on its own merit." Angelos said it would be inappropriate to speculate about the possibility of a future role with the Orioles for Ripken, saying he is satisfied with the personnel currently running the team. But Angelos added: "The relationship between Cal and the Orioles is very solid, and there is nothing that could in any way militate against any role for Cal Ripken within the Orioles in the future."  SIG PIC CREATED BY AUSTIN 3:16 E-Mail Me METS will go ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!! Yankees & the Braves SUCK !!!!!!!! Resident Strip Club Pimp | ||||
| BaLLooN NoT | posted on 06-22-2001 @ 8:59 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | do you havea any comments on weather or not it is a good idea for a player or former player to own a major or minor leagu club??? my thought is that if a player buys a club they would bennifit from the experience they had from playing the game. therefore it would br a wise business decision for any club to @ least hire a former player of that team that knows how the team is & knows boutwinning. they have an advantage over the reagular guys who own these clubs. they have played & know what to do in certain circumstances that a regular guy may not. if u have any feed back please reply. SIG PIC CREATED BY AUSTIN 3:16 E-Mail Me METS will go ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!! Yankees & the Braves SUCK !!!!!!!! Resident Strip Club Pimp | ||||
| mikeWOW | posted on 06-23-2001 @ 3:46 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | i wish when some1 retires they would just leave the sport totally. "i hate people that dont get it!" | ||||
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