Rich Dubroff
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May 4, 2020 at 7:00 am
The Orioles’ all-underrated team
Thanks to the many who’ve reached out, in the comments section, Facebook, Twitter and on email with your suggestions for an all-Orioles underrated team. There are many who could have qualified. First, I’ll tell you who’s not underrated: Mark Belanger, Dave McNally and Boog Powell. Those were common nominations. Belanger, McNally and...
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4.4K18April 30, 2020 at 7:00 amForty years of Baltimore sports memories
Wednesday’s fifth anniversary of the Orioles’ fanless game was widely noted. It was a sad time in Baltimore, and an especially sad...
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April 29, 2020 at 6:14 pm
Orioles offer ticket-holders 125 percent credits or refunds for canceled games
The Orioles announced Wednesday that they are offering season-ticket and single-game purchasers a credit for canceled games in March, April and May of 125 percent, or a full refund. The credit can be used for games in 2020, 2021 or 2022. Those who want refunds must submit their request by June 30th....
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Trey Mancini: ‘I have no doubt in my mind I’ll be back playing baseball’
Trey Mancini’s days are full of doing what many others have been during this unusual period. While he’s been binge watching “The Office” and “The Wire,” the Oriole outfielder’s viewing has been taking place during chemotherapy. Mancini, who had colon cancer surgery on March 12, had his first chemotherapy session on April...
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Trey Mancini’s grace; Another schedule idea; MLB OK’s refunds
After Trey Mancini’s disclosed that he’s undergoing chemotherapy for colon cancer that would sideline him for the 2020 season, assuming there is one, the reaction from Orioles fans and teammates was understandably supportive. Mancini’s article in The Players’ Tribune read as if it were Mancini speaking, and the support he’s received was...
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April 28, 2020 at 8:45 am
Orioles’ Trey Mancini: ‘If baseball returns in 2020, it will probably be without me’
In his first detailed comments about his March 12 colon cancer surgery, Orioles outfielder Trey Mancini said that he began a six-month chemotherapy regime on April 13, and that if there is baseball this season, it will probably be without him. Mancini’s comments are in an article he wrote for “The Players’...
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Manfred’s punishment of the Red Sox; MLB’s draft uncertainty; the legend of Steve Dalkowski
More than four months after he issued sanctions against the Houston Astros for electronic sign-stealing, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred completed his investigation of the Boston Red Sox and determined their punishment last week. Manfred suspended Red Sox replay operator J.T. Watkins for the 2020 season and banned him from serving...
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April 27, 2020 at 7:00 am
Orioles’ Alex Cobb thinks there will be baseball in 2020
Alex Cobb was supposed to start against the Minnesota Twins on March 12, the day baseball came to an end. Because he was recovering from a blister, it was decided that instead of traveling to Fort Myers that night with the team, he’d throw a simulated game on a back field at...
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April 23, 2020 at 7:00 am
Five Oriole questions to ponder as we wait
Had there been a 2020 season, it would be four weeks old, and the Orioles would have completed 24 games—15 percent of the schedule. After a trip to Kansas City and Los Angeles, the Orioles would have had a day off on Thursday before opening a home series with Toronto. By now,...
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April 20, 2020 at 7:00 am
It’s been a long time since the Orioles won a World Series or a major award
Everyone knows that the Orioles last won a World Series in 1983. The 37-year drought between World Series appearances is fourth longest in the major leagues. Only the Seattle Mariners, who were established in 1977 and haven’t reached the World Series, the Pittsburgh Pirates, who beat the Orioles in their last Series...
