Peter Angelos (owner of Baltimore Orioles) es morte

For Nats fans, I understand the hate. Although to be honest, its hard to blame him for the opposition. Do you think the Nats be OK with a team in northern Virginia? Or how about putting a basketball/hockey team in Baltimore?

For years, the DC media had effectively adopted the Orioles as the "local" team.

Regarding the TV rights, was it really expected to just hand them over for nothing. Thats unfortunately how the MLB does business. Teams have exclusive rights over geographic regions.
The whole Baltimore/D.C. or DMV geographic regions when it came to sports teams in both cities or one particular city, was a bit strange and peculiar for the longest time because it seemed, at times, like both cities "shared" or from an outsider's perspective, their was this comorbidity as it related to region's NBA and NHL teams. For decades, the old Bullets either played in D.C. or Baltimore or both cities had some arrangement where Bullets played home games in both D.C. or Baltimore until the late 1990's when D.C. finally built an arena in Chinatown region for both Caps and Wizards around 1998-99. Both Wizards/Bullets and Caps occasionally played home games at the Capital Center until the late 90's so one was never totally sure who's teams they really were. Just recently, Northern Virginia rejected a proposal to build a near-billion dollar arena for the Caps/Wizards in IIRC, around Arlington, a D.C. suburb.

The distinctions or fan loyalties became a lot clearer from the early 70's-mid-2000's, as after the old Senators left for DFW, Orioles became the de facto MLB team for Washington-based MLB fans until 2005 whereas conversely, by the early-to-mid 80's with rise of Redskins as SB contenders/Champions throughout the 1980's/early 90's, and the decline and eventual loss/relocation of Colts from Baltimore to Indy in 1984, for twelve, long years, I'm sure more then a few old Colts fans became Redskins fans, Eagles fans, in Saintterps case, he became a Saints fan, but until late August 1996, Baltimore sort of had become a Redskins town although I'm sure some grizzled middle-aged, senior citizen Ravens fans would probably swipe back at me for saying that.