Angelos should curb spending
Poor Peter Angelos. Things were so bad, and so much money was lost as a result of the canceled season, that he had to raise Orioles ticket prices. In spite of this, he is out shopping for an available football team to spend another $100 million or so on. I don't believe I'm either crazy or stupid, but I seem to be missing something here. It always seemed to me that when times were tough, you curbed your spending. I guess either the losses weren't so bad, or it was just a chance to milk more out of the fools in the seats.
Besides, Baltimore already has a football team, and they're champions, not a bunch of high-priced losers.
Marcia M. Miliman
Baltimore
Forget NFL; embrace CFL
It is time to forget about the NFL. Baltimore has a football team, and a championship-caliber team at that. Jim Speros and Don Matthews have developed a team to make Baltimore proud. It's time for the media, fans and Maryland's elected officials to embrace our CFL franchise. We don't need or want the NFL here.
Peter Angelos should worry about creating a championship baseball franchise and not purchasing a lame NFL team. Indianapolis relieved Baltimore of an overbearing owner and a losing NFL team. We don't need to have that type of situation again.
Rich Hershel
Baltimore
Fans are biggest strike victims
The baseball strike continues without a solution in sight. Will there be baseball in 1995?
The owners and players have been bargaining since August. They schedule and reschedule meetings every so often without coming close to a settlement. It makes fans wonder whether both sides are trying to rip off our pockets completely.
It seems the only ones to really suffer are the fans, who don't have a say. We just sit back and listen to both sides argue about who can get the most money. That's what it's all about, owners crying broke, players saying the owners are lying, which leads to the current stalemate.
Who do you blame? Owners raise ticket prices, saying that the strike has cost them lots of money. Players talk about joining a new league. Again, it looks like the dedicated fans who make these guys very rich are the ones who get caught holding the torch.
regory Foreman
Baltimore