Barry Objects to Deal for Angelos ; Asks Mlb to Split Tv Deals

The Washington Times › March 10, 2005

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D.C. Council member Marion Barry is demanding that Major League Baseball cease efforts to give financial protection to Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos because of the Washington Nationals, saying it would cripple the District's relocated team.

Mr. Barry wrote MLB Commissioner Bud Selig this week, expressing his "profound amazement" over baseball's "patronizing attitude toward our community" and firing a strident protest to baseball's efforts to combine part of the Nationals' local TV rights with those of the Orioles.

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Barry Objects to Deal for Angelos ; Asks Mlb to Split Tv Deals

"There is no reason that MLB should force D.C. taxpayers and the new team to put its financial health on the injured reserve list just to satisfy the prot...

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