Baltimore manager Buck Showalter may have considered the game nothing more than a "controlled scrimmage", but Bud Selig and other league officials are seriously contemplating a triple, and possibly even a double A relegation for the Camden Yards club.
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Wieters was unsuccessful in breaking up a double play even
though the Orioles were successful in embarrassing themselves. |
In what technically was an exhibition game played just before opening day, the O's lost to something called the State College of Florida Manatees (or SCF, if you're
that in tune with junior college baseball). And although the game was not a blowout, it was however televised. Albeit on Sarasota public access, there were actual witnesses to the 2-1 defeat outside of Ed Smith Stadium.
"I only came down here to get [Matt] Wieters' autograph," an unnamed loyal Manatees fan said while smiling, "but instead I couldn't stop laughing at him and his teammates!"
The commissioner surely doesn't want to deal with this black eye on the game, but as orioles fans will be quick to point out, their team has been nothing but a black eye on the league since before, and after Ripken retired.
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