If you want to hear a refreshing bit of baseball fandom—from a team owner, no less—I’m going to point you in the direction of Michel Martin interviewing David Rubenstein, the rookie owner of the Orioles, on NPR’s Morning Edition. The Orioles had recently been eliminated from the postseason when this aired, but Rubenstein didn’t talk too much about that, other than to wish it had been different, and touch on his hopes for next year (more on that in a minute).
I’m going to state upfront that while I listened, it was as though Red Sox owner John Henry were a little shadow figure hovering around the edges of the interview.