In 1996, iconic broadcaster Jon Miller left the Baltimore Orioles after 14 years. Ownership pushed him out, in part because of the tell-it-like-it-is style that has become so popular on Giants broadcasts in the decades since. Peter Angelos, a wealthy Maryland lawyer, had just bought the team and wanted someone who would “bleed more orange-and-black.”
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The 94-year-old Angelos’ health is failing, and his son John runs the Orioles now. But the apple clearly hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
It was reported this week that Orioles ownership suspended announcer Kevin Brown for the crime of … reading an anodyne graphic about how the Orioles had lost a lot of games in Tampa over the past few years.