We’re not going to recount the entire history of the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles’ years-long dispute over MASN money, because it requires the sort of recap that television shows have to do at the beginning of a new season to get viewers caught up, and we lost patience with this story years ago.
Hollywood Reporter writer Eriq Gardner does a good job of that in his latest story on the dispute anyway, so just read that to get up to speed before continuing...
The last we heard from this dispute, this past Fall, the Nats and Orioles went back before an MLB arbitration panel (comprised of three teams’ owners, with the teams changing on a regular basis) after the previous panel’s decision was challenged because of the fact that the Nationals’ lawyers, according to the Orioles’ lawyers, “.