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So when John Angelos, the Orioles executive vice president and chief operating officer, appeared on a local podcast this week, he was asked about the idea of inviting President Trump for a first pitch at Oriole Park. “Ultimately that decision is with the ownership group as to what major politicians and political figures and societal figures they want to invite,” Angelos said on the B-More Opinionated podcast. “I know that the administration has taken a lot of criticism for its controversial positions; I think more so perhaps for statements made both during the campaign and since the administration came in...

A Baltimore Orioles executive says he'd prefer President Trump not throw out a first pitch at Camden Yards without first apologizing for statements that could be viewed as problematic "from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability" standpoint.   John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos and the Orioles' executive vice president and chief operating officer, said on a Baltimore-based podcast that divisive rhetoric and actions during Trump's campaign and since his swearing-in require that the president re-double efforts to embrace all members of the community.

DO FANS HAVE RIGHTS? Brian Ward, a member of the Daily News consumer panel, said he wouldn't call it rights exactly. "But I think ownership has to give a city a reason to root for the team," wrote Ward, of Blue Bell. "That doesn't mean they have to be good every year, but at least know that they want to win as much as the fans do." That helps segue nicely into what happened in Baltimore last Thursday, when a group of fans paid their way into Camden Yards and then loudly left the afternoon game at 5:08, a tribute...