We're only a couple of days away from the start of preseason games and the biggest news to come out of the Orioles' spring training camp is that the rebuild has extended into the radio broadcast booth.
Joe Angel's announcement that he's retiring after calling major league games for 41 years, including 19 with the O's, surely elicited a few cries of, "Say It Ain't So, Joe." It also served as a reminder that some pretty good people are unceremoniously leaving the Baltimore sports scene without a proper goodbye, a situation that hopefully might be rectified in this case.
Longtime Orioles outfielder Adam Jones did get to enjoy something of a farewell weekend at the end of the 2018 season, but the guy in the near corner of the dugout, Buck Showalter, was sort of lost in the shuffle at the end of that disastrous season.
