No Orioles Allowed
The Baltimore Orioles franchise may finally have reached it’s nadir. The following sign is now on display at KBA (that’s Korea Baseball Association) parks everywhere (via Daniel Kim via C.J. Nitkowski on Twitter):
In case you’re not familiar, the Orioles were effectively banned from Korea after failing to follow certain protocols in their attempts to sign 17-year-old pitcher Kim Seong-Min. That’s a hilarious enough story in itself, but it’s still stunning to see it on paper and rendered in a picture on the internet. To me, what really hits home is the exclamation point at the end of the Korean version of the statement. These guys mean business.
Heck, maybe the Orioles need to have the KBA fax some of those over to the home base in Camden, considering the Orioles already blew up their own scouting department?
God Bless the Baltimore Orioles
I kind of feel sorry for Orioles’ fans. I remember so well – the many years the Texas Rangers went through so many dumb mistakes and being kicked around by everyone else.
Keep your heads up, O’s fans – your glory days will come again one day.
No they won’t. The Rangers didn’t have to deal with the Yanks and Sawks. Not to mention the FO of the Rays and Jays.
The Os are fucked.
Orioles Scouts: No bi bim bap for you!!
They needed to blow up their scouting department…it ruined a decade and a half of drafts. Bringing in fresh scouts under Macphail and Duquette was one of the best things to happen to this organization in 15 years.
“But you let in Homer Glumplich!”
AAaaaaa. You beat me to it!
Why can we sign a 16 year old out of Venezuela bit not one out of Korea?
Korea has laws saying that underage athletes cannot sign foreign contracts as a way to keep them in school, and possibly get their compulsory military time in. The kid was like 2 mos from turning 18 or something like that and had finished high school, so it’s not as big of a deal as the KBA is making it out to be, but they’re trying to make an example out of the Orioles here.
When I clicked on this, I thought it was going to be about the playoffs, not Korea…
NotGraphs T-shirt opportunity.
The sign says long haired freaky people need not apply
Good Song. I thought it was CanCon we heard a lot that wasn’t played elsewhere. I looked it up to see if that song got airplay in the States. In fact, it reached #3 on the Billboard charts.