PA GE LOCK IN YOUR BIRDLAND SUMMER 888-848-BIRD local players who should be on 'dancing with the stars' 233 05.17 EVERYBODY By RICH DUBROFF KIRBY Whether it’s with his trademark laugh, his cooking skills or his lessons in baseball and life, Orioles first base coach WAYNE KIRBY has endeared himself to everyone in his circle >>> PAGE 10 photography– todd olszewski/courtesy of the baltimore orioles of the baltimore photography– todd olszewski/courtesy VISIT BUYATOYOTA.COM FOR GREAT DEALS! buyatoyota.com Strike out The CompOtition TH INNING Issue 233 • 05.15.17 - table of contents - COVER STORY Everybody Loves Kirby............................................. 10 Whether it’s with his trademark laugh, his cooking skills or his lessons in baseball and life, Orioles first base coach Wayne Kirby has endeared himself to everyone in his circle FEATURE STORIES Sports Business w/ Ed Waldman ...............................08 Orioles Report w/ Rich Dubroff.............................. 17 Ravens Report w/ Bo Smoka .....................................25 Maryland Gaming w/ Bill Ordine ............................34 Varsity Report w/ Wick Eisenberg............................ 37 COLUMNS > One Fan’s Opinion .................................................05 Stan “The Fan” Charles > Connolly’s Corner ...............................................18 Dan Connolly > Upon Further Review............................................ 21 Jim Henneman > The Reality Check ................................................33 Glenn Clark SECTIONS Front Row ................................................................06 College ....................................................................27 VOICES Community Beat ......................................................38 They Said It On Glenn Clark Radio......................... 40 Ricig’s World Of Sports ...........................................42 may 2 017 | | 3 BY STAN “THE FAN” CHARLES TRACK THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE ORIOLES AND THE REST OF THE LEAGUE PRESENTED BY PressBoxOnline.com Participate in a clinical research trial INVESTIGATIONAL MEDICATION The Baltimore Early Phase Unit, located at Harbor Hospital For more information, in Baltimore, MD is currently seeking volunteers to participate please visit our website in a clinical research trial to evaluate a new investigational www.parexel.com/baltimore medication for weight management. or call 1-877-617-8839 WE ARE RECRUITING: The study involves 1 information please reference study • Healthy males visit, 1 screening visit, 1 in-house #228172. stay of 8 days/7nights, and • Ages 18-55 6 follow-ups. • BMI 25 to 34.9 If you qualify you may receive up to • Smokers accepted $4,420.00 for completing the study. © 2017 PAREXEL International Corporation. All rights reserved. 4 | | may 2 017 ONE FAN’S OPINION In Case Of Manny Machado, Red Sox 3600 Clipper Mill Road Should Have Let Sleeping Dog Lie - Suite 155 - Baltimore, MD 21211 Stan “The Fan” Charles game interview after the game, in which what a disrespected Daniel Murphy did Phone: (410) 366-7272 F ax: (410) 366-7220 Sale took dead aim at him, Machado’s all of 2016 to his former team, the New - PressBoxOnline.com - remember the first only talking on the field was done by his York Mets, who didn’t want to re-sign time I saw the movie bat. him to a long-term contract. Founder And Publisher “Chinatown” like it was Contrast that to how Machado han- Murphy had a monster 2016 season, Stan Charles yesterday. There are a dled previous attempts at payback: recording a .347 batting average, .390 senior editorial adviser I lot of life lessons in Ro- throwing his bat toward third base after OBP and .595 slugging percentage while man Polanski’s classic he felt Donaldson had tagged him too racking up 104 RBIs, 47 doubles and 25 Bill Ordine starring Jack Nicholson hard in the base paths in 2014, and an home runs. But he saved his best for his Community Beat Editor and Faye Dunaway. But one line I have episode last June in which he charged former team. In the 19 games against Jayne Charles always remembered was when a woman the mound and punched late Royals the Mets, all he did was get at least a hit Managing Editor who thinks her husband has been cheat- pitcher Yordano Ventura after Ventura each game, while batting .413 with a .444 Kaitlyn Wilson ing on her wants to hire Nicholson’s went high and tight with a 98 mph fast- OBP and .773 slugging percentage, while Associate Editor character, detective J.J. Gittes. Gittes ball. While Ventura got hit with a nine- hitting seven home runs and knocking Kevin Eck looks straight at her and says, “Have you game suspension, Machado’s four-game in 21 runs. I am not entirely sure, but if Vice President of digital Services ever heard the expression, ‘Let sleeping suspension cost the Orioles four games Mets general manager Sandy Alderson dogs lie?’” without their star third baseman, while would have known how stiff the retri- Jennifer Nelson It was the first time I had heard that Ventura’s nine-gamer probably really bution would be, he might not have let manager of digital programming line uttered, so after the movie I looked only cost him one start. Murphy get away. Glenn Clark it up (how did we look things like that I know it could be viewed as compar- By not paying attention to that old Editorial consultant up before Google?), and found its origin ing “apples to oranges,” but I’d like to cliché “let sleeping dogs lie,” the Red Sox Krystina Wales dated back to the 13th century, and it see Machado do to the Red Sox (the O’s may have just turned Machado into that Vice President, Sales and Marketing still have 10 games remaining vs. Boston) sort of adversary. quite literally meant not to wake fiercely John Coulson trained watchdogs because nothing but Account executives trouble would follow. Julie Sawyer Gail Greene That line kept coming back to me Hugh Collie throughout of all the drama during the early-season, back-and-forth with the Art Director Boston Red Sox, which began when Brad Meerholz Orioles third baseman Manny Machado Senior Graphic Designer injured Boston second baseman Dustin Kimberly Shilling Pedroia with a slide into second base. Office Manager At the time Machado was thrown at Leah Lancaster April 23, supposedly for that slide, he Staff Photographers was barely batting above the .200 Men- Sabina Moran Kenya Allen doza line. He did have three home runs and nine RBIs, but it’s more than fair to “inside PressBox” say Boston right-hander Matt Barnes Dave Laishley, senior producer throwing a 95 mph fastball in the vicin- Matt Stovall, producer/videographer ity of Machado’s head was as close to a Interns sleeping dog as you could get. Scott Gelman Dylan Sinn Since the wakeup call the Red Sox delivered on that late April afternoon, Machado has batted .254 and with five home runs and 12 RBIs entering play May 9. What has been most impressive about Machado’s maturation during these tests is that after Barnes went head-hunting, Machado got back in the > Scott Rifkin box and hit a booming double -- clearly > Bradford Mills > Stan Charles his hardest-hit ball at that point in the rd of season. a > John Coulson Bo Some nine days later, on May 2, when Directors > Andrew Levine Boston left-hander Chris Sale tried to make Machado pay for Dylan Bundy PressBox is published monthly by Word Smith Media Ventures, LLC, 3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 155, Baltimore, Maryland 21211 hitting star Boston right fielder Mookie (410-366-7272). Copyright 2017 by Word Smith Media Ventures, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Betts the night before, Machado again reproduced without the expressed written consent of the publisher. let his bat do the talking by hitting a PressBox is a free publication distributed every month on the 15th in monstrous home run out of Fenway Park. the Baltimore metropolitan area. Printed by Engle Printing & Manny Machado Publishing Company, EngleOnline.com Aside from an expletive-filled post- allen/pressbox kenya may 2 017 | | 5 After 20 Years, Towson FRONT ROW Golf Coach Brian Yaniger Stepping Down The Towson men’s golf team entered the 2017 Colonial Ath- Sports Radio Star Mo Gaba letic Association Tournament ranked eighth in the nine-team conference, after what head coach Brian Yaniger called “a tough year all around.” Fighting Cancer For Third Time During the tournament at Salisbury Country Club in Midlothian, Va., however, the team rallied and was within n April 5, a familiar voice joined the Scott them to set up a GoFundMe page so listeners can donate striking distance of the lead before ultimately placing third. Garceau Show with Jeremy Conn on 105.7 money to help absorb some of the expenses that come with “We were a team that had no expectations from anybody The Fan and revealed to listeners he’d be fighting cancer. Donations can be made by visiting gofundme. else of winning,” Yaniger said. “They played with incredible throwing out the first pitch at the Balti- com/mo-strong. Nearly 700 people donated almost $29,000 in pride, they played hard and with six holes to go, we were in it.” O more Orioles’ game against the New York the first nine days. It was a fitting end to Yaniger’s 20-year reign as the Tigers’ Yankees April 9. Gaba was first diagnosed with cancer when he was 9 coach. During that time, he took a program that did not even Eleven-year-old Mo Gaba, a native of months old, according to his mother, Sonsy. Sonsy said she have uniforms and turned it into a consistently successful Glen Burnie, Md., was concerned about first noticed something was amiss when she was taking pho- group with facilities and uniforms to match. the reception he’d receive from Yankees fans at the game. tos of him at a young age and noticed the photographs didn’t Yaniger’s term began innocently enough.