Peter Angelos is an ass.

We all know that I'm a Mets fan until I die. I love 'em, they're my peeps, I own a jersey for goodness' sake. But, I've also very quickly become a Washingtonian, and as a Washingtonian, I have a soft spot for the Nationals. I love that there's baseball in the nation's capital, RFK's cool, the new stadium could be even more cool (though hopefully less buggy), the chicken is pretty funny, plus it turns buttoned-up politicos into giddy little kids to head to a game without any use of I-95 or the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. However, not everyone in Washington who likes baseball or the Nats can get to the stadium for most games, and frankly, there's little better than settling in to watch a game with a cold drink and a glimmer of the playoffs in your eye on a sultry August night.

However, Peter Angelos, owner of the Baltimore Orioles and conveniently for him, the cable channel which carries the Nats he so despises, has relegated DC's boys of summer to minor league status by limiting the availability of MASN. And to make it worse, after a very successful inaugural season, he's now claimed even more games as solely the province of MASN, making it even less likely that the 1.75 million cable TV subscribers in the DC area who choose Cox, Comcast or Adelphia will be able to enjoy that most American of summer evening activities. It's an insult to the people of this city that so many of us can't even watch the team we're so proud of on a regular basis, and a really sad reflection on the state of MLB that it continues to kowtow to a bratty millionaire at the expense of the game. Shame on you, Peter Angelos and shame on you, Bud Selig, for not doing more to build this franchise.