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The team’s CEO has every intent of keeping the Orioles where they are.

John Angelos, Chairman and CEO of the Baltimore Orioles, is currently embroiled in a fierce legal battle against his brother, Louis Angelos. Last week, Louis Angelos filed a lawsuit claiming that John Angelos was planning on uprooting the team and moving it over to Tennessee, since that’s where his wife, Margaret Valentine, lives and works.

Today, John Angelos released a fiery statement asserting that the team will remain in Baltimore no matter what.

“My mother was born and raised in Northeast Baltimore,” said John Angelos, “and has worked with my father their entire lives to help the city, including by restoring the club to local ownership and preventing its relocation. For them, as for me, the Orioles will forever play at Oriole Park, and at no time ever have we contemplated anything different.”

Statement from Orioles Chairman and CEO John Angelos: pic.twitter.com/A1lqCcRRBm

— Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) June 13, 2022

“I want to assure our Orioles players and coaches, our dedicated front office Senior Leadership Team and staff, and our devoted fans, trusted partners, elected, civic, and non-profit leaders, and our entire community, that the Orioles will never leave. From 33rd Street to Camden Yards, the Birds of Baltimore, the iconic team of Brooks, Earl, Jim, Frank, Cal, and Eddie, will forever remain in the only city that our family and our partnership group has called, or will ever call, home — the finest city and birthplace of our national anthem of which we are enduringly proud and to which we are forever committed.”

John Angelos also noted that Maryland General Assembly recently allocated a large amount of money into the Camden Yards Sports Complex, which Orioles Park is part of, so he has no reason to leave right now even if he wanted to.