Well, the timing thing I do get... The article mentions there's another team to think about, the White Sox, which is true. They play the Yankees at 7pm Wednesday. Makes a morning start suck for them. So there are two options: Sox say, hey, early game is great! Give us some tix to the Ravens game and it's all good. Or, its a goddamn four game series. 7pm Friday, Saturday, 1pm Sunday. Holy crap, Batman! Doubleheader on Saturday? Is that so *ing hard to grasp? Hey Petey baby, just pretend it's going to rain cats and... cats that night. No different from a game being rained out, except the fans have a half year warning.
My main thing with this article is that I cannot conceive how Angelos doesn't think this comes back and bites him in the ass. If he got his way, and Baltimore lost the opening NFL game, jesus... If Baltimore sports fans have any self respect, Camden would be a ghost town. No matter what, no matter how minimal the effect is, this ain't how you sell tickets.