Imagine the Tigers moved to Kansas City and took all the Tigers' records, etc. with them .. and changed the name of the team. Another franchise came to Detroit and left 10 years later. And then over the next 33 years, in one form or another, the Indians kept a new team out of Detroit claiming that Detroit wasn't a baseball town and Detroit was part of the Inidans territory anyway. Any misery in Baltimore is a cause for celebration in DC. 
PS And hell, I was a Pirates fan through most of those times. I can imagine how the natives feel.
When the expansion Senators took the short bus to Texas I was 10 and a growing baseball fan. That theft ended my love of baseball for many years. I started to get back into baseball when I started to drink beer! Coincidence or cause and effect? Well anyway cold beers in the stands at Memorial in Honsville was fun and Cal came up and then the O's won the WS. It still wasn't MY team and I still remembered the beat downs the birds would routinely lay on the Senators but it was MLB fairly close to home.
When DevilOs began to tank the product on the field and removed the "Baltimore" from the franchise name in order to keep MLB out of DC it ended my affection for the O's. Firing Jon Miller, the best voice in baseball, and losing DJ after two trips to the ALCS was the topper. Now I will never give another dollar of my money to DevilOs. Not at any level, not my hometown Frederick Keys, not the Baysox, not at Camden. If a Nats franchise is visiting I might go but somebody else is buying the tix, brews, and hot dogs.
F angelos!
