"I am hopeful that by bringing dispassionate and disinterested arbitrators to the table we will be able to resolve both major and minor issues that seem to have been consuming too much of our time and energy," Stadium Authority Chairman John Moag said in a letter to team owner Peter Angelos.
The state claims the team has wrongly deducted expenses from the revenue the two sides share from guided tours of Oriole Park; agreed to pay for special painting and other work on the stadium but never paid; withheld required documentation for its rent calculation; and unreasonably denied permission for a tenant, Physician's Quality Care, to expand into unused office space in the warehouse. The state also wants to explore the impact of baseball's new revenue-sharing plan on the team's rent formula.
