State boards approve Orioles lease with 2 weeks to spare, ending ‘uncertainty’ of negotiations

The moment before the Orioles’ long-negotiated lease to remain at Oriole Park at Camden Yards became official, Treasurer Dereck Davis — one of three state officials required to approve it — feigned hesitancy as the deal, at least formally, hung in the balance. The dozens of decision-makers gathered Monday at the historic B&O Warehouse exhaled and laughed, however, when it was apparent he was joking.