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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California
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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California

 

So not fair.

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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California

 

How much did the Dodgers sell for? If the television rights are worth that much money, why didn't Fox Sports just buy the team outright?

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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California

 

How much did the Dodgers sell for? If the television rights are worth that much money, why didn't Fox Sports just buy the team outright?

Didn't NewsCorp own the team before the McCourts?

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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California

 

How much did the Dodgers sell for? If the television rights are worth that much money, why didn't Fox Sports just buy the team outright?

Maybe they didn't want to get into the owning/running an MLB team business and wanted to stay with what they know in the broadcasting business?

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Fox Sports is close to clinching the exclusive TV rights for the Los Angeles Dodgers by paying between $6 billion and $7 billion over 25 years to put the team on its regional sports network in Southern California

 

How much did the Dodgers sell for? If the television rights are worth that much money, why didn't Fox Sports just buy the team outright?

Maybe they didn't want to get into the owning/running an MLB team business and wanted to stay with what they know in the broadcasting business?

 

But it made sense to pay three times as much for a piece of the business instead? When does that start making sense?

 

Four billion dollars in savings, even spread out over 25 years, can cushion A LOT of growing pains. This is madness. At the risk of being trite, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. These numbers just make no god damned sense.

 

How did every bidder for the Dodgers so horribly undervalue the franchise like that?

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So apparently you think that owning and running the Dodgers over 25 years would be equal to or less than $7 billion dollars?

 

How on Earth are you coming to that conclusion?

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So apparently you think that owning and running the Dodgers over 25 years would be equal to or less than $7 billion dollars?

 

How on Earth are you coming to that conclusion?

 

Are you responding to me? I honestly have no idea what you're trying to say here.

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Really? You asked "why doesn't Fox Sports just buy the Dodgers" in response to the story about them paying between $6 and $7 million over 25 years for the TV rights, seemingly implying that buying and running the team was in some way financially comparable. Why would buying the team make more sense?
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Really? You asked "why doesn't Fox Sports just buy the Dodgers" in response to the story about them paying between $6 and $7 million over 25 years for the TV rights, seemingly implying that buying and running the team was in some way financially comparable. Why would buying the team make more sense?

 

They just paid more than six billion dollars for the television rights to a team that just sold for two billion dollars. They could have paid the two billion, and gotten the television rights along with the rest of the revenue from the Dodgers. Instead, they decided to pay a lot more to get less.

 

That makes no sense to me.

 

And it's not like they needed to know how to run the team, either. Every team has presidents and GMs and directors who make the actual baseball decisions. Owners don't need to be active, and typically are not.

 

I'm not really advocating that Fox Sports should have purchased the team. I'm just stunned at the apparent disparity between the sale price of the team and the value of the product. It makes no god damned sense to me.

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