The Broken Business of Baseball (AKA never side with management)

[WrigleyField 22]

Plus, donations to the Trump Reelection campaign aren't org costs.

[Bertz]

What were ratings for April through mid-July?

 

About the same as their costs?

You think the Cubs org had 0 costs between April and July?

 

Mostly just non-uniformed staff, a piddling enough chunk of change that it's completely or at least mostly paid for by their revenue streams not directly tied to gamedays (e.g. Marquee's crappy non-game programming)

[Sammy Sofa]

Plus, donations to the Trump Reelection campaign aren't org costs.

 

More like orc costs, right?!?

 

[ConstableRabbit]

Plus, donations to the Trump Reelection campaign aren't org costs.

 

More like orc costs, right?!?

 

Looks like accounting's back on the menu.

[Sammy Sofa]

Dusting this old thread and old article off because I practically did a spit-take seeing an owner talking like this:

 

https://defector.com/john-middleton-spoke-the-forbidden-words-of-sports-ownership

 

By now, anyone who cares to know what John Middleton said has already praised him for it. And if you don't know what he said, or who he is for that matter, here's your post-facto primer: He is the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, he has committed 43 years and $1 billion to his six most expensive players, and he's damned proud of it, to wit, this:

 

How much money did the '27 Yankees make? Or the '29 A's? Or the '75-76 Big Red Machine? Does anybody know? Does anybody care? Nobody knows or cares whether any of them made any money or not. If your ambition is to be good, you don't make those decisions. If your ambition is to be great, you make those decisions. It's about desire, really. I just want to win.

 

But that's what the market requires. People say, "Why are you doing that? That's just stupid." Well, I did it because that's what it took to sign the guy. If I had stopped it at seven or eight years, I wouldn't have signed them. So, that's your choice. And if you're overpaying 10 years from now for an athletes who got you a couple, three World Series titles, I mean, what do I care? Seriously. What do I care? And I can guarantee that none of our fans would care.

 

Wow, an owner talking about his team like the thing it actually is instead of it like it's just another business venture. Astonishing.

[Sammy Sofa]

MLB’s Television Product Is Getting Shittier In Exciting New Ways

 

[LBiittner]

Perhaps Turner Broadcasting should stick to showing Shawshank Redemption 

[Sammy Sofa]

Maybe The Dodgers' Competitors Could Show Some Self-Respect | Defector

[BigbadB]

Was reading up on Padres ownership. Yikes x 5. 

Quote

"Earlier this month Sheel Seidler, widow of former San Diego Padres owner Peter Seidler, filed a lawsuit alleging his brothers, Matthew and Robert Seidler, breached their fiduciary duties as trustees of the Seidler Trust, which has controlled the club since Peter's death in November 2023."

 

[CubinNY]

4 hours ago, BigbadB said:

Was reading up on Padres ownership. Yikes x 5. 

 

Soon to come to a Cubs team near you, probably not in our lifetime. 

[Sammy Sofa]

Bryce Harper Opens Negotiations On MLB's Salary Cap Proposal By Telling Rob Manfred To "Get The horsefeathers Out" | Defector

[Sammy Sofa]

 

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

31 minutes ago, Sammy Sofa said:

 

Christsake

[jersey cubs fan]

35 minutes ago, Sammy Sofa said:

 

[Stratos]

MLB teams would euthanize puppies during the 7th inning stretch if it would make them money.

[JunkyardWalrus]

9 minutes ago, Stratos said:

MLB teams would euthanize puppies during the 7th inning stretch if it would make them money.

This we can agree on. 

Rampant capitalism is a sickness. 

Richest country in history and if you don’t work, you don’t eat. (Unless you’re a corporation, then you’ll be subsidized so CEO’s get their bonuses.)

[JunkyardWalrus]

4 hours ago, Sammy Sofa said:

 

Anyone else feel he has a ‘run-you-down-in-a-cornfield-with-a-tractor-to-water-the-crops-with-your-blood-then-feed-those-crops-to-your-family’ type face?

Not saying that’s how I feel, just, you know, something I’ve heard around.