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1) Quick note on the TBS deal announcement and how it relates to MLBs strategy during these negotiations. Players who play in the post season do not get paid salary. They get a share of GATE revenue from the first 3 games in ALDS and from the first 4 games in ALCS and WS. Owners
2) keep full gate revenue for games after that and ALL TV MONEY FROM THE POST SEASON. Post season games are very lucrative, as we see. So, regular season games = less than money per game from tv deals and vastly more cost per game in the form of player salary. So, the ideal
3) situation is to play 0 regular season games and as many post season games as possible. Obviously that cannot happen, as it wouldn’t satisfy the “representative season” clauses in the national tv deals, but working towards those limits is the most lucrative scenario. That’s why
5) MLB is in no rush to play more regular season games this year than it has to, and why expanded post season for this year and next year is so desirable for them. These national TV deals are paid to the league, then revenue sharing distributes a portion of each deal to EVERY
6) team, regardless if they’re in the post season or not. This is part of what leads to “tanking”. Teams with the worst records still get money from these billion dollar national TV deals...anyway,
7) if you want a full discussion on this topic, this video with @AgentRachelLuba covers it
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So, Rob, explain to us how you can be 100% sure that there’s going to be baseball but not confident there will be baseball at the same time? hmmm. What changed between those statements 🤔🤔 Players told you to set the season, but it’s too early to set the season right now,
isn’t it Rob? Because then you’d have to explain why you’re only going to impose 50 games when we could easily play 70+ right now. The tactic is to bluff with “no season” again and delay another 2-3 weeks until you clear the risk of “not negotiating in good faith by trying to
play as many games as possible”. The public backlash combined with potential of having to explain yourself in front of an arbitrator isn’t too appealing, is it? Let’s see...the way I have it figured you want to play between 50 and 60 games. Can’t make it 50 cuz that would be too
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The owners’ whole strategy from the beginning has been this. Play as few regular season games as possible to limit player cost as much as possible. Play as many post season games as possible to drive revenue as high as possible. They’re more than happy to play only 50 games...
Only way they play more is if players agree to play more games for the same amount of money as they’d be getting at 50 games. There is no rush for the owners to get baseball back yet, as a 50 game season can start in august, so spring training 2 wouldn’t have to start until mid
July. So you, as fans, can form your own opinion to this question: why would players play the additional 24 games for free and burden the additional risk of injury?
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Wrong question. Let’s say you’re a painter. A client who is renovating apartments says he will pay you 100k this year for your painting services. You agree and sign the contract. You expect to be paid 100k. The client then experiences a fire and loses half of their apartments. 1)
This is not your fault, but it’s not the client’s fault either, so you mutually agree that you will accept 50k instead of 100k as a show of good faith. A new contract is signed. Then the client realizes they won’t be able to rent as many of their apartments as they originally 2)
thought, so they propose that instead of paying you 50k, they’ll pay you half of their rental income. You have no idea how much their rental income is, and they won’t disclose it. The question then becomes, is it your fault, as the painter, that the client cannot rent his 3)
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