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  1. TheLeviathan
    You purposely baked your numbers.
  2. TheLeviathan
    It doesn't change the issue. MLB's local media revenues are a substantially greater piece than the other sports. You can nearly trace payroll differentials directly to local media contract differentials.
  3. TheLeviathan
    The revenue disparity between seats and media is 31% vs. 23%. However, that 23% for MLB is nearly double what the other four major sports account for in local media revenues. Meaning....one of the biggest disparity points in baseball is local media revenue. Spin that any way you want, but in MLB those revenues are an enormous factor in payroll decisions. Yes, they should be putting more butts in the seat and I share your blame for the Pohlads on that. That doesn't change the issues within the larger context of the league.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I appreciate the thought behind this, but if the Twins are targeting talent I'd prefer it be somewhere other than OF. I do like Alcantera though and people should be more open to the idea of flipping a bullpen arm for an every-day (possible) superstar player.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Save them? In the short term they are going to take a substantial hit financially. Substantial. This only perpetuates MLB's problem of the haves and have nots. But it is step one to a larger war for the future of the sport. The question is if baseball is willing to have that war when the next CBA comes out or if they roll over and continue to blindly believe everything is fine. (Think: dog in the burning room kind of "everything is fine")
  6. TheLeviathan
    I cut cable/local a long time ago so I don't have personal experience, but I know the Phoenix Suns have resorted to that for basketball. I'm just not sure how that works with broadcasting deals. MLB is not notoriously flexible on this sort of thing.
  7. TheLeviathan
    I appreciate your optimism, but that is highly unlikely. $20 a month is more money than you pay for Disney Plus or Netflix for a fraction of the content. It also competes against the reality that pirating is free. Hardcore baseball fans will love it, but that's all you'll get. Casuals aren't dropping $20 a month. The Padres getting 40K was considered a win. (Manfred has been reported saying as much) It's the most of any of the teams using that option and none of the other teams have been reported. (Guess why that is?) Your numbers are almost certainly not going to happen.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Oh no, substantial drop.
  9. TheLeviathan
    My rankings of next to go: 1. Pederson 2. Sirianni 3. Stefanski 4. Dennis Allen 5. Antonio Pierce Cannales in Carolina is a good offensive coordinator (like...one of the best in the league), I think he's safe for at least a year given the awful state of that roster.
  10. TheLeviathan
    I would estimate the Twins will pull around 20,000 subscribers. I think the range is somewhere between 10k and 50k.
  11. TheLeviathan
    The Padres drew 40K. The Twins would be thrilled to even marginally beat that. They aren't pulling 200k.
  12. TheLeviathan
    It's the only move they had, give them credit for not dragging their feet. I would like to see them find a local channel as well. This also cements their media revenue as "paltry" going forward, just so there are no illusions about the ramifications of this correct decision.
  13. TheLeviathan
    The Penguin is quite good.
  14. TheLeviathan
    There do not appear to be a lot of good teams this year. Everyone is deeply flawed in some way.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Blaming the league definitely explains a decade worth of bad decision making by the team. Definitely. Or....and I know you won't accept this because you literally can't from all evidence you've provided this forum in all the years....perhaps it was just straight up greed. They've continued to take short term payouts no matter the consequences. My term fits perfectly: Stupid is taking short-term profit at the expense of the long-term health of your industry. It's been the MLB way for decades now.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I'm not disagreeing with that. Or championing a rebuild even. I'm just pointing out how difficult this situation likely is. At the end of the day their depth and injury issues (which don't appear to be changing) got them from one of hte best teams in baseball to basically a .500 team in a month. If you don't have money to address those issues, then wouldn't the prudent thing to do be a rebuild? I guess I'm secretly hoping we'll have more flexibility than we think. Otherwise my pessimism is going to be hard to shake.
  17. TheLeviathan
    To add to your argument, Last I checked payroll allocations can also come by trade. Who knows what could've been on the table had they been able to acquire more salary also. This FO has clearly shown a willingness to trade aggressively when allowed. One competent starting pitcher and one competent bullpen option and this team is looking at a run like the Mets. Or the D-backs. All you have to do is get in and weird stuff can happen. (You know...other than those two decades we lost every time!)
  18. TheLeviathan
    I honestly have no idea how this team gets better next year and they weren't good this year. Usually...that's exactly when you should be talking "rebuild".
  19. TheLeviathan
    This work has been done many times for you to the best of the ability we all have as non-owners. The truth is, when people do provide you what available evidence there is and it contradicts your narrative you choose to walk away from the conversation and then relight it again in a few days or weeks. This is your dead horse and always has been. You don't want objective measures of ownership and spending malfeasance. You wouldn't accept them if they were provided. Part of what makes that easy for you is the extent to which major league owners hide their revenues and profits from the public. They do it to get weasely stadium deals. To screw over the players in negotiations. To protect themselves from such horrid ideas as.....*checks notes* not starving their minor leaguers and paying them poverty wages. You know full well that a full accounting isn't possible and hiding behind that is tiresome. If owners were losing their hat as much as you imply, sports leagues would have a much more difficult time expanding and finding new owners. But, strangly.....they don't. I wonder why. Must be a sweet gig to build your business off taxpayers and then hide your revenues from those very same taxpayers while you cry poverty and get 20-40% of the fanbase/media to cover for you.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Darnold was like Bizarro-Kirk. There were open checkdowns and out routes all game and he kept hucking it deep. He was bad.
  21. TheLeviathan
    That JJ drop was a killer.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Another open guy he misses. Time for drags and screens.
  23. TheLeviathan
    They can't run because the Jets are loading up. He should run more, but short throws arent terrible calls. His QB has to execute.
  24. TheLeviathan
    I don't get the play call issues...did you not see Addison wide open? This is bad quarterbacking, not play calling.
  25. TheLeviathan
    Darnold is not on point today.
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