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It depends on the size of the different revenue streams and their costs of acquisition. Any business will gladly give up revenue if their margins are small and if they are a publicly traded company then Wall Street will expect them to jettison low margin revenue streams, but as I stated in an earlier post, the cost of putting on the show (each game) is not that different for 1,000 people in attendance than 40,000 people in attendance, so there is definitely a reason to spend money to maximize attendance.

Yes, but EVERY one of those other ways is on a multi-year fixed contract so there is ZERO chance the Brewers can capture any additional revenue from changes in how the consumer, consumes the product, for years. Merchandise is only a fraction and that typically tracks with attendance so dropping attendance is likely not offset by any improvement in merchandise expenses. As an entertainment business, baseball spends almost all of it's budget on fixed costs. I would guess that a payroll budget of $100M for the Brewers comes with a $50-$75M to cover the minors, scouting, gameday costs, other personnel, travel costs, insurance, etc. Other than getting rid of low-cost ticket agents and ultra-low cost Ushers and vendors there is minimal cost savings if the team is playing in front of no fans or 40,000 fans. My guess is less than 1% of overall costs can be adjusted for any year based on attendance levels. However, there is always extra dollars from getting more and more people into the seats. Any reputable business on the planet wants to maximize revenue for fixed costs. For the Brewers, or any baseball team, that means filling stadiums as much as possible. So they will most definitely spend money to get butts into the seats. And they will definitely be concerned if they have dropping attendance especially when they are at the beginning of their TV/Streaming contracts because revenue doesn't change for years so fans watching on cable, listening on the radio, etc. won't increase the teams other income streams one iota. When the cost of getting people into seats is so high that it won't effect the bottom line is when teams won't care about fans in the stands, but that may never happen.

Donating to your local library is always a great option. If you qualify for itemized deductions then the donation can be included, if not, it's still a great way to share with your "neighbors".

[sarcasm]Yeah, continue to make policy based on articles on business websites. That's the place to learn all about health policy.[/sarcasm] Yes it is now with us. We will still be affected by it's presence for years. Still need to reduce infections.

Sorry. 1) Viral evolution for novel viral genomes was not a discipline until Covid-19. 2) You're wrong.

You couldn't be any more wrong. The level of infection is very important because each person infected is a potential candidate to harbor an additional mutation to the virus that COULD lead to a highly transmissible, highly lethal variant. The more people infected the higher the likelihood that one of those types of variants occurs. IT HAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE THE BEST HEALTH POLICY TO REDUCE/ELIMINATE infections. And while many people are vaccinated there is no guarantee that will protect against a much higher lethality variant. Get a variant with a 10% lethality and that's a game changer. 50%? goodbye most of the planet...

Ads changed for me too in the last day or so. I get an ad when I change forums or refresh a page. I keep getting ads for bicycle pumps they call enlargers...

The offense is actually very productive right now. With Cain starting over Bradley there an NO black holes in the offense. I don't remember that being the case for the 2011 team or the 2018 team where there were at least 2 sure outs in each lineup. Sure we don't have many great hitters, but we have average or above average at every position. We don't need 1 or 2 to carry the team when we now have 3-4 guys that should be hitting well at any time. With Yelich back and Taylor available to cover the Cain off days in CF we will consistently have a average/above average 1-8 hitters. That's awesome.

"Arcia hit just .204/.264/.347 in 53 appearances with the Braves." What! He was killing the ball at AAA! So odd that he wouldn't hit Major league pitching, oh wait, he has a career of data that shows he can't hit major league pitching...

Maybe he’s Ben Gamel in disguise? Where’s he keeping the beard? If you pull up on his hair the beard goes away... I bet if you remove his cap he has a man bun...

I could be misremembering, but it seems like Pederson has a 2000 OPS against the Brewers and 600 against everyone else...

I'm pretty sure the size of the contract had 99% of the influence on Yelich's decision.

I keep hearing Rowdy Roddy Tellez each time he's introduced...

The sun rises in the East The sun sets in the West Large market teams are the Have's in MLB Small market teams are the Have Not's in MLB Tell me something new... Won't change so no point getting worked up about it. The owners are screened carefully for any backbones before they can purchase. My concern isn't that MLB won't ever change, it's that the other major sports leagues become like MLB...

His OPS for July (about 1.8 times as many PA as that 7 game stretch) is 0.542. Even the worst hitter in MLB will have 7-14 day periods of very good performance, that's why making decisions on such a small sample size aren't recommended. When Hiura went 3-0 in the count last night I bet $20 that he would strike out. Easiest $20 I ever made...

Saw a stat that of all of the receivers that Rodgers has thrown a certain minimum number of targets, Cobb is the only one with a catch % of over 70%. Average stats: Wide receivers haul in 69.1 percent of the passes they receive on slot targets, while netting just a 59.8 percent catch-rate on perimeter targets.

So nice seeing Pina in his perfect spot instead of hitting cleanup. Cain for a 3rd game in a row just after an extended DL stint? Either CC is trying to break Cain or he finally realized the dumpster-fire that is JBJ.

Just 8? You are an optimist. Thankfully they didn't draft a WR in Round 1 this year as Rodgers probably would have required them to bring back Jordy Nelson from retirement. Why go with a rookie when you can sign a washed up Vet instead (copyright - The Aaron Rodgers GM plan)!?

Well if someone, who clearly doesn't have the ability to do your job, publicly backed a truck of manure and dumped it on you while you have been doing a very good to excellent job then you might be less than enthusiastic about their continued input on how to do your job. Gute should be happy. They got what they wanted. They called Rodgers bluff and he came back for the 2021 season. Another year of Rodgers with the current roster to try for a SB. Hopefully Rodgers performs to a level that they need and the Packers can trade him for the best deal in the spring. Rodgers had his say and now can shut up and play.

This may be the best trade in the history of the Brewers. With one acquisition we may not have to see Shaw, Hiura or Reyes again this year. That's like finding someone transferred a $1M into your bank account by accident and they won't take it back because it's laundered... Simply fantastic trade...

I don't think Gute and Murphy in roughly 30 minutes and aided by a top 10 public relations firm could have made a better argument than Aaron Rodgers that Aaron Rodgers should never be involved in any Packer personnel decisions/discussions. That's what we waited to hear about after 6 months of pouty Aaron? Roster and personnel decisions even an unpaid intern wouldn't put on his resume letter. If an anonymous poster came here and posted that those decisions were the reason the Packers were a bad organization, they'd be summarily rejected, laughed at and dismissed out of hand. Now if Aaron Rodgers says it... 'well I see what he's trying to say'... Yeah he's saying crap. Left, Right, and Center...

A league average bat that can play multiple positions seems like the perfect Stearns player. Just not sure it does much for this team right now. Does provide depth in case the injuries from this spring happen again. Outside of 2020 he's been a 3.5 or better fWAR player in both '18 and '19 and has been on pace to be around that this year. I'd say he's better than league average, value wise. wRC+ of 105 so far with a projected 98 for the remainder of the season. That's league average bat.

Operating a University is big business. Waive $10M in front of a University administrator and they would do almost anything to get it. You should see some of the ridiculous stuff that goes on to prostitute for donations. Public Universities are better than Private since they have some oversight, but when it comes to getting revenue and reducing the states cost (or getting more from the same $) then short of drug dealing, most activities are acceptable. Tradition has no dollar value. Loyalty has no dollar value.

After some of the dust has settled, it appears to me that this was all done because Rodgers wants out of GB. This is his idea as to the best approach to get what he wants while retaining his legacy with the Packers. His personal life is changing and his post-football career asperations are not compatible with a 6-month job in northern Wisconsin. Rodgers blew everything up simply because he calculated an approach that provided the optimal benefit to him no matter the fallout to others. Gute has been dragged through the mud, Murphy has been under a microscope for his actions and all so Aaron could get out of GB with as little fallout as possible. He can always claim the team pushed him out because they refused to give him what he is "due" and the team can't air their dirty laundry in public so they just swallow the crap Rodgers dishes out. What a class act.

Odd that his initiation of all this crap at the NFCCG post-game presser was a concern that he wouldn't be back and that he wanted to retire with the Packers and now just before training camp it's a negotiated peace with Rodgers getting out of his contract 1 year earlier... Yeah clearly he started all of this to make sure he could stay, but since the Packers didn't respond to his second request to have a major leader fired he now wants out... Good, hope we can trade him for a good haul next spring. Cobb? Really? Can they just pay him as a coach and not waste a roster space on him? I would much rather they get Amari and Degura touches way before a washed up Randall Cobb, but hey I guess Lord Aaron thinks he's not only the greatest GM never to be a GM, but also the greatest Head Coach...