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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    I heard a really great solution to this on Twins Daily that I fully support. I've pushed heavily for a 50% TV revenue cut, as they currently distribute gate revenue. That still allows the Yankees and Dodgers to have an advantage (they get 50% of 81 games) but drastically improves the TV revenue for the Rays, Rockies, etc. The solution I heard on Twins Daily is to flip the script on that. Teams get 50% of TV revenue. When the Brewers play the Cards/Cubs and their more lucrative television contracts, they get a 50% cut of that game's TV revenue. On the other hand, teams stop sharing gate revenue. This punishes teams like the A's, Pirates, and Rays who routinely run out a shoddy fan experience while the Brewers do moderately well in this regard. The Brewers earned that fan support through a solid stadium experience, competitive product, outreach programs, etc. while the A's just hoard money and throw absolute garbage on the field while doing it in a terrible stadium. I like that solution a lot. It rewards teams that try in a meaningful way while still sharing ever-expanding TV revenue to help those teams become even better.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Oooh, this is exciting. After years of sitting on their hands while the game crumbled, MLB has been actively pursuing improvements to the game and I have to give them credit for making (mostly) right decisions. First, they ended the lockout in a relatively timely fashion. I could have gone with less drama but teams played 162, which I was doubtful would happen. I'm a big fan of most of the new rules changes, particularly the pitch clock. A couple of months ago, they hired a former RSN executive to evaluate blackouts and how to end them. When Diamond showed signs of going belly-up, Manfred said MLB is open to acquiring the rights. All of this is good. It's long overdue, but it's good. And now there's this bombshell. As always, subscribe to The Athletic, they're great. But for those who don't, I'll pick out a couple of nuggets. https://theathletic.com/4226341/2023/02/19/mlb-economic-reform-committee-mets-bally/ Okay, so this scared me a bit. The problem isn't that Steve Cohen spends so much, which has traditionally been how MLB approached this issue. They want to reel in the top spenders but do nothing for the bottom revenue teams, nor punish teams that simply refuse to spend. Not great. But... For the first time in a long time, I'm truly excited about the future of baseball instead of bracing myself against just suffering through the sport's refusal to address its long-standing problems.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    I believe Bally’s missed an interest payment of its loans to buy the networks, not payments of tv rights.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    I assume they refer to the team name at the time but now that I think about it, I don’t know for sure.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I agree with that. Nothing positive comes from taking his opinions public in the heat of the moment.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    I mean, sure, why not? Also, why? Only half joking…
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s a system players voted for about 60 years ago, I think. Pretty sure the system predates free agency.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    I can’t fault a guy for wanting to get paid. I’d probably be frustrated in his position, too. I don’t think this can or should be viewed as “one side is right, the other is wrong”. If anything, the system is the true villain in the situation.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    If people weren't so wildly immature about calling the Cleveland team by their actual name, we wouldn't need a word filter in the first place so... *shrugs*
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    The best way to accomplish that is to find about 20 other owners, agree on systemic changes to the economics of the game, and vote for that change.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Hah! That is actually a side effect of a word filter intended for the forums. It never occurred to me that it would take effect here in the news section. I'll have to investigate that and figure out how to disable it. I edited the article and set it to publish and it definitely read "Cleveland That-Other-Name" and not "Guardians".
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    I think everything you've described here might cause team valuations to merely climb instead of shoot upward like a rocket as they've done for the past several decades. Given the extremely limited supply of professional sports organizations, I don't see prices even stagnating for the foreseeable future.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Welcome to Brewer Fanatic! While this situation is obviously unfortunate, Corbin Burnes pitching angry might not be the worst thing possible in 2023…
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    This isn’t true, though. I’ve seen this situation talked about in every baseball group I’m a member of, including Twins Daily.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    One is a front page news story and currently we cannot merge an article thread into a normal thread. I would have moved this thread this morning but it was so active I left it here for awhile longer. I’ll probably move it this afternoon some time One of my primary tasks later in the year is resolving the inability to merge an article topic into another topic.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    And let’s be honest about this situation. A portly fella named Rowdy Tellez should ONLY play for the Milwaukee Brewers. He’s a 2-ish WAR mascot.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    I’d probably pursue Lauer and Urias extensions first but if Rowdy could be had on a team-friendly deal, it’s a pretty good idea. I think he’s due to take a nice step forward this season. He won’t be an elite bat but I think there’s a little more upside there.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Neutrality isn’t necessarily an admirable trait. Sometimes people actually have opinions on things and that’s fine. Even with the weirdness and dumb rules of arb, having a star player openly talk about being frustrated/angry isn’t a good look for an organization. I guarantee Matt understands the nuances of arb, that’s not the issue here Matt isn’t here to defend the Brewers. He isn’t here to blast them, either. His role is to analyze what they do and come to a conclusion.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Let’s not make this personal. MVP is simply stating how arbitration works and their points are accurate. Whether it’s a bad system or not is kind of a separate argument, one I can’t recall seeing anyone make. Arb is considered universally awful by pretty much everyone.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    To be fair to Attanasio, I doubt he had any involvement with Burnes in arbitration. The front office, on the other hand... yikes. This is just the latest Corbin Burnes situation of several where the team doesn't seem even remotely interested in putting their best foot forward with a superstar pitcher.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    The entire arbitration system is a trash fire that should have been addressed in the latest CBA. It's in both parties' interests to not do it this way.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
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  23. Brock Beauchamp
    I think there's a fine line that can be walked on attacking early in the count. Watching a middle-middle fastball go by you has its consequences, too. First, it puts you in the hole 0-1. Second, it's probably the best pitch you'll see in that PA. While it's nice to run up opposing pitch counts, that in itself doesn't win baseball games.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Montreal got a raw deal and I'm unconvinced it's a "bad baseball town". The two times they were competitive and really good, baseball shut down. Then the commissioner tried to contract the team. There was a lot of deserved bad blood. Montreal is a large metro. I suspect they can and will support a team under the right circumstances.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    All of this. Arbitration is archaic and complicated. I doubt there are many hurt feelings about this given that both sides are fully aware of how the system works. Its a dumb system but it’s the system we have.
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