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In a Falvey dictatorship why would you need a GM? Just hire 5 more minimum wage interns, spread them across existing departments and pocket the salary of the GM.
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It's amazing how many coaches is needed on a bench. I get pitching has changed over the yrs, but haven't these guys been playing been playing ball since they started walking??? It's not their first day on the job..

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I don't have a NYTimes/Athletic subscription, but this is the same story...

Four MLB Teams Drop Television Partnership With Bally Sports for 2025 Season

MLB announced Tuesday that the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins will have their local games produced and distributed by the league next season, which will provide more opportunities for fans to watch or stream their favorite teams.

Additionally, the Texas Rangers announced they will no longer partner with Diamond Sports Group in 2025 and will explore other options for the future of their television broadcast.

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I don't have a NYTimes/Athletic subscription, but this is the same story...


Does this mean you can't open the link?
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You can open the link, but I get a banner that doesn't let me read the contents.

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Heres the full story.



Major League Baseball said Tuesday that it will handle the broadcasts of three more clubs in 2025: the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins.

Those teams were previously carried on Bally-branded regional sports networks operated by Diamond Sports Group, which is in a long-running bankruptcy process.


MLB is now set to produce the broadcasts of six teams in 2025, fully 20 percent of the league and double the number of teams MLB carried last year. The league in 2024 produced the games of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies and San Diego Padres, and plans to again carry those teams’ games in 2025, a person briefed on the process who was not authorized to speak publicly said.

The league also announced Tuesday that a fourth team, the Texas Rangers, will also not return to Bally in 2025 and is considering its local media options.

“With the media landscape continuing to evolve, Major League Baseball is committed to serving our fans by ensuring they can see their favorite Clubs, removing blackouts where we can, and ultimately growing the reach of our games,” Noah Garden, MLB’s deputy commissioner overseeing television, said in a media release. “We are proud to bring Guardians, Brewers and Twins games to their passionate fan bases with the same high-quality production that we have demonstrated in Arizona, Colorado, and San Diego.”

Cleveland, Milwaukee and Minnesota games will still be viewable on TV, just like Arizona, Colorado and San Diego games. For the newcomers, MLB will negotiate deals with local cable and satellite distributors, just as a third-party regional sports network would. But the exact channels that the three teams will be carried on in 2025 aren’t known yet.

Overall, though, MLB taking over will indeed help reduce one form of the blackouts that so bother fans. Brewers, Guardians and Twins games will be available via in-market streaming: fans can subscribe to stream games inside their market without having to subscribe to a TV or satellite package.

For Guardians and Twins fans, that’s a new development, while the Brewers previously had an in-market streaming option available via Bally.

In 2024, Diamond carried the games of 12 MLB teams on TV. Five of those teams — including Milwaukee — had also granted Diamond digital in-market streaming rights. But Cleveland and Minnesota did not have a streaming deal with Diamond, in no small part because MLB often did not see eye-to-eye on the value of those rights.

Now, all three teams are going to be available via in-market streaming.

“Last season, the Guardians reach on its RSN was approximately 1.45 million households and the Twins reached approximately 1.08 million homes,” MLB said in Tuesday media’s release. With MLB’s direct-to-consumer streaming option, Cleveland’s games now can reach up to approximately 4.86 million households (plus 235 percent) and Minnesota expands to approximately 4.40 million homes (plus 307 percent).”

MLB did not announce pricing details on Tuesday. The three teams MLB broadcast in 2024 could be streamed for $19.99 a month or $99.99 for the season each, but it’s unknown if that pricing will change.

Handing the broadcasting reins to MLB could mean at least a short-term dip in revenue for the teams that do so compared to what they were paid by established regional sports networks. The trade-off is the increased reach, which over time could lead to improved revenue streams.

“We think that reach is a really important change,” commissioner Rob Manfred said in July. “San Diego is kind of the leader in the clubhouse there, approaching 40,000 subscribers, which is a really good number. Having said that, from a revenue perspective, it is not generating what the RSNs did. The RSNs were a great business, lots of people paid for programming they didn’t necessarily want and it’s hard to replicate that kind of revenue.”

In the big picture, Tuesday’s news helps MLB move toward a spot where it could someday offer a national in-market streaming package, something Manfred said early this year he hoped to do by 2025. But to launch such a package, MLB would need the streaming rights to at least 14 teams, Manfred said at the time, so MLB still isn’t quite halfway there.

But it’s possible MLB could grow the portfolio even further from here in the near term.

Diamond Sports Group broadcast eight other MLB teams last year. In court last week, Diamond said it was dropping the contracts of the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays. (Those teams could negotiate new deals, however.)

Diamond also intimated in court that if the Los Angeles Angels, Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Kansas City Royals and Miami Marlins do not accept renegotiated deals, Diamond will eventually walk away from them as well.

The one team whose current TV contract Diamond last week said in court it intended to keep is the Atlanta Braves.

MLB’s announcement comes one day before another court hearing in the Diamond bankruptcy process, which has been going for more than a year and a half.

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a bad day of fishing is still better than a good day at work!!

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I had no idea that Carl tried selling the Twins as much as he tried. Hopefully they find a buyer or buyers that won't be shy of spending some cash. Although I didn't I read where the tax payers payed for lots of the stadium... :scratch:

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This is a big deal.  Hopefully they are good new owners and want to kick some azz.  This would be a great base for someone or some guys that want to do that.   

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I'd love to know the back story on the decision to sell, but I reckon the Pohlads will keep it all in the family.

By outside appearances, it seemed like Joe was running the team, the way Jim ran the team, the way Carl ran the team:  Little Engine that Could-style.

Could it be that Joe didn't know any other way to run the team and found out he didn't have the stomach to take heat/criticism from the public and the media?  :scratch:

Or maybe Joe would have wanted to invest more in the team, but wasn't given access to the Pohlad family fortune to transfer money to Twins' player salaries.   :doah:

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Or for 1.4 billion they don't need to pretend to like baseball. Or the bean counters have told them the capitol gains loopholes are closing. 
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Fun fact....

As of May 23, 2024, the top five Major League Baseball teams with the highest payrolls are:

New York Mets: $305.62 million
New York Yankees: $303.32 million
Los Angeles Dodgers: $249.82 million
Philadelphia Phillies: $243.48 million
Houston Astros: $236.52 million


Along with either Cleveland or Detroit which of the above 3 teams are in the final four of the World Series this year?


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The Dodgers have almost as much as the Twins franchise is valued at ($1.025 billion) tied up in the 2 FA signings of Yamamoto ($325 mil) & Ohtani ($700 mil) this year. :rolleyes: The combined yearly Luxury Tax...ie.... .cap hit for those 2 deals is at least $73 million for the next 10 years unless Yamamoto elects to Opt-out. :crazy: Which he can in 2030 or 2032. No way any small market team can compete with those #'s. :doah: https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/_/year/2024/status/signed/team/lad
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It will be up to Cleveland or Detroit to disprove the statement that you "can't buy a championship".

When realignment rolls around in a few years maybe they will have a "haves" vs the "have nots" in separate divisions. The newer wild card formats are doing a great job of keeping the fans of the "have nots" interested the last 1/4 of the season.
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 :scratch: I wasn't sure where to put this, but I discovered last night checking out the Wild game that BSNOR is now Fan Duel North HD or FDNORHD. It looks to me like the change was made on Monday.
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I didn't think it would happen that fast.  Sounds like a positive thing I think.

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:scratch: I wasn't sure where to put this, but I discovered last night checking out the Wild game that BSNOR is now Fan Duel North HD or FDNORHD. It looks to me like the change was made on Monday.

Diamond Sports Group to Rebrand Bally Sports to FanDuel Sports Network

Mike Raffensperger, President, Sports, FanDuel, stated: “Partnering with Diamond provides us an opportunity to put the FanDuel brand at the intersection of the nation’s largest group of regional sports networks. A large cohort of FanDuel customers are devoted RSN viewers and this agreement allows us to further cement the FanDuel brand with sports fans and provides a unique vehicle to reward our users.”

On October 21, the Bally Sports RSNs will officially be renamed under the FanDuel Sports Network brand with corresponding regional monikers. Diamond Sports Group‘s 16 owned and operated RSNs will include: FanDuel Sports Network Detroit, FanDuel Sports Network Florida, FanDuel Sports Network Great Lakes, FanDuel Sports Network Kansas City, FanDuel Sports Network Indiana, FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, FanDuel Sports Network North, FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, FanDuel Sports Network Oklahoma, FanDuel Sports Network SoCal, FanDuel Sports Network South, FanDuel Sports Network Southeast, FanDuel Sports Network Southwest, FanDuel Sports Network Sun, FanDuel Sports Network West, and FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin. Additional partnership elements and collaborations will be introduced in the coming months. Fans can visit fanduelsportsnetwork.com to continue streaming their local games when they log in with their TV provider or subscribe directly to FanDuel Sports Network.

 Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.  Additional information regarding Diamond’s Chapter 11 cases, including court filings and information about the claims process are available [online].

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World Series tonight on Fox.

Tune in and see the talent difference a $170 million a year can buy you.

I know it's MLB's showcase but they should be embarrassed the salary discrepancy between the large markets and the mid / small markets.

Just remember even though the Dodgers spent $1 billion last year in free agents they still can afford Soto this offseason. :censored:
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dutchy.......you might be the only one in the midwest that gives 2 sheets about the series!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
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I saw a replay today of when Hrbek hit a grand slam in game 6 of the 87 series. Fun times!

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dutchy.......you might be the only one in the midwest that gives 2 sheets about the series!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:


It's baseball Glenn. There are some mega star players going at it. Besides, USC plays the Big 10 powerhouse Rutgers in football after the baseball game.....set your alarm.  :rotflmao:
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dutchy.......you might be the only one in the midwest that gives 2 sheets about the series!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:


It's baseball Glenn. There are some mega star players going at it. Besides, USC plays the Big 10 powerhouse Rutgers in football after the baseball game.....set your alarm.  :rotflmao:
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dutchy.......you might be the only one in the midwest that gives 2 sheets about the series!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
I love playoff baseball!  Salaries aside...  it is hard to decide who I want to lose more.   :bonk:

I settled on the Dodgers for embracing Satanic Nun Night last year.   :evil: :angry:  So it looks like I'm rooting for those Damn Yankees.  :angel:

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Ex Twins phenom pitching prospect Brusdar Graterol now pitching in relief for the Dodgers. He just retured the side.

In the trade the Twins got starter Maeda, a catcher, cash, a draft pick, and some other guy.

Graterol looked pretty good.

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Because of injuries he didn't pitch much this year. But over-all I think the Dodgers were happy with the trade.

Been a old fashion pitching duel tonight.
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Wow crazy ending.  Watched it from the 8th inning.  Walk off grand slam for da dodgers!
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dutchy.......you might be the only one in the midwest that gives 2 sheets about the series!!!!!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
:tut: I even watched the pregame show :cheerleader:.....................I just put it on mute when A Rod starts talking. ;) :smiley: I dreaded this WS as I don't like either team :rolleyes:......................but I've always been a Freddy Freeman fan since his days with the Braves. So, I'm pulling for the LA. Plus, the NYY's fans are almost as nasty as the Phillies fans, so it's easy for me to root against them. Great game last night, the matchup of lefty-on-lefty came back to bite Boone & the Yankees last night. I'm not sure why they're still pitching to Stanton either, as that's 5 or 6 games in a row that he's homered. Yankees don't want to go home 0-2, so it should be another real good game tonight.
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Always fun to see the Yankees get beat isn't it?