Posted on 04/10/2020 8:54:08 AM PDT by Meatspace
Major League Baseball is considering a plan that would eliminate the traditional National League and American League alignments for the 2020 regular season if and when it takes place, a high-ranking official told Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY Sports.
Under this scenario, all 30 teams would return to their spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona. The teams would only play games in their respective states and with no fans in attendance. The divisions would be realigned based on the proximity of spring ballparks for ease of travel during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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“There will be no MLB season and perhaps not even an NFL season or NCAA Football season.”
Ever again.
Best 7 game series ever?
Gotta agree there, as a Twins fan, seven home team victories, three extra inning games and five one run games.
The previously hated Jack Morris (because he was such a good Tiger) had such a great year. The local boy was Season Opener pitcher, started the All Star Game, started and ended the Series with wins, most notably the game seven 10inning complete game shutout.
Indeed, the vaccine narrative is nonsensical. Waiting for Godot. And I’m highly suspicious by the narrative and watching the politics play out.
Even social distancing is anecdotal. I think it has benefit to society but it’s not proven with studies. And as you say it is not “fighting” the virus it is the equivalent of hiding in a bomb shelter during war.
I don’t know if HQC truly works, and I understand the scientific rationale for double blind clinical trials. But even those have their limitations. You can never control every variable.
If HQC regimen works, that is the solution. For the most part, the sooner you treat a disease the easier it is to defeat. We need to make 2 billion pills. Anyone who tests positive or shows symptoms, unless contraindicated, should probably be prescribed. I am not a doctor. This is just my opinion.
I am not a doctor but two weeks is probably all what we need to discover if HQC is an effective treatment. The answer should be right there in the data. Like you said it does not have to be 100% but it’s like wearing Kevlar body armor and if you get shot, you might end up with a nasty bruise. Maybe broken ribs. But you’ll survive.
I don’t care if it’s crazy made-up sports, I want my poor Mom to have something to watch while she’s imprisoned in the nursing home, with no one able to see her at all for months. Something to occupy her attention would be SO welcome!!
never let a crisis go to waste
Watch some replays of the 2016 election night. You’ll feel better. There’s also Trump rally’s on youtube.
Thx but I’ll only respond to a good Yankees Red Sox 4 game series. Sigh ...
What I miss watching are the little leaguers. Especially the 6 to 8 year old group. There is something magical about their love of the game.
As long as the Cubs and Cards are in the NL Central, and they don’t include the Royals in it, we’re good.
The Nats have to be one of the most overshadowed world series champions. Opening day of spring training the cheatin’ strohs had throngs of press and tons of publicity, the Nats had like three reporters on their side of the compound. Then corona virus completely shut everything down. They are lining up to be one of the least heralded reigning champs ever. I guess the positive side is that maybe they won’t have a world series hangover, ha.
Freegards
TV is still the big money on the block for the NFL. The NFL currently has TV deals with CBS, NBC (owned by Comcast), Fox, and ESPN (owned by Disney/Hearst). In contracts that were finalized in 2011, CBS, NBC, and Fox committed to pay the NFL a total of $39.6 billion between the 2014 and 2022 seasons. The three broadcasters share rights to “Sunday Night Football,” as well as annually rotating rights to the Super Bowl. Fees payed by these networks are set to rise about 7% annually, meaning they will each be paying the NFL about $3.1 billion per year by 2022. In the same year, ESPN signed a deal to pay the NFL $15.2 billion through 2021 for the rights to “Monday Night Football.” In 2018, Fox signed an additional deal for $3.3 billion for exclusive rights to “Thursday Night Football,” outbidding NBC and CBS.
According to Navigate Research, a Chicago-based firm that specializes in the evaluation of sports and entertainment marketing investments, only about 10% of the NFL’s yearly revenue comes from merchandise deals.
Ticket sales constitute an important revenue stream for individual NFL teams, but they are nonetheless relatively small compared to quickly growing revenue from TV deals (you’re probably noticing a pattern here). On average, NFL stadiums seat about 70,000 people, and games usually sell out. This doesn’t leave much opportunity for growth. The average ticket price has increased about 7% annually since the turn of the century. Tickets cost about $30 in 2000 to about $102 in 2017, but the added revenue from these increases are negligible when compared to revenue growth from TV.
There has been an effort by teams for new stadiums to draw audiences. An example is Green Bay and Lambeau. Since Since 2010, the Packers spent more than $370 million gradually updating its stadium, Lambeau Field, including adding more seats. Since then, their yearly ticket revenue has jumped from $48 million to $71 million. But there’s more to that as most teams do not own their own stadium and pay “rent”.
NFL teams can also use stadiums to host non-football events, like concerts, but opportunities for revenue growth from these events have the same limitations. Paul Allen and the Sea Hawks had a piece in the contract with the city for this. His family gets it now.
Interesting like ticket sales, concessions are peanuts compared to TV deals. (Sorry) Concessions contribute only about $3-5 million to the average NFL team’s revenue, but the margins on selling food at games are extremely high. Beer and soda sold at stadiums have margins of over 90%. That’s why saving up for a beer is a must with the price it brings. And they have restaurants at many stadium where a burger will cost you the national debt.
Owners were mentioned in the baseball thing. An NFL team earned about $7 million, on average, in ticket sales from a single stadium event in 2016. About 55% of that revenue is used to pay athletes or musicians. 10% goes to general stadium administration, 5% goes to the team’s coaching staff, 5% is paid in taxes, and the remaining 8% are profit. Some high profile teams make a little more, but they pay more. It balances.
Not a whole lot when they play monopoly with real buildings. is it?
rwood
The 2015 Kansas City Royals say, "Hold My Beer"
No stealing, all force-plays?
“What happened to the plan of all games being played in Pheonix?”
Unworkable. Plus it didn’t take advantage of the infrastructure of the existing MLB Spring Training Facilities.
Once they got used to the idea that they were going to have to:
1. re-align the leagues, and
2. there could be no inter-league play between the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues.
Then it seems like a no-brainer.
The seven inning games were proposed for only the double-header games, which they hope to play to get in more games for the season.
It is like our stupid governor here in NH that closed the golf courses because people were not social distancing on 6000 yard golf courses. I understand no carts. Make everybody walk. In SC my sister in law says they are doing one person to a cart.
Another stupid example is the conservation commission of the town next door closed all of their town hiking trails.
I drove by a couple trail heads yesterday. They were all taped off, plus no parking signs on the side of the road.
This was a DIRT road.
What is the difference between walking your dog down the side of the road and walking on a golf course or hiking trail?
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