Category: Owners
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Bad Owners Series: Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics win the 1973 World Series
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Bad Owners Series: Cincinnati Reds
One factor that MLB will never consider when examining their drop in popularity would be to look inward. That would be to take a good look at its ownership groups or more importantly their failed ownership groups. What is that old saying, “you can’t fire the boss.” Well maybe in this case the fans should…
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Club Owners Raise the Bar on Beer Sales
It seems one unexpected consequence of speeding up the game was to reduce the sale of beer at stadiums. It makes sense, since quicker games mean your fan base is obviously in the ballpark for a shorter period of time. Bottom line, this has hurt sales of alcohol and most notably beer, which is the…
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Another Sign of a Dying Game: Soaring Baseball Valuations
Once again, the narrative of baseball depicted as a dying game in need of rule changes is upended as the valuations of MLB teams continues to soar. The link to the Forbes article and full listing of MLB teams valuations below shows that baseball is far from a crisis. You can read the article per…
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A dying game?
The “game is dying” seems to be the basis for the need to change the game and the rules to make it appealing to a larger and younger fan base. For this post, let’s briefly focus on the total revenue numbers from MLB for the past 20 years. As per the table below, except for…