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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/25/2013 2:46:17 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/25/2013 3:10:50 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/26/2013 7:02:06 AM   
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The Indians "would love" having Ubaldo Jimenez back on a one-year, $14.1MM qualifying offer contract (with an option for 2015) but not on an expensive long-term deal, Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland Plain Dealer says on a podcast with Chris Fedor. Tim Lincecum's two-year, $35MM contract from the Giants has put the cost of pitching out of Cleveland's range for Jimenez, who the Tribe feel has been too inconsistent to merit a multiyear commitment.


"There is so much money in the game, free agency is crazy," an anonymous GM tells Peter Gammons (Twitter link). The GM also believes Lincecum's deal will end any chance of Jimenez returning to Cleveland and that Jacoby Ellsbury will earn a contract worth more than $100MM in free agency this winter.


The Twins have a protected first round draft pick but Ryan said he'd be comfortable in surrendering the club's second round selection to sign a free agent who had declined a qualifying offer, provided that he felt the free agent was a good fit.





Trading for one? you mean giving up a guy for the "right price"?

I think Ryan doesn't want to spend money on pitching but has no choice. Probably angers him to give out a lot of gold coins.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/27/2013 4:35:59 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/28/2013 9:18:21 AM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/28/2013 10:56:07 AM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/28/2013 11:00:05 PM   
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I would hope that a World Series game...any WS game...would beat a football game involving the hapless Vikings. And it did. But barely.

After losing to Sunday Night Football in two of the last three years, the World Series picked up an important ratings win on Sunday night as game four on Fox beat the football matchup on NBC.

Game four of the World Series drew 16.0 million viewers (10.5 overnight rating) according to Major League Baseball, the largest audience yet among the four games. The Packers and Vikings, a game between two of the NFL's more popular teams, drew an overnight rating of 10.3 according to SportsMediaWatch.com.

In a World Series that could potentially go head-to-head with the NFL four times if the series goes seven games, the biggest challenge for Fox and Major League Baseball was Sunday night, a night that typically draws a huge audience for the NFL and NBC.

The rating is also a good sign for Major League Baseball moving forward. One year after the World Series was a four-game sweep and was the least-watched World Series ever, game four's audience was a significant increase over game two (13.4 million) and game three (12.5 million) suggesting that interest in this World Series is growing significantly.

If this series can go seven games, Major League Baseball may finally have some national ratings numbers they can brag about.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/29/2013 1:24:47 PM   
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By Dayn Perry | Baseball WriterOctober 29, 2013 11:13 am ET

In an inspired twist of world-championship marketing best practices, the Double-A Akron Aeros -- Eastern League affiliate of the Indians -- are set to become ... the Akron Rubber Ducks.


Approval granted.

As AkronNewsNow recently noted, the franchise in 2011 held a vote to determine whether the name should be changed from "Aeros" to "Rubber Ducks," "Tire Jacks," "Vulcan" and "Gum Dippers" (!). The people chose to keep Aeros, but, as history reminds us, the voice of the people often says stupid things. So the current Aeros ownership group is set to do an end run around around the collective will of the constiuency and name the team Rubber Ducks anyway. As they darn well should.

A baseball team named the Rubber Ducks!

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/29/2013 10:52:00 PM   
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-series-beat-sunday-night-203900917.html

I would hope that a World Series game...any WS game...would beat a football game involving the hapless Vikings. And it did. But barely.

After losing to Sunday Night Football in two of the last three years, the World Series picked up an important ratings win on Sunday night as game four on Fox beat the football matchup on NBC.

Game four of the World Series drew 16.0 million viewers (10.5 overnight rating) according to Major League Baseball, the largest audience yet among the four games. The Packers and Vikings, a game between two of the NFL's more popular teams, drew an overnight rating of 10.3 according to SportsMediaWatch.com.

In a World Series that could potentially go head-to-head with the NFL four times if the series goes seven games, the biggest challenge for Fox and Major League Baseball was Sunday night, a night that typically draws a huge audience for the NFL and NBC.

The rating is also a good sign for Major League Baseball moving forward. One year after the World Series was a four-game sweep and was the least-watched World Series ever, game four's audience was a significant increase over game two (13.4 million) and game three (12.5 million) suggesting that interest in this World Series is growing significantly.

If this series can go seven games, Major League Baseball may finally have some national ratings numbers they can brag about.



This article disagrees with that http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/229759641.html

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 9:08:49 AM   
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-series-beat-sunday-night-203900917.html

I would hope that a World Series game...any WS game...would beat a football game involving the hapless Vikings. And it did. But barely.

After losing to Sunday Night Football in two of the last three years, the World Series picked up an important ratings win on Sunday night as game four on Fox beat the football matchup on NBC.

Game four of the World Series drew 16.0 million viewers (10.5 overnight rating) according to Major League Baseball, the largest audience yet among the four games. The Packers and Vikings, a game between two of the NFL's more popular teams, drew an overnight rating of 10.3 according to SportsMediaWatch.com.

In a World Series that could potentially go head-to-head with the NFL four times if the series goes seven games, the biggest challenge for Fox and Major League Baseball was Sunday night, a night that typically draws a huge audience for the NFL and NBC.

The rating is also a good sign for Major League Baseball moving forward. One year after the World Series was a four-game sweep and was the least-watched World Series ever, game four's audience was a significant increase over game two (13.4 million) and game three (12.5 million) suggesting that interest in this World Series is growing significantly.

If this series can go seven games, Major League Baseball may finally have some national ratings numbers they can brag about.



This article disagrees with that http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/229759641.html

That guy's from Wisconsin.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 9:15:49 AM   
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-series-beat-sunday-night-203900917.html

I would hope that a World Series game...any WS game...would beat a football game involving the hapless Vikings. And it did. But barely.

After losing to Sunday Night Football in two of the last three years, the World Series picked up an important ratings win on Sunday night as game four on Fox beat the football matchup on NBC.

Game four of the World Series drew 16.0 million viewers (10.5 overnight rating) according to Major League Baseball, the largest audience yet among the four games. The Packers and Vikings, a game between two of the NFL's more popular teams, drew an overnight rating of 10.3 according to SportsMediaWatch.com.

In a World Series that could potentially go head-to-head with the NFL four times if the series goes seven games, the biggest challenge for Fox and Major League Baseball was Sunday night, a night that typically draws a huge audience for the NFL and NBC.

The rating is also a good sign for Major League Baseball moving forward. One year after the World Series was a four-game sweep and was the least-watched World Series ever, game four's audience was a significant increase over game two (13.4 million) and game three (12.5 million) suggesting that interest in this World Series is growing significantly.

If this series can go seven games, Major League Baseball may finally have some national ratings numbers they can brag about.



This article disagrees with that http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/229759641.html

That guy's from Wisconsin.


That may be true - but it doesn't mean he's wrong.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 9:29:26 AM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 9:26:38 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 9:39:18 PM   
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Theoretically, true. In real life, not.


You're as correct as Gardy when he pinch runs for one of his best hitters in a one run game.


http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/10/30/nfl-games-two-most-watched-shows-of-the-week-games-top-local-ratings-in-27-of-30-nfl-markets/212623/

Head-to-Head: Packers-Vikings on NBC Sunday Night Football

Tops MLB World Series Game 4



Games Top Local Ratings in 27 of 30 NFL Markets

NFL telecasts ranked 1-2 in viewership among all television programs last week (Oct. 21-27) with the FOX national telecast (mostly Redskins-Broncos) topping the charts with 25.5 million viewers, followed by Packers-Vikings on NBC’s Sunday Night Football drawing 16.9 million viewers. This marks the eighth time in eight weeks that an NFL game has topped the viewership charts and the seventh time in eight weeks that NFL games are the top two programs of the week.

In head-to-head competition, Sunday Night Football topped Game 4 of MLB World Series (16.0 million viewers).

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 10:25:19 PM   
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/30/2013 10:28:42 PM   
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Red Sux win World Series. I really hate that team.


I don't like them either - but I hate the Cardinals.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 7:22:30 AM   
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Parity my ass.



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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 8:10:22 AM  1 votes
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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 8:18:46 AM   
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Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 12:31:00 PM   
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Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.


And the decreased ratings for watching the playoffs and World Series should be a wakeup call for ML baseball.  But they simply ignore it.  The big money TV contracts are certainly not coming from the post-season play.  The owners in baseball are all about manipulating their own bottom lines.  There are too few owners that really care at all about winning.  The entire system in MLB is extremely corrupt and it is pushing away fans in many markets. 

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 12:32:12 PM   
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Parity my ass.




Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.


And the decreased ratings for watching the playoffs and World Series should be a wakeup call for ML baseball.  But they simply ignore it.  The big money TV contracts are certainly not coming from the post-season play.  The owners in baseball are all about manipulating their own bottom lines.  There are too few owners that really care at all about winning.  The entire system in MLB is extremely corrupt and it is pushing away fans in many markets.

MN attendance is still strong.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 12:33:21 PM   
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Parity my ass.




Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.


And the decreased ratings for watching the playoffs and World Series should be a wakeup call for ML baseball.  But they simply ignore it.  The big money TV contracts are certainly not coming from the post-season play.  The owners in baseball are all about manipulating their own bottom lines.  There are too few owners that really care at all about winning.  The entire system in MLB is extremely corrupt and it is pushing away fans in many markets. 


I thought the ratings were up this year???

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 12:37:18 PM   
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Parity my ass.




Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.


And the decreased ratings for watching the playoffs and World Series should be a wakeup call for ML baseball.  But they simply ignore it.  The big money TV contracts are certainly not coming from the post-season play.  The owners in baseball are all about manipulating their own bottom lines.  There are too few owners that really care at all about winning.  The entire system in MLB is extremely corrupt and it is pushing away fans in many markets. 


I thought the ratings were up this year???

They were. Highest since 2009. Which was the last time the Yankees were in the WS.

Basically the WS ratings are good if the Yankees or Red Sox make it. That's about what it boils down to.

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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 12:52:48 PM   
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Parity my ass.




Even though my team benefits, I concur. MLB needs a salary cap (and floor) badly. When you have top teams spend three times the median and nearly ten times the lowest spending team, something is seriously wrong. Of course, the Yankees spent about as much as the Red Sox and Twins combined, and what do they have to show for it? So you still have to spend wisely. But there's no hope in the middle or bottom. No wonder the NFL is taking market share.


And the decreased ratings for watching the playoffs and World Series should be a wakeup call for ML baseball.  But they simply ignore it.  The big money TV contracts are certainly not coming from the post-season play.  The owners in baseball are all about manipulating their own bottom lines.  There are too few owners that really care at all about winning.  The entire system in MLB is extremely corrupt and it is pushing away fans in many markets. 


I thought the ratings were up this year???

They were. Highest since 2009. Which was the last time the Yankees were in the WS.

Basically the WS ratings are good if the Yankees or Red Sox make it. That's about what it boils down to.


Which is why they let the current system to continue to perpetuate itself. 

They see success of the Yankees and Redsox as successful for MLB.  The rest of the league be damned.



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RE: MLB General Information PT 4 - 10/31/2013 1:48:26 PM   
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