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OT: MLB Thread

My personal favourite, ie I was at the game, was when Raines had his first at bat during his swan song season. The place went totally nuts. Brilliant. They were playing the Muts. Robin Ventura (playing the hot corner) showed some class, he asked their pitcher to stand down and allow the ovation to run its course (they were team mates with the Chisox).

The Expos won the game handily. It was awesome.
 
Opening Day 1991 when I waltzed into Olympic Stadium with 18 cans of beer in a cooler bag and no questions asked by the ticket-takers. I wouldn't even attempt something like that in any other city, much less expect to get away with it.

I don't remember who we were playing that day or what the final score was but I do remember the souvenir calendars which were given out. Most of them became paper airplanes that were launched from the 700 level on to the field.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Opening Day 1991 when I waltzed into Olympic Stadium with 18 cans of beer in a cooler bag and no questions asked by the ticket-takers. I wouldn't even attempt something like that in any other city, much less expect to get away with it.

I don't remember who we were playing that day or what the final score was but I do remember the souvenir calendars which were given out. Most of them became paper airplanes that were launched from the 700 level on to the field.
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Opening day in Montreal: Lost 5-4 to St. Louis
 
BURG said:
Opening day in Montreal: Lost 5-4 to St. Louis
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Yep, that was it. Ivan Calderone's home debut with the Expos after the off-season trade which sent Tim Raines to the Chisox. If memory serves the calendars were sponsored by Petro-Canada and had a close-up of Buck Rodgers on the cover. I sat in the 700 level on the first base side with my then-girlfriend, my brother and two other friends. All of us brought beer and we all got completely $hitfaced.
 
If I bought a table there is a greater chance of me filling it with Kate Beckinsale Sofia Vergara Kate Hudson and Amy Adams than the Xpo twins.
 
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Can someone please explain how teams like the Dodgers or Texas now have these billion dollar mega deals they signed over 10-20 years

Where does this money come from ? and how do the networks like Fox etc... try to recoup to make money form this ?

These numbers are insane for some individual teams and some clarity would be great

Thanks
 
162 games in a season is a lot of commercials.

Plus sports rights keep going up and up... why? because too many people PVR other shows and skip the commercials, where you need to watch sports live. So advertisers are paying a premium for sports, so networks are spending more on sports... etc..
 
BKerr said:
162 games in a season is a lot of commercials.

Plus sports rights keep going up and up... why? because too many people PVR other shows and skip the commercials, where you need to watch sports live. So advertisers are paying a premium for sports, so networks are spending more on sports... etc..
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that makes a ton of sense
 
Sports also usually deliver a very high percentage of 18-45 year old males. The demographic advertisers always pay a premium for.
 
As a business enterprise, pro sports was undervalued for most of the 20th century.

It's only when the players demanded a bigger piece of the pie that the pie got bigger.... way, way bigger.
 
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