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Disney this month has paid MLB $900 million for the remaining 15% of BAMTech it didn't already own following a series of prior deals. So when your favorite team cries poor this winter, keep in mind they're each due another $30 million windfall from this.
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I am at U2 tonight in Newark and have loved this band for 35 years. And I was so moved again by their poignant words on yesterday’s tragedy in Annapolis. “We need writers. We need journalists. They are the foundation of our democracy.”
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred says that he, too, is a bit frustrated/bewildered about current World Series ratings. Despite west coast/east matchup w two glamour teams, G1-2 ratings off ~10% & lowest since SF/KC in '14. "We're looking hard at it and haven't isolated a cause."
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Liberty Media-owned Atlanta Braves report $568 million in revenue for 2021, $20 million in operating income, big shift from pandemic-impacted 2020 totals of $178 million in rev, $128 million operating loss. Adjusted OIBDA swings fr $53 million loss '20 to $104 million gain in '21
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Even in MLB's attempt at controlled environment, the potential ripple effects of Marlins outbreak are massive. Hotel employees, bus drivers, clubhouse attendants, Phillies' org, the Yankees coming into Philly, family members of all these various groups, etc. Terrible situation
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ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro says new NHL deal is premised heavily on audience expansion and getting younger in its demos w a big new content asset for streaming on ESPN+ and push to attract younger fans following the NHL.
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Liberty Media says this morning it is moving to spin off the Atlanta Braves and the Battery into a separate stock. Things are going so well with the club there, the company wants to "better highlight its strong value."
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NY Governor Cuomo detailing new Covid-19 provisions for Yankees and Mets. Normal seating for vaccinated fans. 6-foot distancing rule remains for unvaccinated. But shots will be offered at both Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, with those getting vaccinated also getting free tickets
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, with aid of RedBird Capital Partners, buys XFL out of bankruptcy for $15 million, cuts short planned auction. Vince McMahon had put more than $200 million of his own money into the venture before it sank.
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Craig Sager has passed away. Turner president David Levy: "There will never be another Craig Sager."
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The XFL has gone down, and gone down hard - today there was a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in Delaware. Assets/liabilities both listed in $10-50m range. Lot of pain out there in a lot of different places, but this is still such a sweeping turn of events from where they were...
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More than 4 years ago, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that "sooner or later" MASN would pay higher rights fees to the Nationals. That day is now coming as a NY state Supreme Court judge rules definitively for the Nats & confirms a league arbitration award in their favor
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.
@SInow
, in a first in its 61 yrs of publishing, is making 24 sep covers this week for USWNT and coach Jill Ellis.
http://t.co/Mj7aMUrGBb
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Some personal news: excited to announce that I have joined
@sportbusiness
as U.S. Editor, and will lead editorial operations in and from the U.S. for U.K.-based brand. Big things in the works!
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The Oakland A’s used a series of stadium renderings to help land $380 million in public funding last month toward a new Las Vegas ballpark.
Now, the team says those images are literally trash. - via
@FOS
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Said this yesterday, will say it again: a sleeping giant of a fanbase is waking up with the Commanders ownership change. This is going to be a recurring situation all season. A similar situation could also happen w the A's if John Fisher were to sell.
This picture is 1000% correct. I have never seen that many fans for a weekday training camp practice. The excitement & energy surrounding the
#Commanders
is real. There's plenty of room on the bandwagon. If you jumped off the past 24 years we will gladly welcome you back
#HTTC
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@RaysBaseball
announce this morning they are closing the upper deck of the Trop and reducing capacity for games there to between 25K and 26K, further reducing what was already the smallest capacity in MLB.
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Minor League Baseball releases an issue-by-issue rebuttal on MLB's arguments in PBA negotiations. As has been mentioned before, strap in. More bumps ahead.
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Yu Darvish’s compassion, grace in handling tough situation, plea for understanding also influential here.
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Red Sox's Mookie Betts will be cover athlete for RBI Baseball '16
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Many absurdities with this. Perhaps none more than the thought that this can be built for $1.5 billion.
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Last night's World Series Game 7 indeed broke the 40 million average viewer mark and is the most-watched baseball game in a quarter century
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Yankees finish '18 home schedule with attendance of 3.48 million, up 10 pct and best year for the club since 2012. Team regains status as top-drawing club in the American League after the Blue Jays had it for 2 years.
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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says the league will voluntarily recognize the minor league unionization being led by the MLBPA. Big, and surprising, news.
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The Marlins will use the space in CF from the recently departed "Homer" statue to build a new three-tier social space, called the Center Field Zone, as well as paint the outfield wall from bright green to blue, and redesign the batter's eye. More details to come in SBD.
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Through 5 gms, World Series averaging 16.4M viewers, 2nd best since '09 behind last yr. G5 gets 19.6M, peaking btw 11:45 PM & midnight ET.
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Major news breaking regarding one of the NFL's most influential & succesful owner. The league's response will bear watching. Owners also subject to lg personal conduct policy that requires refraining from “conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in” the NFL.
BREAKING: Police: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft being charged in months-long human trafficking and prostitution investigation in Florida.
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Another secondary impact of Disney/BAMTech deal - the NHL now back on ESPN. NHL games will be on the forthcoming ESPN-branded OTT network.
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Tecmo Super Bowl - released 25 yrs ago today, & sports video gaming was never the same again. Trailblazer w licenses from both NFL, NFLPA
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So the biggest shocker: DC/Baltimore is shut out from World Cup 2026. Stunned. Event not coming to capital of key host country.
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Another key nugget in this: MLB's median age of its ticket buyers has dropped to 43. Was 46 last year, 49 in 2019. So not only is attendance up meaningfully this year w new rules, fans are getting younger.
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An entire NFL primetime game has started and finished with three innings still to go in World Series G5.
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Some personal news: I'm thrilled to announce that have joined
@FOS
and will be helping to elevate what already is a killer newsletter product. I've been a long-time admirer of what the team has built in a short period of time, and excited to now be part of it.
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With This Time It Counts now dead, World Series home advantage instead will go to pennant winner with best record.
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Massive news at MLB as President of Business & Media Bob Bowman stepping down at year's end. Transformed digital sports as we know it.
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76ers investigation done. Colangelo resigns. Evidence from internal team investigation points to Colangelo's wife creating and posting on the burner Twitter accounts, and she ultimately admitted doing so.
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Also, MLB club owners might want to raise another glass for the MLBAM folks who built this lucrative technology, some of which aren't there anymore.
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Appreciation for what ESPN has had to do here live. It’s now been nearly an hour since the initial injury, and with very little new information since. But
@ESPNBooger
in particular has been on point with his heartfelt comments.
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Fox Sports axes Thom Brennaman out of NFL coverage after anti-gay slur during Reds game last night. “The language used was abhorrent, unacceptable, and not representative of the values of FOX Sports...We are moving forward with our NFL schedule which will not include him.”
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MLB sets new spring training attendance record of 4.03 million
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Unless there is clear word Hamlin is stable - and that likely can’t be reasonably expected anytime soon - there is no rational way this game can go forward tonight.
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Industry sources say MLB’s new rights deal w Fox Sports is a 7-yr deal covering the 2022-28 seasons and is worth about $5.1B, about a 50 percent bump from the current term.
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Babcock was just a quarter of the way into year 5 of an 8-year, $50 million contract. So Leafs still on the hook for a big chunk of change.
Toronto Maple Leafs President and Alternate Governor Brendan Shanahan announced today that Mike Babcock has been relieved of his coaching duties and Sheldon Keefe has been named the Club’s new head coach.
#LeafsForever
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So to recap since the Nats' feel-good march to WS triumph, MLB has tried to kill off a quarter of the affiliated minor leagues, nobody trusts the performance of the ball, and the baseball ops heads and managers of 2017 and 2018 WS champs are all gone. So how's your winter going?
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XFL president Jeffrey Pollack: "“This is a Hollywood ending to our sale process and it is an exciting new chapter for the league."
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RE MLB's shift of the ASG to Denver. Just a clinical takedown.
Fox News tried to insert their lie that Colorado's voting laws are the same as Georgia's into the White House Press Briefing, but Press Secretary Jen Psaki shot it down.
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The Athletic gets $20M in new funding, led by Evolution Media. Expect more expansion into more markets, more hiring.
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How much the Nats will get in additional local rights fees will be determined by a judicial hearing officer (appointed by the court to perform subordinate duties such as this). Huge win for the Nats after more than seven years of fighting with the MASN/Orioles.
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Some slight hiccups with the weather, which is part of the deal with any outdoor hockey game. Tomorrow's game moved to 7:30 ET to manage Sunday forecast, while today's game is on continued break between Periods 1 and 2 while NHL looks to manage ice conditions amid heavy sunlight
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MLB is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and Draft out of Atlanta. New locations to be determined. Commissioner Rob Manfred: "Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box."
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ESPN's Sean McDonough re upcoming MNF game in Mexico: "it'll be early in the season, before there are any walls we have to get over."
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Good insight here from a former union exec. Situation now playing out in real time as game is temporarily suspended.
Players likely pushing not to play...union & NFL probably in discussion now.
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Islanders owner Jon Ledecky says at Columbia Univ. event that forthcoming arena at Belmont will have more women's rooms than men's rooms - 1st of its type in major US sports. W large female fan base for club, Ledecky says both good business sense and good customer service.
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This essentially completes a series of transactions starting in 2016. Disney first invested $1 billion in BAMTech that year, $1.58 billion more in 2017 to gain controlling interest, and another $350 million earlier this year for the NHL's minority stake.
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And New York Governor Andrew Cuomo makes the announcement re the Blue Jays and Sahlen Field.
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Vegas likes the Cubs to repeat as World Series champs in 2017. This from the Venetian.
#CES2017
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Yahoo Sports keeping Adrian Wojnarowski w new 4-year deal after SI made big run for noted NBA newsbreaker
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This is just ugly and xenophobic. This what ESPN is paying $10 million a year for?
Stephen A Smith saying that Shohei Ohtani, responsible for the 10 highest viewed regular season games this year and what will likely be the most watched HRD ever, shouldn’t be considered a face of baseball because he needs an interpreter. Kindly piss off
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Avg price for final Jeter game Sunday is $533.82, most expensive reg season Sox game in at least 5 yrs.
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Lots of love particularly for the new Mariners' Spring Training hat featuring the old-school triton.
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Fox Sports Go to have 5 separate feeds for its CFB opener, Michigan vs Utah, including a "khaki cam" focused on Harbaugh entire game
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And name something more expensive? The value of every single MLB franchise. Can't reliably talk about player salaries without also talking about revenues and franchise values. They are all interconnected.
A decades-long league marketing campaign that has driven fans away because it has conditioned them to think of players as greedy millionaires who are not worth their respect and support.
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MLB, Facebook strike new deal in which FB gets 25-game package of weekly exclusive games - baseball's first digital-only national broadcasts. Games will air on weekday afternoons.
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Intel at CES unveils new partnership w Alibaba for 3D athlete tracking technology that will be used at Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Combo of cloud computing, hardware, and AI to create detailed video-based mapping of athlete biomechanics.
#CES2019
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Huge news in sports video gaming - after a 15-year absence, Take-Two regains an NFL license & 2K NFL games are coming back. Company's future plans with the NFL include non-simulation games, though. But multiple game titles are in development. Prior 2K NFL games were beloved.
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Kansas City outrated ASG host city Cincy in game ratings, and by a lot. Top U.S. Market. The amazing KC Renaissance continues
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Sinclair CEO Christopher Ripley says in earnings call the Cubs’ new Marquee Sports Network is projected to generate for the company “about $40 million to $50 million of free cash flow [per yr] and it is a model for other partnerships going forward.”
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Marlins finish '18 home schedule with Marlins Park attendance of 811,104, worst in MLB and 1st team since '04 Montreal Expos to go finish below 1 million. But new Jeter/Sherman group reporting tickets sold vs prior inflated marks & actual attendance thought be similar to last yr
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@FOXSportsPR
@FOXSports
@NFLonFOX
@NFL345
@NFLMedia
The Fox TV number was 99.9M, up 1% from Patriots-Rams a year ago, and first growth for the game in 4 years. And of course, far and away the biggest thing on American TV all year long.
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Down 3-1 in NBA Finals. Down 3-1 in World Series. Down 25 in Super Bowl. All in last eight months.
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Bankruptcy court judge Chris Lopez has approved DSG's rejection of its Diamondbacks deal. Team is officially done on Bally Sports. MLB production/distribution of team's games will begin tonight. The other related carriage issues are not addressed/resolved in this hearing.
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NBA, NBPA renew licensing deal with Take-Two Interactive in 7-yr agreement for NBA 2K worth as much as $1.1 billion. NBA 2K is the industry's top-selling simulation sports video game.
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Amazon reaches deal w MLB to include within Prime Video Channels. Direct access to subscribe to out-of-market game package for Prime members.
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Amazon to stream a newly created Black Friday game next year on November 24, 2023. NFL’s dominance of US Thanksgiving weekend grows even further. Game tentatively slated for 3 PM ET.
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Situation getting more tense between MLB and Tampa Sports Authority regarding proposed Rays ballpark in Ybor City. Commish sends letter today saying many critical details in proposal still missing.
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MLB, MLBPA finalize plans for Players Weekend Aug. 25-27 - alternate unis w nicknames on back, customized socks, batting gloves, etc
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Silver's presser a master class in crisis communication. Clear answers, no rambling, no confused body language, etc. Got stronger as he went
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The Super Bowl viewership number is finally out: 96.4 million including out-of-home viewership. Down from comparable figure of 113 million last year.
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The latest episode of the SportBusiness Finance Weekly podcast is with
@alex_dreyfus
from
@socios
and
@Chiliz
.
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The NHL Lake Tahoe vistas are every bit as good as advertised. Very clever idea of the league to rapidly pull this together after the traditional Winter Classic was scrapped this year due to the pandemic.
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The weather forecast for Philly tonight and World Series Game 3 has turned much more ominous with forecast now at a 100 pct chance of rain in the 8 PM hour and the 9 PM hour not much better. Officials meeting later this afternoon to assess the situation.
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Not the lowest ever
NASCAR viewership on Fox networks is up +8% since returning from its pandemic hiatus on May 17.
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WNBA announces new eight-year labor deal with WNBPA. Total cash compensation to players goes up by more than half. Max comp to top players triples. Liberalized free agency. Improved travel conditions. Series of other improvements. Big step forward for women's pro sports.
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Upcoming 30 for 30s - Tyson vs Holyfield, Pete Carroll, the Bills' Super Bowl run of the early '90s
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The Baltimore Orioles-controlled MASN will pay the Washington Nationals about $100 million to resolve part of a legal dispute stretching for more than a decade, bringing an element of peace into one of MLB’s thorniest issues. via
@FOS
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NFL makes the right, and only possible, decision and postpones the Bills-Bengals game for tonight. Next steps uncertain, but this first and necessary step made.
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Multiple sources in/around MLB owners meetings: league has a deal in principle with Fox to begin in-market streaming in '16.
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Daniil Medvedev is now on to the U.S. Open semis. ESPN is setting him up with a login to streaming coverage since his hotel gets Spectrum. He was getting pirate feeds before.
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Congress sends letter to Manfred blasting proposed MiLB overhaul, removal of affiliated teams.
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A group of former MLB scouts has sued the league, commissioner Rob Manfred, and all 30 clubs, alleging age discrimination and claiming they were “blacklisted” in favor of younger, cheaper, and more analytically oriented personnel. via
@FOS
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Judge's dominant performance in this HR Derby feels a bit like Jordan in 87-88 dunk contests, and marks another jolt of energy to the event
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Robin Williams' son will throw the first pitch tonight to Billy Crystal
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Big news in digital sports media: CBS has signed definitive agreement to acquire
@247Sports
. More coming shortly in
@sbjsbd
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I am no longer with SportBusiness and am now a free agent. Will still be tweeting occasionally in the interim. Ever forward!
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And Smoltz is in close proximity unmasked to a number of older men, many of whom have had significant health issues of various types. This is not good.
So an unvaccinated John Smoltz isn’t allowed to be at the
@MLBNetwork
studios but allowed to be on the
@baseballhall
dais during today’s induction ceremonies. Makes sense.
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Manny Machado said Padres got on his radar a “month, month and a half ago” en route to record-setting deal. Again, relatively late in the offseason calendar for something of this scope....
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Yankees, which have noted beard policy, sign w Panasonic as its official shaver & trimmer for rest of '17, '18 and '19.
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World Series Game 5 averaged 18.9M viewers btw 1 AM ET & game’s end, very near full night mark. No big audience attrition despite late hour
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