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Best interest of baseball means nothing while Angelos has a court ordered injunction in place. Manfred and the Nats can do nothing but wait. The appeal goes directly to the NY Supreme Court, so no more winding through the appeal process. Angelos has very limited grounds for appeal and he'll lose. But it will take a while because that court was very slow last time. It won't be $100 million. MASN will be refunded profit sharing distributions based on revised numbers. MLB takes 30% of TV fees. Still, about fifty million isn't nothing.The big question is the new reset number starting in 2017. If the 2012 fees started at $59 million could they be $80+ now?
The NY Supreme Court is a trial court below their appeals court
Er, weird? I kinda thought the word 'Supreme' usually had a specific meaning...
https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-panel-cuts-value-nats-tv-rights-dispute-185417804--mlb.htmlMASN is done. It's only a question of how long the Angelos family can keep postponing the matter in litigation.
When you take a step back, it is so on-brand for Angelos to spend all his energy milking every last penny out of a crappy MASN product, rather than actually making the product better and simply sharing the revenues more equally.
Its funny how this thread was started in 2012, and now that the Nats' window is closing, they might actually get some of the money they needed five years ago.
They currently have the 5th highest payroll in baseball. More MASN money wouldn’t have pushed that any higher.
Except it would have allowed them to do less deferred money. Bryce Harper is likely still here if the Lerners werent' married to the idea of deferred money.
New York's highest court is the Court of Appeals. Maryland is the same way in terms of nomenclature, but in Maryland the trial courts aren't called "Supreme Court." New York is unique in that respect. New York and Maryland are the only states to call their highest courts the "Court of Appeals," although West Virginia's highest court is the "Supreme Court of Appeals," a name that comes from the former name of Virginia's highest court.
Slightly off-topic but this IS the MASN thread ....Is MASN carrying Saturday night's game? Bob or PF (don't remember which) said they would be sitting out two games. I know Sunday is Nationally televised. But what about Saturday?
Saturday night's game is on Fox; Sunday it's ESPN.
looks like I have to drive to South Boston to watch the Sox.
Or Raleigh.
Coverage map and announcer teams for Saturday:
Thanks. (Not looking forward to listening to those Fox idiots. They make you appreciate Bob and FP.)
Girardi does a great job.
