Author Topic: The Nats are...For Sale?!?  (Read 26585 times)

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Offline dracnal

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Re: The Nats are...For Sale?!?
« Reply #475: October 20, 2022, 11:22:23 PM »
The O's don't really own the Nats rights.     The contract is that MASN will eventually settle into an entity owned jointly by both teams with the Os being majority owner with a 66/33 split, I think.  But they have to pay what is considered market value to both teams.

It's been a while, but I believe the biggest issue is that MASN has to pay both teams what the Nats viewing rights are worth. Whatever valuation the Nats were given, the Os also had to be given, and somewhere around 2012 that combined number was enough to basically bankrupt MASN. I may be wrong on the details here because it's been a looooong time but I'm pretty certain I'm right about the Os getting at least as much as the Nats and the combination being too much.