According to this website that I know absolutely nothing about, but which looks very official and has a really cool graph, the value of your New York Yankees has increased nearly 1,000 percent in the past 21 years, from $730 million, to $7.1 billion.
Hey, sounds likely.I am speculating that it marks the high-water mark of the Yankees' value. Anybody else want to bet what it will be 10 years from now?
I'm gonna say less than half—maybe $3.2 billion.
Anyone else with a prediction? I promise to carefully save all of our guesses and produce them again in 2033. (Heheheheheheheheh.)
WSJ had an article today declaring a high water mark for sports broadcast rights… Disney is flogging ESPN…. Some former Fox regional networks have gone bankrupt. The Padres are broadcast by MLB and get no TV money after one of those bankruptcies.
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You’re right. It’s all over.
But after inflation, Yankees value is flat over 10 years.
Plus the Yankees suck. That can’t help either.
ReplyDeleteSo the Braves have got some hitting fools on their team. I mean they don't suck. So there are good hitters in the Bigs, but we only have one (minus a toe).
ReplyDeleteAnd this Fried guy? He can pitch. Unlike everyone on the Yankees not named Cole. We've already scored the only runs we're going to get. We certainly can't score 7 two games in a row.
I stand by my prediction of 79win for These Our 2023 New York Yankees.
Excuse me. We can't score 9 runs tonight, can we?
ReplyDeleteDid Boone get anyone throwing in the bullpen yet?
Third inning, down 6 runs, men on base, only 1 out.
ReplyDeleteYep, sounds about right.
Ah yes hopefully by the end of the week... we'll have a losing record... PERHAPS THEN will fuckin ownership get the hint
ReplyDeleteAll we needs is sharks.
ReplyDeleteSharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
In the death barge headquarters.
Bader is out attempting to steal a base with the Yankees down by 6 runs. That's great preparation by Mother Boone. Great baseball smarts. He would have scored what? 2, maybe 3 runs, if he stole the base cleanly?
ReplyDeleteThat's how this works right? Pointless stolen bases down 6? Giving away outs is no big deal right?
The season is all right there in front of them.
And Hal expects us to watch shitty baseball. He thinks we can't tell the difference. Probably because Hal cannot.
Rufus T.? I'm all for sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
ReplyDeleteI"m back to just reading box scores.
ReplyDeleteWhat section are we in next week?
Need to scout beer vendors and kosher dogs. Not because I'm with the tribe, but prefer ones without rodent feces.
Schmidt turned his season around tonight. The wrong way.
ReplyDeleteDo you think HAL is Dr. Evil's Scott?
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ReplyDeleteHal wouldn't let Dave back into the spaceship, and that's all you need to know.
ReplyDeleteIf King George was Dr Evil? Yes.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry Dave, I'm too rich for that.
ReplyDeleteIKF's arm must be shot. Otherwise, he'd be in by now.
ReplyDeleteDo they have a rally in their bones?!?
ReplyDeleteummm.... No.
Man, oh Manischewitz…why are we even playing?
ReplyDeleteOswaldo watch.
ReplyDeleteWill he finish with a BA above the glass man's?
Greg Allen is an excellent choice for a pinch hitter.
ReplyDeleteJesus, we suck.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to say I missed it. I watched some of the Braves dismantling the Mets over the weekend, and I have to say, they look like the best team in baseball just now. Or maybe it's only the opponents.
ReplyDeleteWell, Schmidt did say in the Post's puff piece that win or lose he would learn something. I'd say that he earned a PhD. today. I confess, I have watched the fewest games since the seventies. And I am retired, which REALLY describes how dreadful I find this team. They are terrible in all phases of the game, but the most infuriating to watch are the lazy errors, Boone's almost inexplicably stupid managing, and his post game bullshit. Would crawling on my hands and knees spraying Roundup on weeds in my lawn be any worse than watching this team?
ReplyDeleteHAL should sell this winter. He could still get $20 billion for the Yankees, I'm sure. (Well, whatever percentage of the 20 billion that he owns.) Those numbers that they tell you about franchise value are, sometimes, vast underestimates. It comes down to what HAL would sell at, and what some megabillionaire would pay. HAL missed his chance to sell at 25 billion. He should've sold last winter. Now a last place team, the value has taken a hit.
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