Monday, August 14, 2023

Highwater Mark.

 



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.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194628/mlb-franchise-value-of-the-new-york-yankees-since-2006/#:~:text=The%20value%20of%20the%20New,for%208.8%20million%20U.S.%20dollars.

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.)



 


25 comments:

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

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.

So…

You’re right. It’s all over.

But after inflation, Yankees value is flat over 10 years.

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

Plus the Yankees suck. That can’t help either.

TheWinWarblist said...

So 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).

And 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.

TheWinWarblist said...

Excuse me. We can't score 9 runs tonight, can we?

Did Boone get anyone throwing in the bullpen yet?

BernBabyBern said...

Third inning, down 6 runs, men on base, only 1 out.

Yep, sounds about right.

Joe of AZ said...

Ah yes hopefully by the end of the week... we'll have a losing record... PERHAPS THEN will fuckin ownership get the hint

Rufus T. Firefly said...

All we needs is sharks.

Sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

In the death barge headquarters.

TheWinWarblist said...

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?

That'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.

TheWinWarblist said...

Rufus T.? I'm all for sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

I"m back to just reading box scores.

What 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.

JM said...

Schmidt turned his season around tonight. The wrong way.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Do you think HAL is Dr. Evil's Scott?

BTR999 said...
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JM said...

Hal wouldn't let Dave back into the spaceship, and that's all you need to know.

TheWinWarblist said...

If King George was Dr Evil? Yes.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

I'm sorry Dave, I'm too rich for that.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

IKF's arm must be shot. Otherwise, he'd be in by now.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Do they have a rally in their bones?!?

ummm.... No.

BTR999 said...

Man, oh Manischewitz…why are we even playing?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Oswaldo watch.

Will he finish with a BA above the glass man's?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Greg Allen is an excellent choice for a pinch hitter.

JM said...

Jesus, we suck.

HoraceClarke66 said...

I'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.

Kevin said...

Well, 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?

The Hammer of God said...

HAL 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.