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Exactly
What I said is accurate, the least knowledgeable party is lead negotiator now. And my opinion is it won't solve anything.
So the case wasn't tossed and the Astros are the trustee. That's a curveball
Let the ones with by far the least experience in these matters negotiate. Brilliant......
Even if the plan broke even, the team would get paid media rights which were supposed to average 80 mil a year. Breaking even means the station...
That is exactly what happened.
The Astros have needs that Crane should have considered when he bought the team. He bought the team and then wanted to change the structure of...
It should because it would have represented progress toward breaking the stalemate. People might not want to switch from UVerse to Comcast but...
So if the deal was never going to be profitable, why didn't Crane just project the losses out over the 20 year contract?
This does sum up the situation. Part of the blame is to be laid on MLB for approving such a poorly financially situated ownership group to...
Crane started alienating fans way before it was time for his double A team to hit the field and you know that. The ratings were poor in general.
I suspect that there's more to come today that shows this in a different light than Crane has shone on it. I'm certain some of this is that Crane...
0 rating means no one cared...
Well said. Repped.
As much as I dislike Cuban, I'd have to agree.
Crane was buying a team for a great deal of borrowed money. He owed it to his partners within the Astros ownership to do full due diligence. The...
Could be that DirecTV, Dish, U-Verse etc are felt to be in collusion....
It could very well be the referenced time period is when the FSN Deal expires for the other providers and a dramatic rate increase kicks in at...
For accrual purposes they don't but I get your point.
Ok got you... Comcast is paying CSN H carriage fees which would vary depending on the number of subscribers.
