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Devil's advocate: Do the blackout restrictions still provide a positive economic benefit for either those selling tickets to games, or those paying for broadcast rights?
It depends on where you are. I think there is a positive economic benefit, for example, for NBC Sports Chicago that the games are blacked out on MLB.TV in the Chicagoland area (at least unless you can authenticate a cable subscription to stream NBCS). They want people to keep their cable subscriptions which include a fee for NBCS (especially since Comcast owns them and Comcast wants people to keep cable subscriptions).
But MLB's blackout zones are ridiculous. The entire state of Iowa is blacked out for both Chicago teams, Milwaukee, Minnesota, St. Louis, and Kansas City. Las Vegas is blacked out for both L.A. teams, Oakland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Arizona. These are people that are hundreds of miles away from a ballpark and probably have access to no more than 1 or 2 of those teams through their local cable system. They can't get the games they're blacked out for on standard cable, and they're blacked out of watching them on MLB.TV or Extra Innings.
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I'd love to hear an explanation for those blackout zones. It's so ridiculous and it can't possibly be helping MLB or cable providers in any way.
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I'm going to cry if the Dodgers get Harper on a sweet deal while he's basically begging to be a Cub...
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I hope he ends up in San Fran.
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And now the Harper dream can finally rest with the fishes officially 
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13 years? I wanted Harper a ton but I don't want the Cubs signing anyone for 13 years.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena. ![[Image: ITgoyeg.png]](http://i.imgur.com/ITgoyeg.png)
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Also a no trade clause. They can't trade him in 2031 if they want to.
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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I thought the era of dumb contracts was over? Wow. They sure delivered on their stupid money comment.
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I hope PTR has enough to hire an assistant to carry around the bags of money they're going to make off this tv deal.
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This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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13 years. Holy fuck.
Although I guess spreading the money out for that long helps keep them under the luxury tax threshold?
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How many of the 13 years are Phillies expected to be writing off? Should this deal considered more like 9-10 year deal with expectation that during the final 3-4 years Harper will not be an everyday player?
Guessing that Phillies aren’t expecting the next CBA luxury tax calculation to change so longer term, low average annual values continue to be advantageous.
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If you assume these numbers, it looks like made a smart move.
https://twitter.com/paintingcorner/statu...4802848768
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I don't understand that last column. Is it supposed to be millions of dollars per fWAR?
This is not some silly theory that's unsupported and deserves being mocked by photos of Xena.
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OK. Now I'm wishing the Cubs signed him.
Really I just wish they did *something* to improve the team while this competitive window is open.
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