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Originally Posted by Brutus1
NYC is the biggest tv market in the country. Advertising and rights are infinitely higher in NYC than in Cinci, Cleve, Minn, Pittsburgh. I don't think home attendance is an issue. Allot of teams draw nearly as well as the Yankees (not on the road though).
The local tv is what separates the Yanks from the rest. As much as I don't like them though, there is no way they should have to share that money.
Sorry for that size issue.!!!!
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I wholly conceed that Baseball could/should be run better. The league has historically had it's head up its own ass. There is no real reason it's immune from Anti-trust laws, for example. The system in place may have been fine and dandy when it was arranged back in the day, and when baseball was the "only game in town" as it were.
They need to revampt the whole thing if they want to encourage long term parity.
With regard to the TV thing, in today's day and age, there is no reason why you can't sell the Yankees to people in Mililani Hawaii if you think that'll work. Obviously, it's easier to sell TV to local areas, and you'll get more local interest than you will in Hawaii (for the Yankees, anyway) but there really is no reason - other than marketing - that in the modern world, a team can't sell TV all over the place. Hell, if I'm seattle, I make a big ass deal with Japan to broadcast Mariners games. Why? Cause they'd all tune in to see Ichiro.