Excellent work by the @SeaTimesSports team: Pick up today’s Seattle Times for our FIFA Men’s World Cup special section, designed by @richboudet. Great job by all involved!
NEW: It's now more lucrative to have a losing sports team than a championship team.
We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.
In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season.
This is awesome 🥹
Rangers manager, Skip Schumaker, went out to the mound not to remove Carter Baumler, a Rule 5 pick, but to inform him that he made the Rangers Opening Day roster during a mound visit
With opening day less than a week away, there is a large portion of Mariners fans who prefer to watch games via their cable provider still wondering how they will watch. Here's what we know.
From @RyanDivish:
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Presenting the Mariners' 50th anniversary team, as selected by a @SeaTimesSports panel, surely to be undisputed and unrivaled.
C: Cal Raleigh
1B: Alvin Davis
2B: Bret Boone
3B: Kyle Seager
SS: Álex Rodríguez
LF: Raúl Ibañez
CF: Griffey
RF: Ichiro
DH: Edgar
The Seattle Times – competing in Division A, the largest print circulation and website division – earned Top 10 honors in four categories of the APSE Contest.
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So much of the MLB econ story is the local TV divide:
*The Dodgers enjoy $334m a year from their regional cable deal, and don't pay full revenue share due to their bankruptcy deal.
*The Twins sold 50,000 subs for their streaming product last season. At $99 a sub, that's ~$5 million. Their former RSN deal guaranteed $54.8 million for the 2023 season.
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