I find that hard to believe.

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They basically pay zero rent

I find this hard to believe as well, but I hope its true. Fuckers don't deserve a dime with what transpired last season.

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No one shows up, even when they are good/great.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

They'll use this to justify signing their next past-his-prime infielder.

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They still get the TV money

The As as the 5th most profitable in baseball? wow

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Local ratings probably suck and ad revenue is in the toilet. NBC didn't bid for rights, Sox own 1/3 of the RSN, as I understand it.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

That might be part of it. Isn't there some clause where the free rent is only if tickets are way down? With the expectations before the shitty season maybe they sold too many tickets? Even if no one showed.

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Elections have consequences.

Jerry once again willing to lose money to try and give Chicago another winner.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

2,009,359

So close. No wonder he didn't fire Tony early.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

It's possible if you run a tight ship operationally, create decent revenue streams on top of the game, and don't carry bloated contracts.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

MLB attendance in general fell 6% from 2019, the last year before China and Dr Fauci unleashed COVID

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

BUT,,,its all about the REBUILD, and EXPEREINCE of the park! NOW im sure FF or Frank will tell me how good Moledo tastes with a CHURRO? The REAL question is, how much money am I paying to STATE OF IL PARK if they dont sell enough beer???

San Antonio WHIET SOCK"s,,,,,,HMMMM ??

Moledo? Is that some type of South Side sauce?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

It's their latest Cuban signing

Caller Bob with over 80% more posts in the Sox section than he has in the Cubs section so far this year

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Without seeing any numbers, I have to assume most/all clubs take a loss each weekday the park is open for a game. Not sure how much if any the low attendance revenue actually surpass the cost of keeping the lights on for that game.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

The lease costs them just 18K per game. How in the fuck are they losing money? 2 million fans is about 25K per home game. Just taking 75 cents from each fan in attendance covers their faciltiy. Ain't no fucking way they losing money.

JR isn't losing money in the way we think of it. His accounting shows he's "losing" money so that he can make more money than he already made.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Antisemitic trope!

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

That's complete bullshit.

I don't think he's on the hook for maintenance either other than setup & cleanup. Why would he ever move? Those 987 skyboxes go unsold though.

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Wattabout Kodak Black?

They will lose more this year. Shorter games means less time to buy $12 beers (probably $14 this year)

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Uncle Jerry gives free tickets to CPS kids.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

Guessing those losses are before $100 mil+ per team revenue sharing is taken into account.

All of these numbers are just presented and no attribution to any source is given. So, I don't know if I buy any of it. However, if the A's numbers are correct, that's absolutely disgusting.

No way Jerry is taking a loss. They know what they average every year in attendence. About 25k. Which is what they did last year. 20k when they're a shit team. They were a shit team but they were projected to be better.

He knows what the numbers are gonna be before the year starts. Jerry isn't taking a 55 million dollar hit. He's just not. He actually has like 20 minority owners that he has to answer to. People forget that. He's the majority owner but not by much as far as percentage when you add up the minority owners.

And I know the A's have a smaller pay roll. But they can't be making 65 million when the Sox are minus 55 million. Makes no sense. All those numbers are false. Every MLB team had a profit last year. There's Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs and Red Sox profit. Which is huge. But everybody else does fine.

The Dodgers got in on that Reginal sports network money before that money dried up. They have a long term deal. Cubs got into that when the money wasn't there. Then Covid killed all of that foolish money.

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The average attendance at Oakland Athletics games in Major League Baseball in 2022 was 9,973.

Those numbers can't be correct.

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