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Originally Posted by jaymoney
MLB last year transferred about $400M in revenue sharing and luxury tax, and the Indians received more than $20M while the Pirates -- "despite their beautiful, eight-year-old, taxpayer-funded stadium" -- received more than $40M. thats of the top of my head
all MLB teams received $35M from the league's "central fund, which includes revenue from licensing, properties, national TV and advanced media." Thus, the Indians prior to this season had about $55M in revenue and an $81M opening-day payroll, a deficit of just $25M "before they sold one ticket. In addition, all MLB teams received $35M from the league's "central fund, which includes revenue from licensing, properties, national TV and advanced media."
The Pirates had earned $75M and had a $48M payroll, a profit of about $27M before ticket sales.
Indians and Pirates owners are "not willing to spend what it takes to be competitive." They instead are collecting "all that revenue-sharing and central fund dough and claim they're losing money, meaning they must trade away their best players to 'secure the future'
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yet the yankees are the evil empire if so then what will you label the indians and pirates (THE FAT CATS)
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thats base ball 101 face the facts PAN dont give me fantasy numbers look it up
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Where are those quotes from? Did you make them up or do you have a source?
Considering both myself and Pan did the math and you are just throwing out random numbers without citation, why should they be valid? You need to show us where they came from, since right now it looks impossible for both of ours to be accurate.
And Pan, you are correct. It's actually that they are a public corporation with stockholders (mostly the fanbase in Wisconsin), but it means that they have to comply with the same laws as any other publicly-owned business.