The Boss has passed.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/25/comm...sbiz/index.htm

. Baseball will finish this year with just over $6 billion in revenue, according to Bob DuPuy, Major League Baseball's president and chief operating officer.

To put that into context, that puts baseball right on the heels of the more than $6 billion in revenue reported by the National Football League in 2006.

Yes, baseball has a lot more games from which to generate sales than the NFL, but that has always been the case. Simply put, baseball has done a much better job in the past few years of boosting its revenue beyond traditional sources, i.e. ticket sales and television broadcasting.

Baseball's sales have increased 50 percent from 2004 and have doubled since 2000. The NFL's sales grew at roughly half of baseball's pace during the same time period.

DuPuy told me the level of growth this year surprised even him and Commissioner Bud Selig. He attributed the gains to more competitive balance in the game, which has helped improve attendance for teams in smaller markets such as the National League champion Colorado Rockies and Milwaukee Brewers, which was in the race for a division title up until the final week of the season.
The growth of the online ticket resale market has also spurred more season ticket sales, DuPuy said. It also helped cut down on the number of no-shows, which increase sales at the concession stands. That's one of the reasons that the MLB signed a deal with eBay (Charts, Fortune 500) unit StubHub, which lets people buy and sell tickets, in August.

Online ticket sales is the perfect example of why baseball revenue has grown so dramatically. The sport has been able to take advantage of several sources of revenue that could hardly be imagined as baseball was coming out of the 1994-95 strike.

The MLB.com Web site, satellite radio broadcasts, an out-of-market television game package and much better than expected international growth have all boosted sales..

First of all, this is an editorial and the dollars that are being thrown around for "total rev" are being kicked around by the COO of MLB who might just have a little bit of an agenda...No? LOL. "competitive balance" benefits whom? It wouldnt be the commissioner's team would it?

As far as the NFL's total revenue, do you really think you or anyone else has an accurate guage of what they are really taking in? The fact is, the Player's association is going after the books pretty hard.

If anyone, you included, really thinks that Mlb's total revenue is equal to the NFL's revenue, there is a bridge in arizona to buy and a short bus to ride over it on.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

First of all, this is an editorial and the dollars that are being thrown around for "total rev" are being kicked around by the COO of MLB who might just have a little bit of an agenda...No? LOL. "competitive balance" benefits whom? It wouldnt be the commissioner's team would it?

As far as the NFL's total revenue, do you really think you or anyone else has an accurate guage of what they are really taking in? The fact is, the Player's association is going after the books pretty hard.

If anyone, you included, really thinks that Mlb's total revenue is equal to the NFL's revenue, there is a bridge in arizona to buy and a short bus to ride over it on.

So they are just making this stuff up? Why would they do that?

I just thought it was interesting that "competitive balance" was given as a reason for the increase in revenues since you more or less called me an idiot for suggesting that it was important.

But of course they have an agenda and are lying so I am still "wrong".

[Scav]

Someone find what Al Davis said about George. It was just on ESPN2 bottom line and it was CLASSIC!

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Scav

Someone find what Al Davis said about George. It was just on ESPN2 bottom line and it was CLASSIC!

Aren't you busy with THE DECISION?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So they are just making this stuff up? Why would they do that?

I just thought it was interesting that "competitive balance" was given as a reason for the increase in revenues since you more or less called me an idiot for suggesting that it was important.

But of course they have an agenda and are lying so I am still "wrong".

Its not about being "right" or "wrong". The commissioner and his underlings have an agenda and you know it. Regardless of whether or not that agenda is in the best interest of baseball as a whole is debatable but his position on the subject of "competitive balance" is well documented and his own team is one of the chief beneficiaries of that position. Is anything I say here inaccurate?

Any story that claims that baseball is equal to the NFL in total rev has to be looked at with an extreme amount of skepticism if not dismissed as utter garbage.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Its not about being "right" or "wrong". The commissioner and his underlings have an agenda and you know it. Regardless of whether or not that agenda is in the best interest of baseball as a whole is debatable but his position on the subject of "competitive balance" is well documented and his own team is one of the chief beneficiaries of that position. Is anything I say here inaccurate?

Any story that claims that baseball is equal to the NFL in total rev has to be looked at with an extreme amount of skepticism if not dismissed as utter garbage.

LOL

I suppose that yeah this is a conspiracy to prop up the Brewers.

So I post something that supports a statement that I made (and hardly a controversial one since it has been the 2nd biggest topic in baseball for years) but you summarily dismiss it because of some theoretical agenda and supposed campaign of disinformation from MLB executives?

Have you been taking classes on the Riot-style of denial posting?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

LOL

I suppose that yeah this is a conspiracy to prop up the Brewers.

So I post something that supports a statement that I made (and hardly a controversial one since it has been the 2nd biggest topic in baseball for years) but you summarily dismiss it because of some theoretical agenda and supposed campaign of disinformation from MLB executives?

Have you been taking classes on the Riot-style of denial posting?

LOL

Selig is commissioner. He has interest in the brewers. Fact? Yes.

Selig's brewers benefit from revenue sharing. Fact? Yes.

Selig has been pushing revenue sharing for the last 20 years. Fact? Yes.

Revenue sharing has been a hot topic in baseball and there has been a big fight over the years. Fact? Yes.

So does Selig have any Agenda? LOL. No, I guess not.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

LOL

Selig is commissioner. He has interest in the brewers. Fact? Yes.

Selig's brewers benefit from revenue sharing. Fact? Yes.

Selig has been pushing revenue sharing for the last 20 years. Fact? Yes.

Revenue sharing has been a hot topic in baseball and there has been a big fight over the years. Fact? Yes.

So does Selig have any Agenda? LOL. No, I guess not.

Bud Selig sold his interest of the brewers 5 years ago

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Bud Selig sold his interest of the brewers 5 years ago

The "arcitcle" that you googled was from 2006. The numbers were from the preceeding years. Try again.