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MLB Lockout to delay start of season

PTBoardOp94

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred today said he was cancelling the first week of regular season baseball, which was slated to begin on March 31st. These will be the first regular season games cancelled due to labor strife since 1995.

MLB locked out its players association on December 1st. The players today declined what was labeled as MLB's "best and final" offer, leading Manfred to cancel the early slate of games. Earlier this week, Manfred was quoted saying he was willing to miss the first month's worth of games.

Obviously, this starts to eat into TV revenues. It isn't clear how a shortened season would affect media rights contracts, and specifically whether the TV rightsholders would need to pay the entire amount due, even though they are getting less baseball than originally agreed.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred today said he was cancelling the first week of regular season baseball, which was slated to begin on March 31st. These will be the first regular season games cancelled due to labor strife since 1995.

MLB locked out its players association on December 1st. The players today declined what was labeled as MLB's "best and final" offer, leading Manfred to cancel the early slate of games. Earlier this week, Manfred was quoted saying he was willing to miss the first month's worth of games.

Obviously, this starts to eat into TV revenues. It isn't clear how a shortened season would affect media rights contracts, and specifically whether the TV rightsholders would need to pay the entire amount due, even though they are getting less baseball than originally agreed.
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I was listening to WEEI Boston this afternoon and word was that MLB could trim 22 games off the regular season schedule -- leaving 140 -- and not lose a penny in national TV rights. I believe Ken Rosenthal was given as the source for this info. Since the true value of the MLB TV package is the postseason, there's no urgency about playing in April.
 
CTListener said:
I was listening to WEEI Boston this afternoon and word was that MLB could trim 22 games off the regular season schedule -- leaving 140 -- and not lose a penny in national TV rights. I believe Ken Rosenthal was given as the source for this info. Since the true value of the MLB TV package is the postseason, there's no urgency about playing in April.
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for the networks, but what about the regional sports channels? they don't have any postseason games
 
Baseball should not start until May and end in September.... playing BBall in 42 degree weather with a 23 degree wind chill in Boston is stupid.

I have 4 MLB teams that train within 40 miles of me, personally if the spring training tourists stay home it is fine with me.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
will cable and EI subscribers get a refund for the cancelled games? even just few .$
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MLB TV, too. In 2020, I paid $125 on March 1, but when the pandemic shortened the season to 60 games, I was offered either a rebate or a credit toward the 2021 season. I chose the latter and wound up paying only $60 for the full 2021 season. I assume there will be some sort of discount if this turns out to be a season of 140 games or less, but if only a week or two of games are canceled, I wouldn't expect any reduction in price.
 
nomadcowatbk said:
for the networks, but what about the regional sports channels? they don't have any postseason games
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They'll suffer, just as they did in 2020, especially if the lockout drags on past the end of the NHL and NBA regular seasons and they have to make do with college or minor league baseball or replays of old games.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Baseball should not start until May and end in September.... playing BBall in 42 degree weather with a 23 degree wind chill in Boston is stupid.

I have 4 MLB teams that train within 40 miles of me, personally if the spring training tourists stay home it is fine with me.
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By that logic they would only play 2 months in Boston.
 
Don CT said:
By that logic they would only play 2 months in Boston.
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Three. Boston is usually OK weather-wise at night by the end of May right through early September. Remember, it's on the coast so the temperatures aren't as extreme as they would be inland.
 
CTListener said:
Three. Boston is usually OK weather-wise at night by the end of May right through early September. Remember, it's on the coast so the temperatures aren't as extreme as they would be inland.
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The harbor never really warms up so a stiff wind in June can still be cold.
 
Don CT said:
The harbor never really warms up so a stiff wind in June can still be cold.
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I've gone to plenty of night games at Fenway. An uncomfortably chilly June night is rare, and by "chilly" I mean under 50 degrees. I've never had any problem with watching baseball with temps in the 50s unless the wind is really howling. I doubt many Bostonians do.
 
Don CT said:
I would add that as the climate changes, it will be warmer in April now and last longer. So Baseball season can go into December.
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I believe the science, but that's straight out of "The Day After Tomorrow." Pretty sure that, at 66, I'm not going to be around for that epic Christmas night that the Sox win the Series.
 

MLB, players strike labor deal that will enable full 2022 baseball season​

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Unlocked: MLB, players strike labor deal that will enable full 2022 baseball season

There will be a baseball season, and a full, 162-game one at that.
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Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to a new labor contract Thursday afternoon in New York City, ensuring a full season and averting the most catastrophic consequences. Call it the 11th hour or the bottom of the ninth, but after the union successfully called the league’s bluff in the face of several ultimatums, the pressure of an impending season finally forced a mutually tolerable compromise.
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The new deal also paves the way for the league to implement more changes — including a pitch clock, bigger bases and a ban on certain defensive shifts — as soon as 2023.
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Too bad the pitch clock and shift reforms won't come until next year at the earliest. Still, glad both sides finally did the right thing. I sensed more sadness than anger from baseball fans this time around, not as many pledges never to watch another game, more pleading for the game to return and provide a few hours of daily relief from the steady drumbeat of bad news this year. Play ball!
 
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