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Originally posted by Fugee
Your point about small market teams being mad after having a good year and having to subsidize the Mets isn't all that likely. After a good year the Twins' attendance goes up pretty dramatically but they are not likely ever going to have a local TV contract lucrative enough to have to share revenue with anyone but the Expos, the Brewers or the Royals unless Carl Pohlad turns his new cable sports station into a superstation ala Ted Turner.
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Is it? The Twins pulled in over two million in 1987, 3 million in 1988 and 2.2 million in 1989, beating the league average each year (they beat the league average again in 1992). They won the Series in '87 and '91. So, it's not a stretch to assume that they would outdraw some bigger market teams if they made a serious run at the Series or won it (especially in the hypo under which we are currently working). If the Mets drop to the cellar, they would most likely still earn more (better tv contracts, etc.), but it's not that big a jump.
But let's move on to something interesting since we're living in fantasy land, because there ain't gonna be extensive revenue sharing or a salary cap in baseball.
"MELBOURNE, Australia -- A golfer born in Adelaide as a man will create a world first by playing in the women's Australian Open next month, the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper reported in Melbourne."
http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=1735551
First transexual playing in a woman's event. Here she is:
http://images.google.com/images?sour...=Mianne+Bagger
spree: office safe.
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