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  1. As long as he keeps hosting his show on Bloomberg, there will be plenty of opportunities for him to be asked about the Orioles. I can't think of many owners who have as public a profile as he does outside of Mark Cuban.
  2. No idea if accurate or not but on podcast I listened to recently David Samon (former Marlins Presiden) and John Skipper (former ESPN President) were arguing buying the O's was a bad investment for Angelos. They were discussing if there should be concern about the low sale price and that Angelos would have done significantly better financially if he had put the purchase price into the S&P 500 instead of buying the Orioles.
  3. His death was not the trigger for the payroll dump and running afoul of the debt service requirements. Although his health was almost certainly why they went all-in as much as they did. I don't think they are a good example of what can be done in a given market if you engage your fans in a way that communicates we are invested and doing all we can to win. The revenue from the attendance increase didn't come anywhere close to covering their increased spending.
  4. I'm not sure the Padres are a great example. They've had to dump ~50m in payroll this offseason to get in line with MLB's debt service rules.
  5. My guess if Elias was allowed to do what wanted is that eventually, payroll would settle in at a ~$150-$160m range in today's dollars.
  6. Somehow, I don't see them or any of the streaming services getting into the bidding for a team like the Seattle Mariners' non-nationally broadcast schedule.
  7. Escalation is a lot less sure than it was a few years ago with the implosion of regional sports networks revenues. Teams could be in for a rude awakening as existing contracts expire.
  8. I know it's necessary, but I really dislike that many options. It makes practical roster construction difficult for a team w/o unlimited payroll. You only have to account for that extra 150m if he's a disappointment and not worthy of having on the roster.
  9. It's less likely, but Machado is a good comp on why either should consider turning it down if they are risk takers. Sign the massive deal at 26 with the opt-out to give you the ability to get an even bigger yearly salary and more years at their absolute peak (~age 30). And if they haven't performed, they still have a massive payday to take them into their mid-30s. The Machado approach will earn the player tens of millions, if not more than any extension followed by FA by 30.
  10. I hope they are exploring extending someone like Gunnar now. I'm not sure I see the case for extending Adley as unless he is risk averse it doesn't make sense for him, and it doesn't make sense for the Orioles to go the number of years he'll get on the FA market considering his age and position. If Elias was not held back by Angelos, I'd be very surprised if his approach to young talent would differ from the approach Houston has taken. Try to extend players but be willing to walk away if it would require committing well past the players prime age years. Gunnar is in a situation that is prime for a win/win extension. 7-8 years so he gets paid now and he's still in line to get a silly money FA contract from someone else as a ~29-30-year-old.
  11. A new stadium equated to ~$40m increase in gate receipts for the Rangers. What is $600m in improvements to Camden Yards going to equate to an increase in gate receipts to the Orioles? Can't say I've seen any estimates or guesses on that.
  12. No doubt, their gate receipts for the years prior to opening the new stadium hovered in the 75m range and they were 115m in 2022.
  13. Gothca. I will be interested to see what the Rangers revenue increase ends up being. They increased payroll by ~60m and increased attendance by 500k. Is that a net gain or net loss for the bottom line and their ability to raiser payroll further to retain some of their young talent.
  14. Agreed, I'm just not sure the type of pitcher that we think would be a good target at 3/60 is not going to end up getting 5/100 if the market overheats again. I'd much rather see them go after one of the Seattle pitchers or other younger options. I have little interest in seeing the Orioles commit more than 2-3 years to someone exiting or already having exited their peak age years.
  15. What good is an increase in revenue if it comes at the expense of costs that rise faster than revenue? Many (not all) of the Padres issues are attributable to their spending on outside talent They were making cash calls and taking loans for significantly more than the revenue hit they took from their RSN contract blowing up.
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