Nationals Ask Court to Modify Injunction in MASN Dispute

[foxfield]

I feel you are buying in too much to the Angelos party line. Forbes has shown the Orioles to be profitable every year excluding the profits from MASN. And no matter which way the MASN case turns out, the Orioles are earning large income from MASN. They'll make less if the Nats earn more in rights fees, but remember that the O's get the same rights fees as the Nats.

Frobby, all of the legal and political smoke and mirrors aside, isn't this entire issue about MLB and the Nats, refusing to honor the agreement to place the Nats in DC?

[Frobby]

Frobby, all of the legal and political smoke and mirrors aside, isn't this entire issue about MLB and the Nats, refusing to honor the agreement to place the Nats in DC?

Not at all, in my opinion. The agreement calls for the rights fees to be re-set every five years. That's part of the deal. The parties couldn't agree on what the new rights fees should be, so it went before MLB's RSDC panel for a decision. That was also part of the deal. The contract says the RSDC was to use its "established methodology" to determine the rights fees. This whole dispute is about what that phrase means, and whether the RSDC was biased in coming up with its interpretation of what it meant. But the Nats certainly haven't breached anything. It's their right to have their rights fees renegotiated every five years.

[foxfield]

Thank you sir.