Well, that tracks. Reminds me of some of what I've read about the Yankees and the NY Giants having to share the Polo Grounds.
On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 10:14:43 PM UTC-4, Brad Beam wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] On Behalf Of M-D November > > >I was wondering earlier why, if the Nationals are away, why not just play > the game in DC with the Orioles as the home team, as they will be in their > next series with (at) Tampa? > > Orioles owner Peter Angelos was/is none too pleased to have a team in > Washington eating into his revenues. (He was the sole vote against the > Expos' move in '05.) MASN was set up to appease Angelos, with the O's > receiving a super-majority (no less than 2/3) share in the cable outlet. > That share is now (Aug'14) 86-14% O's, and the Nats would like to > renegotiate. > e.g. > http://www.federalbaseball.com/2015/1/7/7506545/nationals-mlb-orioles-masn-litigation-rights-fees-dispute-knows-no-offseason > > > _ _ > |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV > |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
