Pittsburgh Pirates, Revenue Sharing and Thoughts
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Tocchet92 here at the Pittsburgh Sports Tavern posted a good snippet from The Slate which you can read by clicking HERE that discusses the Pittsburgh Pirates finances and Revenue Sharing. I was also reading last night and can't remember if I had posted it here but Matt Bandi over at Pittsburgh Lumber Co. addressed something similar in regards to whether or not teams that make profits should be allowed to keep them - http://pittsburghlumberco.com/?p=4229 Reading this snippet from The Slate and reading through Matt's I found a couple of things that are very blatant as being wrong with both revenue sharing and the proposed fixed by Maury Brown that Matt posted at his blog.. Granted we could probably go on and on about how everything economically in MLB is wrong and it's long overdue need for an effective CBA and Salary Cap needs to be had. 1. Revenue Sharing shouldn't be relegated IMO to revenue in take alone. There should be an automatic funding of money to market sizes. Some might shun this but this is exactly with the NHL's revenue sharing does. Here's an example :
The concept of revenue sharing, although new to hockey, is not new to professional team sports. The National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and Major League Baseball (MLB) have, over the years, adopted varying degrees of revenue sharing to help alleviate disparities between the |
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By now everyone knows that the Pirates financial books and records have been exposed by a leak. Frank Coonelly and Bob Nutting have addressed this in statements and it's left a lot of questions as well. If all you do is read headlines that distort and manipulate the facts when it reads "Pirates make $34 million profit" then you really don't care to know the truth. I'll just assume you to not be a true fan. Just someone that can read headline titles. Anyone that has taken a look at the actual documents that were leaked, read any of the other fine Pirates Blogs or read between the lines of whatever drivel the Pittsburgh media pushes out, know the truth, finally. http://deadspin.com/5615096/mlb-conf...-to-see-part-1 That truth is that the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bob Nutting aren't pocketing profits. It's been well written by Wilbur T. Miller the differences between Profits and Cash.
Now, keep in mind—and this is another point that many fans don’t like to hear—making profits and taking money out aren’t the same thing. “Profits” are just a line on a balance sheet. They don’t represent |
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