Effectively Wild Episode 2245: Diamond Sports Group in the Rough

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the resolution of the Diamond Sports Group bankruptcy hearing, how declining broadcast revenue could lead to labor strife, and the Pirates’ reward offer for a baseball card that comes with a patch from Paul Skenes’s debut jersey, then (28:42) bring on Patreon supporter Craig Wingbermuehle to discuss his […]

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0:00.0	Hello, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans, Bobby Shans,
0:04.7	Effectively Wild
0:06.6	Joey Manessus,
0:10.6	walk off three-run digger.
0:12.3	Stop it.
0:13.4	Walk off three-run shot.
0:15.2	Oh, my God.
0:16.7	Meg, he's the best player in baseball.
0:20.5	Unfactively wild. Hello and welcome to episode 2245 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:32.6	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of FanRubs. Hello, Mick.
0:36.6	Hello.
0:57.8	We're going to do some emails today for the first time in quite a while, and we will be joined by listener and Patreon supporter to do that shortly. Just a couple quick things before we bring him on here. One, we got some sort of resolution in the Diamond Sports Group saga. Evendrelic is free, perhaps. No more hearings to attend. No more tweets about which teams will be dropped
1:05.4	and under what terms, so he has certainly covered the heck out of that story, which has been
1:09.5	nice because it has freed me from paying closer attention to it. It's the heck out of that story, which has been nice because it has
1:10.9	freed me from paying closer attention to it. It's the sort of thing that makes my eyes glaze over
1:15.6	when I start to read about the specifics of the terms of the broadcast deals, and yet I must
1:21.5	not avert my eyes and my attention, because this is pretty darn important. And the way that
1:27.3	this all worked out with
1:29.2	Diamond Sports Group, which is the owner of the former Bally's broadcasting channels, which
1:36.2	are now the Fandul broadcast channels, now they had a hearing on Thursday. It was expected to run into Friday, but it didn't. They wrapped up all of this upset now that's been going on for almost two years. There's some resolution to this bankruptcy saga. And the resolution is that Diamond will leave bankruptcy with a smaller portfolio of teams, but not a
2:04.3	non-existent one.
2:05.4	They've still got 13 NBA teams, eight NHL teams, and six MLB teams.
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