Sportsnet with record Jays' ratings

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MLB should handle the process for bidding for blue jays tv rights. Rogers shouldn't be sand bagging their own team.

[Brew666]

Having some games on free TV has the added benefit of building a fanbase south of the border. Makes a lot sense with Buffalo being our AAA affiliate. CTV and CBC are on basic cable in Buffalo, and available on antenna. You'll never see Sportsnet down there. About 22-23 Yankee games are broadcast on Buffalo OTA channel WNYO 49, yet no games from a city 90 minutes away.

I thought the same but I was in Cleveland a couple weeks ago and they were showing the Sportsnet feed of the Jays Mariners game somehow. No idea if it was an illegal feed or if they were using mlb.tv but it was 100% sportsnet. It was a fairly large place and most of the tvs were showing the Bosox game but they had at least one showing the Jays game

[RalphWiggum]

MLB should handle the process for bidding for blue jays tv rights. Rogers shouldn't be sand bagging their own team.

what's the difference, it's all coming/going to the same place? Rogers just ends up paying more to themselves. It's not like they would then be obligated to put more money into the team.

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MLB should handle the process for bidding for blue jays tv rights. Rogers shouldn't be sand bagging their own team.

what's the difference, it's all coming/going to the same place? Rogers just ends up paying more to themselves. It's not like they would then be obligated to put more money into the team.

While they wouldn't be obligated to, it would be a public relations headache if they claimed poverty while more obviously raking in 10s of millions.

MLB cares too, because it likely impacts revenue sharing.

[Yosemite Dan]

Its not surprising. If we have a winner with some strong personalities, the Jays can reclaim the throne of being Toronto's marquee sports team. Many of you may be too young to remember but the Jays were the top sports team Toronto from the mid 80's until 1993. Don't listen to the puckheads out there. The Jays were more popular than the Leafs for almost a decade. Sure the Leafs were crappy back then but they did have a couple of seasons where they did make the playoffs in the late 80's and it paled in comparison to fan interest in the Jays when they were playoff bound.

Anything that happened with the Jays was newsworthy. When George Bell basically said the Jays could kiss his purple ass back in 1988 because they wanted to make him a DH, it was front page news and throngs of reporters were following him around like he was a rock star to see what he would utter next. It was the players strike in 1994 and the disbanding of all the noteworthy Jay players that killed interest and the fact that fans were spoiled and used to having a contender every year. And the Leafs finally getting some good playoff runs in the early 90's brought them back on top.

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MLB should handle the process for bidding for blue jays tv rights. Rogers shouldn't be sand bagging their own team.

what's the difference, it's all coming/going to the same place? Rogers just ends up paying more to themselves. It's not like they would then be obligated to put more money into the team.

Revenue sharing would play a big part. Look at the Dodgers and Yankees with their TV deals. That TV money would go to help the team... how do we know Rogers doesn't just pocket the money? That's more than likely what they are doing.

[Skin Blues]

We know they're pocketing the money. It's a bit convoluted and I guess it's kind of a weird situation with a media company owning the team. But for MLB it's probably a case where the cure is worse than the disease. It would be messy to have a policy of MLB determining the value of a team's TV deal independent of the money that actually changes hands. I wouldn't be surprised if MLB intervenes at some point though, considering how much money ownership is essentially stealing from the other teams, but maybe the fact that the Canadian dollar is poor is kind of balancing that out. I am really talking out of my ass here, but it seems plausible enough to somebody that doesn't know much about the details.

[Scott Hall]

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