And here I thought the new iPhone app that would let me watch live streaming games in other markets was awesome…
Never to be out done in terms of spending money on players or apparently cutting edge technology, the New York Yankees TV network, YES, and the Major League Baseball Advanced Media Arm (known as “BAM”) have signed a deal to start live streaming Yankees games locally starting July 8th. More from Sports Business Daily,
This is an aspect of Sports business I tend to overlook. the reason for that is the guy, Mike Ilitch, who owns both my Detroit Tigers, and Detroit Red Wings also happens to own a huge restaurant chain. Therefore his own company runs the concession operations of those two stadiums.
This is a pretty simple equation. I took half of team’s 2008 salaries and divided them by number of first half wins to see what each team’s cost per win is.
We will start in the American League East
New York Yankees- 2,090,815.80 dollars per win
Boston Red Sox- 1,170, 088
Toronto Blue Jays- 1,040,360.64
Baltimore Orioles- 746,625
Tampa Bay Rays- 397,687.25
American League east Average- 1,089,115.34 dollars per win
American League Central
Detroit Tigers- 1,469,736.15 Dollars per Win
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