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Originally Posted by packs
How would the players acquire the rights to negotiate television deals? These deals are negotiated by the owners. The Yankees have their own network. I don't see how the players could ever hope to take it over.
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They wouldn't necessarily include the players associations in that type of deal, but they could to some extent since the players are the ones actually on air, giving interviews, follow-up stories, doing commercials, whatever. Would likely set up a whole new entity to handle something like that as well. Wouldn't use Fanatics for that. Just speculating that since you now have the three major US sports leagues apparently working together, what is to stop them from taking that coalition even further, except maybe anti-trust laws?
And I'm aware of teams like the Yankees already having their own network, and that is why I also said the leagues may not go this route because they don't all handle their TV contracts the same. I was specifically thinking of the Yankees when I posed that caveat. But I then surmised that they could still get everyone to agree to taking part in a new network if they could demonstrate how everyone could make even more money by doing so. Plus, I personally wouldn't mind seeing the big market MLB teams always having such a money advantage over the smaller market teams brought down a bit. A common shared network including MLB teams would likely work to even out TV/network money between all the teams in the basball, and at least reduce some of the advantages the big market teams like the Yankees have now.