The Ledger

Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.

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Assertion Supported
Magic Johnson: Dodgers generate highest revenue in Major League Baseball history
“We're making money that no major league baseball team has ever made on revenues.”
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Feb 11, 2026 ▶ 49:30 Inside The Life of Silicon Valley's First Athlete Investor | Magic Johnson
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sarandos predicts sports leagues like the NFL will go direct-to-consumer
“I think the winner will be NFL.com. That they'll just go direct to consumer, and there's plenty of people who pay an outrageous amount of money for a subscription for NFL, or NBA, or MLB, and ultimately the winners will be the league anyway, so.”
Ted Sarandos Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 30:03 a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
Assertion Supported
Carrocchio: Esports audience size surpassed MLB and NHL in 2017
“If you compare each league's audience size with esports, esport leagues had a larger audience base than both Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League in 2017.”
Bennett Carrocchio Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 1:56 What's Next for Esports Startups
Opinion
Wiener: Simply streaming linear TV sports feeds on Facebook fails
“MLB, their idea of broadcasting baseball games with Facebook was to just put the broadcasting And put it on Facebook. And I don't think that that works. Like the people that are on Facebook, they know that the game is on TV. They're just not turning it on. So …”
Zach Wiener Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:33 a16z Podcast | Eyeballs on the Game
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