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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 1:08:48 David Rosenthal The biggest point of leverage that they could possibly have over the cable operators because all ESPN has to do is threaten to pull the plug on any given cable operator and say to, you know, their thousands or millions of subscribers out…
- ▶ 1:12:29 David Rosenthal MLB, NBA, they do a big NFL deal in 1998 to get Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football rights for ABC.
- ▶ 3:07:52 David Rosenthal It is a streaming technology platform that was part of Major League Baseball.
- ▶ 3:08:11 David Rosenthal Because Ichiro had come to MLB and was a phenomenon back in Japan.
- ▶ 3:08:25 Ben Gilbert For MLB baseball teams.
- ▶ 3:08:55 David Rosenthal 33% stake in BAM Tech from Major League Baseball, with an option to increase that to a majority stake over the next couple years.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:55:01 David Rosenthal It's just like in our NFL episode where baseball was deathly afraid of television.
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:52:54 Ben Gilbert So then my key question, the, and, and the one, the one unfilled in puzzle piece in all of your minds should be Ben and David are obsessed with the communist capitalism of the NFL and the fact that the NFL, the NBA, MLB, NHL, these are…
The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 23:41 David Rosenthal The same policy as Major League Baseball and completely kick Blacks out of the league, and it wouldn't be until after World War II, and for the Redskins, not until 1961.
- ▶ 58:04 David Rosenthal He's been meeting with baseball owners, including Branch Rickey of Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson fame, who at that point in time was out of major league baseball and was trying to start a third independent league.
- ▶ 1:08:23 David Rosenthal After he moves the headquarters to New York, Roselle contracts the Elias Sports Bureau, which did professional statistics for Major League Baseball.
- ▶ 1:27:23 David Rosenthal So if you're like a major league baseball team in a major market where you're selling out your stadium, there's not a strong incentive to keep adding Sheen to the product.
- ▶ 2:37:00 Ben Gilbert On NFL games versus just over 50% for the NBA and 44% for Major League Baseball.
- ▶ 2:52:14 Ben Gilbert The NBA and Major League Baseball teams have to pay to operate farm teams that no one wants to watch or play in, and the NFL gets all the benefit of all the development of all of these players in their college years for free.
- ▶ 2:52:32 Ben Gilbert They benefit from the storylines around them, too, so when someone comes into Major League Baseball and gets promoted out of the minors, everyone's like,
- ▶ 3:05:54 Ben Gilbert MLB did the whole bam tech thing.
- ▶ 3:08:04 Ben Gilbert So players are definitely variably rewarded based on their value to any given team, but the NBA and the MLB are way less equal than the NFL.
- ▶ 3:10:32 David Rosenthal During the dawn of the TV era, I think they were counter positioned against major league baseball in that while decline in revenue from the gate by adding TV certainly was a hit to them.
- ▶ 3:10:47 David Rosenthal It wasn't as much of an existential hit in the way it was for major league baseball.
- ▶ 3:10:52 David Rosenthal And so the NFL was more able and willing to experiment with the new business model of TV as the primary revenue source than baseball.
- ▶ 3:49:14 David Rosenthal You know, if you look at the NBA, if you look at MLB, if you look at Formula One, if you look at IPL, the fact that so many of the stars came from other countries and bring that fan base along with them is huge, and that has never happened…
Coca-Cola: The Complete History & Strategy (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:10:11 David Rosenthal He's best friends with the major league baseball star, Ty Cobb.
Indian Premier League Cricket (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:48 David Rosenthal Or a Major League Baseball game.
- ▶ 47:43 Ben Gilbert Major League Baseball, almost 2500 games are played per season.
- ▶ 52:36 David Rosenthal Compare that to a Major League Baseball game, for instance, has an average of about 300 pitches per game, about a 150 each side, so now all of a sudden, cricket went from, like, the boring version of baseball to the more exciting version…
- ▶ 1:17:32 David Rosenthal Here in the U.S., I think this is where Major League Baseball has gone really, really, really wrong over the last set of decades.
- ▶ 1:20:49 David Rosenthal Are meteorites deals negotiated by each team individually, like they are in Major League Baseball?
- ▶ 1:59:39 David Rosenthal Then you've got Major League Baseball.
- ▶ 1:59:41 David Rosenthal Major League Baseball has no salary cap at all.
- ▶ 2:00:17 David Rosenthal So, last year, in twenty-twenty-four, nine teams in Major League Baseball exceeded the competitive balance tax threshold.
- ▶ 2:00:53 David Rosenthal Major League Baseball does not have central media rights.
- ▶ 2:18:54 David Rosenthal Still today, because the IPL is in its infancy relative to other established sports leagues, the teams and franchises themselves aren't set up to develop talent in the way that, say, you know, Major League Baseball is the most developed on…
- ▶ 2:19:11 David Rosenthal If you're a Major League Baseball organization, you have minor league baseball teams around the country and academies around the world where you are signing and developing players.
- ▶ 3:16:03 David Rosenthal There's a difference between the IPL that only plays 74 matches and Major League Baseball that plays
- ▶ 3:18:49 Ben Gilbert But then MLB is like a 1,000,007 per game.
- ▶ 3:19:48 Ben Gilbert Now the question is, what is the total value of the MLB?
- ▶ 3:50:13 David Rosenthal Major League Baseball has serious problems.
- ▶ 3:50:19 David Rosenthal I actually think managing Major League Baseball is really challenging right now, and they're arguably doing a pretty good job of maintaining value capture over the long run, while there's just like a whole bunch of factors fighting against…
- ▶ 3:51:29 David Rosenthal BamTech is a huge success for MLB, but again, you're basically just
- ▶ 4:07:21 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Playbook, you texted me an interesting question saying, for Playbook, why don't we just ask the question, could the MLB or NBA be disrupted like this?
- ▶ 4:08:40 David Rosenthal I think what is a total analogy is MLB, and there's some potential risk of early signs of the NBA too, are going in a direction that long term
- ▶ 4:09:16 David Rosenthal Now, the NBA is in a better position than MLB because they have a soft salary cap, so not as good as the NFL, but better than no salary cap in
- ▶ 4:09:25 David Rosenthal The MLB, and they have now moved to mostly a centralized revenue sharing media rights deal.
- ▶ 4:10:17 David Rosenthal MLB, I don't know that it's a, this commissioner problem, but like, they're farther along the decline curve.
- ▶ 4:10:23 David Rosenthal The rubber is gonna hit the road for MLB once enough generational shift happens that there's just no longer enough supply of players and fans.
- ▶ 4:10:35 David Rosenthal But all that said, there is one thing really, really going for MLB, which is international.
- ▶ 4:10:56 Ben Gilbert Yeah, but that doesn't help the MLB.
- ▶ 4:11:43 David Rosenthal But the fact that it exists at all should be very alarming to MLB.
- ▶ 4:12:58 Ben Gilbert In the write-up that he did that I read to prep for this episode, he highlighted that the big four sports leagues in the US, the MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL, have outperformed the stock market meaningfully, and over a period of 1961 to…
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:27:32 Ben Gilbert They're now the official uniform supplier of the MLB, the NFL, and the NBA, and they're throwing huge dollars.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:41 Ben Gilbert So FTX is now the sponsor of the Miami heat's basketball arena, FTX arena, and you can see their logo on every major league baseball umpires uniform.
- ▶ 1:04:12 Ben Gilbert I mean, now one of the ways that you're acquiring customers is by owning naming rights to arenas and patches on major league baseball umpires and all these things, celebrity commercials.