Thanks, Doug. It is terrible for all of MLB when there is such a team. If they come to your favorite team's park for a four-game series and your team takes "only" 3 out of 4, then it feels as if your team has failed. Yikes.
Honest question: could private equity be any worse owners than the demonstrably hellacious group of owner operators across pro sports today? Or for that matter, college sports! Private Equity might just replace one type of awful with another, but my god we have to convince some of these incompetent clowns to sell.
For all the many, many faults of the Rockies, they do spend some money in an effort to win. They are simply very bad at it. Private equity would be incentivized to treat every team like the Pirates or Rays, where they would spend as little as possible on the team but still hope to compete at some interval (for the Pirates, about once a decade, for the Rays, every few years).
I feel like there's an ultimate worst case scenario where enough private equity firms own teams that they can do something like middling European soccer teams and create a business model where they can develop stars and then sell them to other teams for like $100 million, but then also not implement the relegation system, so they could just do that forever. But I'm just spitballing here.
Off the top of my pointy head I would say by allowing private equity ownership they would only sale a franchise once not more value can be easily extracted. Sales due to loosing interest or incapacitation would stop.
So…basically create multiple immortal John Fischers and Frank McCourts . Could rename it Game of the Living Dead.🤢
They got playoff seasons from the Broncos, the Avalanche, and the Nuggets.
Side rant: Speaking of crap the Denver fans didn't deserve, the 2025 Western Conference playoffs are a pretty clear case for why more sports (other than NFL) should use dynamic (instead of static) playoff brackets. In the second round, the Nuggets who won one more game than the T-Wolves during the regular season had to take on OKC w/o home-court advantage, while the T-Wolves got to face the Warriors with home-court advantage. The Nuggets better record in the regular season hurt their playoff run. With a dynamic playoff structure Denver would have had a second round series against the T-Wolves with home-court advantage, which is much more reasonable given the regular season records.
Thanks, Doug. It is terrible for all of MLB when there is such a team. If they come to your favorite team's park for a four-game series and your team takes "only" 3 out of 4, then it feels as if your team has failed. Yikes.
Honest question: could private equity be any worse owners than the demonstrably hellacious group of owner operators across pro sports today? Or for that matter, college sports! Private Equity might just replace one type of awful with another, but my god we have to convince some of these incompetent clowns to sell.
For all the many, many faults of the Rockies, they do spend some money in an effort to win. They are simply very bad at it. Private equity would be incentivized to treat every team like the Pirates or Rays, where they would spend as little as possible on the team but still hope to compete at some interval (for the Pirates, about once a decade, for the Rays, every few years).
I feel like there's an ultimate worst case scenario where enough private equity firms own teams that they can do something like middling European soccer teams and create a business model where they can develop stars and then sell them to other teams for like $100 million, but then also not implement the relegation system, so they could just do that forever. But I'm just spitballing here.
"Private Equity might just replace one type of awful with another..."
I think this is what we would see.
Yeah, no doubt.
Off the top of my pointy head I would say by allowing private equity ownership they would only sale a franchise once not more value can be easily extracted. Sales due to loosing interest or incapacitation would stop.
So…basically create multiple immortal John Fischers and Frank McCourts . Could rename it Game of the Living Dead.🤢
"Denver’s fans don’t deserve this."
They got playoff seasons from the Broncos, the Avalanche, and the Nuggets.
Side rant: Speaking of crap the Denver fans didn't deserve, the 2025 Western Conference playoffs are a pretty clear case for why more sports (other than NFL) should use dynamic (instead of static) playoff brackets. In the second round, the Nuggets who won one more game than the T-Wolves during the regular season had to take on OKC w/o home-court advantage, while the T-Wolves got to face the Warriors with home-court advantage. The Nuggets better record in the regular season hurt their playoff run. With a dynamic playoff structure Denver would have had a second round series against the T-Wolves with home-court advantage, which is much more reasonable given the regular season records.