The Business of Baseball

摘要

As the world woke up to news that baseball's L.A. Dodger: had gone from bankrupt to the most valuable team in the MLB after being acquired by Guggenheim Baseball Management, our cover story on Dodger star Matt Kemp and the game's TV-driven windfall had already predicted the megadeal. Tom Van Riper and Christina Settimi's feature "The New Moneyball" was ahead of the curve in detailing the cable television bounty that's begun to spread around Major League Baseball and the enormous effect the DVR has had on how cable channels value the sport (one of the last bits of programming that demands to be watched live on TV).