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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/cash-cow/
CASH COW.
Totally Tigers

Baseball, especially its owners, is making money hand over fist. Revenue has never been greater.

But if attendance has been going down now for the 12th year, how is this happening? There is a 14% decline since 2007, with each year lower save one.

If costs are rising, as well as the number of terrible teams, how can this possibly be the result?

It?s because MLB is making tons of cash from other things.

A couple years ago, MLB sold one-third of its BAM technology, with each owner pocketing over $50 million apiece. They also own a number of other hi-tech tools like PitchCAST, which they will also spin off for a large profit down the road.

Then there is MLB Radio and TV, along with all 30 teams websites. They own it all, control everything about the info and messages and reap the profits.

Outside of technology, they have been buying up companies like Rawlings. Is it a coincidence that shortly thereafter, baseballs started flying out of stadiums as HRs increased and the manufacturing of them changed to make them carry further?

And now, they are turning team uniforms into walking billboards with the addition of the Nike Swoosh displayed prominently on the chest. That little maneuver got them a 10-year deal conservatively estimated at over $1 billion.

Oh, and did I mention the soon-to-be-official agreement between MLB and legalized gambling?

And if that?s not enough, Rob Manfred has just proposed a new playoff format in which even more teams will compete in the off-season, deserving or not. It?s a way to sell more tickets, more food, more merchandise, more tv rights and more advertising ? by selling more hope.
 
March 10 in Tigers and mlb history:

1857: The National Association of BaseBall Players is formed at a meeting in New York City. Twenty-two teams are represented, and William Van Cott of the Gothams is elected president.

1904: New York Giants players leave Mobile, AL ahead of the law after a local judge issues a warrant for their arrest for beating a local umpire unconscious during an exhibition game. The players were goaded by manager John McGraw.

1942: The Detroit Tigers purchased Walter Wilson from the Philadelphia Athletics.

1945: The Detroit Tigers released Boom-Boom Beck.

1948: The Yankees offer to trade Joe DiMaggio for Hal Newhouser.

1951: FBI director J. Edgar Hoover announces that he has turned down an offer to become Commissioner of baseball. The governor of California, Earl Warren, had previously rejected an offer to become baseball's leader.

1963: A little known minor league infielder named Pete Rose plays in his first spring training game. The 22-year-old Rose, who goes 2 for 2 in his debut against the Chicago White Sox, will make the Cincinnati Reds' Opening Day roster. As the team's starting second baseman, Rose will win the National League Rookie of the Year Award.

1982: The Detroit Tigers signed Kevin Pasley as a free agent.
1982: The Detroit Tigers purchased Mark Lee from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1982: Shortstop Travis Jackson and former commissioner Happy Chandler are elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.

1983: The Special Veterans Committee announces the election of Walter Alston and George Kell to the Hall of Fame. Alston managed the Dodgers in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to four World Series championships, while always working under one-year contracts.
Kell, was a standout third baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, batted over .300 nine times, was a 10-time All-Star, and topped American League third basemen in fielding percentage seven times during a 15-season career.
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1984: After four losses, the Tigers get their first spring win, 6-3 over the Twins.

1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Santiago Perez as an amateur free agent.

1993: Sherry Davis becomes the first woman major league public address announcer when she is hired by the San Francisco Giants to work at Candlestick Park.

1995: Michael Jordan announces that he is leaving the Chicago White Sox organization and will return to the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. Jordan struggled in his one season of minor league baseball.

2000: The Philadelphia Phillies traded Wendell Magee to the Detroit Tigers for Bobby Sismondo (minors).

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/curryji01.shtml
Jim Curry 1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/herriar01.shtml
Art Herring 1929-1933.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heathbi01.shtml
Bill Heath 1967.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cunnige01.shtml
George Cunningham 1916-1919.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Nieman
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/niemabo01.shtml
Bob Nieman 1953-1954.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/locked-on-tigers/e/67919740?autoplay=true
Locked On Detroit Tigers Podcast: Episode 10: A Lil' Optimism. 16 minutes.
Episode Info: Chris starts episode 10 by talking about the Tigers game yesterday against the Astros. He discusses Travis Demeritte's red hot spring and in segment two, he talks about the Tigers spot on MLB.com's rankings of Major League Farm Systems
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-cut-spring-roster-to-54
Despite cuts, Tigers prospects closing in on bigs.
Tigers official site

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-optioned-out-tigers-camp-tuesday/5010920002/
Daz Cameron among 13 optioned out of Tigers camp Tuesday.
Detnews

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2020/03/tigers-make-13-cuts-including-reliever-john-schreiber.html
Tigers make 13 cuts, including reliever John Schreiber.
Mlive

https://motorcitybengals.com/2020/03/10/detroit-tigers-cut-13-players-big-league-camp/
Detroit Tigers cut 13 players from big-league camp.
MCBTB

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...gers-franklin-perez-minor-leagues/5013036002/
Detroit Tigers send Franklin Perez to Single-A Lakeland, other prospects to minors.
Freep
 
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