Richard Deitz

somehow at the end of this because the sports rights go up and they're going to pass that on to the consumer.

So if you have something like Paramount+, I would expect the price of that two or three years from now to go up.

Generally speaking, when it comes to media mergers, the consumers end up paying and people lose their jobs.

That is just a history of what happens and that's what I'd bet on.

Yeah, the winner of all this is Rob Manfred who just used the gift basically of the guy like throwing money into the air and like catching it because that's what MLB has always done.

They don't really have a consumer-friendly national policy.

You have to have multiple different outlets to watch all this stuff.

Now, away from the traditional greed of all sports organizations, I think some of the names you mentioned are great.

I love Adam Amin, like you guys do.

I'm a big, as we say in wrestling, I'm a big Jason Benetti mark.

I think that was a great hire by NBC.

You guys obviously know him in your market.

He's great.

with the White Sox.

That's a great hire, and that feels already to me like a big broadcast, and I expect NBC to put on a good show for that.

I'm glad to see ESPN remain in baseball because I think it's important for the sport to have a relationship with ESPN because even though SportsCenter is not the same as it used to be and ESPN is not the same, you still want to have them be interested in your sport because they're just too powerful an entity

where you don't want to be buried.

And MLB's got a really good story to tell.

So I think, you know, of all the sort of the teams you mentioned, I think they'll all be fine.

I guess the one thing I'll just be paying attention to, this is more of like a nerdy kind of sports media thing, is Benetti's not working with a singular partner.