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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Forbes: Minor Leagues, Major Profits

With the 20 most valuable minor league teams on the sidebar.

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, who moved from Ottawa, Canada, to Allentown, Pa., prior to the 2008 season, were not part of this valuation because of insufficient data.

Once they get sufficient data, I’m sure they’ll be on this list. The IronPigs are 4th in the IL in attendance, just ahead of Indianpolis, which Forbes ranks #5 overall.

BTF should go to Sacramento:

the team will throw you an 80-person fajita party in the James Hardie Party Deck for $3,800.

That’s less than $50 a person. We have guys who lose that in 20 minutes playing poker.

Mike Emeigh Posted: August 07, 2008 at 01:04 PM | 7 comment(s)
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1. jwb Posted: August 07, 2008 at 01:56 PM (#2894213)

Says Randel Vataha, founder and president of Game Plan, a Boston sports banking company,

and former New England Patriot and Stanford Cardinal wide receiver. . .

2. Arnold Rothstein Posted: August 07, 2008 at 02:29 PM (#2894269)

Did I misread, or did the "exhaustive analysis" of 130 teams consist entirely of looking at publicly available attendance figures?

3. MM1f Posted: August 07, 2008 at 02:46 PM (#2894307)

In my brief skimming of the article they mentioned luxury box and sponsor's revenue, so I believe that they did take more than attendance into consideration.

4. Alex Gordon's #1 Fan Posted: August 07, 2008 at 02:53 PM (#2894327)

I'd be interested in seeing the complete list.

5. Halofan Posted: August 07, 2008 at 03:28 PM (#2894428)

20 minutes? Try one hand, 30 seconds.

6. Git 'er Dunn Posted: August 07, 2008 at 05:49 PM (#2894591)

#2, it gets worse: the "exhaustive analysis" consisted of 30 teams: "To create the list, our first step was to cut our list of candidates down to a manageable size by focusing on the 30 MiLB clubs with the highest attendance."

7. ValueArb Posted: August 08, 2008 at 04:07 AM (#2894900)

That’s less than $50 a person. We have guys who lose that in 20 minutes playing poker.

I dropped $1,000 in twenty minutes on Wednesday. I'm still up over the last month.

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