***Official Houston Astros 2022-23 Offseason Thread***

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Ask the Mets fans how excited they are about Correa.
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amercer said:

Flight was delayed, but we are in the air headed to Palm Beach now. Some Mets and Nats fans on the plane with us too.

Mrs. Marvin is heading out Monday with her family and I'm hopping on a plane Wednesday night to join them in Orlando. We'll be at the games Friday-Sunday.
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Bunk Moreland said:

MAROON said:

this seems less than ideal:

Warner Bros. Discovery Looks to Get Out of Regional Sports TV Business - WSJ

AT&T SportsNet reportedly falls short in payment to Pirates, could be in distress | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

not sure if this has already been discussed. Parent of ATT Sports Net wants out of the business.

With its entry into golf, the CW should use this as an opportunity to expand their sports coverage and maybe get some good deals, at least in the short term.

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Manfred said if they went under MLB would likely take over the rights and run it out of MLB.tv with no blackout restrictions
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bearkatag15 said:



Can't disagree here. This hit was massive

Let's see what else was posted. I can't watch these enough


If I had to rank the 5 most impactful hits of the postseason I'd rank them:

1. Yordan's blast in game 6
2. Bregman's hit from above
3. Yordan's blast in game 1 against Seattle
4. Vazquez's RBI single in game 6
5. Pena's HR in inning 18

You'll notice I didn't include any hits against the Yankees. When you get your ass swept there really isn't any hits to pinpoint.

Honorable mention: Machete's HPB.
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I'd rank Yordan's GM 1 walk off #1

I've heard multiple guys say that set the tone for the rest of the playoffs. From that point they were locked in.

We lose that game and who knows how things fall.
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All I do is Nguyen
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Y'all.......I am so ready for this season

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This was way too fast. The beauty of baseball is going to a game and slowing down enough to forget about the world for a bit. Baseball should be calm. This seems way too rushed.
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spadilly said:



This was way too fast. The beauty of baseball is going to a game and slowing down enough to forget about the world for a bit. Baseball should be calm. This seems way too rushed.


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I hate it
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spadilly said:



This was way too fast. The beauty of baseball is going to a game and slowing down enough to forget about the world for a bit. Baseball should be calm. This seems way too rushed.


I love it when a pitcher is up there dealing. This is great, get some motion in the game.
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We went to the Aggie game tonight. The 20 second pitch clock is plenty fast enough.
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so were regional sports networks just another zero interest rate phenomena?
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HerschelwoodHardhead said:

spadilly said:



This was way too fast. The beauty of baseball is going to a game and slowing down enough to forget about the world for a bit. Baseball should be calm. This seems way too rushed.


I love it when a pitcher is up there dealing. This is great, get some motion in the game.

Roy Oswalt…he would have zero problems with the new rules.
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Karl Malone would hate this new rule.
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https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/warner-bros-discovery-planning-to-leave-rsn-business.html

Add the Astros and ATT Sports Net to the growing list of RSNs going belly up. I hope that this is a good thing in the end and that somehow this does away with regional blackouts via streaming. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. I wonder how this effects people like Julia Morales, TK, and Blummer who are employees of ATT Sports Net?
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Put me in the "hate" bucket for pitch clock
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OKCAg2002 said:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/02/warner-bros-discovery-planning-to-leave-rsn-business.html

Add the Astros and ATT Sports Net to the growing list of RSNs going belly up. I hope that this is a good thing in the end and that somehow this does away with regional blackouts via streaming. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. I wonder how this effects people like Julia Morales, TK, and Blummer who are employees of ATT Sports Net?


All I know is I better be able to watch my astros from here in Bryan when the season starts. This probably couldnt happen at a better time for the astros to find a big time suitor for their games. Best team in MLB, maybe not the best tv market, but who is going to pass up televising our games?
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I've missed these lineup tweets
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And so it begins
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bearkatag15 said:



I've missed these lineup tweets


I didnt realize how much turnover there was from last year
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https://rocketswire.usatoday.com/2023/02/24/report-ownership-for-rockets-astros-television-rights-likely-to-change/
Gig’em Aggies!
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bearkatag15 said:



I've missed these lineup tweets


Are we hazing Abreu?
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spadilly
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TK and Blummer are employed by the Astros and Julia is employed by ATTSN
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The articles have said that if the networks liquidate, then they will allow the teams to still use all the equipment for providing the games. I have to figure that the personnel would be included in the deal.
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Julia is more of a journalist, right? She works for the network and does a lot of content pieces outside of field reporting. I hope she can continue with the broadcasts, but this is going to be really interesting to see how it all works out.
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OKCAg2002 said:

Julia is more of a journalist, right? She works for the network and does a lot of content pieces outside of field reporting. I hope she can continue with the broadcasts, but this is going to be really interesting to see how it all works out.


I thought their contract was with the Astros?
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Nope, attsn. She does rockets stuff too occasionally
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Yeah. Julia was still producing content during the postseason for ATT.
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The question is how the Astros get paid. Getting to use the equipment to produce it themselves means they have to pay for producing the broadcast. That's the opposite of an income stream.

So are the Astros getting any advertising income directly now? Is there any advertising income? Are those contracts transferred to the team?

Media rights are an income stream. Imagine if the YES network went belly up. That's a huge amount of money for the Yankees. WGN and the Cubs?

The real question is how much of a hit does this put on the team's revenue and does it impact them in at way going forward with spending.

Now add in the distribution. ATTSSW had a distribution contract with DirecTV. If they go belly up do the Astros have to negotiate that themselves? Does it stay in place automatically?
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This is amazing - one of my all time favs.

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One of the articles said teams selling their streaming content is 10 years away but seems like mlb.com has the infrastructure if the Astros were to manage the production themselves with former ATT Sportsnet personnel.

Seems way to simple but then anyone that had the mlb app could stream Astros games if you paid the fee directly to them.
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