Insider Drops BOMBSHELL Padres Report…

Insider Drops BOMBSHELL Padres Report…

You might be looking at the next owner of the San Diego Padres’s. Let’s talk about what the reports are starting to emerge about the new ownership. And we admit that a lot of this is hypothetical, futuristic, and initial, but it’s time to start actually talking about some real stories. What’s going on everybody? Christian Person back with another episode of Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much for tuning into the show. We’re going to talk about some of the, like I said, initial reports of new ownership. We’ve done opinion pieces. This is still going to be that. We’re going to wander off into maybe some other uh opportunities about who we all think collectively uh could be the next owner. So, as we go through all of this, as always, leave a comment. Much appreciated hearing from you guys every video. There’s a pretty wide range of baseball philosophies occupied by our fans. So, um I’m I’m I feel like I’m more enriched on these conversations by hearing from you. Enough from me. Also, hit the subscribe button. This headline obviously has I’m not going to say dominated the Padres’s sphere, but it’s it’s one of the majority stories for the last couple of days. The Padres’s and the initial sales and there’s all sorts of um degrees of uh intensity to which you could grade this as a story of like this most important thing or it’s not an important thing. All in all though, it does seem like it’s going to be a thing for the Padres’s over the next months, seasons, dot dot dot question mark. Um, one of the reports and or just topics that came up from the excellent Ben and Woods, if you are not familiar, Ben and Woods and their producer Paul Rindle are the 973 hosts. So I guess they are the if this was a mountain they would be the ones living at the top of it. They’re the official Padres’s show and dudes. They are good dudes. They are true San Dieans. They are plugged in guys. They are guys that like all of us have to create uh headlines to create stories to create content to move the vehicle forward. But I don’t uh I don’t think they’re clickbaity morons or anything like that. So, I take this story with a with a pretty solid uh you know, I grade this as as news that would not be just talked about just for the sake of talking. So, Stan Kroni of the two here that you see between him and Joe Leub would be maybe my first pick. He was obviously the person I I showed as the intro to this video. But both of these guys largecale figures in in their industries. And it got me kind of just wondering because I want to get to another article here from the Union Tribune and and and Athletic and stuff in a second. Got me wondering. Like I said, does the owner really matter right now? And I get that it can maybe matter in the in the negative of like we could get a bad owner that wants to spend very little and doesn’t connect with the the fan base here yada yada yada. So maybe doesn’t entirely matter, but does it matter on the upside? Like is there an is there a good enough, excellent enough, innovative enough, um different enough, refreshing enough, rich enough, whatever it is enough owner to get us over the hurdle of being where we are behind the Dodgers and the Blue Jays and a couple of other organiz like we’re just not the best team in baseball hands down. So something still needs to be pushed forward. I’m curious if that figure even exists. And I say that partly nihilistically, just being like looking at how the Dodgers are doing it. But like I said, I wanted to get to this real quick. And I do apologize as always to those of you watching these on phones that sometimes this text gets a little small, but I’ll read it for you. Um, this was from an article breaking down just kind of the current it it was given the the 30,000 foot entry summary to all of the Padres’s ownership situation from how Peter Deil and all that, but then this this got me really thinking. says, “But the Padres’s lost their local media contract early in the 2023 season, eliminating a crucial source of fixed revenue, and the franchise has scaled back its spending since Sidler’s passing the Padres’s/Payroll about a third going into 2024 to roughly 172 million, though they went back up to about 215 in 2025. All parts of that are interesting. The first part though of losing the TV contract I think we all remember, but I’ll give the what my perception and summary was is that we went from Fox Sports West very quickly into Bali very quickly into Major League Baseball just kind of reabsorbing it and couldn’t I honestly couldn’t tell you the you know uh the true like who puts on Padre games right now. Like I just turn on Fubo and or Apple frustratingly Apple TV when I have to. Uh, but I couldn’t tell you the like the way that when the Padres’s were on Channel 4 or Fox Sports or whatever it was, you had the mic flags and you knew the identity of the organism that broadcast the game. That not existing anymore, I would say, to me was a big thing just because I was graduating or have graduated from uh journalism school right around that time. It just was, you know, kind of like this was within the realm of things that I was paying attention to, but I don’t think it was a monumental thing where people were like thinking, “Oh no, we lost our TV. What is this going to do to our ability to hold on to Manny Machado in 2027?” Um, but like losing the TV deal could put us in a in a and I think there are other teams that I’m saying this without doing all that much studying and just I’m doing a lot of pro, you know, uh, generalizing and projecting, but I bet there are other teams out there that are starting to feel the pinch of, hey, we used to have 50, 80, 130, two, like because these contracts were negotiated in a way that was multipleear deals usually. So you could project out and be like, “Oh, next year base we’re going to bring in X Y or Z numbers from our te our TV deal, our media rights deal, our this that and the others.” Not having that makes the owner have to deal with it, let’s call it, because it’s not necessarily like I I’m not going to say that they have to make up that on their own money. And I’m saying their own money is in they either can pay for it or collateral it or get a loan or raise like I’m not I just there is the simplification of the owner being I get that there’s ownership groups and there’s ways to do this but when I ask like does a new owner matter what I’m looking at we’re already spending 200 plus million dollars even with even with just signing back base filler players. The Padres’s are currently sitting at like 190 or something like that. So like a healthy payroll, but it’s starting to be talked about that in the next 5 to 10 years, the numbers are going to go up and up and up for Manny and for uh Xander and for Tatis and the team is going to potentially get very expensive. So either like and like I’ve said in other videos that some of those contracts need to be offloaded to help with the ability to bring in an owner or or regulate team spending or something like that or you have to bring in somebody who’s got the money or the group or the capital to be able to back the team’s current loans and committed monies situation. And I just feel like that in and of itself from everything that I’ve read in this article with the hundreds of millions of closing in on billions of dollars that have been committed to several players over the next decade u with loans coming due and with the way that just probably other costs are going to inflate. Does does a does an owner worth a trillion dollars have enough money to ever really fully close the gap between where we and the Dodgers are? Because the Dodgers have a TV deal. They are one of the few markets that has something like that. So it it just it makes me think that like sure Kroni would be great. Kroni gets the San Diego area because I think he sees it as just a larger play of Southern California Rams territory. And I think him being also in Southern California, he sees both the highs and the lows of it. He sees how bad the Angels ownership group does with what they do and how good the Dodgers do what what they do. And it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s a smart enough dude to be able to pick up on, oh, hey, that’s a good template for an organization going to come down here, do it, spend it. But the Dodgers are so good and they’re so committed, but like come back to this thing of like they have a TV deal because they have a market that’s large enough or a business person who has figured it out or whatever. Like there’s probably a couple of different ways to look at it, but ultimately it just has come down to the fact that Los Angeles media market and their overall media share of the national slice. It’s large enough to warrant that their ecosystem there has a TV group that wants to spend money to broadcast and like and fixed income is there of the hundreds of millions of billions of dollars that you’re just like, okay, is somebody going to pony that up and just go start accumulating tit fortat player? And maybe this all changes if there is a salary cap. So, there are some, you know, nuances or maybe about this whole argument, but it kind of got me thinking. Yeah, Kroni is cool. There’s some great stories there. I’m down for some of those ideas, but is there anybody actually rich enough to just come in when a TV deal doesn’t exist? Or are we going to permanently be playing man down because of that fixed gap? Maybe it’s a new era of baseball. Maybe that’s part of the collective bargaining stuff. I don’t know. Drop a comment. Let me know what you think. Drop a name of who you think should be the new owners of the San Diego Padres’s. And hit the subscribe button if you don’t mind. It would also be much appreciated. Till next time. Talk to you guys soon.

On this episode Christian Pedersen talks about the latest reports of possible new owners for the Padres.
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