Bizball: Do the Dodgers Really Have a “Secret Deal” to Avoid Revenue-Sharing? (from 2012 – deleted by r/baseball)

A few days ago, a Milwaukee Brewers fanblogger (not a reporter, journalist, or primary source of information) put up an article about the Dodgers getting special treatment on their TV revenue sharing. It cites an old Bloomberg article from 2012.

What the article didn't mention is that the Dodgers having a "secret deal" lessening their TV revenue sharing had already been debunked back when it was reported by Baseball Prospectus team of actual journalists and researchers

The blog was posted on the main baseball sub, given thousands of upvotes, and has injected a new bit of outrage into baseball discourse online. I posted this article on the sub, but bb mods deleted the post. This despite the fact that the Brewers fanblog was not a primary source of information, and this is.

So I'm posting it here in hopes of bringing some sanity back into the discourse

In speaking with those that have access to the actual agreement that Bloomberg speaks of, I’ve retrieved this line from the document: “All up-front cash payments and all annual rights fees shall be subject to revenue-sharing under normal principles.”

Please stop letting ragebait from fan blogs with no journalistic credibility manipulate your emotions