9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

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9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by RonCo » Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:48 am

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YS9 Considers Loss of Revenue Suit

May 12, 2044: Yellow Springs – Several days after the YS9 front office announced robust attendance numbers, the worm has suddenly turned.

“The problem is Sacramento,” reads an early draft of a summary briefing that YS9 lawyers are said to be preparing as they seek injunction against the Mad Popes. “They keep trading away the only few guys anyone wants to watch, so what’s left is a pile of rubber arms and slow-footed hitters that not even the Mad Popes’ PR office can find a way to sell. Our fans are among the most sophisticated in the world—which you can tell because only highly advanced thinkers can understand why the Heartland Pennant is the real gem of the Brewster—they are not going to fall for the Full Monty Shell Game that Sacramento is trying to foist on the baseball world.”

Attendance at the previous three-game series in which Heartland rival Omaha was in town for registered in at something over 59,500 fans, essentially sell outs every night. The two games with the Mad Popes have rung in at a tepid 47,500, a difference of some dozen thousand. At $18.50 a pop even a Kindergartner can calculate the impact of this loss as some $222,000. (Note, schools in Yellow Springs are advanced enough that Kindergartners can all add, subtract, multiply and divide. Most can handle trigonometry, algebra, and basic probability and statistics, and a few are working on a group project that uses graph theory to predict the outcome of what would happen if you put Vinnie Vitale’s hairpiece into a blender and hit “dice.”)

The brief is to be submitted in municipal court with the request that the judge require the Sacramento team replace that lost revenue, but is apparently being held back so that numbers from tonight’s game, the last in the Mad Pope series, can be included.

With the league’s gate sharing of 40%, it’s expected that the Mad Popes will probably have to cut the Nine a check for upwards of $350,000-$400,000 dollars to cover lost revenue.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by Dington » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:24 pm

Seems like a class action suit for the Frick.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by jleddy » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:36 pm

Gate share may be 40%, but you have to remember that the Popes take another 10% in tithing.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by RonCo » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:44 pm

Lawyers gonna lawyer.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by Lane » Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:58 pm

Dington wrote:
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Seems like a class action suit for the Frick.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by shoeless.db » Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:21 pm

California/Sacramento carried the damn Frick league financially for over a decade and a lawsuit is the thanks we get? You all should be ashamed.
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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by DugoutDesperado » Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:14 am

RonCo wrote:
Sun Sep 20, 2020 10:48 am

Our fans are among the most sophisticated in the world—which you can tell because only highly advanced thinkers can understand why the Heartland Pennant is the real gem of the Brewster
Heartland Pennant being the end goal instead of the Landis. Sounds like something the Browns would say about the Super Bowl back when there weren't lousy.

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Re: 9-News: 44.024 – Popes Draw Blanks

Post by DugoutDesperado » Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:16 am

I send out this post and 10 seconds later I get a spam call from China. Coincidence??

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