{"id":416441,"date":"2023-02-20T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=416441"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:16:09","slug":"mlb-starts-economic-reform-committee-over-bally-woes-big-spending","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mlb-starts-economic-reform-committee-over-bally-woes-big-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB starts economic reform committee over Bally woes, big spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"tagged-item-9ee4f0a844654ff39f3e996c8c11250b\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>The MLB<\/a><\/span> has started an \u2018economic reform committee&#8221; in the wake of New York <span id=\"tagged-item-9d32085e4b4e4e459e110456a0cabc95\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>Mets<\/a><\/span> owner Steve Cohen\u2019s \u201cspending and the financial turmoil at Bally regional sports networks,\u201d The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s formation will aim to emphasizes that some MLB owners are unhappy enough that they want to discuss major change. The league has already ordered studies of its economics in the past.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, under then-MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, the league famously published the Blue Ribbon report, which included input from individuals outside the ownership ranks.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said that the new group, however, is not producing a report and is \u201cexclusively made up of owners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tagged-item-57070ddf3c714b21a337ac6ade733e73\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a><\/span> Chair Mark Walter, one of the sport\u2019s largest market teams, is chairing the economic reform committee while Detroit <span id=\"tagged-item-855c1284d80f40e1b2441cf047c0d0ab\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>Tigers<\/a><\/span> CEO &amp; Chair Christopher Ilitch, Boston <span id=\"tagged-item-29a0fef453eb45fd9d5a19e0716da5ac\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>Red Sox<\/a><\/span>\u00a0principal owner John Henry and\u00a0<span id=\"tagged-item-529706ab6b0c4aa0b392bd9e5c0f08aa\" class=\"highlight tagged-item\"><a>Rockies<\/a><\/span> owner Dick Monfort are among the members of the new committee as well.<\/p>\n<p>However, what impact the committee will have, is to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLB has started an \u2018economic reform committee&#8221; in the wake of New York Mets owner Steve Cohen\u2019s \u201cspending and the financial turmoil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":416442,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16909,17600,17101,17653],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Dodgers boss Mark Walter is chairing the committee","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/416441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416441"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=416441"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=416441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}