Blackouts are what’s ruining baseball. My young son can’t get excited about baseball when he cant watch it. And, I can’t afford $200 a month cable package to watch our team. I cant afford $50 dollar parking, $200 dollar tickets, a coke and a dog is $40. Baseball is being priced out of the working man. Its sad because i love this sport but have no chance of passing it on to the little league i coach
I agree with you completely that those are major problems. But I've still found ways to get my 7 year old into baseball, and sharing that passion has been incredible. We go to occasional MLB games but mostly to cheap collegiate or MiLB games. Sometimes we even stop by to watch little league games. We play catch in the yard and go to the batting cages. We watch TH-cam compilations of amazing baseball plays. We go to the card shop and collect $1 baseball cards. I did end up buying mlbtv this summer and we've watched hundreds of games together. We just follow a team that isn't our local (and therefore blacked out) team. So yeah, the problems you've mentioned are definitely legit and impacting the sport, but you can still pass down your love to your son!
There’s so many awful owners in mlb it’s a shame I feel for those fans. As someone who used to have an awful ownership group Trevor is right it’s the only solution to becoming a better team and in a better place
Holy shit, what Trevor has said about these rich sociopaths is awesome. It's comforting to know [former] players who have made money playing a make believe game can say with objectivity that these rich owners are not public servants but rather insatiable freaks.
As a Rockies fan, definitely not a fan of Dick Monfort (Rox Owner). Completely fucked up the Arenado situation( Rox are STILL paying his salary (ends at the end of this year)). Kris Bryant situation is screwed up. He has less 162 games played in his 4 years with us. With all that being said, Monfort STILL isn't as bad as the saint known as John Fisher.
I just wish he would at least do something with the team, instead of just kinda let nothing happen and expect a random change like what happened in 2018
I live in Northern Utah. I’ve been a rockies fan since 1993. When they named my little league team the Rockies. I was so excited to have a team so close. I understand why Nolan left and i understand why my boy Charlie stuck in. Its a s*it show. .500 is all they need because loyal fans like us are just spending money. Salt Lake might get a team. I cant bail on my Rockies. When you become a fan you gotta ride
John Fisher is an enemy of the everyday baseball fan. An enemy of the people who actually care about the game. I knew there was fuckery after trading away every 2018-2020 stud and the way he doubled ticket prices and tripled parking. It was a wrap by design.
@@andrewheitmeyer9945 It seems the idea is that nobody will complain about the team moving if nobody’s a fan anymore. And it’s easier to drive people away if you make it too expensive to go. Just gross.
Jerry Reinsdorf also own the Chicago Bulls and refused to pay Phil Jackson more money which is way he left, which caused Michael Jordan to retire instead of keep the team together for one last run in 1999
It wasn't Reinsdorf, it was Jerry Krause that fired Jackson. Blame the owner for telling the GM it was up to him, but that's what happened. Krause had a problem with Jackson and that's the sole reason he wasn't retained as coach, and the sole reason that MJ decided to retire the second time. If Krause said he wanted to keep Phil, the bulls would have kept Phil, then MJ is back and so is Pippen and Rodman. Not a guarantee, but they had a very good shot at continuing to win for the next couple years. I will go to my grave believing that Jerry Krause cost the Bulls at least 1 more ring, maybe 2-3.
It's difficult in itself to win all 6 of your NBA titles in one decade and unfortunate it took a douchebag late owner like Jerry Krause to tear that great dynasty apart. But again, Reinsdorf with all that money made the mistake of thinking he was among the poor and I can tell you PLENTY about my homelessness experiences.
Your explanation on owners being involved is where I’m at as a Tiger’s fan with Chris Ilitch. His father loved baseball and the Tigers and it’s painfully obvious that Chris doesn’t share that love. Just have to hope he eventually decides to actually invest and then stay out of the way.
Thank you for this. I’m an angels fan and this just helps show others the frustration we are dealing with. Also having victor rojas quote was awesome. He was an amazing announcer and wasn’t afraid to say his opinions.
I’d love to know what your opinion on the transition of the ownership of the Orioles being with the Angelo’s family to the Rubenstein led group. Considering most Os fans hated the Angelo’s family the last couple of years and rubenstein seemed to get the fans approval almost instantly. Love the videos
God so much of this rings true. Even among more successful clubs like the cardinals or blue jays where strict adherence to “well that guy has all the experience” or “that’s just how we do things” is killing these teams. And meanwhile within their own divisions there’s other smarter teams willing to experiment and they’re soooo much better
I'll watch the video and I'm sure there's a lot of good stuff I didn't know about. But I still have to poke fun at the thumbnail/title: Why do fans dislike the guy who helped run Michael Jordan out of Chicago? Hm, tough question, haha
I would guess that probably about 25 out of the 30 owners are absolutely terrible and have no interest in trying to take good care of their team. It’s crazy, over in the Minnesota circles the vitriol towards the Pohlads was strong this season (and rightfully so), yet when you have a national discussion about bad owners they don’t even get mentioned
They all say the same thing too. Small market. There literally is no such thing as a MLB team that has a small market. They're all in highly populated cities/regions that have millions of potential fans. But if they don't ever try to make the team good, why would anyone else spend money to watch?
@@snerdterguson Market size refers to how much TV money a team can extract. Unless a team is really good for a long time to attract bandwagon fans nationwide, the team's budget is pretty much determined by how much is a billionaire willing to break even in those smaller TV markets.
I dig that your perspective is as a former player. Of course, in Moreno's case, the horrendous deals to Pujols, Rendon, and Trout could be problems? Rendon and Trout are one-half of the MLB payroll average. Moreno signs these guys, who bomb or are injured constantly. But he's not trying?
One thing will never make sense to me: If you're an owner and all you care about is money, then why wouldn't you do everything you can for your team to win? A winning team brings fans to the games, it boosts ratings which means more tv revenue, it sells more merch, it attracts more sponsors, etc. Heck, a winning team will also make the city you live in like you more, which will really help when you need funding for a new stadium (see: Seattle Mariners). I'll never understand why guys like John Fisher or Dave Tepper (NFL) only care about money and yet don't try to field a winning team, which would make them a lot of money.
Bottom Line: If you know the name of a team’s owner these days (particularly if you’re not a fan) that team is probably really bad, and/or that owner’s big on attention from the media. In my day it was Steinbrenner, Turner, Krok, later Schott. We only knew Krok because of McDonald’s. Quick, who owns the Seattle Mariners? I bet you know who owns the White Sox now, though.
The Rowdy Tellez thing is all you need to know about how horrible of a person Nutting is. They're not going to sign a free agent as long as he's the owner.
@@JobiWan144 They DFA'ed him when he needed 4 plate appearances to get a $200K bonus. So basically everyone has seen that they'll treat guys like crap. So the organization is going to have a hard time incentivizing free agent signings. Who is going to want to go play somewhere where they will intentionally screw you out of a bonus that close to getting it? Maybe a lot of contracts with no bonus structure, all guaranteed cash which their owner isn't going to want to pay.
@@Chiyo-r6d Yes, I know the Tellez story. My point is that they have signed free agents while Nutting has been the owner, including Tellez himself during the 2024 off-season (after the Brewers non-tendered him, IIRC). I'm just trying to clarify if you mean a big free agent (e.g., Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes, etc.), which would be entirely believable, any free agent with other alternatives (still plausible), or any other free agent at all (which they'll probably prove wrong this coming off-season).
@@JobiWan144 The point is him showing how he'll treat a player of Tellez's level just to save a buck will be on the minds of free agents. So that's going to limit some players being willing to sign there or their contracts are going to be guaranteed cash only no bonus money.
Well what happened to tellez I can't I wouldn't have done the same, the dude was trash during the season, listen what the dbacks owner said about Montgomery, don't take wrong it is bad what they did to tellez and nutting is an ass, but I kinda understand why he did it
The Pittsburgh situation is truly a shame they have the most beautiful Stadium with the perfect background of the city and greet fans that will support if they had a winning team.. but at the end of the day this is all on the MLB commissioner the decision makers for allowing owners to be cheap
the plane thing with the white sox seems like a "paying for gatorade" kind of thing where it just shows all the players how cheap the owners really are, like they won't pay for a league average level of nice plane they're not going to pay for a deal for you
Is there a way to bridge players, fans and executives who love the game and COME TOGETHER to keep making John Fisher’s life and MLB miserable until we force a sale of the Oakland A’s??? Nothing worth doing comes easy but together we can do a lot!
Put the cardinals ownership is this class to!! After all the news of what has came out in the last decade you should do a video about them too. Greed and their downfall!!!
As a Rockies fan, so many of the criticisms about Jerry Reinsdorf and Arte Moreno apply directly to Dick Monfort. He's literally on record saying that he knows exactly what to do and doesn't need to consider any new approaches. Ugh.
To expand more on Nutting as a Pittsburgher and Pirate fan. He isnt just cheap, his only goal with the team is make money. He hasnt paid anyone over his ownership and only takes in lower value FA every offseason. Also they guy is a horrible businessman, everything he has ever owned and managed has/is failing. He inherited all his money and the Pittsburgh Post which is dying, bought a local whiskey company and its gone straight downhill and then their the Pirates. He just needs to leave the game and let someone who actually cares buy the team off of him. He is only making himself more hated and ill tell you that this city doesnt drop a gridge for a long time. Most likley there will be people that celebrate in the street the day he dies.
Nutting turned a proud franchise into a major league farm team, and even when they finally had a competitive roster for 2-3 years because draft picks bloomed and their salvage projects actually worked....he still wouldnt spend money to get a few premium players they needed to actually compete. And then blew it up and they're trash again. And won't sell it to people who actually want to spend real money and compete because it makes him money. Guys a cancer and I hope to Christ at this point the city refuses a new stadium and they just leave.
Jerry Jones came to mind here for me (I know this video is about baseball owners but this content can go to other sports). Thinks he's never wrong and that he's the only one who knows what he's doing when the Cowboys haven't been in a NFC Conference Championship, let alone a Super Bowl, since the 90's. Manchester United is another.
Jerry Jones has given over much of the control to his son, and he may not know best always, but he never lacks for trying. He doesn't refuse to spend, doesn't refuse to ever adjust. The teams defensive and offensive philosophies have changed multiple times since he bought the team. He's a very good team owner overall, even with his faults.
@@snerdterguson Read what he said about being GM a couple months ago. He hasn't given up much. He thinks he can do it all himself and is the only one who can do so.
William DeWitt Jr is now cutting Cardinals payroll blaming this season's historic low attendance, at a time when more money needs to go the right places to bring the fans back.
You are way too kind to the Pohlads. Aaron Gleeman has a pretty scathing piece on them in The Athletic. They managed to take a pretty high point in fan morale at the end of last season and absolutely kill it with their cost cutting.
I was pretty sure he meant the team plane was a no show so they had to take a charter. But the what he thought was a charter was the team plane. Not a "show plane"
Arte Moreno oversaw the signing of Vlad and Bartolo Colon in which, Vlad won an MVP the year later and Bart won the Cy Young in 05 and I feel that gassed up his ego so hard, he never considered the farm. They had a top ranked farm from the early 00s until 2009ish and he probably never considered retooling it at any point and thought he could keep signing big names and trading the few prospects they had for rentals to continue competing while holding off a rebuild and it's no surprise every big name has bit them in the ass at this point. The farm thinned out and has been ranked at the bottom of the league for the past 15 years. You'd think he'd realize it's smart to invest in future assets? Guess it isn't flashy enough for him. Hell, him telling the FO to not trade Shohei last year proves the guy hasn't learned a single fuckin lesson and was trying to milk any bit of ticket sales that he could just for the guy to not play the final month of the season. Could've gotten SOMETHING for him. Maybe not an insane haul but maybe a top prospect or two which would've been massive for such a starved farm, but Arte prioritized immediate ticket sales over the future. He said he didn't want to be known as the owner who traded Shohei but now he's known as the guy who let him walk and proceeded to have the worst Angels season of all time. He will never stop meddling for as long as he owns the team.
The owner of the A's hands down wins as the "person who should NOT own a sports franchise" award....but Reinsdorf takes the cake...the way he has let a good franchise fall off the rails with his cheapness....and THEN has the audacity to demand the taxpayers watching his completely trashed team....build him a billion dollar ballpark....quoting Mike Myers' Dr Evil : "uh, how bout NO"
Absolutely despise Arte Moreno. Was even more pissed when he announced he was selling the team then reneged. I will partially defend him on one thing but only partially. He wanted to rename the team the Los Angeles Angels. He thought it would open a larger market and was a throwback to the original name of the team. I think that’s stupid because they aren’t in Los Angeles and he could’ve reverted back to the California Angels if he wanted a larger market. The “of Anaheim” part he was forced to adopt. The city sued him and the courts made him keep the name Anaheim in the team name. I kind of respect, very little respect, him for giving the finger to the city and renaming the team regardless.
Arte Moreno has said publicly he refuses to pay pitchers because they only play once every 5 games. That should tell you all you need to know. He is not nearly as baseball savvy as he thinks he is and he continually overrides the GM and the rest of the baseball people to make stupid decisions (cough cough Anthony Rendon). . He inherited a really good team with a good farm system so he was able to coast on that for a while. Every Angels fan I know hates him and wishes he would sell the team.
Trevor, hasn't Joe Pohlad totally tanked the team though this year with nothing but "right-sizing" talk and action? Feel like they hamstrung anyone who they brought in that might be a baseball person by limitation. I mean after winning a first series in 2 something years and the first thing he says is before the season starts is they are lowering payroll to right-size the business. wtf. What baseball person is going to with when you have more than half the rotation be rookie starters that can only go 4 and then bullpen it because ownership says nah? Joe was given the Twins helm from his uncle. Like blows my mind. We get a pair of socks and a shirt for a birthday -- the man gets a baseball team and is running it into the ground. Can you do a show on the owners WHO GET IT. The good ones. The best.
Need to get your take on Dick Monfort too. John Fisher, Art Moreno, and Jerry Reinsdorf are all terrible, but at least you can understand their motives. Monfort is like the Joker of MLB owners, nothing he does makes any fucking sense. Trade Nolan Arenado to cut payroll? Cool. Let’s spend just as much money on an injury prone Kris Bryant. The decisions are just bizarre, and true Rockies fans are absolutely fed up.
Trevor, there's another owner you missed, Dick Monfort!!! Screw him dude he makes us Rockies fans life suck, pls talk about him, yesterday at Charlie Blackmon's pre game cearmony the whole stadium booed Dick Monfort when his name was metioned by the announcer.
I don't understand why sports in general use an ownership model that allows one person to make a team their personal pet investment project. A team is a TEAM that requires many people working together to succeed, and that should apply to the top tier of ownership too. I'm a Pirates fan and I hate that one rich fool gets to personally drive a franchise that affects thousands of people and represents an entire city.
Except Mark Cuban isn’t an idiot like the wearer of ear diapers or a conspiracy theorist like Elon Musk or a degenerate pervert like Vince McMahon. At least that I know of.
Vince McMahon is a literal insane lunatic in every which way. Sigmund Freud would jump out a 10th floor window before he’d ever figure out Ole Vince McMadman. Elon Musk is perpetually 14. Mark Cuban’s smack downs of Skip Bayless is must see tv. Can Trump even formulate a coherent sentence. What is a Projectedadiddifiedabedeeehh??
It's funny, because you assume most of these guys know what it takes to run a successful business. They need to hire the right people and change with the times. Then they own a baseball team and that all goes out the window. They are still selling a Blackberry act like it is an IPhone 16 because the revenue sharing makes them profitable.
These ownership complaints sound like the same problem we have the government rules us, rather than the government is supposed to work for the people. The World id upside-down.
It's depressing that baseball has so many crappy owners that the Castellinis (Reds) and their "Well, where else you gonna go?" fatalism doesn't even register in the discussion.
Sell both The Bulls and White Sox. Jerry lost his touch. He's not owner like he was in the 1990s when the Bulls were winning NBA finals 91-93 and 96-98. And when The Sox won the World Series in 2005.
You need to see what’s happening with the Twins these days and maybe you might see that the Pohlads are about as bad as the guys you’ve talked about in this video
Arte doesn't even deserve credit for the Angels being good through the 2000s and into 2013. Almost all of that was the good will built from the Disney ownership.
Blackouts are what’s ruining baseball. My young son can’t get excited about baseball when he cant watch it. And, I can’t afford $200 a month cable package to watch our team. I cant afford $50 dollar parking, $200 dollar tickets, a coke and a dog is $40. Baseball is being priced out of the working man. Its sad because i love this sport but have no chance of passing it on to the little league i coach
Amen
Took two of my friends to their first game in Toronto, I bought us all beers. 3 beers came to $56
This is sports in general, the main difference being there aren’t really blackouts for say nfl where damn near every game is on regular tv
I agree with you completely that those are major problems. But I've still found ways to get my 7 year old into baseball, and sharing that passion has been incredible. We go to occasional MLB games but mostly to cheap collegiate or MiLB games. Sometimes we even stop by to watch little league games. We play catch in the yard and go to the batting cages. We watch TH-cam compilations of amazing baseball plays. We go to the card shop and collect $1 baseball cards.
I did end up buying mlbtv this summer and we've watched hundreds of games together. We just follow a team that isn't our local (and therefore blacked out) team.
So yeah, the problems you've mentioned are definitely legit and impacting the sport, but you can still pass down your love to your son!
@@sampilcher7196that is fucking heinous…
There’s so many awful owners in mlb it’s a shame I feel for those fans. As someone who used to have an awful ownership group Trevor is right it’s the only solution to becoming a better team and in a better place
Holy shit, what Trevor has said about these rich sociopaths is awesome. It's comforting to know [former] players who have made money playing a make believe game can say with objectivity that these rich owners are not public servants but rather insatiable freaks.
Most players ARE'NT objective current or past. They have animosity towards them, because they usually feel the should have been paid more.
As a Rockies fan, definitely not a fan of Dick Monfort (Rox Owner). Completely fucked up the Arenado situation( Rox are STILL paying his salary (ends at the end of this year)). Kris Bryant situation is screwed up. He has less 162 games played in his 4 years with us. With all that being said, Monfort STILL isn't as bad as the saint known as John Fisher.
I just wish he would at least do something with the team, instead of just kinda let nothing happen and expect a random change like what happened in 2018
They only care about being a .500 ball club. They really need to go but they’re just as ignorant and will never sell the team ☹️
@@gabe3827you are so right
I live in Northern Utah. I’ve been a rockies fan since 1993. When they named my little league team the Rockies. I was so excited to have a team so close. I understand why Nolan left and i understand why my boy Charlie stuck in. Its a s*it show. .500 is all they need because loyal fans like us are just spending money. Salt Lake might get a team. I cant bail on my Rockies. When you become a fan you gotta ride
Coors is the best bar in baseball. Cheap drinks and a reason to drink right in front of you
John Fisher is an enemy of the everyday baseball fan. An enemy of the people who actually care about the game. I knew there was fuckery after trading away every 2018-2020 stud and the way he doubled ticket prices and tripled parking. It was a wrap by design.
@@andrewheitmeyer9945 It seems the idea is that nobody will complain about the team moving if nobody’s a fan anymore. And it’s easier to drive people away if you make it too expensive to go. Just gross.
Jerry Reinsdorf also own the Chicago Bulls and refused to pay Phil Jackson more money which is way he left, which caused Michael Jordan to retire instead of keep the team together for one last run in 1999
It wasn't Reinsdorf, it was Jerry Krause that fired Jackson. Blame the owner for telling the GM it was up to him, but that's what happened. Krause had a problem with Jackson and that's the sole reason he wasn't retained as coach, and the sole reason that MJ decided to retire the second time.
If Krause said he wanted to keep Phil, the bulls would have kept Phil, then MJ is back and so is Pippen and Rodman. Not a guarantee, but they had a very good shot at continuing to win for the next couple years. I will go to my grave believing that Jerry Krause cost the Bulls at least 1 more ring, maybe 2-3.
@@snerdtergusonJackson said to Jerry reinsdorf he did not want to coach a bad team so that is why he said, I will take a break
It's difficult in itself to win all 6 of your NBA titles in one decade and unfortunate it took a douchebag late owner like Jerry Krause to tear that great dynasty apart. But again, Reinsdorf with all that money made the mistake of thinking he was among the poor and I can tell you PLENTY about my homelessness experiences.
John Stanton should without a doubt be on this list. What a terrible owner, actively sabotaging Mariners window
I mean...the only positive is at least he's not Howard Schultz?
@funkerman7 I think I now have an idea why they missed the playoffs for 21 years.
Trevor, we need you to say something about the Rockies for our own sanity. The Montforts give me yearly depression and it sucks.
Arte Moreno needs to either:
1) Sell the team
2) Quit being the de facto GM...
Your explanation on owners being involved is where I’m at as a Tiger’s fan with Chris Ilitch. His father loved baseball and the Tigers and it’s painfully obvious that Chris doesn’t share that love. Just have to hope he eventually decides to actually invest and then stay out of the way.
Thank you for this. I’m an angels fan and this just helps show others the frustration we are dealing with.
Also having victor rojas quote was awesome. He was an amazing announcer and wasn’t afraid to say his opinions.
I was watching seriously until 15:27😂😂 Great video, Trevor!
I’d love to know what your opinion on the transition of the ownership of the Orioles being with the Angelo’s family to the Rubenstein led group. Considering most Os fans hated the Angelo’s family the last couple of years and rubenstein seemed to get the fans approval almost instantly. Love the videos
God so much of this rings true. Even among more successful clubs like the cardinals or blue jays where strict adherence to “well that guy has all the experience” or “that’s just how we do things” is killing these teams. And meanwhile within their own divisions there’s other smarter teams willing to experiment and they’re soooo much better
ARTE MORENO!!! AAAHHH
I'll watch the video and I'm sure there's a lot of good stuff I didn't know about. But I still have to poke fun at the thumbnail/title:
Why do fans dislike the guy who helped run Michael Jordan out of Chicago? Hm, tough question, haha
Don’t forget John Stanton from the Mariners. Dude literally doesn’t care about anything but money… as you know with these owners haha
I would guess that probably about 25 out of the 30 owners are absolutely terrible and have no interest in trying to take good care of their team. It’s crazy, over in the Minnesota circles the vitriol towards the Pohlads was strong this season (and rightfully so), yet when you have a national discussion about bad owners they don’t even get mentioned
They all say the same thing too. Small market. There literally is no such thing as a MLB team that has a small market. They're all in highly populated cities/regions that have millions of potential fans. But if they don't ever try to make the team good, why would anyone else spend money to watch?
@@snerdterguson Market size refers to how much TV money a team can extract. Unless a team is really good for a long time to attract bandwagon fans nationwide, the team's budget is pretty much determined by how much is a billionaire willing to break even in those smaller TV markets.
Hey Trevor, the discord link in the videos description isn’t working for some reason
Nice to know that Ball Four is still alive and well 50+ years later.
I dig that your perspective is as a former player. Of course, in Moreno's case, the horrendous deals to Pujols, Rendon, and Trout could be problems? Rendon and Trout are one-half of the MLB payroll average. Moreno signs these guys, who bomb or are injured constantly. But he's not trying?
Make another one of these but include William Dewitt jr owner of the Cardinals
Yep
One thing will never make sense to me: If you're an owner and all you care about is money, then why wouldn't you do everything you can for your team to win?
A winning team brings fans to the games, it boosts ratings which means more tv revenue, it sells more merch, it attracts more sponsors, etc. Heck, a winning team will also make the city you live in like you more, which will really help when you need funding for a new stadium (see: Seattle Mariners).
I'll never understand why guys like John Fisher or Dave Tepper (NFL) only care about money and yet don't try to field a winning team, which would make them a lot of money.
Bottom Line: If you know the name of a team’s owner these days (particularly if you’re not a fan) that team is probably really bad, and/or that owner’s big on attention from the media.
In my day it was Steinbrenner, Turner, Krok, later Schott. We only knew Krok because of McDonald’s.
Quick, who owns the Seattle Mariners? I bet you know who owns the White Sox now, though.
I haven’t watched more than 30 seconds, I need to see the Pohlads on here. Burning my beloved team back into contraction.
He's not the worst by any stretch, but Joe Pohlad sucks like the rent was due.
Joe Pohald is a top 5 baseball worst owner. Obvs not Fisher and the like. BUT HE IS GARBAGE.
The Rowdy Tellez thing is all you need to know about how horrible of a person Nutting is. They're not going to sign a free agent as long as he's the owner.
Tellez was a free agent signing. Do you mean that they won't sign another one?
@@JobiWan144 They DFA'ed him when he needed 4 plate appearances to get a $200K bonus. So basically everyone has seen that they'll treat guys like crap. So the organization is going to have a hard time incentivizing free agent signings. Who is going to want to go play somewhere where they will intentionally screw you out of a bonus that close to getting it? Maybe a lot of contracts with no bonus structure, all guaranteed cash which their owner isn't going to want to pay.
@@Chiyo-r6d Yes, I know the Tellez story. My point is that they have signed free agents while Nutting has been the owner, including Tellez himself during the 2024 off-season (after the Brewers non-tendered him, IIRC). I'm just trying to clarify if you mean a big free agent (e.g., Juan Soto, Corbin Burnes, etc.), which would be entirely believable, any free agent with other alternatives (still plausible), or any other free agent at all (which they'll probably prove wrong this coming off-season).
@@JobiWan144 The point is him showing how he'll treat a player of Tellez's level just to save a buck will be on the minds of free agents. So that's going to limit some players being willing to sign there or their contracts are going to be guaranteed cash only no bonus money.
Well what happened to tellez I can't I wouldn't have done the same, the dude was trash during the season, listen what the dbacks owner said about Montgomery, don't take wrong it is bad what they did to tellez and nutting is an ass, but I kinda understand why he did it
A pity the former ownership, Wilpons of the Mets has sold off to Cohen. I'd love to hear you go off on them.
As a Mets fan it is really not a pity at all the Wilpons ruined my childhood
A pity? It’s awesome! My Metsies are finally spending some money to have a good team!
The Pittsburgh situation is truly a shame they have the most beautiful Stadium with the perfect background of the city and greet fans that will support if they had a winning team.. but at the end of the day this is all on the MLB commissioner the decision makers for allowing owners to be cheap
If the White Sox want to improve attendance, they can always blow up disco records.
You should make a video talking about out the last lockout from a players perspective.
the plane thing with the white sox seems like a "paying for gatorade" kind of thing where it just shows all the players how cheap the owners really are, like they won't pay for a league average level of nice plane they're not going to pay for a deal for you
Imagine Mike Trout's legacy if he had an invested owner. People outside of baseball usually don't know who he is.
Is there a way to bridge players, fans and executives who love the game and COME TOGETHER to keep making John Fisher’s life and MLB miserable until we force a sale of the Oakland A’s??? Nothing worth doing comes easy but together we can do a lot!
Every owner needs to talk to John Middleton about how to be liked by a fanbase. Guy makes it look easy
Put the cardinals ownership is this class to!! After all the news of what has came out in the last decade you should do a video about them too. Greed and their downfall!!!
We’re Costco guys
Ok. Now do the Castellinis.
Why? Where are you going to go if he doesn't? :P
As a Rockies fan, so many of the criticisms about Jerry Reinsdorf and Arte Moreno apply directly to Dick Monfort. He's literally on record saying that he knows exactly what to do and doesn't need to consider any new approaches. Ugh.
Dare I ask what that sponsor line at the bottom of the video is for…
As an Angels fan, thank you for talking about how bad Arte Moreno is
Trevor dropping a 'Silicon Valley' reference.
Kind of disappoint that the DeWitt clan did not make this list.
John Stanton somewhere smiling he didn’t make the list
To expand more on Nutting as a Pittsburgher and Pirate fan. He isnt just cheap, his only goal with the team is make money. He hasnt paid anyone over his ownership and only takes in lower value FA every offseason. Also they guy is a horrible businessman, everything he has ever owned and managed has/is failing. He inherited all his money and the Pittsburgh Post which is dying, bought a local whiskey company and its gone straight downhill and then their the Pirates.
He just needs to leave the game and let someone who actually cares buy the team off of him. He is only making himself more hated and ill tell you that this city doesnt drop a gridge for a long time. Most likley there will be people that celebrate in the street the day he dies.
Nutting turned a proud franchise into a major league farm team, and even when they finally had a competitive roster for 2-3 years because draft picks bloomed and their salvage projects actually worked....he still wouldnt spend money to get a few premium players they needed to actually compete. And then blew it up and they're trash again. And won't sell it to people who actually want to spend real money and compete because it makes him money. Guys a cancer and I hope to Christ at this point the city refuses a new stadium and they just leave.
Haven't won a division since 1992 and haven't won a playoff series since 1979. It's just embarrassing at this point.
Jerry Jones came to mind here for me (I know this video is about baseball owners but this content can go to other sports). Thinks he's never wrong and that he's the only one who knows what he's doing when the Cowboys haven't been in a NFC Conference Championship, let alone a Super Bowl, since the 90's. Manchester United is another.
Jerry Jones has given over much of the control to his son, and he may not know best always, but he never lacks for trying. He doesn't refuse to spend, doesn't refuse to ever adjust. The teams defensive and offensive philosophies have changed multiple times since he bought the team.
He's a very good team owner overall, even with his faults.
@@snerdterguson Read what he said about being GM a couple months ago. He hasn't given up much. He thinks he can do it all himself and is the only one who can do so.
Nailed it as usual. 🎯
William DeWitt Jr is now cutting Cardinals payroll blaming this season's historic low attendance, at a time when more money needs to go the right places to bring the fans back.
You are way too kind to the Pohlads. Aaron Gleeman has a pretty scathing piece on them in The Athletic.
They managed to take a pretty high point in fan morale at the end of last season and absolutely kill it with their cost cutting.
I was pretty sure he meant the team plane was a no show so they had to take a charter. But the what he thought was a charter was the team plane. Not a "show plane"
Arte Moreno oversaw the signing of Vlad and Bartolo Colon in which, Vlad won an MVP the year later and Bart won the Cy Young in 05 and I feel that gassed up his ego so hard, he never considered the farm. They had a top ranked farm from the early 00s until 2009ish and he probably never considered retooling it at any point and thought he could keep signing big names and trading the few prospects they had for rentals to continue competing while holding off a rebuild and it's no surprise every big name has bit them in the ass at this point. The farm thinned out and has been ranked at the bottom of the league for the past 15 years. You'd think he'd realize it's smart to invest in future assets? Guess it isn't flashy enough for him. Hell, him telling the FO to not trade Shohei last year proves the guy hasn't learned a single fuckin lesson and was trying to milk any bit of ticket sales that he could just for the guy to not play the final month of the season. Could've gotten SOMETHING for him. Maybe not an insane haul but maybe a top prospect or two which would've been massive for such a starved farm, but Arte prioritized immediate ticket sales over the future. He said he didn't want to be known as the owner who traded Shohei but now he's known as the guy who let him walk and proceeded to have the worst Angels season of all time. He will never stop meddling for as long as he owns the team.
The owner of the A's hands down wins as the "person who should NOT own a sports franchise" award....but Reinsdorf takes the cake...the way he has let a good franchise fall off the rails with his cheapness....and THEN has the audacity to demand the taxpayers watching his completely trashed team....build him a billion dollar ballpark....quoting Mike Myers' Dr Evil : "uh, how bout NO"
Absolutely despise Arte Moreno. Was even more pissed when he announced he was selling the team then reneged. I will partially defend him on one thing but only partially. He wanted to rename the team the Los Angeles Angels. He thought it would open a larger market and was a throwback to the original name of the team. I think that’s stupid because they aren’t in Los Angeles and he could’ve reverted back to the California Angels if he wanted a larger market. The “of Anaheim” part he was forced to adopt. The city sued him and the courts made him keep the name Anaheim in the team name. I kind of respect, very little respect, him for giving the finger to the city and renaming the team regardless.
Arte Moreno has said publicly he refuses to pay pitchers because they only play once every 5 games. That should tell you all you need to know. He is not nearly as baseball savvy as he thinks he is and he continually overrides the GM and the rest of the baseball people to make stupid decisions (cough cough Anthony Rendon). . He inherited a really good team with a good farm system so he was able to coast on that for a while. Every Angels fan I know hates him and wishes he would sell the team.
As a Cincinnati Reds fan, I am not a fan of our Ownership
But the White Sox won 93 games three years ago, and had a winning record the year before. So Reinsdorf suddenly became an idiot?
Trevor, hasn't Joe Pohlad totally tanked the team though this year with nothing but "right-sizing" talk and action? Feel like they hamstrung anyone who they brought in that might be a baseball person by limitation. I mean after winning a first series in 2 something years and the first thing he says is before the season starts is they are lowering payroll to right-size the business. wtf. What baseball person is going to with when you have more than half the rotation be rookie starters that can only go 4 and then bullpen it because ownership says nah?
Joe was given the Twins helm from his uncle. Like blows my mind. We get a pair of socks and a shirt for a birthday -- the man gets a baseball team and is running it into the ground.
Can you do a show on the owners WHO GET IT. The good ones. The best.
Need to get your take on Dick Monfort too. John Fisher, Art Moreno, and Jerry Reinsdorf are all terrible, but at least you can understand their motives.
Monfort is like the Joker of MLB owners, nothing he does makes any fucking sense. Trade Nolan Arenado to cut payroll? Cool. Let’s spend just as much money on an injury prone Kris Bryant. The decisions are just bizarre, and true Rockies fans are absolutely fed up.
Arte Moreno SUCKS! Thank you for calling out that POS. Hope all these owners have to sell asap.
Do the owners have insurance policies that reimburse them when you guys throw your elbow out and require the TJ?
Just about an hour after this video went out the giants replaced Farman with Buster Posey lol
Jerry not bringing in any new people in the front office is his mo yeah. Does the same thing with the Bulls.
Trevor, there's another owner you missed, Dick Monfort!!! Screw him dude he makes us Rockies fans life suck, pls talk about him, yesterday at Charlie Blackmon's pre game cearmony the whole stadium booed Dick Monfort when his name was metioned by the announcer.
I don't understand why sports in general use an ownership model that allows one person to make a team their personal pet investment project. A team is a TEAM that requires many people working together to succeed, and that should apply to the top tier of ownership too.
I'm a Pirates fan and I hate that one rich fool gets to personally drive a franchise that affects thousands of people and represents an entire city.
News Flash: That's how a lot of business owners operate beyond sports: Look at Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vince McMahon and even Mark Cuban
Except Mark Cuban isn’t an idiot like the wearer of ear diapers or a conspiracy theorist like Elon Musk or a degenerate pervert like Vince McMahon. At least that I know of.
Vince McMahon is a literal insane lunatic in every which way. Sigmund Freud would jump out a 10th floor window before he’d ever figure out Ole Vince McMadman.
Elon Musk is perpetually 14.
Mark Cuban’s smack downs of Skip Bayless is must see tv.
Can Trump even formulate a coherent sentence. What is a Projectedadiddifiedabedeeehh??
It's funny, because you assume most of these guys know what it takes to run a successful business. They need to hire the right people and change with the times. Then they own a baseball team and that all goes out the window.
They are still selling a Blackberry act like it is an IPhone 16 because the revenue sharing makes them profitable.
Sadly, Shohei never made the playoffs with the Halos.
i’ve heard enough.
trevor may for commissioner.
These ownership complaints sound like the same problem we have the government rules
us, rather than the government is supposed to work for the people. The World id upside-down.
Do GM's next... :)
It's depressing that baseball has so many crappy owners that the Castellinis (Reds) and their "Well, where else you gonna go?" fatalism doesn't even register in the discussion.
I mean I hate every owner. They all sided with John Fisher so that tells me all I need to know.
Pohlads?
Came here as a Twins fan and is shocked to see they missed the list.
@@darrinthurston3308they are HORRIBLE
Dick Monfort is a terrible owner, but players seem to like playing there and play hard everyday.
Sell both The Bulls and White Sox. Jerry lost his touch. He's not owner like he was in the 1990s when the Bulls were winning NBA finals 91-93 and 96-98. And when The Sox won the World Series in 2005.
Are there any owners that deserve credit for how they operate? Or are they all like this.
Could you also comment on the castellini family nepotism for the reds and their terrible “where ya gonna go” attitude
GOD BLESS
Shouldn't have signed Rowdy in the first place
No John Stanton is crazy
You need to see what’s happening with the Twins these days and maybe you might see that the Pohlads are about as bad as the guys you’ve talked about in this video
i'll be honest i don't like the ricketts family from taking cubs baseball away from wgn
The pohlads hate minnesota
No they don't, they just care more about $1 than every Minnesotan combined lol
Arte is the same but the Angels have Trout to hide the fact they suck
Give 'em Hell Trevs
Pohlad's?
Millionaire ball players…….. men of the people? 😅
Arte doesn't even deserve credit for the Angels being good through the 2000s and into 2013. Almost all of that was the good will built from the Disney ownership.
Fisher and Reinsdorf deserve to be banned from MLB
@PrimarySweeper13 With his current age and what could happen to him any minute now it's already probably too late for Jerry Reinsdorf.
Cards fan hanging on here for dear life. Mo must GO! He and DeWittless the turd are ruining this franchise.
Bruce Sherman
When you brought up the pirates owner being a penny pincher, all I could think was rowdy getting DFA last week :((
Spend Nutting
Win Nutting
The nutting special is that DFA move combined with having a player that generically bad as your starter to begin with.
Put bill Dewitt on there too
They did Rowdy Tellez dirty. Fukd him over 200k. I travel to Mets away games but I’ll never spend a penny in Pittsburgh again.
41-121-- worst team in the modern era-- must say as a cubs fan this is satisfying to see
Bunch of gray hairs with sandbox money fighting over who has the bigger castle
first fn