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The proposed deal to take the parent company of the Boston Red Sox public leaves Billy Beane, the Oakland Athletics executive of “Moneyball” fame who ignited the data revolution in American sports, with a difficult choice.
He runs the A’s front office and holds a minority stake in the team. He could soon have a financial interest in the Red Sox, part of the sports empire overseen by John Henry, the billionaire owner who has spent nearly two decades courting him
It appears Beane will resolve the conflict by leaving baseball behind in favor of helping Henry build an already substantial sports portfolio that includes the Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club, the champions of the English Premier League.
If Henry’s Fenway Sports Group completes its merger with RedBall Acquisition Corp. , a special-purpose acquisition company that Beane co-chairs, Beane is set to step aside from working in a baseball front office, people familiar with the matter said. He won’t take a role running the Red Sox, these people said.
Instead, Beane would turn his attention to other sports business ventures, particularly European soccer, an area he has demonstrated a passion for in recent years.
That fits with Fenway Sports Group’s future if the deal, reported by The Wall Street Journal late Friday, is realized. RedBall would purchase less than 25% of Fenway Sports Group, valuing it at $8 billion. As a public company, Fenway could look to buy up more soccer clubs in Europe in an effort to establish itself as an unprecedented global sports conglomerate.
That would end a storied three-decade run in Oakland, where his innovative use of analytics to make personnel decisions—featured in Michael Lewis’s 2003 book “Moneyball”—launched a revolution that has swept through the entire sports world.
Beane currently serves as the executive vice president of baseball operations for the A’s, the team whose front office he joined in 1990. He also has a small ownership stake in the franchise.
But Henry wasn’t done wooing Beane. Shortly after his contentious acquisition of Liverpool, settled in a British courtroom for $487 million in 2010, Henry was in touch with the man he believed could revolutionize player recruitment.
“Billy had been closely studying the Premier League,” Henry told the Journal in 2017.
Now Beane and Henry are on the verge of finally formalizing their relationship. Since Henry’s first overture, Beane inspired a generation of young people to follow in his footsteps. Organizations across all sports have completely reshaped their front offices in Beane’s image, with GM jobs going almost exclusively to people with backgrounds in math, science, business and economics to find the sort of market inefficiencies Beane pioneered.
Beane, 58 years old, has shown particular interest in soccer in recent years. In 2017, he joined a consortium that purchased Barnsley Football Club, which competes in England’s second tier. In September, he bought a minority share of AZ Alkmaar, a Dutch professional soccer club for whom he already held an advisory role.
The biggest difference, as Henry also discovered in building Liverpool, is that even smart decisions in the free-spending soccer world—without trades, salary caps, or luxury taxes—can be eye-wateringly expensive. Beane has long understood that the “Moneyball” philosophy needs some tweaking across the pond.
“There are some decisions in sports that cost a lot of money, that are good decisions,” he said in London in 2017. “Having a lot of money just gives you access to very good decisions.”
How did Jimmy come in to the building today and what's your thought process with him in terms of deciding your quarterback situation for Sunday?
“Jimmy came in good. I know he's sore from the first half. I think his ankle’s a little bit sore and his body a little bit from some of the hits that he had, but nothing that made it worse. It was like you expected after a game. Nothing too bad happened. We got him out of there before that did, so we'll see how he is on Wednesday. I expect him to be at least the same, if not better. So, hopefully he can get a week of that and have no setbacks Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and hopefully we get him out there Sunday night.”
KWON:
Just to clarify on Kwon Alexander, are you unsure that it's a high ankle sprain right now or are you unsure of the severity of a high ankle sprain?
“No, we could be wrong, but right now they told me that they believe it's a high ankle sprain. They're not sure of the severity of it. It could be a minor one for whatever that means. So, that's why, usually if it was automatic high ankle sprain, I'd be talking about IR and stuff right now, but they told me to hold on that because they think it possibly could be a minor one. Don't know. They’ve got to do more work today on it and we'll have an answer on that for Wednesday.”
O LINE — BUSTED PROTECTIONS, DROPS AND THROWING TOO MUCH - SAID HE LIKED HOW THEY RAN, THEY JUST COULDN’T RUN ENOUGH FALLING BEHIND:
QB C.J. Beathard spoke about it after the game, but it seemed like you guys were having issues communicating the protection and maybe identifying it from the quarterback position. What did you see on tape and how do you correct that going forward?
“Yeah, we had five sacks. I think three of them, we had busts on protections. That's guys communicating at the line, playing faster, going through all the looks and not making a mistake. Those guys switch up fronts and their numbers all the time. When they do that, it puts a lot of pressure on an offense and you’ve got to be on it. When you end up throwing the ball a lot more than you anticipate and a lot more than you ever want to, those things are what come up. So, I thought we ran the ball very well, but when you only have 19 carries to show for it, you're going to be in some of those situations. So, always when I do get in those situations, I start to worry about turnovers. I worry about the pressure that you're putting on the O-Line, the pressure you’re putting on the quarterback. It doesn't mean that it will always happen, but that was a situation that we got into and that is what happened. We started making some mistakes in protection, made a few mistakes with the ball. I think we had six drops also, two of 10 on third down, zero for two on fourth down, added with six drops, added with five sacks. I think we were throwing the ball too much. That's a situation that I’ve got to try to control better and hopefully we can play better as a team to where we make it easier for me to control that.”
INJURIES HAVE HURT LACK OF CONTINUITY ON OFFENSE:
lot of your players were in there talking about a lack of execution on the offense. Can you put your finger on what exactly is going on? Is it a lack of effort? Is it a lack of focus? Not enough practice, reps together? What is the reason for this lack of execution?
“It’s definitely not a lack of effort, but it takes 11 guys to make a play work and we haven't been clean enough. Any answer to your questions would be an excuse, so I just try to keep it real, but we’ve got to get out there and practice a lot more. We haven't had a practice yet with [WR Brandon] Aiyuk, [WR] Deebo [Samuel], [RB] Raheem [Mostert], [TE George] Kittle and Jimmy Garoppolo, including training camp, including every practice for the four weeks of this year. So, that does make it a little more inconsistent. I was excited to get Deebo back for a second week, but then he had the symptoms of a fever. So, he wasn't allowed in on Thursday or Friday. So, we missed two more practices with him, which is very tough for Deebo. It was very tough for our quarterback coming back. It's tough on a rookie in Aiyuk and we're just getting Kittle back here. So, I know we have some inconsistencies in that way, which to me get magnified when we're not playing good altogether. The pressure we put on the O-Line in these last couple of weeks with this game getting behind and me getting away from the run game and the week before and just a few guys being off in the run game. It's really magnified everything to everyone, which I understand it hasn't looked good and we've got to get a lot better, but there's no secret to it. There's one way to get better. It's practicing. If there was an ever an issue that I thought of that people aren't trying their hardest, it'd be a completely different situation. I see guys working, I see guys doing what they can, but I can't get on guys too hard when they've only had three practices in there or they've only been here for two weeks. I’ve got to keep trying to get them healthier and get them out more days and put them through the reps that I expect them to execute a lot more consistently. When we don't, which does happen in games, then someone's got to make a play to overcome that and we've been off in that on both ways for the last two weeks.”
CBS: SHERM NOT READY, MOSLEY CLOSER - WAS ASKED EARLIER IF THEY COULD POSITON SWAP — JIMMY TO CB — MOORE TO S OR MOORE TO CB —
Is the plan still to have CB Richard Sherman come back to practice this week? That’s my first cornerback question. Anything more on CB Emmanuel Moseley today, coming back? Also, CB Tim Harris Jr., how close is he possibly to being elevated up if you needed him on Saturday?
“We would have loved for Tim to last week, but he pulled his calf and last week was his first week back. So, he was on a pitch count, just trying to get back into practice, very similar to how [WR] Richie [James] was. Sherm, we were hoping to get him back this week. Some setbacks last week. The healing hasn't gone the way we were hoping for. So, I know we're going to try a few different procedures this week, but I know I'm not counting on him this week. We'll see how that goes with the new stuff we're going to try. Was there a third part of the question?”
Yeah, Emmanuel Moseley?
“Moseley, the same as last night. He’s still in the protocol, but I'm getting a lot more optimistic.”
SHERM SHOTS:
When you say, I think you said, procedures with Richard Sherman, I assume you don't mean surgical procedures or perhaps you do? I don't know. Can you just maybe detail a little bit more about--?
“Yeah, he’s getting some shots that he thinks can help in his leg. I'm not sure the names of the shots, but yeah, no surgeries or anything, just different types of shots to see if they can take the inflammation out and stuff like that.”
4- CLOSER TO PAPA’S DREAM OF A GAME JUST ABOUT EVERY NIGHT — TITANS BILLS IS A BIG GAME - TWO UNDEFEATED TEAMS — IT WILL GET HUGE NUMBERS—-COULD THIS BE A TRIAL BALOON TO AT LEAST FOOTBALL ON SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY???
-8000 TO 9000 IN STANDS IN NASHVILLE...
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS NFL OVERLOAD??
SAME TEAM WILL CALL IT FOR CBS (4 PM)
Deb Boulac says she is excited, nervous, all of it. She’s never been the lead producer of a game with this many viewers expected to watch. Tom McCarthy has called sporting events for nearly 30 years, including a perfect game by Roy Halladay and a 13-seed (Princeton) over a defending champion (UCLA) in the NCAA Tournament. But he too has never called a game with potentially this many people watching.
CBS is airing the Week 5 Bills-Titans game to the country tonight at 7 p.m. ET — the rare Tuesday night football game because of major juggling to the NFL schedule due to the COVID-19 outbreak among Titans players and staff. (The game was originally scheduled for Sunday.) What is remarkable — at least as a sports television story – is that CBS Sports executives did not move one of its top three NFL broadcast teams to call the game given the game will now go to 100 percent of the country and features teams with a combined 7-0 record. Instead, they decided to keep the broadcast group that was originally scheduled to broadcast the game, a major show of faith for lead producer Boulac, director Chris Svendsen, and the broadcast pairing of McCarthy and Jay Feely.
LAST TIME NFL PLAYED ON TUESDAY - 2X EVER:
The National Football League’s recent history of playing games on Tuesday will not take long to cover.
The last time the league played on Tuesday came 10 years ago when a scheduled Sunday game between the Vikings and Eagles was postponed for two days because of the prospect of a winter storm hitting Philadelphia and concern about potential travel conditions. (Per the New York Times: “As much as 18 inches had been expected at the stadium, but there was only 12.”) The Eagles were favored by 14.5 points at kickoff but behind rookie quarterback Joe Webb in his first career start, the Vikings beat the Michael Vick-led Eagles, 24-14 on the night of Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010.
In order to find the second most recent Tuesday game, you have to go back 74 years. The 1946 season opener for the Boston Yanks and New York Giants at Braves Field in Boston was rescheduled to a Tuesday due to heavy rain. On Tuesday, Oct 1, 1946, New York fullback Merle Hapes scored two touchdowns for the Giants in a 17-0 win over Boston. Congrats to those who had Hapes in for fantasy that week.
THE ISSUES FOR A TUEDAY REGULAR GAME:
-APPETITE - ITS THERE
-PLAYER SAFETY - NFL DOESNT CARE
-DOES IT DILUTE OTHER GAMES—- YOU DONT NEED TO START 8 GAMES AT ONCE ON A SUNDAY MORNING — ANOTHER NIGHT YOU CAN DOMINATE RATINGS
-ANOTHER PACKAGE TO SELL LIKE THUIRSDAY NIGHT — WHERE THEY ARE GETTING 4B, MAKES UP FOR A 1 GAME LOSS ON SUNDAY
It hasn’t been seriously explored but factors for consideration would be viewer appetite, competitive issues and whether it dilute the presentation of games,” said Brian McCarthy, the NFL’s vice president of communications.
Let’s start with the viewer interest part. Tuesday is a strong night of the week for television consumption. In primetime there’s no real difference between Sunday through Thursday. Friday and Saturday nights are where television consumption drops. So I think the interest would be there, especially for the novelty of it. (Last week’s Thursday Night Football game — an excellent matchup between the Bears and Buccaneers — drew 14.7 million viewers on Fox and the NFL Network.)
The competitive part would have to be worked out. You would need to give teams ample rest after the game, and I think the only way to get the players to buy in would be with guaranteed byes the following week after a Tuesday game. But that might not be enough.
“I think first and foremost players are creatures of habit — schedules scripted down to the minute for players, although these aren’t normal times with COVID,” said ESPN NFL analyst Damien Woody, who played 12 seasons in the NFL with the Patriots, Lions and Jets and won three Super Bowls. “My guess would be that players wouldn’t be in favor of Tuesday Night Football simply because that’s usually their day off and players don’t like to deviate from the norm. Personally I was always a play at 1 p.m. on Sunday type of guy, so playing on a Tuesday wouldn’t play well with me.”
Would it dilute the presentation of other games? I don’t know. The pandemic has shifted the sports television landscape, and we don’t know what the long-term implications are of moving certain sports off their usual spot in the calendar or playing games on non-traditional days. What is clear is that the package would create a lot of money for the league and players
NFL:
-DAK INJURY — ANKLE ISNT’ SUPPOSED TO GO THAT WAY — WHY GUYS WANT LONG TERM SECURITY - NOW WHAT? FA AGAIN NEXT OFF SEASON 2ND YR TAG WOULD BE 37.7M WITH CAP DROPPING
-RAIDERS BEAT KC — FINALLY USED RUGGS LIKE KC USES HILL
-RUSS LEADS SEATTTLE BACK 94 YARDS IN RAIN, CONVERTS 0 3RD DOWNS, BUT 2 4TH DOWNS ON FINAL DRIVE.... PLAYS MINN 83 SEA 52
-ALEX SMITH SACKED 6X , WIFE LOOKS NERVOUS IN RETURN ... QUIT NOW...
-FALCONS FIRE QUINNN AND DIMITROFF
-STEELERS CAN PICK WRS: CHASE CLAYPOOL 3 TD REC, 1 TD RUN — BROWN, WALLACE, WARD, JUJU — NONE OF 1ST ROUNDERS...
-BROWNS 4-1
BREER:
And at this point, the schedule grid feels like a Jenga tower one pulled piece away from collapsing, particularly now that six teams are through their bye weeks, be they scheduled or forced by the virus. Here’s the fallout from Bills–Titans and Patriots–Broncos getting moved out of their scheduled slots.
• Bills at Titans is now on Tuesday (10/13).
• Broncos at Patriots was moved to Week 6 (10/18).
• Chiefs at Bills, previously slated for TNF, was moved to MNF (10/19).
• Jets at Dolphins was moved to Week 6 (10/18).
• Jets at Chargers was moved to Week 11 (11/22).
• Jags at Chargers was moved to Week 7 (10/25).
• Chargers at Broncos was moved to Week 8 (11/1).
• Chargers at Dolphins was moved to Week 10 (11/15).
• Dolphins at Broncos was moved to Week 11 (11/22).
5- KEY NBA DATES — NOT SET IN STONE—
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-PENCE SAYS HE WASNT AWARE OF FLY (SNL SKIT WAS JUST OK, BUT MYA RUDOLPH LOOKS JUST LIKE KAMAL HARRIS)
https://nypost.com/2020/10/12/pence-addresses-fly-on-his-head-during-vp-debate/
WANT TO FEEL LIKE SHIT? KID IS 12
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