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DOMINICAN LEAGUE

Aguilas 2, Este 0 in Este.  Luis Perdomo pitched a perfect inning for Aguilas.

Escogido 3, Oriente 1 in Escogido.  Pedro Florimon was 2-for-3 with a double, a run, and an RBI for Escogido.  Esmerling Vasquez pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up a hit but no runs, for Oriente.

MEXICAN LEAGUE

Mazatlan 3, Mexicali 0 in Mexicali.  Anthony Slama retired all four batters he faced for Mazatlan.

PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE

Ponce 6, Mayaguez 1 in Ponce.  Daniel Ortiz was used as a reserve for Mayaguez and went 0-for-1.  Nelvin Fuentes walked the only batter he faced for Mayaguez.

VENEZUELAN LEAGUE

Anzoategui 1, Magallanes 0 in Anzoategui (10 innings).  Deolis Guerra struck out three in three perfect innings for Magallanes.

AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE

Brisbane 18, Perth 10 in Brisbane.  Rory Rhodes was 2-for-4 with a home run, four runs, and two RBIs for Brisbane.

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Happy Birthday–December 10

Jimmy Johnston (1889)
Rudy Hernandez (1931)
Jaime Jarrin (1935)
Doc Edwards (1936)
Bob Priddy (1939)
Dalton Jones (1943)
Steve Renko (1944)
Paul Assenmacher (1960)
Doug Henry (1963)
Luis Polonia (1963)
Mel Rojas (1966)
Joe Mays (1975)
Dan Wheeler (1977)
Pedro Florimon (1986)

Pitcher Rudy Hernandez was a member of the old Washington franchise in 1960, but was chosen by the new Washington franchise in the expansion draft in December of 1960.

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The Rolling Stones – Going To A Go Go

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tonight's the company holiday party. i'm on the "party committee" simply so i can influence things for my own maximum enjoyment. anyway, before joining my current corporate company, i worked pretty much exclusively in restaurants and bars. my current company, by far, throws the most fancy, lavish, distinguished, and expensive (i know our budget) parties i've ever been party to. yet, they are also the most boring holiday parties i've attended by far. ah well. i can still make some fun of it.

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MLB

$3B over 20 years in perspective

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The Angels reportedly just signed a new TV deal worth $3B over 20 years. I'd guess that it's backloaded to some degree, so let's say for the sake of argument it starts at $131M in 2012 and goes up $2M/year after that.

Say you had a 40,000-seat stadium and hosted 81 home games per year. You charge $70/ticket on 10% of your seats, $60/ticket on 10% of your seats, $50/ticket on 20% of your seats, $30/ticket on 30% of your seats, $20/ticket on 20% of your seats, and $10 on 10% of your seats. If you sell out all 81 games at those prices, you'd make $120M.

Angels ticket prices are probably a little higher than that, but but we can see that roughly speaking, this puts their local TV revenue on the same magnitude as what we might expect their ticket revenue to be. On top of that, they've got national TV revenue from the league, luxury box sales, parking revenue, concessions revenue, and ad revenue from the outfield walls, etc. I don't really know what those add to the bottom line, but it's not hard for me to envision a total revenue of about $700-800M next year.

How much extra money can signing Pujols make them in the really short term? I don't think it's too bit a stretch to say that adding Pujols, not so much adding any kind of star appeal there is, but adding 6 wins next year, pushes them close to 48K/game attendance next year. It doesn't seem like a huge bump from 40K/game, given the size of their market. Then say they get revenue from an additional 3 playoff home games (1 in ALDS and 2 in ALCS), at ticket prices double that of regular season games, because Pujols (or Pujols/Wilson if you want to look at it that way) is enough to push them ahead of the Rangers. That'd be roughly an extra $24M in regular season ticket revenue and an extra $10-11M in postseason ticket revenue.

So in the short term, it's pretty easy to see outcomes where the Pujols signing turns a profit for the Angels. In the longer term, I think the security of that long-term TV deal gives the Angels enough payroll to compete even if Pujols is nearly a non-contributor, and by that point they've potentially gained a bunch of fans along the way.

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This Week in Twins Transactions

Pedro Florimon was claimed off waivers from Baltimore.
Kevin Slowey was traded to Colorado for a player to be named later. 
Daniel Turpen was acquired from Colorado as the player to be named later.
Matt Capps agreed to terms on a one year contract.
Terry Doyle was selected from the White Sox in the Rule 5 draft.
Marty Popham was claimed off waivers from Cleveland (A Carolina).
Shooter Hunt was placed on waivers by A Ft. Myers and was claimed by St. Louis.

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This Week in Ex-Twins

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Baltimore designates Willie Eyre for assignment.
Baltimore signs Steve Tolleson to a minor league contract.
Boston announces David Ortiz has accepted salary arbitration.
Cleveland names Scott Erickson pitching coach of Class A Carolina.
Colorado trades a player to be named later for Kevin Slowey.
Mets agree to terms with Jon Rauch on a one year contract.
Pittsburgh agrees to terms with Jose Morales on a minor league contract.
St. Louis organization (AAA Memphis) claims Shooter Hunt off waivers.
Texas agrees to terms with Yangervis Solarte on a minor league contract.

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Spanning the Globe

DOMINICAN LEAGUE

Aguilas 7, Cibao 2 in Aguilas.  Alexi Casilla was 3-for-3 for Cibao.

Escogido 3, Licey 0 in Escogido.  Pedro Florimon was 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs for Escogido.

MEXICAN LEAGUE

Mazatlan 7, Hermosillo 0 in Mazatlan.  Anthony Slama struck out two in a scoreless inning for Mazatlan.

VENEZUELAN LEAGUE

Aragua 5, Lara 1 in Lara.  Jose Mijares got the win with two perfect innings.

Magallanes 2, Anzoategui 1 in Anzoategui.  Pedro Guerra allowed a run on two hits and a walk for Magallanes.

AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE

Perth 6, Brisbane 1 in Brisbane (Game 1--Scheduled 7 innings).  Rory Rhodes was 1-for-2 with a walk and an RBI for Brisbane.

Perth 6, Brisbane 5 in Brisbane (Game 2--9 innings--Scheduled 7 innings).  Rory Rhodes was 0-for-4 for Brisbane.

Friday Music Day

FMD: Dec 9, 2011

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I went over to Google+ (which for me is basically like CarterHayes' blog). CH and some of his friends were discussing not what Christmas on other Holiday music one likes, but what one is looking for in popular Christmas music. I'd like to ask that around here. I'm thinking primarily about contemporary music (in the sense of: since the last Twins' pennant, but feel free to expand that a bit to fit your needs). Also, I'm not trying to restrict it to non-religious songs, just songs for radio play, or regular iPod or streaming service play, rather than stuff for Christmas Choral Concerts or church organs.

In other words, if you're going to go looking for some new Christmas songs, or new performances of traditional Christmas songs, what are you looking for?

[I was gonna put more of my thoughts here, but other obligations sapped my time.]

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While I'm on the topic, there's a certain surviving Beatle who wrote a song a few decades ago that I hate with a white-hot passion. Give me six hours of James Taylor as opposed to one listen through of that recording. If someone puts that on the video of the day, I will break into the HTML code or whatever and find a way to give it a -10 stars. Without listening.

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Next week, I think I'll look at that list of Grammy nominations and make some hypercritical remarks.

Cup of Coffee

December 9, 2011: Neck Tat is Clueless

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A couple of days ago, I helped a customer, about 40 or so, who had the TC logo tattooed on his neck (I forgot to mention it because this was an hour or two before I helped Corey Hart). He twice said Morneau when he meant Mauer, he advocated Mauer moving to first and I had to remind him of the names of Shane Mack and Gene Larkin. I felt like I should have demanded a tattoo transfer.

Remodeled basement. Same half-baked taste.