Article: LWIB: The Pirates and the Revenue-Sharing Debate, Cubs "Non-Sale Sale", Local ESPN.coms and MLB Local Digital Rights.

Byline: Pete Toms

This week in LWIB, the abysmal performance of the Pittsburgh Pirates calls in to question the usefulness of revenue-sharing in MLB, the "nonsale sale" of the Chicago Cubs and will ESPN's growing collection of local websites bring more urgency to the issue of control of local digital rights in MLB?

THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES AND THE REVENUE-SHARING DEBATE

The Pittsburgh Pirates (http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/pit/history/year_by_year_results.jsp) last winning season was 1992. Even in that context, their dismal September performance has been noteworthy. LWIB, Dejan Kovacevic (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09266/1000245-63.stm) wrote for ...

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