I understand baseball teams will get much of their revenue from radio and television broadcast rights, in addition to the number of fans attending the games.

I know this has been done before, but not for a while that I have seen, is how much each team will earn from their various revenue sources.

I think it would be interesting to see how much more revenue the large market teams, Yankess and Red Sox for example, than the small and mid size markets.

The difference is that Howard is making that much as an arb-eligible player! If Howard were a free agent, do you think he’d “settle” for that deal?

The comment regarding Baylor was speculative. In what has become a very long thread I thought there was little if any mention of the role that the hitting coach may have played in the poor second half performance of some players.

Regarding those who did hit well, I won’t discount Baylor’s contribution to Gonzalez or Fowler any more than I’d discount Tracy’s contribution in allowing them to become starters. I’ll concede to you (and Baylor) on Torrealba. He had a terrific second half. Helton was healthy again and it showed not only in his performance but enjoyment of the game. He should be a future Hall of Famer, but very under appreciated outside of our region. Tulo was also healthy and returned to his 2007 form. I’m sure Baylor makes suggestions to both but they are natural hitters. I’m sure that someday though, Tulo will realize that not every high fastball is a pumpkin ready to be put on the concourse.

Hawpe would be a real loss to this team and a gain to a number of others (don’t you think the Cubs would put together a solid package to replace Milton Bradley with Hawpe). A left handed power hitter with a cannon for an arm, he’d look great in Wrigley’s right field.

I suggest that having Barmes, Hawpe, Stewart and Ianetta in major slumps in the second half, that maybe it’s time to look at the hitting coaches. They aren’t swinging the bats but they should be providing the guidance and diagnosis to get these guys back on track. Management brought in two experienced former managers at the beginning of the season in anticipation that Hurdle would fail to right the team. Tracy became interim, Baylor didn’t. When the team jelled it became more apparent that Tracy would be offered a deal. Baylor may have realized he isn’t in the Rockies long range plans.

There was an interview with Holiday, I believe by one of your colleagues, Krieger maybe, I think before the season started in which a couple comments from Holiday stuck with me that I always thought if Matt searched his soul he might come back to the Rockies. I think Holiday ended up admitting that he didn’t even know what the offer from the Rockies was (the 4-year, $18 million extension). When he was told he kinda went, huh, really? I got the feeling he felt a little ashamed. But who knows? This was an interview in print and sometimes hard to interpret. Also, The Rockies may feel scorned and dealing with Boras is not desirable to them, correct?