All-Season MFY IGT

[Guest Willets Point]

Is that A-Rod in a wig and bikini?

[Guest MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: MLB doing the licensing doesn't alone necessarily mean MLB distributes the moneys evenly. I think the logos are still trademarked to the teams.

Yes, both the MLB brand royalty money and national tv/radio money are split evenly, according to a spreadsheet that Selig presented to Congress in the Spring of 2004. I've mentioned it before in the thread about salary caps/ floors.

Later

[Guest Centerfield]

What is the story associated with that Post cover?

[Guest metirish]

Jetes was in Maui with his girlfriend Melissa Milino(MTV VJ)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yes, I know this. The Yankees and all other clubs continue own their trademarks though, while MLB retains most, but not all, licensing on those trademarks.

What the teams retain is still ambiguous to me, and much of it still in the courts, as the Yankees and other teams with successful trademarks still fight against the 1984 and 1995 agreements, claiming they were coerced. Initial agreements only covered the US and Canada, for instance.

Philosophically, it has always seemed to me that the poorer sisters deserve a cut of their opponents' broadcast revenues, but not a cut of their trademark licensing revenues, not the other way around as is the situation today.