In the years-long dispute between the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals over TV rights, MLB shouldn’t decide how much the Nationals receive in rights fees, the Orioles’ Mid-Atlantic Sports Network argued at an appeals hearing Tuesday.
MASN lawyer Carter Phillips said MLB’s process “reflects a lack of concern for fundamental fairness” and argued Commissioner Rob Manfred has made comments about the inevitability of the Nationals prevailing in the dispute.
The case has been slowly winding its way through the courts for more than a decade. In 2012, the Nationals challenged the rights fee payments they were set to receive for the next five seasons — around $200 million, or $40 million per year. The team asked MASN for $475 million. An MLB revenue sharing committee found the Nationals should receive about $20 million more annually than MASN agreed to pay, or nearly $100 million in total.
A ruling in the Nationals’ favor could help set the terms for future rights fees calculations and potentially lay the groundwork to award the team additional money from 2017 to 2022. But Phillips said MASN would challenge any future decisions made by MLB — and not an independent arbitration panel — in Maryland court.
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