"And while big-market teams usually have bigger revenues, they usually have higher expenses."
The Phillies are a big-market team with a large TV audience - make no mistake.
But Baker told the newspaper today: "Who said those are the right jobs just because they're big-market teams?
A: One of them is the relationship of the big-market teams to the small- market teams.
"People were calling and telling me all the big-market teams were there."
We've now got a program in which the big-market teams will contribute in a meaningful way to help the smaller clubs.
Being the big-market team, or the global superpower, doesn't help when your most potent weapons disarm themselves.
You know, you don't buy a big-market team thinking it's a small market.
That is the imbalance between big-market teams and weaker teams.
The Angels are a big-market team that has operated itself into small-market status.