Fox "has asked for about" $70M per year from Turner Broadcasting and ESPN for MLB Division Series afternoon games, or about $10M per game for the average of seven games per season, according to USA TODAY's Rudy Martzke. Turner "is considered more interested" in the package than ESPN "because the postseason could be packaged" with TBS' regular-season Braves telecasts (USA TODAY, 12/15). MOORAD EXPOSURE: ESPN followed Jeff Moorad, the agent for free agent OF Manny Ramirez, during his recent negotiations with MLB teams. "Outside the Lines: Inside the Deal" will air Sunday at 9:30am ET on ESPN and present a behind-the-scenes look inside the Ramirez/Moorad negotiating process during the past seven weeks (ESPN). Indians GM John Hart said that he was told during negotiations with Moorad in Dallas that some of their talks were being taped: "I was just told Saturday that some of our conversations were taped. I had no idea. Then I got a call that they wanted to bring up the camera crew. He said it was part of the deal. I said, no way" (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 12/14).
