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MASN Claims It Was Given "Losing Hand" In Latest Legal Filing For Ongoing Dispute

MASN told the appellate division of the N.Y. Supreme Court that they were “dealt a losing hand from a stacked deck by a biased, partial and financially interested institution” in its ongoing media rights dispute with MLB and the Nationals. Responding to a brief by the league and team, the Orioles-controlled MASN in its latest filing again pushes for the case to be sent to a neutral forum to be heard. MASN last year in state Supreme Court successfully vacated a prior ruling by MLB’s Revenue Sharing Definitions Committee in favor of the Nationals, and since then have been battling to determine the next venue of the dispute. The Nationals and MLB are arguing for a return to a reconstituted RSDC. “MLB and the Nationals cannot disguise the systemic ills that disqualify MLB and the RSDC from rehearing this dispute,” MASN filing reads.

MANFRED CHIMES IN: MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed the situation prior to last night’s Blue Jays-Orioles AL Wild Card game, saying he is "resigned” to seeing the litigation process play out to conclusion. “I feel about it how I feel about litigation in general,” Manfred said. “It’s out of your hands is how I feel about it. You kind of think you know where it’s headed, but unfortunately, it’s somebody else who is driving the boat. I guess I would say I am (at) this point resigned to the idea that the litigation process is going to have to play out a little further before anything positive can happen.” Manfred added the MASN case was “a good example of why in general our rules prohibit litigation between clubs." He said, "Once you’re in that court system, sometimes it’s hard to find your way out.” An ’05 settlement between MLB and Orioles Owner Peter Angelos regarding the relocation of the Expos from Montreal to DC specifically includes the ability for both MASN and the Nationals to “vacate or modify” RSDC rulings “on the grounds of corruption, fraud or miscalculation of figures.”

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