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rick horrow is a sports business analyst and c.e.o. of horrow sports ventures. nice to see you, sir. >> nice to see you. >> the boys in blue are too much in the red here apparently i guess with the dodgers going bankrupt, wrapping up a messy divorce case is how this case has wound newspaper bankruptcy course. the dodgers have twice as many assets as liabilities so it's not like they owe the money they can't pay, it is that they are cash poor is this a significant business strategy. >> cash-flow issue, business strategy, to wrest control of the team from the commissioner. he is very powerful, best interest of the game clause motivates his behalfier. there was an issue about using a television contract with fox worth about $3 billion to pay off the divorce settlement and as long as the money is not going to the team in the future, baseball steps in. this is an opportunity by the mccourt lawyers to circumvent that. >> that is the couple where the heart of the mat certificate in divorce course. but this is a business strategy. so the big bank is the lender here, jp

rick horrow is a sports business analyst and c.e.o. of horrow sports ventures. and from urbana, illinois, scott tainsky, professor at the university of illinois. beginning tomorrow. any closer to a compromise. >> one as a lawyer i can tell with confidence when he lawyers vacate the room a deal might be near and two, both sides are now talking about the specific issues they would like to see changed in order for a deal to get done. 11 weeks before the start of the season you don't do that unless the deal is close and moving in the right direction. >> tom: you mentioned how the gold enegg is the television contract and looking at markets for the nfl and business part in other words and the majority of americans don't have a natural hometown nfl team. 59% are not in an nfl market. locatio important for the business decision and the nfl business partners. >> the nfl first off tries to create the relationship by creating a 75-mile radius around a stadium that belongs to a team and a franchise agreement and see ticket packages on direct tv where they tried to create t