A day after Sinclair Broadcast Group’s regional sports network subsidiary, Diamond Sports Group, made the bombshell decision to simply walk away from a billion-dollar contract with a Major League Baseball franchise, top executives and lawyers for the company appeared in a Texas bankruptcy court Wednesday, where they engaged in what was described by one reporter as a "vitriolic" standoff with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Amid the acrimony, Diamond made a bombshell disclosure: The direct-to-consumer streaming service that's at the heart of the conflict, Bally Sports Plus, only has around 203,000 paying customers attached to it, nine months after its national rollout.
