Major League Baseball filed a statement Thursday with the Houston bankruptcy court overseeing the restructuring of Sinclair’s regional sports networks subsidiary Diamond Sports Group, indicating the league is more than OK with Diamond using the flexibility provided by Chapter 11 to tear up the local TV rights contracts with yet another one of its teams, the Arizona Diamondbacks.
MLB told the court that it is negotiating with pay TV operators covering the Phoenix area and beyond to set up a new channel to broadcast Diamondbacks games locally, much as the league did for the San Diego Padres when Diamond cut them loose from the Bally Sports regional sports networks system in May.
