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Good points.  Attendance is down about 400K over the last two years, a winning team would certainly remedy that to one degree or another.  A healthy Fielder gets us much closer to that standard, probably over the top my some margin.  If you get those 400K fans back and if each fan spends and average of $50 coming to a game (I have no idea what that figure is) then the M's have generated an additional $20M (minus additional costs) right there.  That $20M is Fielder, or there-abouts.
That says nothing about additional TV revenue, etc.
That said, does Fielder get back 400,000 M's fans?  I think he does, or close to it, if he and everybody else remains healthy.  That's why I'm all for a 6X$25M deal.
But any businessman tries to get the best deal possible.  That's what I think the M's are doing.  I think they'll get a much better deal on Fielder than was original imagined (at least by Boros and the $200M crowd).
moe