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Bill Shea - The days of the Detroit Tigers signing gargantuan player contracts could be in jeopardy if subscriber and revenue declines for sports networks continues. The trend of cord-cutting — people dropping their pay TV cable and satellite services in favor of cheaper online options — is translating into lost dollars, most notably ESPN losing tens of millions of dollars in revenue as subscribers keep jettisoning their subscriptions to providers such as Comcast Inc. and DirecTV. The

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