Given the number and volume of legal documents that have been filed in the Comcast SportsNet Houston bankruptcy case and the limitations of print space and Twitter space, a lot of facts either have gone underreported in this space or have been overcome by more pressing news.

I’m going to try to sum up a few of them here as we await Tuesday’s hearing before Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur if he will grant a stay in the Chapter 11 case while the Astros’ appeal of Isgur’s Chapter 11 order is appealed to U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes.

1. How much money has Comcast pumped into CSN Houston?

Comcast on Oct. 29, 2010, paid $157.5 million to buy 22.5 percent of the Rockets-Astros partnership known as Houston Regional Sports Network, an entity created in 2003. That was the first time, you may recall, that the Astros and Rockets tried to break away from Fox Sports Southwest to form their own regional sports network.

When the network was launched, Comcast granted a $100 million line of credit to get the company up and running and to pay initial expenses. So even before the channel signed on, Comcast was in to the tune of at least $257.5 million – more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

Even for a company the size of Comcast, that’s commencing to be a lot of money, and it summarizes, if you had any questions, why Comcast is not inclined to pack up and leave town.

Plus, as the largest cable carrier in town, it has to deal with the Astros and Rockets eventually, either through CSN Houston or another carrier. Sticking with CSN Houston gives it cost certainty and a larger measure of control and, as mentioned earlier, preserves its significant investment.

2. Astros owner Jim Crane has said on several occasions that CSN Houston is “a $150 million a year business.” What are the elements of that number?

We have touched on aspects of this in the past, but here’s more exact breakdown based on data from the court filings:

The Astros’ rights fees under the agreement began in 2013 at $55,572,454 and “adjusts upward in subsequent years.” The Rockets were paid $44,428,000 for the 2012-13 season, and their rights also escalate from year to year. So that’s approximately $100 million in annual rights fees, and climbing, even before CSN Houston begins broadcasting.

Average monthly operating expenses for the network, according to Comcast, are about $3 million, not including rights payments. For a year, that would be about $36 million. Crane has said that he needs about $20 million in profit from CSN Houston to give the Astros approximately the amount of money from local TV that the Rangers get in their contract with Fox Sports Southwest.

If you add all those elements, you get into the $150 million range that Crane has cited.

3. What happened to the $100 million Comcast loan?

It didn’t even see the network through its first year. The Rockets received their entire rights fee for 2012-13, but as of April 30, when the Astros’ first monthly payment of $9.26 million was due, the network was down to $1.15 million in cash and $11.4 million in its credit line. After paying the Astros, CSN Houston was down to $544,340 in cash and $5.13 million in its credit line.

On May 29, the three network partners – Comcast, the Astros and Rockets – agreed to pay $30 million into the partnership in new capital – the “cash call” that we discussed at the time.

Two days later, the partners paid the first $12 million, and the Astros were able to receive their May rights fee payment [– but only after paying about $6 million to keep the partnership afloat. On June 26, the partners paid the second $12 million payment, and the Astros were able to receive their June rights fee.

On July 26, the Rockets declined to pay their portion of the $6 million due in the third phase of the cash call. The Astros were not paid their July rights fee. However, as you see, phase three of the first cash call would have gotten the network only through July. More would have been needed.

4. Were other cash calls considered?

According to the Comcast court filings, Comcast proposed a cash call of $50 million from the three partners and said it would loan the partnership $110 million. Comcast said the Astros and Rockets could share in providing the loan if they wished to do so.

This proposal would have drained more money from the teams and, depending on how you read the Astros’ account, would have reduced their equity in CSN Houston because of the new Comcast loan. At any rate, the Astros refused to approve the new cash call.

5. What efforts were made to resolve the issue?

According to the Astros’ court filings, some of which have been redacted to prevent disclosure of what the team describes as confidential material, Comcast on Aug. 5, 2013, offered to buy the Astros’ 46.5 interest in the network based on an “implied enterprise value” of $500 million.

However, when the network was organized in 2010, it was valued by its partners at $700 million, according to previous testimony. That means its value, according to Comcast, had gone down sharply after less than a year on the air.

Crane said during a news conference in November that his ownership group paid $326 million for Drayton McLane’s 46.5 percent share of the CSN Houston partnership. According to the Astros’ court filing, which initially was redacted to obscure certain confidential numbers but posted Monday in full, Comcast’s purchase offer was for $185 million, which would have been a loss of $141 million from his original investment.

(UPDATE: I initially was confused by the $185 million number, since 46.5 percent of $500 million would be about $232.5 million, but I forgot that Comcast’s first priority would be to pay off its $100 million initial loan. Turns out that 46.5 percent of $400 million is about $185 million, so that could be the explanation).

The Astros say that the Rockets asked for a similar buyout, but Comcast declined to make that offer to the Rockets, who according to the network contract had the right to approve or veto the Astros’ sale of their equity. At any rate, the deal didn’t take place.

6. What happens if the Astros win their stay, win their appeal and take back their media rights from CSN Houston?

This was addressed during the Feb. 4 hearing, but it may have been overlooked with Judge Isgur’s order putting the network in Chapter 11. Comcast attorney Craig Goldblatt said, “The Astros have said again today they intend to terminate their media rights agreement and license rights to a different entity. If that happens, the Rockets go with them in terms of their agreement. That would necessarily lead to the destruction of the network.”

In other words, the demise of CSN Houston, if it comes, does not signal the end of the partnership between the Astros and Rockets in media rights distribution matters that has existed since 2003.

I hope this clarifies some issues in what is becoming an increasingly complicated matter.

Meanwhile, did you see that Time Warner Cable has reached deals with Fox Sports San Diego and the Yankees’ YES Network. See, it can be done!!!!