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#44 - Billionaire Dreams: If You Could Own Any Sports Franchise · Life According to Brian and Jason

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  All right, friends, welcome to another episode of
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  Life According to Brian and Jason. Hey,
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  Jason, it's a new week. Well, what's on your mind,
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  Brian? If you could own any sports franchise,
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  what would you own? Probably not the Lakers.
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  Well, that's that whole Laker thing. Yeah, that's big-time money
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  too. Yeah, well, just the,
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  um, you know, the amount of money going past for
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  selling teams like the Seahawks, and, you know, we're talking billions.
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  Yes, billions. Yeah, this whole Laker thing has
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  really kind of brought into question some interesting things
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  because But the Busch family just
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  bought it, what, a year ago? Right. And now they're flipping the team for an
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  extra $2.5 billion, buddy. Is that— do you have that kind of cash? It's crazy.
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  Yeah. I mean, a consortium of people having to— right.
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  Buy all this. Yeah. I mean, what is that
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  team worth? $12.5 billion. And yeah,
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  it's already gone crazy. That is. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, back in
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  the day, I remember, well, first of all, teams rarely
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  sold because usually they were just passed on
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  to the children of owners.
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  Yes. And just kept in the family and never
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  really heard much about it. And, you know, teams would
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  sell and it'd be nominal amounts. It'd be like, oh, you know,
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  here's, here's this team's couple hundred thousand or
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  a couple hundred million. You're like, oh, okay. Yeah, now everything's with a
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  B, you know, a big B. A big B,
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  right? And just going up, everyone's boom, boom,
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  boom. Yeah, which is crazy why the Lakers is that
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  much, uh, considering the Broncos sold, what, a couple years ago
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  and it was what, $4.5 billion? Yeah, $4 billion. Yeah,
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  and, uh, that's crazy. But, uh,
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  I think for me, if we're going down this road of talking about
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  we are not a monetized podcast, and your little love will go a long
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  way in keeping this production going. Thank you. Own baseball,
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  it's like I, I got a chance to work
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  at a baseball stadium, and I
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  thought I would like it more, and I really didn't because you're distracted with
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  the business of running baseball versus being a fan.
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  And so I wonder if the same thing would happen
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  as an owner. Would you be distracted and not enjoy
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  it? I don't know. Isn't it all sports? You have to make a line.
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  It's business. You got to make the cash. You got to help the, you know,
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  sell the seats. So I think
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  what I would love to do is I think I would want to buy an
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  underperforming team in baseball, some thinking
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  through my brain at the moment, like, the Royals
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  are not doing well. Let's buy the Royals.
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  That sounds fantastic. So there you go, there's mine.
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  Okay, well, 2 peas in a pod. I am also going
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  baseball, uh, but I am going for real
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  estate and cool factor, and they're always in
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  the mix, dude. I would buy the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  One, love visiting that part of Florida, St.
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  Pete, man. You cannot beat that. That is very nice.
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  I would love to live there. Uh, it was sold, uh,
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  for $1.7 billion on September 25th
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  to Patrick Salupski, and, um, you know,
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  he's the principal owner. Of course, there's tons of other people who— wow,
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  you came prepared— own it. Uh, well,
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  this was on my mind. I'm like, dude, Because the stadium,
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  yes, it is a dome, which,
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  okay, that's not the best, but the location— not
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  that the location is by great nightlife, whatever, but it is prime real estate
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  and cool, and it's close to get around stuff
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  in St. Pete. Um, just the vibe of
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  the place there is awesome. They have done, as an organization,
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  You know, even though they got sold in '25, the people
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  who are running the organization, they are competitive, they are
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  fun. They treat their stakeholders
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  great. I mean, I've been there twice. It's a great game experience.
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  They really make it all about the fans. They play
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  the Yankees right now. They're ahead. I mean, dude, they're leading like by 12
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  games or something like that against the Yankees. That's just crazy,
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  you know. And they had the whole, the whole drama with,
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  uh, the roof blowing off. Yes, but it didn't slow them
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  down at all. No, no, they had to play last season, they had to play
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  at, um, the Yankees Triple-A or
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  spring training stadium there in Florida somewhere. And yeah,
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  then the roof got fixed this season. Yeah, this, like,
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  they never missed a beat. I don't know, dude. What a solid
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  franchise. So you are buying an underperforming. I am buying a
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  steady, great one with sick location.
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  Right. And right. Also, I think you thought maybe I'm
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  going to pick the Rockies. No, no, I wouldn't want to. Just— I didn't know,
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  actually. I thought you were going to pick, I don't know, some cycling team
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  or something. Well, actually, now that I'm sitting here— race or racing.
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  Yeah, I think I think if I had the cash,
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  obviously. Yeah, cash is no object. You're like, right, I could
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  buy multiple things. But, you know, since we're both baseball fans,
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  I went baseball. But really, really what it comes down to is
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  I would love, I would love to just own
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  a racing team. I would go
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  either, I'd probably go NASCAR first.
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  Just because I think it's a little more of an entry-level
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  sport as far as understanding the nuances and things like that.
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  I do the Michael Jordan. I don't know if our listeners know, but Michael Jordan,
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  since he retired, being one of the best,
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  he's put his money in. Yeah, he bought— I think he bought
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  part of the Wizards one time. I don't know if he owns any more stakes
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  in teams, but He kind of ventured away from
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  baseball or basketball and his first
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  racing team, he actually bought a what's called GP
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  motorcycle racing. It's like road racing, but super fast.
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  You've seen all those bikes on the streets that those kids ride super
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  fast, you know, like the ninjas and stuff like that. He bought a racing team
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  there and then that experience taught him about the racing
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  industry. And yeah, he owns 4 cars. He has
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  a business partner, but he owns a 4-car team in NASCAR and
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  he dominates right now. First couple seasons were rough and then
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  he sued NASCAR, you know, because he's not a shy
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  businessman and thought something was unfair. And yeah,
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  it's funny. It's just so funny to watch him on TV.
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  You're like, hey, that's Michael Jordan. Standing next to a race car.
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  And so I just think that would be exciting, just be exciting.
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  It's a long season. Uh, I think money-wise,
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  obviously you got sponsors, things like that. It's not—
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  I think baseball you could turn a profit. Um, NASCAR is a little more touch
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  and go, I'll say. Right. So profit margins,
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  so it's not a $1.7 billion, uh,
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  business? No. No,
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  um, there's ways you can make money in it,
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  but I wouldn't say it's— yeah, by far compared
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  to football and baseball. Yeah, yeah.
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  Well, I don't— I'm not even talking money. Like, if I owned them, dude,
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  I would not be selling the Rays. I'd be like, you know what,
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  Ryan, you're getting the Rays. You know, I'd be like, you know, you do
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  whatever you want after I'm gone, but it's staying with me.
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  Well, and, uh, I'm doing it out of just pure love and enjoyment,
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  you know, like, um, I agree. Like,
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  that's why the racing would be good for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love racing.
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  I think the other thing too is, fans, if you didn't notice,
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  uh, we— I think we talked about this 15
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  seconds before I hit record. Wait a minute, what were you planning,
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  dude? So I think, I think you're a little bit more planned out
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  than me because had the idea. I think the other
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  thing that would be— I think it would be very interesting is MLB
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  is due for another expansion. And I think
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  it would be cool to be a founding owner of a new
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  team. And I'll just throw one out, like Jacksonville,
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  Florida, I think would be a great city for an expansion team.
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  And I like the Florida vibe. And you're
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  right there at spring training mecca. And yeah, I just,
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  I think it's inspiration from the Rays. You know, I think that city deserves
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  a major league team. Yeah, the Rays are 5 games up on
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  the Yankees, 75-70 right now. It wasn't 12, but it was pretty significant a
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  while ago. So the Yankees have caught up. Yeah, I wouldn't
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  want to own like the Yankees or Red Sox. I wouldn't want to own them
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  personally. Personally, it's okay. Maybe if I'm from there,
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  I might be like, yeah, right. And yeah, the Rockies are good, but no,
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  man, just a lot of history with Tampa and baseball in general.
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  I would just love to walk around. I would hire good people like
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  they do and just let them do their work, but just kind of soak in
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  things and just ask questions and just be around the sport. So,
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  so you're telling me you'd be an off— hands-off
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  owner? Yes. Oh, no one wants an owner.
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  Sorry, Jerry Jones, where for the Cowboys,
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  where you're GM, you're doing a radio show.
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  No, no, I'm not doing any of that, man. I am
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  writing the checks. I am putting good people into,
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  into spots that they can succeed. What do you need?
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  Let's go. You know, hold them accountable, right?
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  And I don't know, man, I think the Rays are just a top-notch organization,
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  run well. Um, it's a cool location.
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  And I actually should see, I don't know if the Rays own that,
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  uh, I don't think they own the dome. No,
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  no, they have a contract, right? Yeah, right. Yeah, they have a contract,
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  and that's the big— that's the big hoopla.
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  Yeah, everyone wants money. The owner wants to move the stadium,
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  wants to go to another place, build something new.
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  Yep. And he had a plan, but I guess it
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  wasn't well thought out, and anyway, it all folded.
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  It's funny, these billionaires still want the public to
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  throw money in. Now, back in the day,
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  when I say back in the day, 50 years ago,
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  stadiums were sold as, okay, we found an owner
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  who will pay for the team. We as the city or
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  the county or the state, however they wanted
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  the bankroll, the stadium, the citizens,
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  you win the partnership, right? Well,
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  now you got such mega billionaires. What would you
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  do, Jason? Here you'll come walking in, you got your billions. I could buy a
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  team. Are you bankrolling your own future stadium?
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  Well, that's where the real money is, is if all this
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  isn't real money, you know, that's right, the, the,
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  um the ownership, uh, the Kroenkes out in,
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  uh, LA with the Rams, that he owns that. Jerry Jones owns
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  some of that, put that in. And then, um, the Broncos,
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  the Walton families, the Penner Group, they want to build their
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  own stadium outright with shops and
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  residences and, you know, craziness.
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  But, uh, yeah, just I don't know, um,
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  like you're saying with the, uh, the raise, they, uh,
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  put money in with the city, so the city couldn't do it all.
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  So I guess they kind of folded and said, okay, yeah, well, we'll stay
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  here and do this, right, for at least initial a little
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  bit, right? Couple more years or whatever the agreement was. Yeah,
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  they wanna, uh, they're pursuing a $2.3 billion
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  fixed roof ballpark project. So they're
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  trying to change some things. Yeah, right, right.
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  Yeah, see, once again, if I own it, I gotta deal with all this stuff.
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  It's not all the fun.
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  It's no fun being an owner. Well, what would be— what would be the— obviously
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  that part— what would be the main sticking point with, uh,
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  racing? What would they— you know, obviously,
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  uh, labor disputes for baseball and just
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  you know, your stadium issue, right? Baseball,
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  that's looming. What would be a concern
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  for you owning your team?
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  Well, racing, like any of these sports, you're really dealing with
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  monopolies, right? MLB is
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  the baseball king, right? NFL.
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  Other competing leagues have tried, but the NFL either crushes
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  them or buys them. Right? And same thing in racing,
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  you kind of have these monopolies. You just have NASCAR, and then you
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  have IndyCar, then you have Formula 1, which is the
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  mega racing franchise.
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  So they, they all run a little different. And in NASCAR, you have
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  to buy a charter. So that means you— the
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  organization says, okay, there's X amount of charters out
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  there, and someone sells their charter
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  off, you can buy it up and things like that. So you kind of have
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  to wait for your slot to show up and you got to buy it.
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  So there's these kind of business decisions behind
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  the scenes. And based on that charter,
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  you have TV revenues you got to deal with, things like that.
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  Yeah. So there's profit sharing so that teams
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  can stay somewhat afloat, but there is a pecking order. You know,
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  so if you're the newbie on the block and you come with low amount of
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  funds, obviously your charter's not as strong as someone else's.
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  You know, you're not getting the revenue sharing. That's part of the problem
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  I think the Rays have too, is Yankees
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  have a better kind of TV deal than the Rays, even though the Rays are
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  a great team year after year, year in, year out, man.
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  Right. Um, they're just in the running.
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  But yet they get a fraction of the
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  money that goes towards owners, right? So you
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  as an owner would be a frustrated owner. And so me as
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  a racing team owner, same thing, uh,
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  coming in— unless you come in strong and you got big dollars
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  and you can just buy whatever you want, um,
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  still they kick you to the curb because you haven't been there.
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  You got to earn your stripes. And I think maybe it's a little
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  easier in pro sports. Like, what's the Buss family
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  know about owning? Do they know anything about owning?
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  Well, they do actually. They have been owning for a while, but they've
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  been back and forth. Oh, uh, Dr. Buss.
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  Yeah, he was a leader there. I mean, they're there, but this infighting,
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  right? Just not a good look. So. Right, right.
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  And now you got Bob Iger,
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  former Disney CEO, wants to buy part.
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  Like, what, what does Bob know about owning a sport
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  franchise? He knows how to run a Disney organization.
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  But, you know, I mean, why, why ask?
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  It must be lucrative. That's all I know. More power,
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  dude. It's, it's luxurious owning a team. It's cool.
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  And. Right. You know, all these are real-world problems.
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  I just want the, yeah, I bought the team, I want to be cool.
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  You know what's interesting is like Magic Johnson. Everyone knows Magic
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  Johnson, and he is a really savvy businessman.
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  In fact, he owned a good portion of Starbucks Coffee.
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  I think at one time he owned either 700 to 1,000
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  franchises around the world. Wow, I did not know that. He cashed those
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  out to buy a minority share in
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  the Dodgers. Sick. So that
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  tells you right there how much the Dodgers is worth, is when here
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  comes Magic after selling, you know, yeah,
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  all these, right? Yes, all these franchises.
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  He's still not the top dog owner by any means,
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  but he's one of the group that came in to
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  bolster up the Dodgers. And that's when they started really getting after,
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  um, because of like Magic and the
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  other people that they brought in. Now they're able to afford,
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  uh, Ohtani, who's got a $700 million contract.
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  That's almost a billion dollars.
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  Yeah. Think about who, who's the first player in any
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  sport to be that billion billionaire contract,
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  right? That's the problem of owners, man. You got
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  to figure out how you get along with all these other
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  co-owners to, you know,
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  buy your talent, buy your place at the table.
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  So wouldn't it be a great job, Brian? Come on,
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  I would sign up right now. Would you sign up for it right now,
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  Brian? If you could own a race team right now, would you do it?
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  Say, or would you be like,
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  no, no, I would. I, you know,
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  if you have that kind of money, you already have that kind of confidence.
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  You know, money's a full-time job, and quoting
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  a Rolling Stones song right there, thanks Mick Jagger,
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  but it is. Uh, money's a full-time business, and you
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  better know how it works, and you better know how to count.
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  Because the people who know how to count better than you will take your
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  money. And so if you're already a billionaire, you already— put
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  it this way, you've already run some people over,
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  right? You had to outdo somebody. You had to out-savvy
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  somebody. You just don't show up and be lucky and be a billionaire.
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  So you're walking in with already some pretty good chops.
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  That's what I'm saying. You just don't wake up one day and say, I'm a
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  billionaire. If you are, it was just given to you. You inherited it.
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  And then you're probably stupid with it. But if you
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  start small, maybe that's the learning curve you and I take. We just start small
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  and find that single A. Hey, I'm a small team.
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  Yeah, buy only 1.7. My raise are only $1.7
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  billion. Hey, I'm not going big. No, just joking, right? No,
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  I know, right? Maybe you start small. See, I'd be happy to just buy a
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  small, a small little racing team. Why not?
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  And You know, there's a lot of ways to spend your
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  billions, Jason. So true that,
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  man. You could throw money behind professional disc golf,
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  right? There you go. I could, right? I would
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  love to follow all that. Heck, own it. I'd like to just go watch it
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  all, go, go to all the tournaments. Why not, right?
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  Right. Or you could buy them a stake in the, uh,
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  Uh, FIFA World Soccer.
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  That— yes, dude, I wouldn't really touch that. That seems crazy. That is— yeah,
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  our sports are nothing compared to that. But right,
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  and it seems dirty money too, don't you think? Yeah,
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  there's all kinds of stuff, man, you know, around World Cup soccer.
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  It's kind of like Olympic money. Yes. Yeah, Olympic committees.
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  I'm sure there's shady business going on in the MLB But
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  I'd rather just
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  do stuff here. Right, right. Okay, so if I'm hearing you,
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  you're still your Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa Bay Rays,
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  because I love it for reasons. Cool place to live,
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  right? Cool place to be. I have to agree. Team as well.
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  It's just a good, fun team, right? The owners just
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  write checks and sit back. And for your initial,
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  just to get back to it, the The, um,
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  Kansas City Royals, what a great organization too though. I mean, nothing but positive,
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  great fan base. I— that— I think that's what's it is, the current owner.
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  I think that's— I'm trying to think why I just quickly fired that one off.
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  Is the owner is kind of rubbing the fans wrong in
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  that? What? Yeah, because he's like, yeah, we don't want to put any money in
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  the stadium, we want to build it over here and put a bunch of stores
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  around it. And I, I get it. Um,
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  we're, we're lucky being Coors fans cuz when you're done with the game,
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  you got Blake Street, walk down there. Yay. You know, if you
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  go to a Chicago Cubs game, the city's right there. Yay.
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  Not every stadium has a cool city vibe
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  for pregame or postgame, you know,
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  fun. And yeah, this owner up there in KC
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  wants to, you know, build a whole new thing and the fans are not having
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  it. No, because they love their tailgating, right? See, that'd be a great one
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  for me because you're part of— in a state that has nothing
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  but that, right? You know what I mean? Right. You're the main game.
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  Yeah, they're kind of messing with, uh, family values up there.
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  This owner, right, he's not getting it. He's trying to force his agenda
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  and the fans aren't having it. I, I don't know.
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  I, I think it's gonna— I think it's showing in the
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  Royals play this year. I just think,
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  I think when an owner messes things up, the result
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  is, you know, poor performance on the field too. Yeah,
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  I mean, you want money, okay, they do have the, the Chiefs, they're not the
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  only one in town, but right, you know, right. Uh, yeah,
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  yeah, I would agree. That's why you put good people in place,
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  and then I would just sit back and be
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  the owner, you know. Hey, isn't that great,
• 23:30
  right? You know, so, so now I know what runs
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  through your mind. You're sitting there, you're watching some games,
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  or you're like, if I was owner, I would do
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  this. I'd have $1 hot dog night on Tuesday,
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  right? And I'd show up and get a dog myself,
• 23:48
  right? I wouldn't get rid of those $45
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  hot dogs at Coors Field. Well, maybe keep those
• 23:56
  for the ones who want to buy it. You go right ahead, you know,
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  go ahead and buy it, but I'm not.
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  I would replace Coors Light with something
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  that actually tastes good. Oh,
• 24:10
  listeners are like, what the heck? Hey, if you like
• 24:14
  what you're hearing, like and subscribe. I don't know.
• 24:18
  If you don't like these jokes, it's Jason's fault. Yeah,
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  no, that's a good point. Uh, yeah, please, please weigh in.
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  You know, it's always interesting. Be a dreamer. Why not have fun with this?
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  Who would you buy? What would you want to see? Um, maybe there's
• 24:35
  a sport you'd invest in. Who knows? But, uh, great topic,
• 24:39
  dude. I like it. Any, any crazy sport stuff other than
• 24:43
  the Caitlin Clark drama that keeps going on with
• 24:48
  Angel Reese and all that. It's like, oh my gosh,
• 24:51
  you know, stop. I— is it basketball
• 24:55
  or is it wrestling? I can't tell. Yeah, what are we doing here? That WNBA
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  and that just, yeah, just frustrates me. So I, I was cool with
• 25:04
  it last season, but this season it's just— I don't know
• 25:07
  if it's the media or just, yeah, just I I
• 25:11
  don't know. I, I got no interest in— because I like watching
• 25:16
  high-paced, good, good basketball, competitive basketball.
• 25:20
  This just seems like slap fight. Yeah. And it's
• 25:24
  like, if I wanted that, I'd go WWE, man.
• 25:27
  You know, I'd get some real entertainment out of it. But, um, I think
• 25:31
  the only thing that, uh, that was really on my radar,
• 25:35
  dude, was, uh, Banana. Ball came to Coors Field.
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  And, uh, you told me about it, so I
• 25:43
  tried to watch a little bit on HBO Max. They carried it.
• 25:47
  Uh, YouTube also carries it live. Wow, dude,
• 25:50
  see the power of that? Yeah, boy. Who owns—
• 25:54
  I'm gonna look that up— who owns the Savannah Bananas?
• 25:58
  Who thought to do that? Brian, that's what we need to do.
• 26:01
  We need to know Oh, Jesse Cole. Jesse Cole,
• 26:05
  look at you. Jesse Cole's the guy. He's an interesting character
• 26:09
  because he, he worked in the minor league
• 26:14
  systems trying to— I love his origin
• 26:17
  story. Like, we got 3 fans in the stadium,
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  you know, it's some terrible minor league ball out
• 26:26
  on the West Coast and Because he wanted to go into leadership.
• 26:29
  He wanted to go into baseball management. And he's just trying to
• 26:34
  find creative ways to get people in the door, you know? And that's why I
• 26:37
  gave the joke about the dollar hot dog, because when I worked at
• 26:42
  the Arkansas Naturals, we had dollar hot dog night and
• 26:45
  dollar brat night. You know, they have all these goofy things, right?
• 26:49
  Well, Jesse Cole took it to the next level. He's just like, we got to
• 26:53
  bring entertainment. It's not about the cheap food. Or the $1 beer
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  night. It's about you as a fan need to walk
• 27:00
  away going, that was a great experience. And that's what
• 27:04
  I tried to watch on Friday night. I tried to watch it and I was
• 27:07
  kind of lost, you know, because I've never really— you and I dabbled
• 27:11
  a whole podcast on this. But then I looked up
• 27:15
  his core, the core rules of banana ball, and I'm like, oh,
• 27:19
  I get it. What they're trying to do is
• 27:23
  there's no downtime. Like, they set a 2-hour clock
• 27:27
  and their goal is in that 2 hours
• 27:31
  you have something to look at everywhere in the stadium.
• 27:35
  There's always something going on. There's no crickets, there's no silence,
• 27:39
  there's no dead time at all. And, uh,
• 27:43
  well, I have to tell you, if they pull it off— not that I would
• 27:47
  be, hey, I'm gonna go to a Savannah Bananas game all the time, but I
• 27:51
  would go now, now that I understand his logic,
• 27:55
  his origin story, and the 11 core rules. And we'll do a
• 27:59
  whole podcast on that. Sure. Future. Oh, that sounds good. But I
• 28:04
  was impressed, you know, he's had offers to sell that franchise
• 28:08
  and he said no. Hey, I'm having too much fun.
• 28:12
  Well, and, and they've off— been offered all
• 28:16
  kinds of other crazy things. So how come you don't raise your ticket prices and
• 28:20
  this and that? And he goes, the fan experience is the advertising.
• 28:23
  He goes, we do no advertising. And he's
• 28:28
  a smart business guy. Yep. Yeah, he's totally smart. And he goes,
• 28:31
  our goal is to have a billion fans.
• 28:34
  How about that? He sold Coors Field out.
• 28:37
  And Coors Field's the second largest stadium in the MLB, dude, over 50,000
• 28:41
  seats. Sold it out. 2 nights, sold it
• 28:45
  out. So, so that's my only story from this week other
• 28:50
  than, uh, Formula 1. It will come off summer break and,
• 28:54
  uh, that race is this coming weekend.
• 28:57
  And the one— well, we have 2
• 29:01
  teams from America in Formula 1 racing. We have Cadillac and Haas
• 29:06
  Racing. Cadillac's the newbies. Lots of drama. They just fired
• 29:10
  their, their team principal, which is kind of like
• 29:13
  their face of the franchise. I just fired him.
• 29:17
  So, so I don't know what's going on there. So I got my drama
• 29:22
  in Formula One to work out this week. What about you?
• 29:28
  No, man, I told you the, the Caitlin
• 29:33
  Clark stuff and That's all
• 29:37
  I got, man. That's all you got? Well, that's all I got. The only craziness,
• 29:41
  you know, uh, that I see are off-putting stuff,
• 29:44
  or just not off— not off-putting, but, you know,
• 29:49
  uh, you know, something if you're not paying attention,
• 29:52
  you're like, oh yeah. Also, oh, I know, I got one more
• 29:55
  thing. Hey man, I watch a lot of rodeo on the Rodeo Cowboy
• 30:00
  Network. What? With my father-in-law.
• 30:03
  Dude, it's awesome. If you want something different,
• 30:07
  do it. It's like a swim meet. It's like a track meet. They have the
• 30:10
  same events. Uh, rodeo is awesome. Pro rodeo, right? Like pro
• 30:14
  rodeo, bucking broncs, right? Summer is Cowboy
• 30:19
  Christmas. And it's like, uh, I would check
• 30:23
  out a rodeo, even watch it on TV. It's great. Love it. Yeah.
• 30:27
  I— that's funny you say that. I haven't watched a rodeo in a long time.
• 30:31
  My grandpa would take me once in a while and,
• 30:35
  man, scary stuff. That's all I can say is
• 30:39
  it looks mild on TV. Go stand next to the
• 30:43
  gate and decide. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, it's sanitized for me.
• 30:46
  Oh yeah. Right. I have been to rodeos too, though. Yeah, right.
• 30:50
  That's funny. I would never guess that. If I were to put money
• 30:54
  down, what is Jason's sport that he watches a
• 30:58
  little bit here and there? Rodeo was not even on the list. Rodeo, man.
• 31:02
  Wow. Family members are into it. All right, well,
• 31:06
  you might find a hat in the mail someday.
• 31:10
  I would pay money to see Jason in a cowboy hat. There you
• 31:13
  go, buddy. So, well, cool friends. Guess what,
• 31:17
  Jason? What? Hey, we're out of time. So this is
• 31:20
  a fun episode, and, uh, thanks again for joining
• 31:24
  us on this adventure on Life According to Brian and
• 31:28
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