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#47 - Stan Kroenke's $4B Play: Will Angels Soar Under a Sports Empire? · Life According to Brian and Jason

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  All right, friends, welcome to another episode of Life According
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  to Brian and Jason. Hey, Jason, another week,
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  new topics. What's fresh, Brian? Do you
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  know who Stan Kroenke is? I believe that's
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  the billionaire dude who owns like half the sports
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  Pro sports teams in Denver, right? Yes. Now, now he's
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  going to be the owner of the, um, Angels in California.
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  It just went— it's going down, uh, for $4 billion.
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  Wow. He owns the
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  Rams, he owns the Nuggets, he owns Colorado Avalanche,
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  Colorado Rapids, uh, he owns Arsenal
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  across the seas. Dude owns everything and he's a winner,
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  Brian. He's a winner. He is. Bowl wins,
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  uh, NBA title wins, Avalanche— I mean,
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  you know, NHL wins. I mean, dude's won in every sport he buys.
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  That's impressive, I have to say. Um, you know, I don't live
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  in Denver anymore, that area, and when I did, I only lived there 3 years
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  and, uh, During my 3-year tenure
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  living in on the Front Range of Colorado, this was the
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  guy who got in the way of the cable contract.
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  He got into a pissing
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  match with Comcast Cable, and I couldn't watch
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  the Avalanche or the Nuggets those 3 years I
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  lived in Denver because of that guy. Is this the same guy? Jason,
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  same guy, right? And it's still what?
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  Yes, you can't watch. It's hard to watch the Rockies
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  Avalanche. Wow, it's like insane. Isn't that crazy? He has his little
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  empire. He does, he does. Yeah, because he
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  didn't like the, um, it has something with about how much,
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  uh, cable companies charge for
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  services, right? To show sports franchise games.
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  And so yeah, it was a total blackout the whole time. But I
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  have to say what he— I don't know when he bought the Avalanche,
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  but, you know, under his ownership,
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  they've done very well in recent history.
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  And then the Nuggets, they were, they were kind of a trash
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  team. And then he bought them and then all of a sudden, hey, You know,
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  look, they got a championship. Hey, it doesn't hurt to
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  have players, right? That helps too. So somehow he—
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  I don't know if he infuses money to budgets. What do you, what do you
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  hear in the Denver radio scene? I think he just has a system,
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  Brian. You talk about systems. You were a principal,
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  you had systems, right? Right. You know, to make your building successful.
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  The Cronky Sports Entertainment system is
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  strong, right? Well-backed. He has people who
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  know what they're doing. I think he writes the checks and
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  moves on, and he has a vision. So my question to you is,
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  man, if you're— if you have an owner who
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  has that, man, aren't you like unstoppable? I mean, there's so many teams,
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  you know, you name the league, who would just love to have
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  an owner who has passion and
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  wants to win. Right, right. I can
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  say his
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  leadership must bring— he really seems to develop
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  the front office and the main coaching
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  staff really well. So if you look at the Los Angeles Rams,
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  what a great, just a great run organization.
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  You know, just, I don't know, they just seem to be dialed
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  in. You look at the Avalanche and
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  that front office, tight. You know, they just do a
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  good job with the current manager.
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  I know people say they should fire him, but they
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  handle it. They handle the pressure, they handle the playoffs, they handle the criticism,
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  everything. And Nuggets, same way.
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  You know, I think that's maybe the lesser of his organizations where they
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  struggle a little bit. But, you know, the lesser is the Rapids.
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  Is the Rapids. Okay. I mean, they got some little skills here,
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  but yeah, I mean, he built a sports park. I mean,
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  this dude also— dude, it's all also about real estate,
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  right? I mean, it's so much bigger.
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  Yeah, it's just a global— I would love to— empire. It just kind of
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  moves in and then it takes— it has this formula that
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  just, you know— but man, you can't tell me the Browns would love that.
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  You can't tell me, right? You know,
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  yeah, like, what, what does he bring to the table? See, that's like, you know,
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  you know, a lot of people and, you know, we're all like, hey, we don't
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  like billionaires, but successful billionaires have
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  something. And so what What would it be a meeting?
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  What comes to the table besides writing a $4
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  billion check to buy a team? Connections,
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  right? Smart people working for you. Yeah. So how does he
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  clear the plate and set a new direction?
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  That would be fascinating. Money helps you dig out of holes,
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  right? And then you have other friends that you can talk to, like the Cronkies
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  and all the Waltons. Penners. They're also the Bronco
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  owners and stuff, so they're related, right? Not only knows them, but they're related.
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  But you know, it's like a drive. Like, there's some people
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  have money— I of course don't know anything what I'm talking about because I have
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  no money like this— but it seems like some people have money and just kind
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  of— then there's people who are grinders,
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  man, right? Grinders. Like, you know, dude has more money than you
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  know what to do with, is still motivated I mean,
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  that is, you know,
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  something. Dude's 79 years old, right? And cranky.
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  He could be sitting back letting his kids, Josh,
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  run stuff. He kind of runs things for the Nuggets and
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  a couple other franchises. And I mean, that's a drive,
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  dude. That's the person, cult of personality.
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  I guess. You know, you bring up the word systems.
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  And that's what moves the needle.
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  So, like, he buys a team,
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  you change the system. So, like, what was the failure? I always
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  had a saying in leadership, your organization
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  is as good as your weakest link. So, you always have to
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  identify what's your weakest link. And so,
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  in the Angels, he sees something that
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  he can change. That's probably why he's not buying the Rockies.
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  If he's a Denver sports guy, how come he's not buying the Rockies? They wanted
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  to. There's a little thing where he— they wanted to because they would fit
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  into their little empire to, you know, the summer sport,
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  you know, the summertime when it's slower with some of his other properties.
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  But you know what, man? Monfort's like, nope,
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  not doing it with you, buddy. I guess.
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  Yeah. So But he sees the Angels, which have tanked
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  for literally 30-plus years, you know.
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  Yeah, well, gosh, real estate, name, California.
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  Yeah, the Angels should be a relevant team. They haven't been for
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  decades. They threw money at top-notch players. So,
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  so Mr. Cronky here must see the problem,
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  otherwise he wouldn't write a $4 billion check. What do you think that problem
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  is, Jason? I don't know, man, but that
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  money you just talked about is nothing. Dude's worth $27 billion,
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  right? He's, he's made $20 billion on his sports teams
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  alone, right? $20 billion.
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  I don't know, man. A challenge, uh, a problem?
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  Not— I mean, dude, he's just like, you know what, I think I'm just gonna
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  today gonna— also, it's just the Once you
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  get a taste, he obviously has made his money in other areas.
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  You know, he just has a taste for owning teams and
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  obviously loves sports. I mean, or that rush or
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  just that prestige. Yeah. Of that. He must give a shot of
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  life. You know, that was always a phrase. I worked with this other principal
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  who's still out there just doing great work.
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  And wherever this person went as a leader, he just brought an
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  energy, brought a life. He could take a building that's just,
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  they're producing results, but they were just kind of ho-hum
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  and just a shot of energy. And that's what he must
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  do. He must just shake up an organization from its roots and
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  just bring it into, you know, a relevant time.
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  I don't know. I think a lot of organizations are sleepwalking. That's why
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  I always felt that way with the Rockies. It's just kind of like they're the
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  walking dead, you know? And I think that's
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  ownership on down. You know, that sets the tone.
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  He's someone who's not willing to make some tough choices.
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  You know, St. Louis Rams. Nope, we're going to California.
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  What? Yep, I bought them. I'm out. Peace. Right?
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  I mean, he has the money to do it. He doesn't care. Those people are
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  all not happy. Hey man, it's just, it's just happening.
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  And then all their winners, you know, that he can't,
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  you know, and but obviously his main money looking
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  is real estate. And you know, then all this other stuff
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  piles onto it. It's just, uh, like you said, those go-getters.
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  It's just his name, his engine, his system
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  comes in and already, man, you know, the angels are like,
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  what, huh? Yep, no, stuff's happening here.
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  Uh, you know, I know some people in
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  the Rockies organization. If, if the Penners—
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  there's, there's also talk about the people who own the Broncos
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  buying the Nuggets. You know, the Manfreds have owned them for a long time.
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  I know people in those organizations who's been working for them.
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  That's a whoa. You know,
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  where's, where's my place in all this, right? Change. It's a big shake-up,
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  right? I said it's not sleepwalking in some areas, but sometimes, yeah,
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  sleepwalking. You know, some people have been with organization for a long
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  time, right? Right. And the thing is,
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  thing is, if you don't move forward as
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  an organization every year, you're actually declining,
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  right? You could be doing the same thing, you do that same job
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  year after year, you're actually declining even though you think you're doing the
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  right word? You're getting worse because you're never improving 1%.
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  You know, 1% improvement doesn't sound like much, but you do that
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  every year. Say he buys this and says, okay, I want
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  the Angels to improve by 1%. Okay,
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  doesn't sound like much, but by year 2, see, now they
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  have to move another 1%. You do that 3 years, it doesn't
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  sound like much, It's a different looking franchise just by moving the
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  needle a little bit, you know? And I
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  think that's, that's exactly what needs to happen. You're like,
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  all leadership at this level gone,
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  bring in new. All right. You know,
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  Mike Trout stay or not? What do you think?
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  He'll finish his contract and then he'll be Yeah, he'll be
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  out. He'll be a free agent, probably. Yeah. When's his contract up?
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  That's a good, good thing. I mean, I'm like, what?
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  I'll look that up real quick because, you know,
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  he's, he's the asset. Totally rid of your names. No,
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  you can't get rid of your names totally.
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  He's, he's unrestricted free agent in 2031.
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  Oh yeah, he's there a while. Dude, he signed a—
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  but you know what, he's not like some other players. Sorry, there's been some lackluster
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  performers who signed long contracts with the Rockies. Chris Bryant.
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  But Trout comes, shows up, plays hard.
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  I've heard nothing but good things about Mike Trout. Yeah,
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  well, his stats are not bad. I think he's
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  in that age of, okay, he's batting .243,
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  he's got 20 home runs at this point in the season.
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  It's not the Mike Trout of old, dude. I'm telling you.
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  So maybe having an organization around him
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  next year, just a new shot of energy, right?
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  Some new life, some new talent. What do you want to bet
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  his numbers come up next year? What do you think?
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  I think they will.
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  However, if he's like I
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  don't think he's the type to do this, but if they're like,
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  hey man, you know, we really kind of need to move on, they can—
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  the Cronkies can do that. They can pay $37 million a year. He, you know,
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  he signed a 12-year contract, man. That's just right, right crazy. They can just write
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  a check and go, thanks Mike, you're gone. But I don't think they'll do
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  that. And I think— I don't think so, no, because he's, you know, he's a
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  good ambassador. You never hear Cronkie's name as a
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  bad deal. Like, hey, I want to offload someone
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  and I'm going to write a $50 million check. That never associates
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  with them, right? And you wouldn't do it with him, right? Yeah, but I do
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  agree, his stats will bump up a little bit, right? I think.
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  And just, uh, oh, you know, what's going on here, right? A little
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  energy, right? But, uh, first, that is, you know,
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  the organization he's in. That organization just got a
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  big wake-up call and they're gonna make
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  some changes. Definitely. I think— well,
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  I— that would be great. Hire his people, hire his people and go.
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  Now, what should the fans expect from all this, Brian? You know, we talk about
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  owners and fans on this channel a lot, and, you know, we've talked
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  a little bit about owners in the past, but,
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  um, what should fans expect
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  Man, yeah, I guess you're, you know,
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  you're in LA, so Dodgers are always the headline,
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  right? Always. And Angels
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  have, I think, have suffered due to they can never compete
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  dollar for dollar. And I doubt Cronkite's gonna go and
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  spend the money the Dodgers are.
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  However, I think the fans
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  now expect some love for the first time. Like, you know,
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  that's why they hired or signed Mike Trout, is they were hoping
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  that was their golden player, you know, to rival
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  the Dodgers with. But, you know, one player doesn't
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  make a team, dude. So, you know, comes down to what
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  if now we can get a better product,
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  the fans will love it. Just better consistency,
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  you know, because they're consistently poor. I guess
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  they have that, but they want to be consistently better. And,
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  uh, I, I think the, the fans will come back. I think the
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  fans will fill this, fill the stadium if they
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  see some owner changes. You got to fix that stadium. It's an old stadium.
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  You know, you and I talked about that in the past episode. It's one of
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  the older ballparks that hasn't had much done
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  to it in a really long time. And so there's,
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  there's some expectations here from fans who are going to have their
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  arms folded for that first year. All right, Stan, what are you bringing?
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  You know, and then when he announces, hey, we're going to do
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  this to the stadium and we're going to sign these players, I think there'll be
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  some true excitement. I'm hoping. It's a, it's an original franchise
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  I love from my childhood. I love the Angels,
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  dude. I'm now, I'm kind of bummed in that there's probably going to be a
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  work stoppage next year. Yeah. So he's going to be able to do some stuff
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  to that stadium. Right. Kind of wanted to say, Brian,
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  we're heading out. We're going to see the stadium before it gets all— I regret
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  we didn't do that with the A's. Yeah. Well, the A's
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  were moving though. Yeah. That one. I know. It's still, I had some parents
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  at my school talking about it nostalgically, right? I just kind of wish we would
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  have seen the train wreck that was that stadium. That's true. The Angel
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  Stadium is a train wreck, but it would be cool to see how it is
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  now and then what they do to it, right?
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  Right. Yeah, just kind of see the team now and see the stadium
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  now and then see what a billionaire could do to it.
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  Like, we're probably just gonna go see it when It's all
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  shiny and new and $30 more.
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  Right now. Now we probably can't afford to go see them. No, I know.
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  We just priced ourselves out. But we have talked before. I would love to.
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  We need to get out there. We need to go. Yeah, I'd love
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  to do a doubleheader. Like, you know, I hate to say it,
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  see the Dodgers and then see the Angels. That would be
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  fun. It would. But I think,
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  I think the fans, the fans expect something tangible,
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  don't you think? Like, hey, here's what we're doing as
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  far as general manager. Here's what we're
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  doing as a coach. Here's what we're doing for some,
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  some signing of some talent. And here's
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  some upgrades to the facility. And here's the increase,
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  right? For the tickets. For the tickets. You're gonna have to pay.
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  Yeah, right. But that's every year.
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  Fans are always like, ah, you know, every year the ticket
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  prices go up regardless. You know, the problem is you're
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  paying for a losing team a high price. So wouldn't
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  it be nice to pay a high price ticket and have a winning team,
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  Jason? All right, like I said,
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  there's whispers that the Walton-Penner Group is going to buy the
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  Rockies, so I'll be closely watching all this. Yes, that's a future
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  episode right there. They do— if they do, you know, they're watching Cronky
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  on how he's gonna reform the Angels, and they'll
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  reform the Rockies if they get them. They buy
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  the owner controlling group, man. It would be very interesting to see.
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  And, um, you know, as a sport person here in Colorado,
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  that'd be sick. So I'd be glad. I would welcome it.
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  Sure. Yeah. Well, something needs to happen because
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  I do think the Rockies are
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  very similar to the Angels in that I just think you're dealing with a
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  kind of a flat attitude in the ownership group. You know,
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  they're just like, yeah, we're kind of stuck in a bad cycle here.
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  And the same happens in the business
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  world. A company just kind of slowly dissolves Used
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  to be a great company and it just got no life, got no energy,
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  no direction. And sometimes you got to sell it, you got to flip it
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  and let someone else take the reins. And I think the Rockies
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  and Angels are very parallel systems, if you ask me. I think they both suffer
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  probably from the same issues, you know,
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  and not that every team can be a winner every
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  year, but you want an organization just year after year, they're just
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  there. They're doing well. They're always in the hunt. You know,
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  it's like the Phillies. It seems like every year they're in the hunt,
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  right? They never quite grab the ring,
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  but they're there. You know, your Rays, they're always there.
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  Why? Why are they always there? And that's a soft money
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  club. That is a low-dollar club, but they're
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  there. Why? Because I bet you their leadership and
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  their energy outrivals the competition, half of them,
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  you know. Right. Well, I'm going to throw back
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  something at you real quick. In a past podcast, we said,
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  oh, if we could own something, I think, you know, the LA Lakers,
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  Los Angeles Lakers were up for sale, but they couldn't get that figured out with
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  a few different families. And I mentioned to you, what would you buy?
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  What ownership? I would be the raise. You would say you'd be kind
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  of a a racing team. I'm going to challenge you on
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  the spot. You cannot do anything like that. And I cannot do baseball because I
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  picked baseball. You can't do racing. If you could own something
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  right now and put the Brian Berg system into play,
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  what sporting team off the cuff here would you
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  want to own? So I can't do baseball, right? No, no,
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  I can't do baseball. You can't. Well, I also said I was going
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  to buy the Royals. If you remember. So, okay. Okay.
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  So no baseball, no, no baseball, no racing.
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  Okay. I think I just said straight up raise because I was like, let's go,
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  right? Who would you buy, Brian? Who would you
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  straight out say, I'm going to buy this team? Let's just say you could no
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  matter what. And I would say the Cleveland
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  Browns. And I'm not a huge
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  football guy, but here's the reason why.
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  Talk about just a dumpster fire, just year
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  after year. It's like,
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  how can they acquire good talent
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  and just send them away in
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  shame? How does that happen? How does that happen as an organization?
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  Baker Mayfield is a prime example.
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  I mean, it just— come on. I just, I don't understand
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  how that organization can just crush people's souls.
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  Right. So you would come in and just clean house and something.
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  You just want that challenge. I just, I want that challenge. Right. Just because
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  it seems like they're not in the business of football.
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  They're in the business of stamping out
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  talent. And snuffing out abilities and killing
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  off fan hopes and dreams.
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  That's all I know. It's like, what is their goal?
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  I mean, it's almost like run like an evil empire. I swear,
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  you know, it's like, all right, Bob, so how
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  many souls have we crushed this month? You know, you know,
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  so it's just so bad. I would want to— I would want
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  Okay,
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  sounds good. What's yours,
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  man? Surprise me. I think I would go NHL.
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  Ooh. But I'd go the Boston Bruins.
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  I'd go for someone that is just, a legendary
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  franchise, right? And just try to make
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  it even better. There you go. For a team that is established,
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  still could do better. I mean, you know, they're not totally crushing,
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  crushing it, um, but just a storied franchise
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  where you go in and go, wow. That's from my days of growing up in
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  New England. I just have, uh,
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  reverence for a lot of those teams, even though I don't Always love what
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  you just want to bring back the former glory, right? Just— yeah,
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  yeah. I want to own a franchise like, dang, that's cool,
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  you know? Right. Just a historic franchise.
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  Historic franchise. And I would do it in hockey. So that would
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  be me, right? Mm-hmm. Well,
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  you know, the Browns could be in that same category.
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  Historic franchise. Oh, yeah, dude. Right. Everyone knows
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  him. We both picked names that are known.
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  That would be the ultimate challenge, right? If you were, say, Stan Kroenke
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  and you had a really nice checkbook like he's got,
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  I'm sure it's, you know, very fancy, gold letters,
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  you know, I know everything's electronic now, but the point is,
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  you know, as he's sitting there, he's probably doing the same thing we're talking
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  about, like Okay, I'm feeling like I need to own
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  another team. Look at all the teams
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  that are out there. Do you think he just picks up the phone like,
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  hey man, you want to sell that brand? How does that work? How do you
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  even get in the door? How do you even know something's for sale? I don't
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  know. Dude. What's that riddle?
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  Yeah, and then when he comes, you know, he can just buy it outright,
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  man, with a— Right. $4 billion's nothing.
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  Yeah, like I don't need partnerships. I don't— minority
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  owners. I don't do— clean, pay cash. It's like you're buying a car,
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  right? Or you're buying a
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  house, right? I'll buy your house, right? Give you 20,
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  right? I got no cosigners, you know, I got none of that. Here you
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  go. You're like, yes sir, right? I wasn't thinking of selling, but you know what,
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  sure, right? Yeah, like why the Angels versus,
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  yeah, another I think he likes his California, you know, he has his
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  little bases, he has his Rams. Probably right. And, you know, he likes
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  to live where he lives. He's got connections, right? He can just kind of go
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  over there and he's like, hey, you ever thought about it? All right. He's on
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  his yacht, you know, he's talking. Well, let's kick this ball around a little
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  bit. So he buys the Angels, gets them going.
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  What's the next thing? What do you think? Predict that. Is he going
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  to what, maybe another sport? What's he going to
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  add to the portfolio? That's my question.
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  I think this is his last big— he's 79.
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  I think, okay, this is his personal last
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  bit to complete my little empire, you know what I mean?
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  And then the kids will have the legacy and they'll do it all, but this
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  is on his watch. Right. He,
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  he has then like a little trifecta of,
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  you know, NBA, you know, everything, you know. I mean,
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  you know, the Rams, the Angels. Yeah, it's already listed that owning the Angels on,
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  on the interweb. He runs— he owns soccer,
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  he owns soccer across, he owns a mammoth I mean,
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  personally, I think this makes their portfolio— he's a completist,
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  you know, completionist personally, right? It probably took
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  a while, even though you're all rich, you know, people don't want to give away
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  their stuff. And he finally got the Angels for whatever
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  reason, which may come out, may not. But wow, he's already on the interweb
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  as owning the Los Angeles Angels.
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  Yeah, well, it might be a
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  good time. Again, savvy businessmen knowing
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  there's going to be the potential no 2027
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  baseball season because of all the problems
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  with the negotiations that are going to come. So it might be a
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  perfect time to acquire a team and you just got
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  time. You got time. To move the pieces around
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  on the chessboard and come out swinging. No pun intended.
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  Or maybe pun intended. I don't know.
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  Baseball reference, folks. But anyway, you get it. So I
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  don't know. I think the timing is excellent to rebuild
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  a franchise. I think it's— I think it's going
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  to be a fun story to watch, don't you? Oh,
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  totally. Well, I'm a baseball fan. I will be watching. Of course. Yeah,
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  Stan Kroenke is Colorado, so sure.
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  I know you're tapped. You're gonna be tapped in more than me. I'm gonna get
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  a fresh cup of coffee. We all know about it.
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  This is— he a 2 sugars guy? What is he?
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  But, uh, well, I like it, man. Well,
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  um, guess what? What? Hey, we've,
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  uh, we have wrung this chamois on this episode.
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  So any of the parting, parting wisdom here on Stan Kroenke being a
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  Denver guy? Uh, no,
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  I just wish he'd let us watch, uh, some local sports.
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  That'd be good. There you go. Now when you're watching, real quick, in Arkansas,
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  is it hard? You have to watch national, right? You can't— yeah,
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  yeah, there's no— yeah, there's no Denver,
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  any kind of Denver influence over here. So if
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  I want to watch the Rockies, I got to buy the MLB package.
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  Like right now I got ESPN and they're all showing Brewers
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  games and things like that. Yeah. So no Rockies.
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  You know, I still can't believe he's in a fight
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  with the cable companies. So that's just annoying. It's a power grab.
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  You know, that's one demerit on you, Stain. That's right.
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  That's right, man. So out of Out
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  of 3 strikes, he's got 1 strike on him. Yeah, well, it probably has more
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  from other people depending on who he's messed over. That's right.
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  That, you know, that's right. I'm sure he's messed
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  over people. I know. Well, hey, it was a fun episode, man, and I appreciate
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