Ben Clemens

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1,888 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Jays Start Slow in Cleveland, Angels Sale & WPBL Check-In · 2 Sep 2026 podcast
Not a lot of detail, but the broad numbers.
So he made about fifteen percent annualized on the Angels, in addition to the
You know, incredible ancillary benefits you get.
Like um like some of the best athletes in the world calling you sir and getting to hang out uh at a baseball game and have everybody fond over you and getting to own a sports team.
All the tax
Lots of tax sheltering.
Um, you know, you can give your family cushy jobs in the in the organizational structure and pay them well, and that comes out of your operating costs, not your own pocket.
Um yeah, there's there's a lot of good things about running a baseball team and the angels made a ton of money.
Uh I would not put
uh that much uh emphasis on them just having one of the World Series.
I think just because baseball was different then.
I think that if you look back at this, you know, Moreno bought the Angels in 2003 for like 200 million bucks.
And when he gave Pooh's a 250 million dollar contract a decade later, uh so he was offering a contract larger than he'd paid for the team.
Which is pretty crazy.
Uh, but in that same year, two different teams sold for about eight hundred million dollars.
So really he quadrupled up in like a decade.
Um that was that was the big initial push, is that sports teams were too undervalued uh at the beginning of the twenty first century and the sports explosion just uh just lifted everything.
Uh and from there it's it's really taken off.
And I think that's that's one interesting thing is that they were early on this idea of like pouring more money into it.
And that worked really well.
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