David Sampson

No, because now go back, Pablo and Morgan Lewis, if you go back and look, and again, my memory, I'm old and decrepit, but I believe Rob Manford, go back to his past and I'll bet you a dollar that that was his law firm.

And look where we are now, as the Washington Nationals have become the seventh team to go in-house at MLB, and there's a lot more coming once Main Street goes bankrupt because DAZN doesn't buy them, and Fubo and Pluto, nobody's buying that declining, decrepit business.

Right now, it is exactly happening what you're saying Bob said would happen, and it's happening today.

literally today but who is actually doing that mlb has now a department within it where they are taking the rights fees now they're doing it so they can pull everything and sell it again in 2029 but mlb network and everything we were trying to do was to create as you said competition to be able to say no to espn

to have a viable place for our inventory that would be monetizable for the owners.

But the biggest thing you said and the biggest problem that every sport has is owners do not have the right horizon.

They want to win that particular season and sign that particular player.

They do not understand what it would be to have a dip in payroll, a dip in earnings in order to capture upside.

And you took advantage of that smartly, very smartly.

Former owner of the Marlins.

Exactly.

It is amazing what happens when people have no idea what they're talking about, but think they do or they think they're journalists and they're not.

And they have opinions that are based on the belief that they have, which isn't actually ground in any reality.

And then we sit there and decide, are we going to react to that?

Are we going to say, no, that's not the case.

And I spent too much of my career trying to explain to people what was real.

And it turned a few people off.

So I apologize for that.

Was that a shot at Zaslow?

Was that a shot?