David Samson

they're gonna have to perform as an entity that helps the overall stock price of Disney because they, the board, voted to bring in DeMauro.

And what his job is basically, run a company that will get us EPS, will get us earnings per share.

And so ESPN will have to be profitable.

They will have to find a way

The old days of cable and everything that Skipper did when they were printing money and they were the behemoth of getting every sports right live and just every anchor, everybody wanted to be at ESPN.

Those days are over and that's proven by who Disney named to succeed Bob Iger.

Well, first, Josh Harris must have great PR because you did not mention his name and he appears in there and he had to release a statement, which he did.

And of course, Steve Tisch released a statement where he wanted to make sure we all knew that it was adults who he was referring to, not children, because that is beyond the third rail if you're dealing with underage sex trafficking.

But if you're just dealing in your run of the mill, you know, Russian people who get paid by the hour, you know, let's not make ourselves crazy.

And so Roger Goodell sits down and does an interview and says, let's just get the facts.

Let's not talk about punishment.

Let's just see where we are as though he's Adam Silver talking about Steve Ballmer and salary cap circumvention, which obviously is not nearly as important as something that may involve human sex trafficking and felonies.

And so what Goodell should have done is immediately said, of course, we're going to investigate this for crying out loud.

They investigate everything.

Just say we are investigating because we do not want our sports to be associated with the possibility of trafficking of underage girls.

And so we've started that immediately and then stopped, not said another word.

But he tried to upset the reporter by saying, you know, why are you trying to get ahead of yourself?

Why are you talking about punishment?

I thought that he got super defensive when he didn't need to be.

yeah just say you're investigating and then you started behind the scenes negotiation with tish because where this needs to end is where tish is no longer part of the nfl with the giants you may not make him sell his shares but not go to meetings not be a part of nfl jewel events and and you have to look at the different