David Samson

Which is very rare.

In the old days, at a lower purchase price, 100-0 could happen.

But right now, at billion-dollar and two-billion-dollar valuations, it's a syndicate.

And there's someone in charge.

There's someone who puts in the most money.

But so many other people get to say, yeah, I'm an owner.

Yeah, I own the Yankees.

1%.

No one asked that.

No one ever follows up at a cocktail party, oh, you're an owner of the Marlins?

Because I got this in Miami where I would get reports.

Wait a minute.

I just met the owner of the Marlins.

And it was one of Jeffrey's limited partners who would go around and there were multiple of them saying, yeah, I own the Marlins.

in exclusive televised spaces but think about the level of insecurity that this guy had so the fact that someone thought justin timberlake when you bring in a celebrity partner and that's become a big thing that i learned about back when stephen ross did it with the dolphins he had this whole red carpet where the williams sisters and mark anthony and other people were supposedly had bought into the team and they would come to games and they'd be announced like it was

the damn Oscars.

And I thought to myself, there's only a certain number of owners who would ever want this sort of light to be shown upon someone other than themselves.

And it turns out that number's dwindling down to zero these days, where if you have a team, you want the world to know you've got the team.

Close relationship with him, though, for 50 years.

or why we had a no-beard policy, or why we would do all these trades with the Yankees, like trade for Hideki Arabu back with Montreal and do other such trades with the Yankees.