David Samson
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That is not how that works.
So what Bud Selig has done and Rob Manford and David Stern and Adam Silver is they put groups together.
They put people together in order to get more money available to get purchase prices increased.
It's a very big story.
We've read about the Dodgers this week.
And if John were here, we could always talk about
the argument of how the Dodgers got sold for so much because they got a revenue-sharing deal, which other owners did know about, by the way.
It's a very interesting story.
Back when the Dodgers, Frank McCourt, if you know that name.
Parking lot magnate, Frank McCourt.
Well, that's what people would call him, and he hated that.
He really did hate that.
And when he sold the Dodgers, side note, kept the parking lots.
Might I add.
But anyway, his wife, ambassador to France, Jamie McCourt, they had a terrible divorce and they were fighting about a lot of stuff, including the Dodgers.
So the Dodgers had to get sold.
And Bud Selig wanted a really high purchase price on the Dodgers because that would inures his benefit.
And so he cut a deal and now it's being reported.
that it was a deal cut with the bankruptcy court.
And I'm telling you, Pablo, that's not how it happened.