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David Samson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
12616 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

The Herb Cole is when you own a team and you sell it and you claim that you are selling it to people who have guaranteed to keep the team.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

He didn't want Milwaukee to lose a team.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

And so he famously sold the Bucs.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

And the thought was, what he was able to say is, hey, don't you worry.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

This team will not move.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

I have taken care of it.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

I'm even investing in the new stadium, which there is now an old arena in Milwaukee that

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

And it's always been a joke, the Herb Kohl effect, because it's not everlasting.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

So there is no guarantee when you say, oh, my team's not going to move out of this market.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

That is a promise you can never make.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

That's former Senator.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

But they wouldn't.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

So those types of poison pills are just, again, they're PR.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

They would never actually impact because it would never get that far.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

Everything that happens with relocation, there's no surprise when the owners sit down and vote on relocation.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

Like that matters.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

The irony.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

Do you remember there's the Ted Turner rule in baseball?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

Another rule that no one talks about.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men

He wanted to put on a Braves uniform and be in the dugout because you have to wear a uniform in baseball.