David Samson
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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.
He didn't want Milwaukee to lose a team.
And so he famously sold the Bucs.
And the thought was, what he was able to say is, hey, don't you worry.
This team will not move.
I have taken care of it.
I'm even investing in the new stadium, which there is now an old arena in Milwaukee that
And it's always been a joke, the Herb Kohl effect, because it's not everlasting.
So there is no guarantee when you say, oh, my team's not going to move out of this market.
That is a promise you can never make.
That's former Senator.
But they wouldn't.
So those types of poison pills are just, again, they're PR.
They would never actually impact because it would never get that far.
Everything that happens with relocation, there's no surprise when the owners sit down and vote on relocation.
Like that matters.
The irony.
Do you remember there's the Ted Turner rule in baseball?
Another rule that no one talks about.
He wanted to put on a Braves uniform and be in the dugout because you have to wear a uniform in baseball.