David Samson

I find it to be remarkable that owning something you are told by anyone, that's like you own a franchise at McDonald's, you're not allowed to flip burgers.

Mark Cuban, I thought about it with Cuban because that was something that we, when we were voting and thinking about voting Cuban in as an owner in baseball, one of the things other than all of the ways- What was he trying to buy?

He was looking at the Padres, but he looked at a whole bunch of teams.

He would have bought anything, the Texas Rangers, anything.

But what makes me laugh about Mark is that our concern was not just that he would not play ball with Bud Selig and with the other owners, that he would be a pain in the neck that we'd have to deal with.

The other thought that we had is,

Would he want to play?

Like, would he argue about the rules about not being in the dugout?

Because it's bad enough when owners sit next to the dugout and peer in and are meddling in the way that all owners do.

But would Mark Cuban take it to that next level?

And I don't want to say that playing one-on-one with your player is that level.

Cause I have personally no issue with that Pablo at all.

even hired a trainer david thorpe which i mentioned in the episode to prepare for tony allen um dante jones was also conscripted into this and then dante jones left and was like yeah that seems like it wasn't a workout for a job playing in the nba i assume he got paid and i think it would have been outstanding and i'm thinking about owner player and player owner because there's a lot of talk in the nba where steph curry has come out and said why can't we have equity in teams

Why can't we get paid in stock the way if you work on Wall Street or you work for many companies, you get equity in that company.

There's real money in equity.

And he's smart to say that because there is real money in equity versus salary.

And the only example I can think of where there was a player who ended up getting the team, there was an issue with Pittsburgh.

And you have to remind me, but I believe the Penguins were in bankruptcy.

and they owed Mario Lemieux was like a creditor of the Penguins.

He was owed deferred money, and the team went bankrupt.