David Samson

And instead of giving him money, I believe they gave him pieces of the team.

It's what we talk about with deferred money.

And everyone says, what happens if the Dodgers go bankrupt and they owe Otani, you know, $680 million?

Well, don't worry.

They're not going to go bankrupt because since those days, and you had the Penguins, you had the Texas Rangers with Tom Hicks, and you had the Orioles with Eli Jacobs in the early 90s go bankrupt.

None of the four major sports will allow a team to go bankrupt again.

ever because of the control you lose the Dodgers sale to Mark Walter was a bankruptcy issue when they brought the Dodgers into bankruptcy because of the divorce.

And so the reason you don't allow for a team to get sold in bankruptcy anymore is you lose in theory control.

And believe me, the four leagues control the sales process in ways that would

shock you that you've come to find out a little bit when we've been on talking about these topics.

But when the Grizzlies owner gets brought in and if the most he's going to do is want to play one on one with one of his players, that wouldn't even you know, you say that that's of interest to the league and the league office.

It's really not.

If an owner wants to do that and an owner thinks he's a baller, have at it.

at the same time so i can imagine a scenario where you have an employee and you showed video in your episode i loved it of putin playing hockey yes and of the goalie in theory taking a knee in order to let the one mile an hour slap shot you know hit the back of the net

Putin is different than an owner of a team.

As much as we want to say that everyone's scared of owners, you would have no problem getting a player to go deep off an owner pitching to him in a charity game.

You'd have no problem with the player beating an owner one-on-one.

Different with Putin, though.

Are you upset?

So I had a conversation with myself on nothing personal about this issue, which is the show that I do on The Washington Post.