David Samson
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Podcast Appearances
We are a DraftKings show.
But it's not easy when you are approached by a league with an existential crisis and your view can be the Heisman, which is, hey, you know,
That's your fault.
That's your problem.
You can deal with it.
Instead, they got together and said, we can find a way to make sure that all the customers, because that's what matters is customers, that they realize that we're all interested in the integrity of the moment and of the game, and therefore
We're going to be willing to throw money away, not take the amount of money that we could in order to give the appearance of more and more credibility.
And it all happened super fast.
And that's the thing to do when you're in the news and it's bad.
Do something good and do it fast.
And then there'll be the next story that people will focus on.
And that's what MLB did along with the books.
Yeah, I think that what people are missing is that rich people want to be richer.
And players in that category, they like a lot of free stuff.
Rich people like free stuff.
If you go to anybody who's rich and say, hey, I'll give you an extra five grand, you might say, wow, I won't bend over for five grand.
But guess what?
Rich people do.
They'll take the five grand.
And so it doesn't matter.