Luke Thomas
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Podcast Appearances
And you can obviously, if the players want to have a deal with the league, because the league also has some skin in the game.
These are financial investments and assets.
They need to protect them.
But when those entities work out a deal and everyone is happy with it, like you have in pro sports, the union puts in all these protections for all the players about when you can test them and what you can test for and what is a punishment and what does it mean.
The league signs off on it and you don't scandalize it like you do with USADA trying to get every little micro particle in someone's urine.
And then it's this huge scandal and you have long punishments.
No one really complains.
The players don't complain.
The TV networks don't complain.
The sponsors don't complain.
The fans don't complain.
Why am I supposed to complain?
I don't quite get it.
They are okay with it.
I'm okay with it.
Simple.
Easy.
Very interesting take.
The more you spoke, the more you sold me on it, honestly.
I want to be clear.