Mike Schur

And they're going to do the Lakers exactly what they did with the Dodgers to the extent that you can in the NBA.

And the green arrow will go up, and the relationship between the fans and the team will deteriorate forever.

Well, the definition of winning has fundamentally changed.

The definition of winning now isn't hoisting a trophy.

That's right.

It's signing a record-breaking media rights deal now.

for the NFL.

And they all get together and clink champagne glasses because they all won.

And to me, getting back to your earlier point, Steve Ballmer, if he allegedly did what he allegedly is supposed to have done based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning 10-part series on this very program, would you rather have that guy or would you rather have a guy own your team, the guy who owns a baseball franchise who looks at his revenue and

looks at his expenditures, looks at his payroll, and thinks to himself, well, why would I increase my payroll?

All I'm doing is eating into my profits, and all I have to do is nothing, and I'm guaranteed $178 million in revenue sharing, and then the valuation of my franchise will go up because I know what the media rights deal is again next year.

So I'm going to go $78 and $84 and fly around in my private jet, and everything's fine.

To me, that is the immoral owner in sports.

I dare say, Mike, as you impose this binary choice, that maybe door number three exists.

Now, granted, door number three

pretty much got barricaded.

Yeah.

Please caution tape over it.

Harder and harder to get into that door.

To quote your favorite team, the coach, no one is walking through that door, actually.