Sarah Spain
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The dating game. The dating game. You've got the player, and then behind the wall, you've got four teams.
Who are saying, here's our facilities. Here's our record of winning. Here's where you'll live if you live here. Here's our tax situation. Exactly. The thing is, like, there are some legitimate questions about this in terms of how do you make sure teams are able to keep up, especially smaller markets? How do you ensure that there is a little bit of parity and it's not super lopsided?
Who are saying, here's our facilities. Here's our record of winning. Here's where you'll live if you live here. Here's our tax situation. Exactly. The thing is, like, there are some legitimate questions about this in terms of how do you make sure teams are able to keep up, especially smaller markets? How do you ensure that there is a little bit of parity and it's not super lopsided?
How do you keep fans interested in an also-ran team if they don't have the hope of a draft, the hope of that savior that's coming in?
How do you keep fans interested in an also-ran team if they don't have the hope of a draft, the hope of that savior that's coming in?
On the other hand, you force every team to have better resources and investment and good coaches and a plan to win because they can't get by on luck and the idea that if they fail, they're still going to get a shot at a star.
On the other hand, you force every team to have better resources and investment and good coaches and a plan to win because they can't get by on luck and the idea that if they fail, they're still going to get a shot at a star.
There's loyalty and respect going both ways where a player wants to be there and you want to have them that might result in better relationships and conversations when you have to choose where you want to go and stay there if you want to stay there. I mean...
There's loyalty and respect going both ways where a player wants to be there and you want to have them that might result in better relationships and conversations when you have to choose where you want to go and stay there if you want to stay there. I mean...
I think there's a lot of doomsday scenarios to keep a system in place the same way that we had doomsday scenarios about NIL and paying players in college solely so that we could keep the billionaires rich and keep the player without any rights.
I think there's a lot of doomsday scenarios to keep a system in place the same way that we had doomsday scenarios about NIL and paying players in college solely so that we could keep the billionaires rich and keep the player without any rights.
I found out that I really want to see a Wyatt Cenac documentary about In Living Color. So I want that to happen somehow, some way. I also found out that being a billionaire is not as fun as it looks for the millionth time. I don't know how many stories we need to hear about miserable billionaire men before we finally stop in any way idolizing that lifestyle or them.
I found out that I really want to see a Wyatt Cenac documentary about In Living Color. So I want that to happen somehow, some way. I also found out that being a billionaire is not as fun as it looks for the millionth time. I don't know how many stories we need to hear about miserable billionaire men before we finally stop in any way idolizing that lifestyle or them.
But this is just like the latest in a long, long list of just deeply upsetting results of being too rich.
But this is just like the latest in a long, long list of just deeply upsetting results of being too rich.
Thank you so much. That really means a lot. No, I'm a fan of yours as well. I was wondering if we had met before. But yeah, I've always been a big fan of you and I miss seeing you on Around the Horn because you were so much fun on that show.
Thank you so much. That really means a lot. No, I'm a fan of yours as well. I was wondering if we had met before. But yeah, I've always been a big fan of you and I miss seeing you on Around the Horn because you were so much fun on that show.
Thank you so much. That really means a lot. No, I'm a fan of yours as well. I was wondering if we had met before. But yeah, I've always been a big fan of you and I miss seeing you on Around the Horn because you were so much fun on that show.
Ich meine, dieses Show ist nur, was du herauskommst. Es geht nicht darum, was du gefragt hast.
Ich meine, dieses Show ist nur, was du herauskommst. Es geht nicht darum, was du gefragt hast.