Could Bezos buy the Celtics?

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8/19/2024

Could Jeff Bezos buy the Boston Celtics?

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00:00Don't know if I I think I have bad news for you based on a Bill Simmons report this morning

00:05And that appears to be that he is hearing

00:08that Bezos is

00:11All in on the Celtics bad news for me. I love you. Okay, you're okay with that. Oh, yeah

00:16I thought you wanted John Henry. Ah

00:18Yeah, listen, I'll take either or but give me Bezos Bezos. I'm like, ah, I bought Gerard Mayo

00:25He has money to burn

00:27So new arena everything when you get an owner like that and he's he seems like he's somebody that you know

00:34Wants everybody know he's got a big shtick when he walks and so he's not he's not afraid to spend money

00:40That's what you want from an owner. Come in change up the thing. I bet he builds a beautiful arena

00:46Yes, I thought his interest was purely NFL, but I guess it isn't

00:51My question is wasn't there all those talks about Amazon q2 or they were gonna move the new headquarters

00:58what if he made some big complex that had the stadium and a

01:04Massive Amazon headquarters on the grounds of the old racetrack up at Suffolk Downs

01:11Well, they're they I guess they're they've already haven't they started to we they're putting

01:17Condos and everything else in there, but I guess you could you could shift or some parcel of land. Yeah

01:24Yeah, they've got at that place now

01:26They're supposed to do like, you know giant apartments, but you're right if you can put it, you know

01:30You find enough but Bezos is so it seems like he's got so much money that you might not need a bunch of land

01:38He might build an arena that is above and you know where you can kind of access it and it's you know

01:43Yeah

01:45From his perspective

01:47I'm sure a part of it is that I'm sure that Amazon is looking at when it comes to television the quote-unquote television rights

01:56Their streaming rights, whatever. I'm sure that they're looking at that because the you know, they're not gonna stop with just the NFL

02:02So if you own

02:03Mm-hmm the content and then you put out the and then you put the content out where on your streaming service

02:09Then you're making double the you're making double the money there

02:12so it would make sense for Bezos to buy a team like yeah it this is a

02:19Listening to this report. It's a no-brainer that he and he probably has the most money to be able to do it

02:25So if Bezos bought the Celtics, that would be no surprise to me

02:29I just ask that he puts his heart and soul into it and not just the money and like a lot of owners of

02:34Professional sports teams nowadays days Greg he can buy the Celtics and still if a football team comes available

02:40He's got enough bread where he can

02:42Buy a football team and you you know, I think that's when you you're that rich and you're want to invest in the sports

02:49Yeah, but we can't be hippo. You wouldn't be hypocritical but myself Curtis Greg like we couldn't say well the Henry

02:55We give the Henry such a hard time for not putting all their interest in the Red Sox and then if Jeff Bezos does the same

03:00Thing yeah, that's that's something that you guys would do

03:05We were all fine with John Henry when he was spending like crazy if Bezos comes in and spends like crazy

03:09We'll be okay with it. I I think this is better than John Henry, but still not I I really want Robin Rob Hill

03:16I think that this is a

03:18It should be a public trust

03:20Owning one of these four major teams and I would love to get have a local guy

03:24Does anybody think Bezos is gonna be local at anything? No, I bet you

03:27They're gonna deliver your sodas with like his drone from Amazon. That'll be so cool

03:31Like I mean think about that. You don't have to wait line really high-tech. Yeah, that's your seat

03:37Look at the Clippers new arena like the stuff that they're doing now and these owners to like not see the

03:44Show that happened at the the first event. They had the two billion dollar new Clippers arena. No, I didn't see what happened

03:50There was a concert. I don't know with who but

03:53The the app that they use because it's cashless and ticketless

03:58Yeah, so it was all on this app and the app crashed so there was like 5,000 people trying to get into the building

04:04Hmm, I don't know technology Greg. I don't know. I mean what like what if you want to use cash cash?

04:11Why they say cash is king. Where do you use cash when you go to the Celtics game?

04:15I would like to use cash use cash when you go to Gillette. Most places are now cashless

04:21Arenas, but what about those of us who like to occasionally, you know flash a 20 or a 10 spot?

04:27Yeah, well guess what that's not working at a picker. What if you sell?

04:31Moms and pops

04:32Store wait, what if you're walking and selling like hot dogs outside? No in the like up and down the rows

04:39Like it Fenway. Oh

04:41That's ash

04:43Right cash. I don't maybe that I don't know what they'll do. Maybe you gotta have a couple bucks in your pocket

04:48I think you do. That's the only thing you could not have to pay

04:50That's the only thing that you they use for cash at Fenway, right? Yeah, I don't even take out my cards anymore, though

04:56I'm with I'm a shy mom tap to pay every time. Yeah, that's what most people are with their phones. Yeah

05:01I mean, is there any other place other than Fenway that does the cash?

05:07like the Gillette skate

05:09You mean you're talking about stadium wise?

05:12Yeah, like um, I mean there are still there are if you go to town spot pizza, it's cash only no

05:19No, I'm saying you know our pizza places are only cash. Oh, yeah

05:21I'm talking about in the arena cuz Curtis brought up the the Clippers arena, right? Are there other?

05:27Arenas like God in Gillette where you can use cash

05:32You can still I mean, I assume you can still use cash at Gillette. I

05:37Thought it was all so it's cashless

05:40And Fenway says it's transitioned to fully cashless. So they must have like card readers

05:46Yeah, maybe they yeah, I don't know and and I think maybe Fenway might I I haven't sat outdoor

05:52Outside in a Patriots game in a while they have people going up and down selling hot dogs and stuff like that. I'm sure yeah

05:59They still have people selling stuff in the state. Yeah, I don't even like I haven't even really paid attention Greg

06:03I don't like to talk about my heart upbringing, but that was my first job

06:07So so yeah, I think most places now arena wise trying to go all cashless so Greg you might be screwed on that

06:14It's a way for the owners to make sure they're not getting any anybody ripping cash off them. That's how it happens

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