$10 Billion?!?- Curtis: "Sports as we know it, is gone"

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$10 Billion?!? The Buss family is reportedly set to sell majority of the Lakers to the LA Dodgers' primary owner Mark Walter. Thoughts?  Curtis: "Sports as we know it, is gone"

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00:00LA Lakers purchasing uh being sold for 10 billion dollars to this guy that already owns the Dodgers

00:05makes me sad I feel like sports as we knew it is gone now that there's private equity involved I

00:12read this long piece in the New York Times about the cost of being a sports fan today and I poo-pooed

00:18it because the NFL is 1500 bucks and it gives me more than enough time and energy to make that feel

00:23like it's a good investment but in general whether it's the new ownership group of the Celtics the

00:29new ownership group of the Lakers the private equities march into the NFL it's all just

00:34becoming a line item and I wish winning was what made things profitable because then everybody would

00:39be going in the same direction but sadly it's not look at the Red Sox I mean they're printing cash

00:44and they don't give a damn like I just I am it is I don't there's no way around it capitalism's great

00:51all for it all of that but I feel like the the way that we grew up rooting for teams loyal to

00:57organizations teams having a civic civic responsibility to the to the markets they serve

01:02all gone not saying it's always been there still but it feels like this is the end as we knew it

01:07of of teams that are actually representative of the markets where they play right invested there as well

01:12one one thing that's fading away fast is the the local owner and the owner who only owns one

01:21franchise like that's gonna be gone eventually don't you think totally it's all conglomerates

01:27you gotta have that money man these these franchises are valuable like if you're a Dodge

01:32a Lakers fan isn't the guy who owns the Dodgers doesn't he invest into the team so aren't you excited

01:37about that yeah but you know what was interesting part of my take was talking about this yesterday

01:42I believe and they were saying with the um the new guy that's going to take over PGA the CEO of

01:48PGA that's coming from the NFL yes Brad Olap he it would be interesting because so many people

01:54aren't going to be able to afford what the uh what it costs to own a franchise anymore like you're

01:59you're you're running out of billionaires to own all these franchises so maybe this guy is going to

02:03go to PGA learn how to have a relationship with the Saudis and then bring it over to the NFL and

02:09you'll have foreign owners that are going to own franchises moving forward because it's more money

02:13overseas um yeah um doesn't that make sense what I don't understand so you got an issue with foreign

02:22owners you told me like there's like a long thing what what's going on Brian Brian Olap is his name

02:27Brian Rolap Brian Rolap yeah he used to he was the CEO of uh NFL films and now he's going to be the CEO

02:35of the PGA tour yeah he's going over there and people find it interesting that he's he's leaving

02:40NFL to go to PGA uh part of my take yesterday was saying wouldn't it be interesting if he went to

02:45the PGA the biggest issue that the PGA tour has right now is live he figures out how to have a

02:50relationship with live talk to the Saudis then he goes back to the NFL because you had you're you're

02:56you're running out of billionaires in the United States to own these franchise and the the ticket to

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