David Rosenthal: prediction

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…Maybe even better because it’s close to the polls. Maybe. This really accelerates IPL becoming a global phenomenon among the cricket playing and cricket watching countries of the world. The fact that you can airlift the tournament out of India, put it in another cricket playing country, have it be just as successful, have everybody be happy, you’re only growing the game by doing this. On the back of that, heading into season three, they decide, all right. Time to expand, we’re going to add two teams to the league. We’re going to do a two-team franchise auction in the same model as the first one, except now we expect the prices are going to be much higher. And I will say, only two teams does show some restraint. The NFL’s 32 teams, the NBA, I could imagine a scenario where they think, let’s double it. We’re really feeling ourselves, let’s at least do 6–8 teams.…

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