Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Totally. Sure. Then you’ve got also the separate problem with baseball of 162 games. Who cares about a game on a Wednesday night in the middle of the summer? Totally. I tuned in to watch the ALCS in the World Series last year. It was great. I will say the ALCS—I’m from Cleveland—the Guardian’s total payroll was $106 million playing the Yankees who is $309 million. It’s amazing the guardians got close. That’s just such a stark example. You’ve got one team that has 3x the annual salary payroll of the other team. There’s just no way. Spring training is more compelling than the regular season. At least spring training is fun. I say this as somebody who deeply loves baseball, but okay. So that’s at least state of the art in the big North American sports leagues. As I said, before the IPL comes along, NFL is the gold standard. They are the true any given Sunday League, not true in any of the other North American leagues. European soccer is even worse. It’s a very, very small number of teams in LaLiga or Bundesliga or English Premier League that are winning.…

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