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NYCButterfinger

(755 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:40 PM Jun 2020

Would you want to own a sports team?

Would you want to join Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones, George Steinbrenner, James Dolan and the like and own or purchase a sports team and be the CEO/general managing partner of a team?

Imagine running a sports team.....

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Would you want to own a sports team? (Original Post) NYCButterfinger Jun 2020 OP
Well, no GP6971 Jun 2020 #1
His son, Hal and other children I suppose NYCButterfinger Jun 2020 #3
Yep... GP6971 Jun 2020 #4
Lousy investments unblock Jun 2020 #2
No, but then I'm not very interested in any sport at all, PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #5
If I won the lottery, I would love to own a Single A baseball club Brother Buzz Jun 2020 #6
I would love to own a minor league team! The Spiders! Capt. America Jun 2020 #8
If I had the money to buy a sportsball team, I'd use that money otherwise instead. Iggo Jun 2020 #7
That is what I have NBA2k19 for JonLP24 Jun 2020 #9

unblock

(52,113 posts)
2. Lousy investments
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:08 PM
Jun 2020

Not generally worth it based on actually revenue.

There's a huge ego premium. You only make money if someone else comes along with an even bigger ego willing to overpay by even more.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,811 posts)
5. No, but then I'm not very interested in any sport at all,
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:18 PM
Jun 2020

and don't know enough to make any sort of reasonable owner.

Brother Buzz

(36,364 posts)
6. If I won the lottery, I would love to own a Single A baseball club
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 02:08 AM
Jun 2020

That is, for as long as the money holds out.

Hell the fans would be talking about it for years; dollar beer, dollar hot dogs, dollar sodas, and free peanuts.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
9. That is what I have NBA2k19 for
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 04:35 AM
Jun 2020

I'm in my third season with the Suns sitting at 30-8 my best players are Deandre Ayton, Devin Booker, and Pascal Siakam who signed after I lost in the playoffs to New Orleans with Klay Thompson & Anthony Davis (in my game Kevin Durant stays with the Warriors).

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