scrubs
Talking Baseball:
I really think that Mark Cuban is going to buy the Chicago Cubs. This could just be wishful thinking, but I dont care. I want it to go down so bad. Mark Cuban is a genius in his own right. Starting in college and Indiana University he made money buy renting out barns in Indiana fields, getting busses and tons of kegs and driving kids out to these (illegal) keg parties. After graduating college he worked as a software dealer for IBM and was fired. So he decided to go into business for himself and took along clients he had made while at IBM. Years later, he sold his company, MicroSolutions for like 5 million. I heard 6 million from somewhere else, so who knows. Either way, he was living in Dallas and acting off the desire to be able to listen to Indiana Hoosier basketball games decided to start a new company that broadcasts college games over the internet through streaming. This became broadcast.com, which boomed and he sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. Yeah, BILLION.
Thats that, he is now set for life. But instead of just investing his money wisely and being a typical billionaire, he diecided to buy a basketball team, he started an entertainment company that bought Landmark Theater Corp. (which are the art house movie theaters), he bought HDNet, and IceRocket. He produced movies ("Good Night, and Good Luck" with George Clooney and "Bubble" with Steve Soderbergh), and even called M Night Shayamalan an "idiot" which is awesome because that guy's movies blow. As if this wasnt enough, he financially backed a P2P file sharing company in a court case against MGM when thet sued them for illegal sharing of files by their users.
This guy is an awesome business man and he is ruthless. He sits on the bench with his basketball players wearing a jersey, not in a skybox and a $50,000 suit. He yells at refs, he gets fined, he talks shit, and all for the love of the game and moreso, for the love of money. He is so ambitious he could turn dogshit into diamonds if he had it in his head to do so. That said, I think he could come to the Cubs and turn shit around.
The Cubs are owned by the Tribune who is struggling financially right now big time (although the Cubs are their most profitable aspect Im sure). Baseball has no salary cap. Sky is the limit on what a team can spend, BUT you are taxed a penalty so to speak if you go over 120 million. Many teams that are sucessful go over this and without a 2nd thought. They feel its better to go over, pay the penalty, and WIN (which leads to better sales, attendance, merch, etc.) than to stay under and have a shitty team. But at minimum, most teams spend the 120 million. Cubs are at like 90 million for this season. Yeah. They could seriously buy 4 or 5 more players and still be under the penalty point, but they dont because the Trib is ran by a bunch of morons. The Trib company is in court right now with the IRS and could owe like a billion dollars in back taxes or some shit. Seriously. If that goes down Cuban should strike. Offer to settle their debt with the IRS and buy the team. BOOM. If he buys the Cubs, write this shit down, we are talking World Series in a few seasons. Period.
No more talk of that, but now I forgot what I originally was going to post about.
Life is swell. Been busy lately but a good busy (meaning I am getting things done) and despite the whirlwind that is everything I do, I have been managing to find days inbetween for down time. That is key. Went to Springfield last weekend and had a good time. Going to Bloomington this weekend and Cincinnatti the following weekend. Man thats a lot of travelling. "Have love, will travel."
Either way, the summer is here and things are in swing. June is here and Im sure it will fly by. Before I know it I'll be going to weddings, sending resumes to companies in Austin, and packing up my things for the move. Speaking of, I found an apartment that I am down with. Its pretty big and spacious for a 1 bedroom and is in a nice location for a great price. A few girls I know offered to go by there and take some pictures and shit for me and they really helped. So that sealed the deal. Kind of ironic that when I first starting talking to people about the move a friend of mine, Paula, mentioned this very place. So it came full circle. First place I liked and the last place I liked. Quite a relief off my shoulders really. I owe some people dinner when I get settled in. That and some drinks of course. Or drinks with dinner. Yes.
That is all for now.
I really think that Mark Cuban is going to buy the Chicago Cubs. This could just be wishful thinking, but I dont care. I want it to go down so bad. Mark Cuban is a genius in his own right. Starting in college and Indiana University he made money buy renting out barns in Indiana fields, getting busses and tons of kegs and driving kids out to these (illegal) keg parties. After graduating college he worked as a software dealer for IBM and was fired. So he decided to go into business for himself and took along clients he had made while at IBM. Years later, he sold his company, MicroSolutions for like 5 million. I heard 6 million from somewhere else, so who knows. Either way, he was living in Dallas and acting off the desire to be able to listen to Indiana Hoosier basketball games decided to start a new company that broadcasts college games over the internet through streaming. This became broadcast.com, which boomed and he sold to Yahoo for $5.7 billion. Yeah, BILLION.
Thats that, he is now set for life. But instead of just investing his money wisely and being a typical billionaire, he diecided to buy a basketball team, he started an entertainment company that bought Landmark Theater Corp. (which are the art house movie theaters), he bought HDNet, and IceRocket. He produced movies ("Good Night, and Good Luck" with George Clooney and "Bubble" with Steve Soderbergh), and even called M Night Shayamalan an "idiot" which is awesome because that guy's movies blow. As if this wasnt enough, he financially backed a P2P file sharing company in a court case against MGM when thet sued them for illegal sharing of files by their users.
This guy is an awesome business man and he is ruthless. He sits on the bench with his basketball players wearing a jersey, not in a skybox and a $50,000 suit. He yells at refs, he gets fined, he talks shit, and all for the love of the game and moreso, for the love of money. He is so ambitious he could turn dogshit into diamonds if he had it in his head to do so. That said, I think he could come to the Cubs and turn shit around.
The Cubs are owned by the Tribune who is struggling financially right now big time (although the Cubs are their most profitable aspect Im sure). Baseball has no salary cap. Sky is the limit on what a team can spend, BUT you are taxed a penalty so to speak if you go over 120 million. Many teams that are sucessful go over this and without a 2nd thought. They feel its better to go over, pay the penalty, and WIN (which leads to better sales, attendance, merch, etc.) than to stay under and have a shitty team. But at minimum, most teams spend the 120 million. Cubs are at like 90 million for this season. Yeah. They could seriously buy 4 or 5 more players and still be under the penalty point, but they dont because the Trib is ran by a bunch of morons. The Trib company is in court right now with the IRS and could owe like a billion dollars in back taxes or some shit. Seriously. If that goes down Cuban should strike. Offer to settle their debt with the IRS and buy the team. BOOM. If he buys the Cubs, write this shit down, we are talking World Series in a few seasons. Period.
No more talk of that, but now I forgot what I originally was going to post about.
Life is swell. Been busy lately but a good busy (meaning I am getting things done) and despite the whirlwind that is everything I do, I have been managing to find days inbetween for down time. That is key. Went to Springfield last weekend and had a good time. Going to Bloomington this weekend and Cincinnatti the following weekend. Man thats a lot of travelling. "Have love, will travel."
Either way, the summer is here and things are in swing. June is here and Im sure it will fly by. Before I know it I'll be going to weddings, sending resumes to companies in Austin, and packing up my things for the move. Speaking of, I found an apartment that I am down with. Its pretty big and spacious for a 1 bedroom and is in a nice location for a great price. A few girls I know offered to go by there and take some pictures and shit for me and they really helped. So that sealed the deal. Kind of ironic that when I first starting talking to people about the move a friend of mine, Paula, mentioned this very place. So it came full circle. First place I liked and the last place I liked. Quite a relief off my shoulders really. I owe some people dinner when I get settled in. That and some drinks of course. Or drinks with dinner. Yes.
That is all for now.