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we'll get into that at eight thirty a little bit. In the news Morning
News, we have NFL on Fox Rules analyst Dean Blandino calling in at nine
oh five. Someone who knows, really knows, you know, is gonna
drop a knowledge bomb on us at nine oh five unless he comes on and
he's really indifferent. But I don't expect that from Dean. No way,
indifference from Blandino. Absolutely, that's a guys ability known for staying off the
fence. Not him and Taya right and wrong. You will not find his
name in the Epstein documents. No, no way, no now you might
allegedly be on the Jerry Jones party bus and that could get him into some
trouble. But it's all just good fun. Have you ever been on the
Jerry Jones party bus. I have, So I've had Miller light on therefore
with Kavanaugh. I've had Miller light in four Am Pizza with Steven about twenty
eight years ago. It's really a story of coming up with the business.
Really you get in doctored by the Jones family. We'll have a little bit
of audio from Jerry, Yeah, casually calling Jimmy Mann and over under on
how many times you use the word inspired. Mav Sel went through Danny.
It's official. By the way, if you look for Mike Stroy, Mike
Roy a little under the weather, hoping to have him back tomorrow. Just
you know, if you're like, oh, where's Mikey be here tomorrow?
You know what I don't want to hear from Mikey today. I don't want
a text from him saying shake that tidy day. Definitely don't want that.
But I also don't want him saying, hey, you guys, sounded great
this morning. He's gonna do that. No, I want him to sleep
well I want him being critical. No, no, no, I don't
want him listening to this. I want to just tell what we could have
done better. I know what we could have done better. I could have
stayed at home, that would have made it better. But no, I
want Mikey to sleep. That boy needs his rest. He's not feeling good.
So Mark Cuban commented on the sale of the MAVs. I'm taking this
from a transcript from a It was kind of a courtside interview, so there's
like a lot of background noise. Sad enough, I wanted to pull the
audio, but more interesting, the sale finally went through, and we talked
about that extensively over the past couple of months to the Las Vegas Sands group,
and you know, I does kind of seem like there's plans in play
for it, cause I'm going to read some of this to you because I
think it's fascinating. It kind of changes my thoughts on how the MAVs might
be operating in the near future. This might be really good. He had
to talked about like him having the same role, you know, essentially a
handshack agreement. There's nothing, you know, ironclad in the deal, and
he says, yes, it's a partnership. Right. They're not basketball people.
I'm not a real estate person. That's why I did it. I
could have gotten more money selling it to somebody else. But I've known these
guys for a long time. They're great at the things I'm not good at,
and they're good people who are committed to Dallas. They're committed to winning,
and they've got great hearts. I've known them forever. Okay, so
committed to Dallas. That's good. We'll take that at face value. Right
there, Right two or three years ago, you told me hopefully you would
own the mass for another forty years. What happened? And he said it
changed? And they said what changed? I'm assuming this is Brad Townsend,
but it was all in one big Dallas Morning Newspeaks. What changed? And
then Mark you Bean said, oh, media companies are going out of business.
Oh, or they're consolidating. The world is changing. And so what
went from an advantage was not so much an advantage anymore. And it was
two or three years ago I started talking about a casino and destination resort,
and I knew, and I told you guys then I wasn't going to be
the one to build it. It makes sense if someone's going to come in
as a partner and invest potentially billions of dollars and they're going to want equity.
Well, there's a lot of thoughts, dark thoughts I had about what
he said about media companies going out of business or consolidating, and they all
do seem to be accurate just knowing as I'll say, my experience has changed
in the last five years in media. I'm sure yours has, and I
think the I don't think I'm doing anything pull a golf. I don't think
I'm fine for this. I mean, my freak experience has not been what
I thought it would be. I know. But I also have never been
a part of starting a radio station either, right, So I mean there's
a lot that goes into that. But you know, I think COVID has
something to do with this. Technology has a lot to do with this,
maybe more so than COVID. I think what he's saying is the revenue that
the teams could depend upon was mainly sourced from their TV deals, with their
media deals, and we've seen what's happened with you know, the Bally's mess
over the last couple of years, that can't be not taken into consideration of
his decision to part with a big percentage of his ownership rights in this team.
But man Mark Cuban, it needs to be taken seriously. I think
his track record kind of speaks for itself. You know, the guy invented
basically or was you know, I don't know how much he was writing code
or back in the day, but you know the fact that we can even
stream audio r radio on the internet, yeah, is basically due in large
part to his vision and the company that he created. And I know people
personally, very good friends of mine that worked for Broadcast dot Com back in
the day that were paid in stock options that will never have to work a
day in their life. And when he sold that to Yahoo for that insane
amount of money back then, that was a long time ago. But man,
the guy has been He's all I'm saying. He sees, He sees
the chessboard several moves beyond what you or I see, Yeah, and what
the average human being sees. He knows where things are headed. He was
ten years ago, or maybe it wasn't ten years ago, but it was
a fair amount of years ago. Six seven years ago, he was the
one that was pimping TikTok. Well that was nothing. He's like, dude,
you guys got to get on TikTok. You're gonna it's gonna blow you
away. TikTok is going to be this and this and this and we're all
like TikTok and it just come out. Yeah. And how concerned he was
because of attention spans yeah, and short clips and things like that, and
how that would affect watching basketball games. The guy is brilliant. He's a
really smart dude. And like I said, he sees the entire chess board
and he knows what moves are going to be made. I think a big
percentage of the time he's right. So yeah, I think that this move,
you can take it at face value. I do you believe one of
what he's saying is one hundred percent accurate? I mean maybe not. You
know, there's always some average TV deal is way different than some teams in
the league. Some teams have a you know, are relying on that and
it's working out fine for them, sure the matter, Sure, and a
weird deal just like the Rangers are and things like that. But this is
my fear. You're seeing basketball and baseball team struggle because of the way.
This is where another owner in town should get credit. The way Jerry Jones
spearheaded the TV deals for the NFL back in the early nineties have really led
to the NFL and now college football benefiting from TV deals just handling the salary
cap in college it's a little different, but we're seeing how TV deals are
basically reforming the conferences as we know them in college football and all that is
right. Football fine on that end, Baseball, basketball, hockey, whatever,
a little more relyant on those TV deals or it's not perfect. It's
a little more shaky about what you can do well. The difference is Kevin.
With the NFL, they're in their partners with national broadcasts, Like every
NFL game is a nationally broadcast game if you have depending on your market.
Now, they're not going to show every game. That's what the Sunday tickets
for. But as far as your local team, it's gonna be on Fox,
it's gonna be on Amazon, or it's going to be on you know,
CBS, or it's going to be on ESPN. It's going to be
on on a on a format that you can nationally access most of the time
for free pretty much if it's your local team, every time for free on
a on a major network, unless it's on Amazon or it's on ESPN.
With the with the baseball and basketball and hockey markets, they're all regionalized.
There's too many games and they're all regionalized. So if your home team is
playing in you don't have that channel, or you don't have access to that
channel, or you used to have access to that channel it was taken away,
or they couldn't come up with the right deal for the platform that you're
using, and you're limited to one or two alternatives to be able to get
it, and you don't want to make the change, you're screwed. Yeah,
you don't get to watch your team. And that I'm telling you that
they are losing so much money by the majority of their fans not being able
to watch their home teams because not many people are making the jump to direct
TV. They're just not just to watch the MAVs, Stars and Rangers or
changing to or getting the cable or whatever right or God forbid downloading that stupid
ass ballys app and I guess works a little bit both ways too. That's
agree, which he's still even with the ballet's app, you still can't get
all three teams. Well, this is where it all runs in together.
And that's why we're in a bit of a mess right now, I would
say with viewing content because there's so much and why TikTok is so popular too.
These platforms are also jacking up prices because they are dealing with problems so
media companies, like he's saying, consolidating or going out of business. Part
of the reason that's happening too is they're pissing off their customers. But that's
a it's all big, wide topic point is he mentioned basically specifically. That's
the first time I'd kind of seen him say that's part of the reason they
did this. Also the interesting I could have gotten more money elsewhere, I
don't know. I believe that, and you know. Cubid also said he
was asked your belief the new arena will be built in Dallas. He said,
for sure. The question said in Dallas city limits. He said,
Dallas proper. Now that's to go with the story where Las Vegas Sandsgroup had
bought some land near the old Texas Stadium site in Irving they're probably just looking
to have more land in real estate, like you said, because real estate
is good. What happens if in two years the Addleson family doesn't like the
way things are going on the basket side, Mark said, it's like anything.
They'd have the final say, for sure, he's the governor, but
I'm sure we would work it out. Uh. And by the governor,
he means Miria Maddison's son, who will be more in town and more you
know, involved, will in effect decisions in terms of luxury tax and basketball.
Cuban said, they've basically just said, do what you've got to do.
I want a new arena. Financially, we're in a far better position
as of this afternoon than we were yesterday afternoon. For years, we asked
Dirt Davitsky to take less money so the Mavericks could stay under the salary cap
and not have to pay the luxury tax, which should be a lot of
money. Okay, and he did it, and he did a lot.
If the MAVs can all of a sudden blow out and do what the Warriors
have done and just start going over the salary cap and playing a paying a
hefty luxury tax fee, to go over the cap a little bit. That
changes what they can do from a trade standpoint. Every Dallas Mavericks trade we've
talked about for the last ten years, and the new CBA, you've gone,
well, we're gonna make the money work. How do you make the
money work? And when you're paying Luca and you're paying Kyrie what you're paying
him, I think that's highly interesting. And he talked about we're in a
better position as of today than we are were yesterday, big maps, trade
rumers. Siakam of the Raptors, who's a very good, big, very
good player power forward, and I think which fit really well. You know,
they're dangling him on the trade market. The Mavericks have been reported as
one of the three teams interested in Pascal Siakam. Money's going to be big
there. But if you can all of a sudden go over the salary cap
and pay the luxury tax because of new ownership, who has Las Vegas money,
Well then I kind of like this now, yeah, And that's something
I did not even think about until he said that, And I just that
kind of blew my nuts off a little bit, because like, well,
I can get anyone. Yeah, money is no object, of course,
that that definitely benefits. True is that I think a lot of people when
they heard that it was a Vegas operation family that was buying, you know,
the majority stake in the MAVs, that there was a reasonable fear,
a natural fear to think, oh no, yeah, you know, with
all of uh, you know, the the rumors or the possibility or likelihood
of the A's moving to Las Vegas, the fact that the Raiders are there
now, the fact that they have a hockey team. I mean, it
would complete you know, if they were end up getting the A's and the
Mavericks were to move there. I mean, you've got all four major sports
in that city that's already a pretty damn big attraction city. I think I
think it was just a common fear that people are like, oh my god,
they're going to move the MAVs. This is where this arena deal is
up. They're going to They're going to take the maps in Las Vegas.
I don't believe that the family wants to branch out of last things exactly exactly.
Well. They want gambling to be legal in dowb in texts, yes,
and they're going to lobby and pay as much money as they possibly can.
They've shown in the past that they're willing to spend a ton of money
lobbying for this law to change in Texas. I think they're going to go
to double down, triple down even harder to make that happen, because it
will only benefit this whole new arena situation which they're been looking at, which
I know Cuban's been looking at for a while now. Now he has these
developers, the you know, real estate people in place that have essentially unlimited
resources to try and make this happen. I don't think they're going anywhere.
I don't. I don't think you're going to shway whatever fears that you had
about initially when you heard this news that that the Mavericks are moving anywhere.
I like that Cuban still, you know, the manager of basketball operations,
and I think he said something it's like, yeah, all make all of
the basketball and personnel decisions unless I need to, unless I try to sign
somebody for three hundred and fifty million dollars a year. And it feels like
I'm going to run into any problems here. Yeah, And it feels like
it's Nico's show right now. Nico Harrison the gym right now anyways, and
Mark obviously has a little bit say there, well a lot to say all
the say, but it feels like he's kind of let Nico do his thing.
They also asked to cover the Cowboys. It's hard to imagine them not
being a part of the Jones family. Did you ever have that vision that
the MAVs would be in the Cuban family forever? And he said, it's
different if you look at the age of my kids fourteen, seventeen, and
twenty and I'm sixty five. And he said, I look twenty five and
a act fifteen, but I'm sixty five. So if you do the math
math, it takes them twenty years for one of them to really learn what
all this is about and to know that they want to do it. And
then they decide they don't want to do it, and I'm eighty five years
old. Then what happens? So he wanted to get ahead of it.
He said, if I would have had kids twenty years earlier like Jerry did,
it might have been different. Well, mean, look, I I
look those old pictures of Jerry buying the team. I made me google this
today and look how young Jerry and Steven, Jerry Junior and Steven look and
Charlotte in those pictures. I mean, dude, in nineteen eighty nine when
he bought the team, I thought he was seventy years old. Then yeah,
he was like the forty forties. Yeah, it's crazy. So that's
kind of like, well basically your age, keV Oh. When he bought
the Cowboys, Cuban said, he was asked, how were you notified that
the sales approved that. I looked at my bank statement, so money,
money, money, Can you imagine? I cannot what that feel like.
I think it would. I mean, I think it would feel good.
It'd be overwhelming, but I think it would be great to just have a
big bump in your you're paid. I mean for him, it maybe nothing,
because he's got it all. I'm excited when I see a seventy four
dollars deposit from my quarterly ass cap earnings for some food fighters knockoff song that's
playing on some dating show in Australia that I wrote twenty years ago. I'm
not kidding on it. What dating show, Oh, I don't know.
Temptation Island. You get the you get the sheet that tells you were all
of the music that you created is being played. It's hilarious. They'll tell
you. They'll tell you the song, and they'll tell you the show and
for how long it played, and it'll say, you know, the season
four episodes Yees, Season four episode seven, Runaway. Yeah, a song
called poo Flingers, which was the a company needed. You know, we
need something that sounds like the food Fighters, but obviously do we don't want
to pay the food fighters, so knock it off, and we do these
knockoff songs. Yeah. God, this was seriously like twenty years ago,
and it played for three seconds. You got point one sense or you got
four cents for that. But you rack up enough of those, you know.
I quit doing it number of years back because you weren't making enough.
Well, well, you know, you got to flood the market with that
stuff. You have to have thousands of pieces that are out there before you've
see any real money. But yeah, like I said, beat that little
little bit of mailbox money that shows up every every three months. It's like,
hey, oh it's one hundred and twelve dollars this time. All right,
you know, imagine getting whatever he got. That's why I do podcasting
on the side. How much did he make off of the sale? I
don't remember. It was billions, right, I think so? Yeah,
he checked his bank statement. We didn't get to the long horned stuff,
dude, but maybe we'll have time. It will do at nine whatever,
have Dean at nine ten Dean Blanding O NFL on Bunks Rules Analyst. Morning
News is wide open because we're definitely gonna We're gonna hit. We're gonna hit
Jerry and Jimmy. Yeah, because hell froze over and Jimmy finally made it
into the Ring of Honor lifted and we have a sign that the curse was
lifted and cows, we're gifted a game. We has a ref screwed up.
And so the next time I go to AT and T Stadium, which
will probably be to go see some big dumb concert, I'll get to look
up there in the rafters and there he is, Jimmy Johnson nineteen eighty nine
to what was it, nineteen ninety five, nineteen ninety four. It's not
a long long's and no one Ryan like Tenure. You know, I think
Romo was here longer than him, absolutely by a lot. Yeah, I
get the audio from that. That'll be fun. In Dingo's Morning News next
nine o'clock, don't miss NFL on Fox. Rules analyst Dean Blandino will also
tell you how the Longhorns game which went to midnight last night in the college
football playoff, how crazy that was coming up at nine. But coming up
next Dingo's Morning News, let's do it all. All the Cowboys stuff that
we left on the floor, We're gonna pick it up and we're gonna unpack
it. Yeah, over under on how many times Jerry dropped the word inspire,
I'll go six and a half.