I don't care where you went to school, I don't care who your family is.

I'm going to do business with you for two reasons.

If I trust you and I like you, and don't overthink it, right?

Of course you have to have a good product and all of that.

But assuming that everyone has a good product, if I like you and I trust you, I'm going to do business with you.

17-year-old me in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County, who woke up and all he did all day, every day was either think or play or train for baseball and aspired to be like my contemporary Alex Rodriguez from Westminster Christian

High School cannot believe that I get to sit here. I scraped for every bit of information

that I could. I knew his whole life story and was absolutely fascinated and continue to be to this day.

So when I had the opportunity to moderate this panel, it took me about one second to say

yes.

It's great to be here with you.

Great to be here.

Hello, everyone.

For my money, the most excited I've gotten about professional sports, at least since I was a little kid, in the last 25 years, were those Red Sox Yankees games.

There was nothing more exciting than Pedro on the hill.

And man, the time went by so slowly, just waiting for those games to start.

What many of you may not know is Alex Rodriguez,

the mortal enemy of the Red Sox for those series,

was actually traded to the Red Sox.

In 2003, I think it was.

He was traded and the trade got de-Qed.

And he ends up on the Yankees and the rest is history.

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