Breaking the Rules of Sports

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We don't break the rules to cheat; we break them to improve. When conventional wisdom grows stale and unhelpful, it's the contrarians who lead the way to make investing, business, and life better. And the same is true in sports. Punting? Bunting? It's time we take a look, with the help of sports journalist, Kimball Crossley, at some sports rules that need breaking.

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Kimball Crossley
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	Did you grow up believing the sacrifice bunt was baseball's surest path to a run?
0:04.8	Or that a smooth mid-range jumper in basketball beat the risk of a 35-foot-3.
0:11.7	Modern analytics have put those debates to bed.
0:14.4	Most times, you're better off letting your batter swing away.
0:17.4	And as a league average shooter, you'd score more from downtown than from the mid-post.
0:23.1	This week on Rule Breaker Investing, we're stepping off the trading floor and into the stadium
0:26.8	with longtime sports journalist, podcaster, high school basketball coach, and Major League Baseball
0:32.5	Scout Kimball Krosley, one of the sharpest rule breakers I know in athletics.
0:37.9	Kimball has spent decades challenging the orthodox playbooks of pro sports.
0:42.2	You may know the sack butt punchline and the mid-range jump shot punchline by now, but Kimball's
0:47.9	here to throw some new thoughts your way.
0:50.9	What are sports journalists, fans, coaches, owners missing, or getting wrong in sports
0:58.5	today? This week, only on Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with
1:07.6	Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:18.2	The world of sports has as much conventional wisdom wrapped in and all around it as the world of money and investing. And as the Michael Lewis book made into a movie, pretty good one,
1:22.7	entitled Moneyball, clearly demonstrated the world of sports and of finance are inextricably bound.
1:28.7	Just as we're looking to invest in stocks that will win the share of profits in their
1:32.6	industries and do so with excellence over, we hope, a long sustainable period of time,
1:38.5	those are the rule breakers I talk about every week.
1:41.4	So too do teams look to make investments in players, this one, not that one,
1:46.7	akin to picking stocks, and those teams hope those players perform, win on the field,
1:51.6	make a lot of money for the organization as well as for themselves, reward the fans, win, win,
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