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Manny Araho on Twitter just made a really, really good point.

He said, tell the Knicks how they wish they gave Riley a piece of the Knicks, and ask my, ask my amy how it's working out.

Give Theo a piece. Now, the reason the Knicks didn't give Riley a piece, they were owned by a conglomerate. It was very, very, almost impossible to do.

I mean, there's stocks and things like that. Steve Cohen owns the mat, so if he wants to give Theo a piece, he can give him a piece.

But this looks like it's more than just a toy for him. He's got the highest payroll and baseball. He's spending $111 million in taxes. He wants to win.

So why wouldn't you do everything humanly possible to win? And this isn't business. It's sports. You can't afford to be that patient.

If you wanted to be patient, Michael, he would have stripped it down, and then take 10 years to build it back up again.

It's not the way it worked. Took over a team, sunk a ton of money into it. It's been a ton of money on the Lendor, ton of money on Verlander and Scherzer.

And now, you don't want to get, you're going to, you're going to try to save money on your general manager who's supposed to build the whole thing.

It's Theo Epstein. He slayed the dragon and Boston and Chicago. He's sitting there waiting. You've got a mint of money.

You're afraid to give up a couple of points of your franchise, not to give the franchise its best opportunity to win.

But let's say the mats are worth $5 billion. Steve paid a little over $2 billion. I was told yesterday it probably increased by a billion.

I think that's nonsense. If you put the mats on, you know, up for bid, they probably get $5 billion.

So that means that every point done is, I might be wrong or this Peter, you tell me, is it $50 million? No.

Every point will be $50 million. You're giving them $100 million?

You're paying $111 million in taxes. You throw your wiping your butt with that money.

And for what? A team that's three games under $500? Let me, let me get my calculator out.

Do your math, Michael. You're a big man. If this were his actual business, would he sink that much money, even all the billions that he's worth?

Would he sink $350 million into anything in his line of work and not get a return and be happy about it?

No. He's supposedly very difficult on his, on his traders.

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