Yankees win. They have completed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.

We lost a $900 million bid to buy the LA Rams.

Look, that contract extension was for $176 million.

The stadium will cost $1.1 billion.

Champions are made and cash always follows.

But where did it all start?

These are the true stories of the blockbuster sports deals

that went down in the locker room, boardroom,

and between the lines that made many people very, very wealthy. From entrepreneur media, this is the playbook. I'm CEO of Sports One

Marketing and your host, Dave Meltzer. I have one of our partners today one of my childhood heroes not that he's that much older than I am

although he does look at I have Jim Lairitz the King in New York in the house

normally on the sports Blender on Sports

B Nation, but now he's on entrepreneur as a businessman. Jim, how are you?

I'm doing good, David.

Oh, this is so much fun for me.

I know. This is good. I don't know where to start but you know I'm going to start

Jim because you have such an interesting story that a lot of people don't

know about and so I'm going to start with you being at, no not at Kentucky, actually you were being

recruited out of high school drafted and tell us about where are you going to be drafted and what happened in the baseball draft.

Yeah, my path to Bigelig wasn't the normal path

that most guys would take.

Like we just watched the kids the other day here in California

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