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NPDS - Mailbag: What happens to stadium deals if leagues fold? What are my biggest MLB draft regrets?

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Welcome in to an NPDS mailbag! Someone asked me if in the future if a league folder or a sport ceased to exist - what would happen to all the stadium deals? Do they just go away? Are they still paid to someone? (8:50) Was there ever a player you wanted to draft but were talked out of it and now regret? Was there ever a player you thought would be a star and wasn’t? (28:30) Someone asked me about sports leagues getting away with being 501c3 tax exempt? Is this still a thing? (38:53) Do you think that lowered attendance at Camden Yards for the playoffs is a sign that fandom is dwindling? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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That's Shopify.com word of the day. It's time for our latest mailbag episode.

0:48.2

This is an episode where I get to answer your questions. You submitted them to me on Twitter at David P. Sampson,

0:56.8

Instagram at David P. Sampson. Some of you send emails at David Sampson podcast.com, where we have

1:04.2

all of the shows and all of the merch and our tracking document of all the words of the day.

1:15.5

A mailbag gives me an opportunity to talk about subjects that I just can't get to during the course of a regular day-to-day show.

1:18.6

And I want to start because there's so many great questions you had.

1:22.0

So without further ado, hello, David, Koka and Sarah.

1:30.6

Side note, you were automatically chosen because that's the first time someone had reached out with all three of our names, and we all appreciated

1:35.7

that. Hello, David Coker and Sarah. At the risk of causing an existential panic attack for myself,

1:48.6

you and other listeners, I have a theoretical question for a future mailbag. I mean, how you had me at hello. Way into the future. Every sport and or

1:58.1

league we know currently will likely cease to exist.

2:02.1

The question is, what would happen with all of the stadium deals with cities, counties, and states

2:08.5

if a league folded or a sport ceased to exist?

2:13.7

I appreciate the show you all produce daily.

2:17.0

Well, thank you very much for asking that question because this came up in the negotiation to get a new stadium in Miami.

2:25.4

It comes up in all stadium negotiations or arena negotiations, but we frame it slightly differently.

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