There have been reports out there that the Cubs have the third highest revenue in Major League Baseball and yet the 14th highest payroll.

Thanks for starting off with the softball. I appreciate that. It's really hard to compare one team to another.

The revenue line that I see used most often is pre-revenue sharing. When you look at gross revenue numbers before

revenue sharing, before CapEx, before property tax, before amusement, all that, you're not really

seeing a real picture about what's available to put into your baseball budget. It would be like me

saying, hey, David, what was your gross income? And then what's your biggest expense? Let's call it

your mortgage boy

you're really rich and you're going to say yeah but you've ignored all of my other expenses and my

taxes so it's fodder it's interesting to talk about but it's you know wildly inaccurate

i don't know if that's quite apples to apples here, but I digress.

Wait, I don't digress.

Just for a minute.

According to a lot of numbers, the Dodgers revenue, they spend 73% of their revenue on the baseball operation.

The Cubs, if we're being generous on most of the reporting on this, are somewhere around 40%.

That's why, to me, the Dodgers are not the evil empire.

Well, I don't want that to sidetrack it.

I know.

I sidetrack the segment of conversation.

Now I digress.

Well, that was a digress. That was a digression right

there. But I hear you. Look, Crane Kenny, that was part of a couple of few minutes of kind of

trying to massage the messaging and massage the thought process that a lot of fans are having as they hear about the money and the spending.

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