The Sporting Class: All the President's Grizzly Men
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
What does being Robert Pera's "co-owner" even mean? Why can't a sports executive wear his team's uniform? And what do the layoffs at The Washington Post and CBS News suggest about the business of journalism? Former Marlins president David Samson joins Pablo, one-on-one, to decode the sagas of the Memphis Grizzlies and mainstream media.
• Previously on PTFO: The Invisible NBA Owner and "Crimes Against Humanity"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:02.0 | I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:06.0 | I love your show. I love being on it, but don't overestimate right after this ad. |
| 0:16.0 | David is furiously, frantically. |
| 0:20.0 | Well, I'm trying to track down people because you screwed up on time, and I'm very structured. |
| 0:26.4 | I know. |
| 0:26.6 | This was the window. |
| 0:28.0 | The window is shattered. |
| 0:31.5 | We are holding space, as they say, for John Skipper. |
| 0:35.6 | There's a microphone that is pointed at nothing because john |
| 0:39.1 | is not here despite saying he would be here and i'm not taking it personally and now they're |
| 0:45.5 | nadir is wheeling the chair that's a bad sign i thought he was like in the elevator yeah this |
| 0:52.5 | is going to be a different kind of sporting class. |
| 0:56.2 | But it is one that I am very excited to do with you, David, |
| 0:58.8 | because we've done this story on the show this week in partnership with Hunterbrook Media and my friend Sam Copleman, |
| 1:02.5 | that I've been truly curious. |
| 1:06.3 | What does David Sampson think about this? |
| 1:08.5 | Well, let me just start with a part that you glossed over on the show |
| 1:12.3 | that to me was spectacular because it resonated so well that someone mentioned, hey, Justin Timberlake |
| 1:21.5 | owns the Grizzlies, and he was not too happy about that. That is a guaranteed true story. |
| 1:28.3 | And I have like four things I want to talk about with that. |
| 1:30.9 | So the character, the main character of the story is Robert Perra, who's the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. |
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