Scoop on the Final 3 Celtics buyers?
We may have a scoop on the Final 3 Celtics buyers. Who would you want to buy the Celtics?
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00:00You're workshopping your scoop.
00:02Yeah.
00:04From a good source?
00:05A great source.
00:06All right.
00:07Okay.
00:08You're not known for your scoops.
00:09No.
00:10Rich Keefe known for his scoops coming up at 10 this morning.
00:15Yes.
00:16But this is a Celtic scoop.
00:18Celtic scoop.
00:19I was chatting with somebody that I am close with and trust a lot.
00:25Okay.
00:26Implicitly?
00:27Implicitly, yes.
00:28And he never revealed the identity.
00:32I thought it was Meg.
00:33Was she?
00:34Was she?
00:35Okay.
00:36All right.
00:37Long pause.
00:38Yeah.
00:39They cut me off.
00:40Was telling me about the Celtics, their pitch deck for selling the team.
00:46And there are three final groups.
00:50Okay.
00:51Okay.
00:52Now, this person, not from the area who I was talking to.
00:57So, Expedition, Jeff Bezos is one.
01:01Okay.
01:02Bezos is still in.
01:03Yep.
01:04Still in.
01:05Bezos!
01:06Yes.
01:07Okay.
01:08Bezos is still in.
01:09Win Encore.
01:10Really?
01:11Wow.
01:12The number two.
01:13Oh, are these ordered?
01:14Oh, no.
01:15Not ordered.
01:16They're just three final.
01:17Yeah.
01:18I'm building up to the last.
01:19Because some people believe that there won't be a Revs stadium in Everett, but there will
01:25eventually be, if Win Encore gets it, there will be a Celtics building over there.
01:31Ooh.
01:32Interesting to note in the Globe story over the weekend, though, they sold the land.
01:36Yes.
01:37So, that Win doesn't, it's a similar but different situation to the Celtics with relationship
01:41with the Bruins.
01:42Right.
01:43If Win buys the Celtics, they do not own the land that the casino rests on.
01:47Okay.
01:48They had to sell that during the pandemic.
01:50Okay.
01:51Now, I say that he or she is not from the area because they then say to me, and then
01:57the final is someone I don't know, Sam Kennedy, and I gasp.
02:03And so, it says Sam Kennedy and group, which is, of course.
02:09Sam Kennedy and group.
02:11Which is Fenway Sports Group.
02:12He's the president of it.
02:14Yeah.
02:15Oh, but they're trying to be sneaky when it comes to the documents or what have.
02:20It does not say Fenway Sports Group.
02:22It says Sam Kennedy.
02:24Huh.
02:25So, I am writing this right now, breaking the Boston Reds.
02:30I mean, it would be great.
02:31We could ask him for his front office report.
02:32It's Thursday.
02:33Yes.
02:34Oh, nevermind.
02:35Sorry.
02:36Huh.
02:37So, maybe that's why the cameras have gone away and there's no more speaking.
02:44Their focus is elsewhere.
02:45They're busy right now.
02:46Yeah.
02:47So, I had heard that Fenway Sports Group was out.
02:50Correct.
02:51Unless this is a group that Sam has undertaken on his own.
02:54Well, so, I had a question about this because Sam, I know, is involved with PGA now, correct?
03:00Well, John Henry and Wick and several, Arthur Blank and others are, yes.
03:07But is that considered Fenway Sports Group or is that a different entity?
03:11No, it's a different entity.
03:13It's an entity that they put together.
03:16Fenway Sports Group is a part of the other entity that they put together in order to
03:21invest, I think the number was $7 billion in the eventual merger, PGA, Live, et cetera,
03:30whatever.
03:31Okay.
03:32So, those are the three finalists then?
03:33That is, those are the three groups.
03:34And so, then that means your boy, Rob Hill, is out?
03:38I mean, unless he would be like a smaller investor under one of these groups.
03:42No, but I mean, you know.
03:43I just, I don't, so then, in my mind, if it says Sam Kennedy, could it be that other group
03:49that's involved with the PGA or is it Fenway Sports Group?
03:52I don't know.
03:53Sam Kennedy is the president of Fenway Sports Group.
03:55He would not be leading another group.
03:57He doesn't have the butt money himself.
04:01Who do you prefer out of those three?
04:03Kick in the nuts.
04:04Bezos!
04:05Ah, yes.
04:06Sean, do you prefer Bezos because he has endless gobs of money?
04:11Is that why?
04:12Sure, that works as long as you're going to spend.
04:13I mean, I don't really care who it is.
04:14Absentee owner.
04:15But, I mean.
04:16That's fine.
04:17Whatever.
04:18That's what happens in sports now.
04:19Nobody, I mean.
04:20Who is it that owns the Avalanche and the Rams, the Cronkies, right?
04:24They're basically absentee.
04:25Who cares?
04:26The Rams are doing just fine.
04:27Right.
04:28You're a big Arsenal guy.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Love Arsenal.
04:31They own Arsenal.
04:32Exactly.
04:33So, I mean, they have like five or six different teams.
04:34And a lot of those, I mean, the Avalanche are Stanley Cup champions recently.
04:37The Rams just won, what, three years ago now and they're still a good football team.
04:41Like, that's fine.
04:42As long as you're going to pay.
04:43I don't really care.
04:44Yeah.
04:45Yeah.
04:46It's like the owner of the Golden State Warriors is from around here.
04:48We've already talked about the owner for the Philadelphia Eagles being from around here.
04:51I don't know.
04:52I want them to be from here.
04:53Like that, this is what I mean.
04:54So, if you want them to be from around here, then I guess you're wanting Sam Kennedy.
04:59But the Red Sox ownership group was from all out of town and they did a great job when
05:04they got here.
05:05Right.
05:06Yeah.
05:07That's why I don't really care where you're from.
05:08I mean, I never like, because nowadays you see more of that anyways.
05:12I mean, how many, how many owners, like when you start to look at some of these new owners,
05:16how many of them are like the Robert Kraft, like I was a season ticket holder.
05:21I grew up there.
05:22Like they're all, you know, even the Washington Commanders ownership group, aren't they from
05:27someplace else?
05:28They're not from like the DC area.
05:29Yeah.
05:30It was interesting in this pitch deck.
05:32One part that I pulled from what I was shown was your top two players will earn more money
05:39than every player on the Detroit Pistons next year.
05:42And the team will incur a $280 million luxury tax penalty.
05:46That's why you got to have big, as we say, big money.
05:51You got to have more.
05:52That's why.
05:53They did 440 mil in revenue last year.
05:55440 million dollars in revenue?
05:57Top five in the league in sales, including playoffs.
06:00So you got to have Bezos.
06:02Because Bezos, guess what?
06:03Bezos is going to get you a new arena.
06:05He'll get you that.
06:06He's coming in.
06:07He got that type of money.
06:09He's got that new private jet, too.
06:11Yeah.
06:12You see that thing?
06:13How fast that thing goes?
06:14No, I didn't see that.
06:15Oh, my Lord.
06:16He could fly that thing right into Logan or Hanscom, be out of game and fly right out
06:18afterwards.
06:19He got that.
06:20You don't sit down at the table with him money.
06:21He'll have his lovely fiance on his arm at all times.
06:24He'll be courtside.
06:25He will be courtside.
06:26I have a feeling Bezos might just buy the Seaport as like his backyard.
06:31I mean, he basically is.
06:33I mean, those two buildings are huge.
06:36I was just walking around there the other day in the Seaport.
06:38The new Amazon buildings are gorgeous.
06:41But then Santo was telling me that there's going to be two more smaller buildings, one
06:44hotel, one residential.
06:45Yes.
06:46It's kitty-quartering them.
06:47Can I ask a question?
06:49Why the Seaport, the one part of Boston that was not designed before cars?
06:53Why is it built like they were unexpectedly seeing cars afterwards?
06:57What do you mean by that?
06:58The infrastructure of the Seaport is disastrous.
07:01There's traffic, there's gridlock, there's just building on top of building on top of
07:04building.
07:05You have to have roads.
07:06I mean, I like.
07:07What do you mean?
07:08No.
07:09I mean, are you saying that you would just like it to all be bikes?
07:11No, I'm saying that it was one plot of land that hadn't been developed yet.
07:15We could have developed it in a way that had infrastructure to support cars, not have gridlocked
07:20traffic, have actually things with forethought.
07:22Instead, it looks like it just threw up luxury buildings.
07:25Because the Seaport is a pain in the ass to get into.
07:27Watch your mouth.
07:28I mean, other than the one bridge in the Seaport Boulevard, that place is.
07:33Watch your mouth.
07:34The Seaport District, which is almost all white, no African-Americans there at all.
07:38It is a disaster to get into.
07:41Very, very diverse.
07:42You're there a lot for having a difficult time for getting in.
07:45No, but I go, you got to know when to hit.
07:47You got to know the right time to hit that.
07:50Hit when to get in there.
07:51Cause that Seaport is it's the Seaport Boulevard.
07:53That's what it's called.
07:54That place is always.
07:55Like I get it in the North end.
07:57It's been around since the 1700s.
07:59It wasn't designed for me.
08:00But the Seaport literally was built up in the last 15 years.
08:04I remember it was just a dump with a bunch of pocket lots.
08:06Right.
08:07It was literally Anthony's Pier 4.
08:08Yeah.
08:09And Whiskey Priest.
08:10Uh, Texter is correct.
08:12Greg, why do you care about the owner of the Celtics being from here?
08:16Because the mayor of the city of Boston is not even from here.
08:19So that's a great point.