Jeffrey Vinik

do too.

In the way that they've redone downtown, the money Vinik put into everything around there.

It's amazing down there.

If the same thing happens by the ballpark that they're going to build and every intention of what these guys are real estate guys.

So, you know, obviously we all think about this sometimes, but like the imaginary time machine.

So if you had the opportunity to go back and tell, Jeff Vinik, before he bought the team or maybe right after he bought the team and gave yourself some ownership advice 17 years pre, what would you give yourself some advice for?

Well, I'd say don't pick the players, but I knew that one.

I was fortunate because that's the mistake new owners make is they think they know how to pick players.

that one to Cube.

We do know that you are a fan of Green Day.

As a very successful businessman, a sports owner, a philanthropist, what is it about Green Day that turns Jeff Vinik into a Green Day guy? Victor Hedman and I were talking about this last night,

actually, as a matter of fact.

I had him as an investor.

Uh, I had this guy named Jeff Vinik as an investor.

Jeff Vinik ran one of the most successful hedge funds in global history, um, owned the Tampa Bay Lightning, phenomenally successful guy.

So I had some killer investors.

It was a killer market.

[laughs]

Maybe they'll have that Vinik kid come throw out...

Well, he's not a kid anymore.

[laughs] He's in his late 30s.

God, kid.

They have the Vinik kid come back and throw out a first pitch, you know? They could celebrate 20 years since the Manny Ramirez home run against the Angels.

People have plenty of thoughts on that, by the way.

Tim is in Atlanta on the mediocre-

About a few weeks before my graduation, the Collegiate Entrepreneurship Organization, CEO, had a global conference, which was headquarters in Tampa.

And Jeff Vinik, the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, was the keynote.

And so he got up there, he did his whole speech.

He was saying how he's had his whole career up in New York, fidelity fund, blah, blah, blah.

And then it was bought out by another group.

That group is about to sell to Mr. Vinik.

The team, when I left, gave me a six-month contract to represent them.

And when Mr. Vinnick's team, VSG, came in, I've been a member.

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