What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
That got us started on revenue sharing, and we couldn't have done it without all the teams.
I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.
I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.
In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.
I wanted total control and leadership. I wanted to buy the horses and choose the players.
We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.