Mark Cuban thankful he did not buy MLB team as he criticizes sport: ‘Baseball is a mess’
Roughly a decade ago, Mark Cuban teamed up with a logistics and shipping CEO Jim Crane in an attempt to buy the Texas Rangers at an auction. Their venture, Radical Baseball LLC, came up short in the 16-hour auction to a group led by former fireballer Nolan Ryan.
The next year, Crane purchased a majority stake in the Houston Astros. In 2017, Rob Manfred handed him the commissioner’s trophy after the Astros won the first World Series in franchise history.
On Tuesday, Cuban — who owns the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA — tweeted a link to Manfred’s recent ESPN interview and declared he was “thankful (MLB) didn’t let me buy a team.”
“Baseball is a mess right now and they have zero vision to see them out of it,” Cuban wrote. “I’m thankful they didn’t let me buy a team.”
