August 13, 2026 • 9 mins
Economic Journalist Charlie Gasparino joins Sid to discuss the Los Angeles Lakers being sold to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for $12.5 billion, a record-breaking price, before he expands on the New York Yankees announcing a $2.6 billion financing agreement with Marc Rowan’s Apollo Sports Capital in a deal touted as fueling growth at the MLB giant and keeping the Steinbrenner family in control.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
CAUSSI.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. Great story
in today's New York Post, You're gonna want to read
this paramount considers moving CBS News out of New York City.
What in Battle with AG's Rob Bonta Leticia James. But
before we get there, there's a bigger pressing issue that
(00:26):
I must discuss with my brilliant friend, Charlie Gasparino.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Go won't go broke.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And that is as if Milliam Adelson owning the Dallas
Mavericks is not bad enough. The Jews are buying everything,
Tucker Carlson, Get ready, baby, you got this guy with
the Yankees. I guess, Rob Collins. They spent about two
point six billion dollars to partner up with the starn Runners,
and now you got Kushner and Eisner with the Lakers. Charlie,
(00:54):
the Jews are buying up everything, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I love it, man, love it, love it, love it.
You know, the best compliment I ever got was from
a pretty big Wall Street investor. His name is Doug Cass.
He said, Charlie, you know what, it's too smart not
to be a Jew. There you go, and I love.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It, love it, by the way, his name is Mark Rowan.
And his name is Mark Rowan, not Rob Kellen. But ahead,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Rob, it's Mark Rowan. Definitely know. But before we get
started it. You know, you you close the last hour
on something about fingers in a certain orifice. You opened
up this hour with some fruitcake song. Right, what's going
on with you? Dude? I'm getting questioning something.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm married thirty four years to a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Anything, based on what I read it, it's something going on.
We should intervene. Get your staff to intervene.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now, you know, I have a lot of on a
serious note, because I go to the gym like you do,
and I don't take selfies like you do all the
time and find a sixty pound weights. But I go
to the gym all the time. But I have a
lot of I guess, feminine qualities. I don't know. I
enjoyed ballads and walks in the park and I don't
know gay porn.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Does that make me gay?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well? The gay porn does anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, you know whatever you're I know, I'm a
libertarian when it comes to this. I don't care what
people do as long as they stay away from kids
and little animals.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Know exactly right. I feel the same exact way, which
I don't always do with that. But on a serious note,
as I was joking about Mark Rowing and Kushner and
Eisner and buying stock and the Yankees and buying up
the Lakers, happened to be Jewish. But what a deal
this guy, Mark Walters, I guess, bought the Lakers from
the Bus family last year, spent about ten billion. Now
(02:43):
he turns it over yesterday to Kushner and Eiger and
he makes about two billion dollars. What a smart business guy.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean I've seen that play a lot. I
mean when when they forced Dan Snighters the Cell the
Redskins people for the people made it like, oh they're
forcing the Cell the Redskins. It's horrible. And yeah, and
I know Dan Snyder pretty well, a great guy. He
got a bad rap in many ways people felt sorry
for him. Well, he bought it for like six hundred
million and sold it for six billion. So these sports
(03:11):
franchises are pretty amazing. I want to see the paperwork
on the Yankees deal because the Yankees that that to me,
is gonna be the big kahunah. You know, just it'll
show how much the Yankees are worth, which it could
be some astronomicals, thaying. The guy who runs the Yankees,
I don't know, if you know. On the business side,
is Randy Levine. One of the smartest business so.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I know him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Randy Levine is literally it's all about gay. I taught
to Randy almost every day. I was such a gay
guy in the world. But I was suss in his
box two nights ago. Him and I become so close,
so close. And I'll tell you something to your point.
This guy Rowland spent about two point six billion. I
don't know the exact figure of what percentage of the
(03:54):
Yankees he bought, but I guarantee you it's less than
twenty And if that's the case, how much of the
Yankees were we're gazillion.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't know, ten billion, I don't know. You know, Yeah,
I don't value these things, but the Yankees are a
pretty amazing franchise record of winning. Randy's an amazing businessman.
I mean, he figures out ways to put people in
the seats in a lot of different ways. I mean,
it's just it's a it's a well run organization. You know,
what they don't have is maybe what they got now.
I mean remember Steve Cohen has that Hedge fund, right,
(04:25):
I mean that's part of his net worth. He can
buy you know, he can he can finance players with that.
I think having access to Apollo, which is a very
good private equity firm, by the way, very smart people there,
and I know the people well, is a great partnership
for the Yankees. So we'll see. It's you know, you
got to I want to see what the deal closes.
We'll find out all this stuff. It's gonna be my
(04:46):
view is good. You know, it's gonna be eye popping huge. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And you know, Randy Levine is also president. CHOUMP has
put him in charge. I don't if you know this pad.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sports, I broke. I broke a lot of stories on
the sports to reform the college sports.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And even though that one day it was Urban Mayor
and Tiger Woods and and Nick Saban and all these guys,
A lot of those guys were there that day. But
the brunt of the work is really going to Randy Levine.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, Randy Levine Milk mostly with you know, an assist
from ron ron U DeSantis as well. You know they're
doing it together, right. Yes. I interviewed DeSantis at the
Milicon conference back in May a little bit about this,
and uh, you know, listen, they got a proposal on
the table. They have bipartisan legislation. Let's see where it goes.
(05:31):
I'm sure Randy's working on this right now. It got guys,
guy's got his hands in a lot of things. He
he should be. He should be mayor Brandy Levine mayor
be great, be great. By the way, he was deputy
mayor you know that on the Rooty. Yes he was,
and he's very good at it. So let let's uh.
I don't want to give away too much because I
(05:52):
think when because I don't know, to be honest with you,
but I'm just like being a business reporter here. When
we see the fine print on this deal, it's gonna
be eye popping on this Yankees deal. It's gonna you
look for the valuation, look for you know what, you
know what what what poll's roll the Yankees will be.
It will be because it does it gives them access
(06:14):
to capital. I mean that's the whole thing, which you know,
not that they were Lackey in the in the you
know before, but they didn't have it like the Mets had.
I mean the Mets have this. I mean Steve Cohen's
got a lot of money. He's got twenty l if
I checked his hedgephone was at twenty million. Could be wrong,
but it's in that job.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
No, it is. That's exactly what it is. You're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So he's got that, he's got that money.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The team still sucks, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know, I'm gonna old. You know, here's the thing.
When I was a kid, other than the Bronx, but
I became a Mets fan like some reason. My dad
liked the Mets, and you know, I just can't watch
him now. I just you know, I can't. I ran
to watch the Yankees, he too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I turned the fifty nine years.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I became a diehard Yankee fan.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm in RNDU La Bean's box almost every home series.
I love the Mets. Part of my reason was because
of this Mam Donnie relationship, and anybody who likes Mam
Donnie I'm not okay with. So I've become very immature
on that respect. That if you don't like Trump, and
you like, Mam Donnie, I'm done with you and ye
come from.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, what's what's the like about the guy to smile?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But the Mets they love him and Steve Cohen welcomes
him to City Field and he hugs mister.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I know his politics a little bit. Steve Cone is
not like some crazy Modai guy.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Trust me on this, but what is his politics?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Because we know that Levine loves Trump, Levin works with Trump.
Trump is at Nicky Stadium every year. I don't see
President Trump going to City Field. And last I heard
I could be wrong, was that Skyrimuchi and Steve Cohen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They gave money to Chris Christy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So what is Steve Cohen? That's true? That is true.
Chris Christy is and by the way, it's not the
worst thing. Chris is a nice guy, but is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He quiet stopped. That's an idiot. Maybe a nice guy,
but he's an idiot.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That he's not an idiot. You disagree with him, He's
not an idiot.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He's a backstamping, disloyal, fat jerk. That's what he is.
See what he did the Trump Why did you do that?
The Trump. What did Trump?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't like what he did.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
He cost on the George Washington Bridge. What did he
do he cost traffic on the George Washington Bridge?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh that as somebody that used to have to take
the gw B to city from New York, from Manhattan
to to c NBC when I work there. That is
a crime. High cry. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The worst thing he's ever done, the worst thing he's
ever done.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Is he's the governor, the executable part.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The governor of New Jersey shows up to a home
football game in New Jersey for the Giants and he
sits in Jerry Jones box with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I don't know. I like Jerry Jones. You ever meet him? Yeah? Yeah, Charlie, Wait,
you know what, you know what the brandy Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I know, I like Jerry Jones, but not when he's
playing my Giants in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Come like, he's not reasons I really hate the guy.
He should put him on his show.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He won't come on. Oh really, he's so think believe
it or not. He's too thin skinned.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah. But Steve Cohen, I don't think is you know,
politically is not aligned with Mondamie I.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Just know, probably not. I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He's more of a he's more of a you know,
regular Republican, not a maga Republican. I would see that,
you know, but I don't know. He just you know,
we need more peace of love, don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, no, no, we don't. More peace and love is
going to drive you to a Muslim nation? Is that
what you want?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What was the well, that's true, you know, if we
you know, there's something you know, you don't want to
be accepting of everything, right, every stupid thing he's supposed
to be accepting of. And we're a little too much
on that, right, But there's a word for that. In
this case, I need another cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You come on with me. You may need to, Chollie
CAUSSI.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
This is the seventy seven WABC Mini cast. Great story
in today's New York Post, You're gonna want to read
this paramount considers moving CBS News out of New York City.
What in Battle with AG's Rob Bonta Leticia James. But
before we get there, there's a bigger pressing issue that
(00:26):
I must discuss with my brilliant friend, Charlie Gasparino.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Go won't go broke.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And that is as if Milliam Adelson owning the Dallas
Mavericks is not bad enough. The Jews are buying everything,
Tucker Carlson, Get ready, baby, you got this guy with
the Yankees. I guess, Rob Collins. They spent about two
point six billion dollars to partner up with the starn Runners,
and now you got Kushner and Eisner with the Lakers. Charlie,
(00:54):
the Jews are buying up everything, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I love it, man, love it, love it, love it.
You know, the best compliment I ever got was from
a pretty big Wall Street investor. His name is Doug Cass.
He said, Charlie, you know what, it's too smart not
to be a Jew. There you go, and I love.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It, love it, by the way, his name is Mark Rowan.
And his name is Mark Rowan, not Rob Kellen. But ahead,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Rob, it's Mark Rowan. Definitely know. But before we get
started it. You know, you you close the last hour
on something about fingers in a certain orifice. You opened
up this hour with some fruitcake song. Right, what's going
on with you? Dude? I'm getting questioning something.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I'm married thirty four years to a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Anything, based on what I read it, it's something going on.
We should intervene. Get your staff to intervene.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now, you know, I have a lot of on a
serious note, because I go to the gym like you do,
and I don't take selfies like you do all the
time and find a sixty pound weights. But I go
to the gym all the time. But I have a
lot of I guess, feminine qualities. I don't know. I
enjoyed ballads and walks in the park and I don't
know gay porn.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Does that make me gay?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well? The gay porn does anything wrong with that?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, you know whatever you're I know, I'm a
libertarian when it comes to this. I don't care what
people do as long as they stay away from kids
and little animals.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Know exactly right. I feel the same exact way, which
I don't always do with that. But on a serious note,
as I was joking about Mark Rowing and Kushner and
Eisner and buying stock and the Yankees and buying up
the Lakers, happened to be Jewish. But what a deal
this guy, Mark Walters, I guess, bought the Lakers from
the Bus family last year, spent about ten billion. Now
(02:43):
he turns it over yesterday to Kushner and Eiger and
he makes about two billion dollars. What a smart business guy.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, I mean I've seen that play a lot. I
mean when when they forced Dan Snighters the Cell the
Redskins people for the people made it like, oh they're
forcing the Cell the Redskins. It's horrible. And yeah, and
I know Dan Snyder pretty well, a great guy. He
got a bad rap in many ways people felt sorry
for him. Well, he bought it for like six hundred
million and sold it for six billion. So these sports
(03:11):
franchises are pretty amazing. I want to see the paperwork
on the Yankees deal because the Yankees that that to me,
is gonna be the big kahunah. You know, just it'll
show how much the Yankees are worth, which it could
be some astronomicals, thaying. The guy who runs the Yankees,
I don't know, if you know. On the business side,
is Randy Levine. One of the smartest business so.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I know him.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Randy Levine is literally it's all about gay. I taught
to Randy almost every day. I was such a gay
guy in the world. But I was suss in his
box two nights ago. Him and I become so close,
so close. And I'll tell you something to your point.
This guy Rowland spent about two point six billion. I
don't know the exact figure of what percentage of the
(03:54):
Yankees he bought, but I guarantee you it's less than
twenty And if that's the case, how much of the
Yankees were we're gazillion.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I don't know, ten billion, I don't know. You know, Yeah,
I don't value these things, but the Yankees are a
pretty amazing franchise record of winning. Randy's an amazing businessman.
I mean, he figures out ways to put people in
the seats in a lot of different ways. I mean,
it's just it's a it's a well run organization. You know,
what they don't have is maybe what they got now.
I mean remember Steve Cohen has that Hedge fund, right,
(04:25):
I mean that's part of his net worth. He can
buy you know, he can he can finance players with that.
I think having access to Apollo, which is a very
good private equity firm, by the way, very smart people there,
and I know the people well, is a great partnership
for the Yankees. So we'll see. It's you know, you
got to I want to see what the deal closes.
We'll find out all this stuff. It's gonna be my
(04:46):
view is good. You know, it's gonna be eye popping huge. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And you know, Randy Levine is also president. CHOUMP has
put him in charge. I don't if you know this pad.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Sports, I broke. I broke a lot of stories on
the sports to reform the college sports.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And even though that one day it was Urban Mayor
and Tiger Woods and and Nick Saban and all these guys,
A lot of those guys were there that day. But
the brunt of the work is really going to Randy Levine.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, Randy Levine Milk mostly with you know, an assist
from ron ron U DeSantis as well. You know they're
doing it together, right. Yes. I interviewed DeSantis at the
Milicon conference back in May a little bit about this,
and uh, you know, listen, they got a proposal on
the table. They have bipartisan legislation. Let's see where it goes.
(05:31):
I'm sure Randy's working on this right now. It got guys,
guy's got his hands in a lot of things. He
he should be. He should be mayor Brandy Levine mayor
be great, be great. By the way, he was deputy
mayor you know that on the Rooty. Yes he was,
and he's very good at it. So let let's uh.
I don't want to give away too much because I
(05:52):
think when because I don't know, to be honest with you,
but I'm just like being a business reporter here. When
we see the fine print on this deal, it's gonna
be eye popping on this Yankees deal. It's gonna you
look for the valuation, look for you know what, you
know what what what poll's roll the Yankees will be.
It will be because it does it gives them access
(06:14):
to capital. I mean that's the whole thing, which you know,
not that they were Lackey in the in the you
know before, but they didn't have it like the Mets had.
I mean the Mets have this. I mean Steve Cohen's
got a lot of money. He's got twenty l if
I checked his hedgephone was at twenty million. Could be wrong,
but it's in that job.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
No, it is. That's exactly what it is. You're exactly right.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
So he's got that, he's got that money.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
The team still sucks, but that's okay.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
You know, I'm gonna old. You know, here's the thing.
When I was a kid, other than the Bronx, but
I became a Mets fan like some reason. My dad
liked the Mets, and you know, I just can't watch
him now. I just you know, I can't. I ran
to watch the Yankees, he too.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I turned the fifty nine years.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I became a diehard Yankee fan.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I'm in RNDU La Bean's box almost every home series.
I love the Mets. Part of my reason was because
of this Mam Donnie relationship, and anybody who likes Mam
Donnie I'm not okay with. So I've become very immature
on that respect. That if you don't like Trump, and
you like, Mam Donnie, I'm done with you and ye
come from.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I mean, what's what's the like about the guy to smile?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
But the Mets they love him and Steve Cohen welcomes
him to City Field and he hugs mister.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I know his politics a little bit. Steve Cone is
not like some crazy Modai guy.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Trust me on this, but what is his politics?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Because we know that Levine loves Trump, Levin works with Trump.
Trump is at Nicky Stadium every year. I don't see
President Trump going to City Field. And last I heard
I could be wrong, was that Skyrimuchi and Steve Cohen.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
They gave money to Chris Christy.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
So what is Steve Cohen? That's true? That is true.
Chris Christy is and by the way, it's not the
worst thing. Chris is a nice guy, but is an idiot.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He quiet stopped. That's an idiot. Maybe a nice guy,
but he's an idiot.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
That he's not an idiot. You disagree with him, He's
not an idiot.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
He's a backstamping, disloyal, fat jerk. That's what he is.
See what he did the Trump Why did you do that?
The Trump. What did Trump?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I don't like what he did.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
He cost on the George Washington Bridge. What did he
do he cost traffic on the George Washington Bridge?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Oh that as somebody that used to have to take
the gw B to city from New York, from Manhattan
to to c NBC when I work there. That is
a crime. High cry. You know.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
The worst thing he's ever done, the worst thing he's
ever done.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Is he's the governor, the executable part.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
The governor of New Jersey shows up to a home
football game in New Jersey for the Giants and he
sits in Jerry Jones box with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I don't know. I like Jerry Jones. You ever meet him? Yeah? Yeah, Charlie, Wait,
you know what, you know what the brandy Jerry Jones.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I know, I like Jerry Jones, but not when he's
playing my Giants in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Come like, he's not reasons I really hate the guy.
He should put him on his show.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
He won't come on. Oh really, he's so think believe
it or not. He's too thin skinned.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah. But Steve Cohen, I don't think is you know,
politically is not aligned with Mondamie I.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Just know, probably not. I agree with you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
He's more of a he's more of a you know,
regular Republican, not a maga Republican. I would see that,
you know, but I don't know. He just you know,
we need more peace of love, don't we.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
No, no, no, we don't. More peace and love is
going to drive you to a Muslim nation? Is that
what you want?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
What was the well, that's true, you know, if we
you know, there's something you know, you don't want to
be accepting of everything, right, every stupid thing he's supposed
to be accepting of. And we're a little too much
on that, right, But there's a word for that. In
this case, I need another cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You come on with me. You may need to, Chollie
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