It’s Different When It’s Your Own Share this story Photo by Mark Alberti/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Stop me if you’ve heard this stuff before: And what are the cheap bastards who own the team doing? Giving away their best players and signing mediocre journeymen so that they can save a bunch of money. “The league itself does not make a lot of cash. I think there is a perception that we hoard cash and we take money out and it’s all sitting in a pile we’ve collected over the years. Well, it isn’t. Because no one anticipated a pandemic. No one expects to have to draw down on the reserves from the past. Every team has to figure out a way to plug the hole.”