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Baseball club team the iowa cubs ending his decades of leadership with incredible generosity. when majority owner michael gartner decided to retire and sell the team, he also decided to pay it forward. giving the proceeds from the sale of the team to the staff, $600,000 divide among 239time employees of the includes, all a complete surprise surrounded and afound at their final staff meeting of the year. joining me now is one of the people who made this happen, who is also one of those big hearts involved on this big moment. sam burnaby, the president and general manager for the iowa cubs. it's...

Comes into my office as we operate the ball club, and as i try operate it under his guise as to what he wants me to do and when he wants me to do it, but he always either starts the conversation or finishes the conversation with we've got to do the right thing, and that's really -- this is doing the right thing for people that frankly help us every day have the success that we have. it was, again, an easy decision because all of these folks have been with us, you know, to build what we've built coming out of the previous ownership prior to michael. michael's partnership, you know, that started...

It progressed michael came to me and said what do you think about giving part of it to the staff and, of course, it was an easy yes for me, and we talked to our other stock holder partners and it was an easy yes from them, quick yes, and that's really how it kind of came about, and as things began to look like we were going to closed a the date we were going to close, we set it up and called a staff meeting and on actually the closing day and we have a restaurant space in the ballpark that we asked everybody to come to, and we had about seven of our staff that were either on vacation or out si...

It's rare that i find any of my staff members without words most of the time and several came to me after michael had made his presentation and frankly were speechless, and that's -- that's a rarity in this crowd, but it was -- it was -- it was fun. it was a gratifying thing to do. certainly well deserving of all of our staff. i have lots of staff that have been with me for literally 10, 15, 20, 30 years across the board, and we -- we just felt like it was the right thing to do. >> but sam, i mean, look, i'm from indiana. we all know what midwestern nice looks like, but this goes well beyond t...

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