Samson Pays Up
With the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts officially open, Marlins President David Samson has lost his bet with Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association CEO Stu Blumberg.
In March 2004, Blumberg placed a bet with Samson that the performing arts center would open before a new ballpark for the Marlins. Samson took the ballpark. The wager? $1.
“I am planning to go to the bank and get a roll of pennies and deliver it in person,” Samson said. “I will leave it on his personal special table at Joe’s Stone Crab,” where Blumberg lunches regularly.
Actually, according to Blumberg, Samson already paid the debt a few weeks ago.
“He Scotch-taped four quarters on a note and mailed it to me,” Blumberg said. “He said ‘Congratulations.’”
CRAIG DAVIS In more than 33 years at the Sun Sentinel, Craig Davis has written about a wide variety of sports topics from baseball to yachting, fishing to triathlons, and also worked as a copy editor and page designer. Recently he reported on local sports, including running, swimming, cycling, equestrian and beach volleyball. He enjoys sports as a participant as well as a spectator, is active in the South Florida running scene plays in the curling club at Saveology Iceplex. This blog offers a glimpse at the business side of sports in the interest of enhancing enjoyment of the games and sporting options as a spectator as well as a participant.
