are you interested unequivocally in buying the baltimore orioles? >> i don't know if they are for sale. they've not announced they are for sale. i will announce i've got all my baseball trading cards from when i was in high school, looking at them, maybe that is all i will get to do, look at my baseball cards but i don't know. they haven't said they are for sale. neil: you are more savvy than that, at least kicked the tires and show there's a price. >> they have not announced for sale, they are not for sale. if they are for sale. if they were for sale i will call you first and say would you like to join a buying group? would you like to participate? that would be great. neil: let me step back and get your view of america. you have been worried about the crises we face in this country, losing sense of history in this country, you treasure that history. you on a lot of precious historical documents for people to see, in a shelf, in a bedroom. i wanted to use this as an opportunity to get your thoughts on america now. i know we are divided. that happen

the orioles get it! go crazy, baltimore.. >> i'm glad the red sox had at least one bit of history in last season. the baltimore orioles clenching the american pennant east for the first time since 2014. a little rougher since the first round, but the american league east had a down year last year. but the orioles a great team last year and they've got some of the best upcoming prospects. they should be good for quite some time. on monday o's fans were given another reason to celebrate when the team and state officials formalized the deal to keep the birds at camden yard for the next three years. joining us is governor wes moore. thanks for being with us. talk about the good news. >> i don't know if you guys are a little hot. i'm a little hot here. if you need some help, just let me know here. the al east champ. yes. to the chagrin of all the red sox and yankees fans the al east champs are going to be in the baltimore for the next three years. we did it in partnership with the team, the general assembly and the maryland stadi

. >>> and rubenstein in talks to buy the baltimore orioles. begins right now. >>> good morning welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc we are live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen andrew is an assignment. he is here he joins us from chicago hi, andrew >> one hour early. >> just on the edge of the time change >> you didn't have time to shift to that. you are still on east coast time no excuses here. you look great and bright tailed and bushy eye. >> i hop

david rubenstein reportedly in talks to acquire the baltimore orioles.to be one of several potential buyers. the team is owned by peter angelos. he bought the team in 1993 for $173 million. it is now valued between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. that is about twice the return of the s&p 500. that is why billionaires are bidding up sports teams on the back of record tv deals and revenue. ken griffin is in talks to take a stake in the miami dolphins. we recently had the adelson family buying the mavericks from mark cuban. owning a team is expensive. shohei ohtani signing with the dodgers. it's a $700 million deal for ten years. he will make $33 million a year after taxes. the guggenheim baseball management bought the team in 2012. the team is now the valued at $5 billion. doubling in value, dom, in ten years. >> robert, there have been plenty of times over the course of the last 20 years when folks have said things cannot possibly stay on this trajectory for players and valuations and sports franchises. the entire industry keeps surpassing every year. what e

there is chatter you might be interested in buying the baltimore orioles. grow up in their -- he went to high school there, could we ask about that? any chance would you be interested in something like that? >> i played in little league baseball. i thought i was going to be a major league her. i later realized jewish little uyghurs make the major league, when i was 11 or 12, i peeked as a baseball player but since that time i have been focusing on private equity. liz: i don't know how old he was. he wasn't 11. it is wonderful to see you. thank you. really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me and have a good holiday season. liz: here's a question for you. is the ev revolution shorting out? we may have forgotten a bigger hint from ford edit involves the star of its ev constellation. two of the streaks most respected voices, dan ives and kyle bass join us on "the claman countdown". we are running hot right at the moment. here are some stocks that are running cold, laggards on the nasdaq. w bb, warner bros. discovery. or moments that matter, but you can in

. >> you look at the baltimore orioles. you look at the giants. milwaukee, when they took sterns.ody wanted to do what the astros were doing. >> the baseball world's been against them from day one. because these weren't baseball guys. ♪ and now, you know, in 2023, people realize the astros are the standard for building winning baseball. >> they were at the forefront of what is just standard procedure now in terms of what we know about leveraging technology, in terms of evaluation, training. what really, i think, got the astros in trouble is they didn't know where to stop. >> reiter: but who ultimately benefits from maximizing efficiency in a baseball context? >> the benefit of it is not for the benefit of the fan. we didn't wind up with a better game. we wound up with a more boring game. to me, we lost some of the reason why we're fans. and that is the mystique and the chemistry and the magic, and the things that don't matter to a technocrat. >> reiter: baseball has always been a business, but it became more a business like any other business in a certain way. >> yeah, i mean, lis

. >> you look at the baltimore orioles. you look at the giants. milwaukee, when they took sterns.ody wanted to do what the astros were doing. >> the baseball world's been against them from day one. because these weren't baseball guys. ♪ and now, you know, in 2023, people realize the astros are the standard for building winning baseball. >> they were at the forefront of what is just standard procedure now in terms of what we know about leveraging technology, in terms of evaluation, training. what really, i think, got the astros in trouble is they didn't know where to stop. >> reiter: but who ultimately benefits from maximizing efficiency in a baseball context? >> the benefit of it is not for the benefit of the fan. we didn't wind up with a better game. we wound up with a more boring game. to me, we lost some of the reason why we're fans. anthat is the mystique and the chemistry and the magic, and the things that don't matter to a technocrat. >> reiter: baseball has always been a business, but it became more a business like any other business in a certain way. >> yeah, i mean, liste

>>> and rubenstein in talks to buy the baltimore orioles. it is friday, december 8th and "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good morning welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc we are live from the nasdaq market site in times square. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen andrew is an assignment. he is here he joins us from chicago hi, andrew >> one hour early. >> just on the edge of the time change >> you didn't have time to shift to that. you are still on east coast time no excuses here. you look great and bright tailed and bushy eye. >> i hope you were not out late at dinner. >> how is the oura ring? >> i haven't checked >> i'm thinking mid-60s. >> we'll see let's look at the u.s. equities. you will see green arrows. dow up 20 points the s&p up 7.5 yesterday, the dow and s&p broke three-day losing streaks the nasdaq had a good day. best day since november 14th >>> treasury yields with the ten-year yield at 4.1882 the two-year yield above 4.16% >>> crude oil is sitting where we were yesterday morning at this time. 7 $70.50 a barrel. andrew. >>

the maryland stadium authority approves a lease extension bearms orioles at can item yards.ong-term agreement between the team and the stated. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ load up the bases ♪ fire up the crowd ♪ let's clear out the dugout ♪ we're going to get real loud ♪ i'm andrea, and this is why i switched to shopify. it gave me so much peace of mind. if we make a change, my site's not going to go down. and just knowing that i have a platform that we can rely on, that is gold to us. start your free trial today. (♪) my plaque psoriasis was so bad... i couldn't get my hair done. my psoriasis was all over. then my joints started hurting, found out it was psoriatic arthritis. who knew they could be connected? for me, cosentyx works on both. 5 years and counting. did you know people with psoriasis on the scalp have a 4 times higher risk of developing psoriatic arthritis, which if left untreated can lead to permanent joint damage? cosentyx works on all of this and helps stop further joint damage. talk to your doct