Tak Norris and I were invited by Tim Kirkwood of Kirkwood Capital Advisors KK (many thanks to Tim, Jonathan and everyone at Kirkwood) to a luncheon with Randy Levine (President), Brian Cashman (General Manager) and some other staff of the New York Yankees at Nobu’s.
I was able to ask the first question to Brian Cashman, actually more of a comment: I’m surprised Immigration let you guys into the country for not signing Matsui! Everyone pretty much laughed…LOL. Mr. Cashman was very cordial and provided a great explanation as to why, more of timing than the money issue after Godzilla got a nice offer from the Angels, they weren’t able to resign him.
Afterwards I just said I wasn’t trying to bust his chops for not signing Matsui and asked him about Johnny Damon. He said they would no longer pursue Johnny Boy, what a bozo, the Yanks offered him $7 million per for two seasons. He’ll be lucky to get $2~3 mill in my opinion.
There were a lot of real estate people there due to Kirkwood Capital’s connections here in Tokyo. Met some nice people.
Spiel for Kirkwood Advisors: Kirkwood Capital Advisors, K.K. (KCA) provides real estate services to investors focusing on the Japanese market. These include: commercial mortgage brokerage, independent asset origination, principal investing and other advisory services. Our team is made up of experienced real estate finance professionals and investment bankers with a long history of success in Japan.
