BRIAN CUBAN’S BLOG

100 dollars is a lot of money to me as I am sure it is to most people.  How often is it that you go out either in day-to-day life or even out on the town and actually have 100 dollars cash or more in your pocket? Probably not to often.

If you’re like me you have a few bucks and your trusty credit card.  Why would you need that much cash on you? (Unless you don’t have a credit card or plan on doing something illegal with it……….)

 So lets say youdon’t have a credit card, lost it or whatever. You put a 100 dollar bill inyour pockets and hit the town in the Big D. Lets see you what you can do and cant do.

1.    You can take your date or buddy to the Dallas Mavericks game with parking and hot dogs. No you wont be sitting courtside but the upper level seats have great views and are a lot of fun!

2.    You can catch a Southwest flight to Austin and have enough left over to party on Sixth Street. Of course you will have to hitchhike back…

3.    You can go to a sports bar and get trashed watching a Dallas Stars game. You can’t get two of their seats for 100 bucks, park and also eat…I’m not even sure you can get two of their seats…

4.    You can buy two and ½ girls a drink with tip at GhostBar.  What’s the point, you’re notgoing to be able to get them drunk…

5.    If your like me you can go to Best Buy and purchase the last three seasons of Sex In The City and watch them all back to back over the course of the weekend. That will cost you just under 90 dollars. You have 10 dollars left for a premium bottle of MD 20/20.

Lets talk about the one thing youcannot do in parts of Dallas for less than 100 dollars… What’s your guess?

The answer is………… VALET PARK!  You heard me right.  In Victory Park(home of the Dallas Mavericks although they have their own reasonable parking) if it is an event night at the American Airlines Center and you want to hit the bars in the areas, the prime curbside valet will cost you ONE HUDNRED DOLLARS! I couldn’t believe it!  100 DOLLARS TO VALET PARK IN DALLAS, TEXAS! 

Now I have been known to become mentally divergent when I am off my medication so I had to blink my eyes a few times to be sure I was not in my alternate “LA Rock Star” world…

Did I pay? NOPE!  I SHOWED THEM!  I drove to the market, bought a 6dollar six pack, went home and filled out my application for  the next season of  Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” If some guy in Dallas can convince someone to pay 100 dollars to valet their car,Donald may not be such an idiot after all……….

In my zeal to make sure my brother Mark makes it to the next round of Dancing With The Stars, I am engaging in unmerciful brutal spam. Yes Iadmit it. 

I am not spamming in the sense that I am sending thousands of emails to random names. I have been however, sending my voting pleas out to my entire email list which is quite large. Some of the people on it probably do not even like me. 

In any event, the response has been almost all positive until yesterday. Someone that I have had passing contact with responded back that Ishould take her off my emailing list because Mark was “Un-American”. 

Now I get people offering opinions on Mark to me every day of theweek. He cant dance, He’s arrogant, He couldn’t carry Donald Trump’s briefcase,He is this , He is that…. you get the picture. This stuff all goes in one ear and out the other. I view them as media perception attacks which goes with the territory. Mark is a big boy and doesn’t need me to stick up for him. 

When this person called him Un-American, it was a dagger right in my stomach. I without hesitation viewed it as a personal attack on Mark andthe entire Cuban family which I will defend at all times. I took it very personally. I wont repeat what I wrote back but will admit I didn’t count to ten and responded emotionally. 

On retrospect I should have treated it like every other opinion,view, whatever on Mark that I always ignore. They are all based on media perception and have no basis in reality. Myself and Mark’s true friends and family should not care less about idiotic statements like that. We know who he is and what he has done for this country with no fanfare whatsoever such as the Fallen Patriot Fund which has given to date over 2.5 million dollars to injured soldiers and families of soldiers killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. 

http://www.fallenpatriotfund.org 

There are countless other causes that go un-noticed except bythose he has helped and lives he has changed for the better. 

So to those who confuse art with reality; to those who think theCIA killed Kennedy and that “Loose Change” is historical fact, take a big bite of American Apple Pie and hold it tight. You have a better grip onthat pie than you do the facts……