Sam Arkwright Diary
January 23rd, 2023
The following entry is heavily redacted for security reasons.
I'm still waiting for the right moment to cash in my favor from Steve Cohen. His time will come. In the meantime, my focus -- baseball wise, at least -- is back on the Vegas stadium site. The A's have been losing traction on building a new stadium in the Bay Area, and John Fisher and G&L Properties are presumably still going back and forth about the Tropicana site on the Strip.
The latest setback came just this week. There's scuttlebutt that the federal money Oakland and the A's were counting on is, in fact, no longer coming through.
That means either the City is going to have to pony up more money, or it's going to come out of Fisher's pocket. Neither is likely. If things keep going the way they are going, Vegas seems like the logical landing spot for the A's. So I need to continue to position myself between Fisher and Las Vegas.
Luckily, Fisher put me right back in the mix. Between meetings, just as I was reading about the A's latest stadium setback, my phone rang. It was none other than John Fisher.
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Fisher: You're up late. Did I wake you?
Arkwright: It's in the middle of the day here right now.
Fisher: Where are you?
Arkwright: Shenzhen.
Fisher: China. Damn. That's no good. For how long?
Arkwright: I'm on the road for another three weeks. Can it wait? Or do you want to talk now?
Fisher: Can't talk on the phone. This has to be in person. When are you stateside?
Arkwright: I'm back in one month. February 21st.
Fisher: Great. We can meet then. We'll be in touch.
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Fisher is smart. Whatever he wants to say, he knows it's not safe to say over the phone. Especially here in China. I also know that whatever he's got his mind, it's going to be worth recording.
Unfortunately, all of this is happening as I'm laying the groundwork for a new project. First, China, so I can [redacted]. Then it's onto [redacted] to [redacted]. If everything goes according to plan, we'll have everything ready to start shipping to [redacted]. But this is going to take time and considerable resources. Which means I have to call the last person on this planet I want to talk to.
My sister.