Mark Cuban

I get most of my daily news from the Associated Press.  I watch local news, as you know, but I read AP stories on the Internet throughout the day to keep up on national events and business news.    AP also produces short videos that I sometimes watch.   If some video story catches my eye, I will go suffer though the 15 seconds pre-roll advertisement and then watch the story.   The video that caught my eye this morning was “Mark Cuban Still Eats 7-Eleven Hotdogs”. 

I would first like to say that I’m glad we have AP to make sure that we can get all of the news we want.   This is quite an important story, and I didn’t want to miss it.    I’ll admit that I didn’t really know who Mark Cuban was.   I had heard the name, but I couldn’t quite put it any context around it.   I learned from the story that he is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks.   I also learned that even though he is a billionaire, he considers himself somewhat frugal.   Good for him.   I learned from Wikipedia that he is 52 years old.   He was born in Pittsburg.   He is married with 3 children.  Interesting, I suppose.

Mark Cuban wasn’t  what really attracted me to the story.   It was the fact that AP was running a story with anything about 7-Eleven Hot Dogs.   I would like to go on record stating that I LOVE 7-Eleven Hot Dogs.  I had one on Tuesday.   I had the Spicy Bite, which is what I almost always get.   They are very close to the hot dog that you might get at a baseball game.    I put on lots of mustard, two solid streams, one down either side.   Then I cover the entire thing in chopped onions.   I don’t even worry about how long those onions have been sitting in that container.    I usually grab a Big Gulp to with it.   I love them; I really do.   I’m still going to eat them if I become a billionaire someday.   I don’t know much about Mark Cuban, but I know there is at least one thing I like about him.