The shift to sport is an opportunity to ask him the question burning in the minds of many British people — what does he think of the takeover of Manchester United by Malcolm Glazer, the US sports franchise owner? "I read about that on ESPN.com," he says.
But he is non-committal, so I ask him if, as a former owner of a baseball team, he would have liked a piece of an English cricket club. "I never watched cricket. I did play rugby at Yale, though — at full back," he volunteers.